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PF: QUINQ is October 8-October 25, 2015. The project is a collective performance of conference:

conference = a situation during which persons confer
conference = a “con” like “comicon” for makers and fans
conference = a culmination of a period of labor
conference = states of being and becoming together

======================LOCATIONS
Grace Exhibition Space (weeks 1 and 3)
840 Broadway, 2nd Fl, Brooklyn, NY

Panoply Performance Laboratory (week 2)
104 Meserole Street, Brooklyn, NY

╳╳OPEN TO THE PUBLIC EVERY DAY╳╳SUGG. DONATION $10-30/DAY, NO ONE TURNED AWAY╳╳BEVERAGES LOVINGLY PROVIDED BY BROOKLYN BREWERY╳╳

Thursday, October 8: N/A PARTAY
@Grace Exhibition Space
6pm: KEYNOTE OPEN MIC (sign-up at the door for 5-minute slots)
7pm-11pm: Honey McMoney, Sura Hertzberg, Jon Konkol, Uniska the Performance Body, Hiroshi Shafer.

Friday, October 9: FEELING THINGS WITH OTHERS/LIBERATING THE SELF
@Grace Exhibition Space
Quinn Dukes performing durationally
6pm-9pm: Alice Vogler and Jessica Gath***RSVP to alice.vogler@gmail.com to be counted for dinner! 21 spots available.
9pm-11pm: Rebecca Beauchamp (TO LIBERATE THE SELF), Jenna Kline (TO PUSH MY OWN ABILITIES).

Saturday, October 10: FEELING/THINKING THINGS WITH OTHERS
@Grace Exhibition Space
Quinn Dukes performing durationally
1-4pm: Public discussion and working group around the agenda “to feel things with others” and “to liberate the self” as well as discussions of mind/body, thought/feeling, and self/society becoming-togethering
5pm-7pm: Mona Chromatic (Daniel Larkin). Organized with performing media partner Hyperallergic
7:30pm-11pm: Xi Jie Ng (Salty), Rae Goodwin, Kaia Gilje, Future Husband, David Ian Griess

Sunday, October 11: ESCAPING FROM HELLWOR(L)DS
@Grace Exhibition Space
2-4pm: Public discussion/working group “To Escape from Hellwor(l)ds” and “To Liberate the Self:” does language make “free action” impossible? If both total improvisation and total notation/choreography are both “hellworlds,” what forms escape us from such straightjackets? Are we not content to the forms? Is nothing not a system?
4pm-5:30pm: Mike Newton
6-8pm: Lorene Bouboushian/Matthew Gantt *WORKSHOP* No RSVP needed, come as you are.
9pm-11pm: Anja Morell, Emma-Kate Guimond (TO RESIST AND REDUCE), Britta Wheeler, Anya Liftig

Thursday, October 15: IN COMPLEXITY OF…
@Panoply Performance Laboratory
Nicole Brydson project/installation ongoing
6pm-8pm: Robert Lisek *WORKSHOP/PRESENTION* “Random Agenda” no RSVP needed.
8:15-11: Soufïa Bensaïd, Zhenesse Heinemann, Tsedaye Malkonnen

Friday, October 16: SYMBOLS OF FREEDOM + GLORIOUS MADNESS
@Panoply Performance Laboratory
7pm-onward: PERFORMANCES BY: Shawn Escarciga, Ivy Castellanos, Bobby English Jr. (with Bobby English Sr.), Édgar Javier Ulloa Luján & Laura Blüer, Dolly Dharma, Butch Merigoni + Ariane Bernier

Saturday, October 17: INTENTIONALITY, LONLINESS, COMMUNITY
@Panoply Performance Laboratory
Nicole Brydson project/installation ongoing
4pm: Interactive public working group: to move towards multiplicity and flexibility, a self-creating agenda game.
4pm-11pm: Projects/Performances by: Adriana Disman, Raki Malhotra, Baxton Alexander, Angeli + Michael Sloan Warren, DIVERSITY FELLOWS!

Sunday, October 18: RESISTING CAPITALISM + AGENDAS IN ACTION
@Panoply Performance Laboratory
Nicole Brydson project/installation ongoing
4-6pm: Public discussion with Thomas Albrecht on Victor Turner flowing into discussion of dramaturgy, anthropology, and symbolic interactionism, role-playing, memory, Theatrum Mundi, and relationships between these models, fields, performance studies, and conceptual modeling of dance and theater vs. performance art.
6pm-8pm: Lecture-performances/Presentations by: Nathaniel Sullivan, Nicole Brydson
8pm-11pm: Performances by: Marcelline Mandeng, Angela Freiberger, Christen Clifford, Hector Canonge, No Wave Performance Task Force

Thursday, October 22: A TRAUMA SALON: TO KEEP GOING
@Grace Exhibition Space
Organized by Valerie Kuehne/The Super Coda around the agenda “TO KEEP GOING”
7pm-11pm: Performances by: LJ Leach, Meli Sanfiorenzo, Ben Bennett, Alex Romania, Naked Roots Conducive
AFTERWARDS: Trauma + keeping going public discussion moderated by event participants.

Friday, October 23: TO CORRUPT FLESH
@Grace Exhibition Space
6-7pm: Aesthetics of radicality/politics of aesthetics working group and public discussion: on the aftermath, effects, and consequences of performance art, and on the political ramifications of direct action framed as art.
8pm: Performance by Chun Hua Catherine Dong
9-11pm: INCORRUPTIBLE FLESH is performances by Màirèad Delaney, Heidi Wiren Bartlett & Esther Baker-Tarpaga, Madge of Honor, Agrofemme & Ian Deleón, and video by RVL. Agenda and Curation by Agrofemme & Ian Deleón

Saturday, October 24: IN MULTIPLICITY + FLEXIBILITY
@Grace Exhibition Space
4pm-5pm: “Alt-forms of performance curation” and “curation as performance” public discussion with Liliana Dirks-Goodman, Laurie Berg, Esther Neff, Leili Huzaibah, Hoesy Corona, and other organizers and in multiple, flexible space-time dimensions and directions.
5pm-9pm: Mobilized by Leili Huzaibah. Artists: Chaw Ei Thein, Shizu Homma, Helen Hawley, Nooshin Rostami
9pm-onward: Curated by Hoesy Corona. Artists: Ada Pinkston, Waqia Abdul-Kareem, Victor Torres, Noelle Tolbert & Alexander D’Agostino

Sunday, 25: PURSUING IDEATION
@Grace Exhibition Space
5-7pm: ABSTRACT: The “Work” and the “Self”
Problems and possibilities that arise during the creation of works by single authors that rely on collectively sourced somatic research: Tatyana Tennenbaum/Marisa V. Clementi/Laurel Snyder/Li Cata/Ashley Handel+TBA
7pm-8pm: Experimental Music Yearbook: Troy Schafer, Casey Anderson performing piece by Douglas G. Barrett
8pm-11pm: Ideations by: Kerry Cox, Florence Nasar, Kikuko Tanaka, Emily Oliviera, Matthew Gantt
11pm: CLOSING PARTY: SILENT GOODBYES: all sound must cease in the space beginning at midnight, sign language and gesture-languages welcome, organized by Belinda Noyse.
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=== ORGANIZATIONAL PROCESS + INFO

LAYER 1
12 agendas were synthesized from online and live processes performed for the “Curating Performance Art as Artistic Practice” conference in Berlin (organized by Jöern Burmester and the Association for Performance Art Berlin, May 2015) and as an interview-diagram essay with Lital Dotan, Hector Canonge, Whitney Hunter, and Jill McDermid by Esther Neff. The results of this diagrammatic interview process are the first layer of collective and individuated inquiry informing 12 days of performative social organization, pulling together a few months of discussion and work across multiple performance communities. In addition to e-mailed invitations, an open call for abstracts in response to the following 12 agendas was released as widely as possible, with a deadline of August 10, 2015:

AGENDA: to be without agenda
AGENDA: to create something i want to be a part of
AGENDA: to resist and reduce
AGENDA: to keep going
AGENDA: to pursue ideation
AGENDA: to move towards multiplicity and flexibility
AGENDA: to liberate the self
AGENDA: to escape from hellwor(l)ds
AGENDA: to become a symbol of freedom and glorious madness
AGENDA: to feel things with other people
AGENDA: to push my own abilities
AGENDA: to dismantle capitalism

LAYER 2
Approx. 100+ abstract-proposals are received, subjective selection is performed, situations are scheduled. Abstracts are published online in order of agenda at panoplylab.org/quinquennial.

LAYER 3
Public interfacings, presentations, performances, and situated conferencing, October 5-25 2015, Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays at Grace Exhibition Space and Panoply Performance Laboratory, in Brooklyn NY.

PERFORMANCY FORUM QUINQUENNIAL is the 5^th Anniversary of PERFORMANCY FORUM, a flexible platform and public forum for performance and social art outside of institutions and art markets. PF is organized by Esther Neff/PPL, following other “conferences of works” MODE METHOD MEDIUM and OPERATIONS + PARTICIPATIONS (both 2011), larger-scale communally organized initiatives in the public-domain name of “BIPAF,” such as Brooklyn International Performance Art Festival (2013) as well as many other exhibitions, exchanges and events held across and throughout a global community of socio-ethically connected performance makers and scholars. While this conference partially substantiates, celebrates and bears witness to a recent past of 5 years, it does not culminate, survey, or claim “ownership” of any discipline, modes of practice, art-historical time period, or sequences of cooperation; PF is a subjective open-source performative system, constructed by participants and organizers in adaptation to temporary and situational presences and processes. During PF QUINQ we performatively self-reflect and critically examine our actions, attitudes, abilities, and agendas in conference.

www.performancyforum.com, www.panoplylab.org/quinquennial, www.bipaf.net