#performance hangout

A new trend aims to highlight the pressure on younger people to find jobs and work longer shifts.

Young people in China have set off a nascent counterculture movement that involves lying down and doing as little as possible.

“#performancehangout #liveperformance Part Two! @_fanriot https://t.co/j8IEIuyUUO”

Date: Monday 24 June 2019 Time: 1pm – 5pm Location: The Wee Red Bar, Edinburgh College of Art, Hunter Building, 74 Lauriston Pl, Edinburgh EH3 9DF Workshop Organiser: Dr Owen G Parry (Postdoctoral Fellow, IASH, University of Edinburgh) Performers: Dan Cox and Jo Hauge Guests: Julia Bardsley, Glyn Davis, Eirini Kartsaki, Katie Hawthorn, Ben Fletcher Watson, Guy Stevenson, and more! All welcome! A Performance Hangout is a hybrid social and theatrical concept combining live performance, discussion and hanging out in a relaxed, yet highly theatrical, environment. Set against a culture of surveillance theatres, corporate engagement imperatives and the global rise of populism, A Performance Hangout (off offline) turns to examples of non-productivity, altered duration, live fictioning, and “being together” to ask: what kind of art and life might be imagined beyond such agendas? (What would this look like? What would this entail?): without losing the fantasy of unity and erotics, or the luxury of time beyond work and leisure. This performance hangout is structured in two parts with a break in the middle for discussion with invited guests on topics including: Bees, slow cinema, relaxed performance, reading books out loud, virtual idols, café cultures, the internet, crafting, worship as deceleration, and syncronised swimming. We will explore the ‘hangout’ as a mode of inhabitation tested across a history of experimental art, theatre and counter-culture where “nothing really happens”; through to its more recent re-animation in the form of post-fordist workplace and online virtual hangout. This performance hangout will be live streamed. You can come and go as you wish. More info tbc Supported by the Susan Manning Workshop Fund.