Brendan Fernandes is a multidisciplinary artist who works at the intersection of dance and visual arts. His unique cultural background as a Kenyan-Indian Canadian who has lived in New York City for the past 12 years and who now resides in Chicago, confronts the hybrid and transitional nature of identity. This compels aspects of his […]

Elizabeth's creative research interests include the embodied art of acting and somatic approaches to actor training, devising original theatre with a focus on collaborative ensemble works and adaptations, pedagogy, the Meisner technique, on-camera acting, and cross-disciplinary exchange. She teaches in the Physical Theatre Intensive at The Stella Adler Studio of Acting (NYC), and has taught […]

Anne Burnidge, work-in-progress, "Dancing with the Human Microbiome: Embodying the Research, Researching the Body."

François Laruelle and Anne-Françoise Schmid François Laruelle is a French philosopher known for developing a science of philosophy that he calls non-philosophy. He has been described as one of the most important and interesting contemporary philosophers in Europe today. He is the author of books such as “Photo-Fiction: A Non-Standard Aesthetics” (2012), “Philosophy and Non-Philosophy” […]

On Integrative Objects A Philo-Fiction workshop/symposium with Anne-Françoise Schmid. This event is connected to the annual PLASMA speaker series at the Department of Media Study and will host François Laruelle and Anne-Françoise Schmid, who will both give talks on April 10th, as a special edition of the PLASMA series. Anne-Francoise Schmid will lead a practice-based […]