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feminism
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art//hysteria//Luce
Irigaray///psychoanalysis//pe
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writing
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dy//the m
irror//betrayal//feral//excess//devouring//
blood//ritual//the scream
//unsayable//embodied///
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Blood M
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Perform
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Catherine M
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feminism/////perfo
rmance
art/hysteria//Luce
Irigaray///psychoa
nalysis///performa
tive
writing//cinematic
writing//performin
g body//the
mirror//betrayal//
feral//excess//dev
ouring//Ritual//bl
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the
scream//unsayable/
/embodied///
Blood M
akes Noise/
Perform
ance, Dec 2015
Catherine M
affioletti
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"Baillements Hystériques" showing a hysterical woman yawning from Albert Londe's "Nouvelle Iconographie de la Salpetriere\Clinique des Maladies du Systeme Nerveux, (New iconography of the Salpetriere,'\Clinic of the Diseases of the Nervous System)," 1890. Albert Londe—courtesy of Wellcome Library, London
Videoinsight® Center has taken part with artworks by Tejal Shah to the exhibition “Indian Highway” promoted by Serpentine Gallery in Londra, curated by Julia Peyton Jones and Hans Ulrich Obrist.
Tejal Shah, Photophobic hysteric, 2011, Videoinsight® Collection
Tejal Shah, Grand H
ysteria-Catalepsy, 2011, Videoinsight® Collection
Grand Hysteria - Catalepsy From Hysteria - Iconography from the Salpetrier Series
Louise Bourgeois (1993) The Arch of Hysteria
Damla Ozdemir, Lady of Hysteria, 2015
Women’s Day, Refusing to Play Subjectivities & Feminisms
Research GroupClosed Doors: Performance 2018
Catherine Maffioletti
RAW: Cannibalism, Feminism, Philosophy & (post-)Psychoanalysis
by Birkbeck Institute for the Moving ImageMay 2018
HYSTERIA FESTIVALA festival of performance, reflection and intervention, Autumn 2018
Suggested themes• Global Crisis and the hystericisation of ‘the people’• Political trauma and collective enactment• The politics of hysteria and social hypochondria• Resistant bodies and new forms of politics• Media hystorias• Pathologies of Postmodernity• The therapeutic turn• The syndrome of modern illnesses• Psychosomatics• Performance and trauma• The art of Hysteria• Feminist Poetics / écriture feminine• Gyn-ecology• Neo-materialist philosophies of breaks and becomings• The language of madness• Deleuze’s symptomatology• Psychoanalytic reflections on hysteriaSuggested formats• individual papers & panel proposals• individual artwork & group exhibition proposals• group discussions or evening talks• performances
Guidelines 250-word abstract for individual papers 500-word panel proposals 500-word submission for proposals of performances, art installations, musical pieces,
film videos, and other provocative and hysterical interventions, including a photo (in jpeg format) of the artwork and any requirements for space and equipment
Betrayal always involves an injury and pain whether it is located in the private and intimate sphere (sex, love, philia/friendship, family) or in the larger context of socio-political and cultural structures (betrayal of one’s country, law, community, political party, ideology, morality, the people). Betrayal is a violation, an assault on the integrity of individuals and can lead to feelings of numbness or deadness: “betrayal changes not only our sense of the world, but our sensibility toward the world”(R.L.Jackson). Or, it can lead to overwhelming feelings of guilt and shame—after all, Dante reserved the innermost ring of the Inferno for the betrayers. One can only betray by dint of being faithful (Derrida), and only on the basis of a promise of faithfulness, veracity and remembrance. Betrayal thus demands that the political is re-addressed through “the ethical question of politics and of responsibility” (Cixous) re-instating a primordial interdependence between the ethical ad the political. Political acts of betrayal might signify both acts of subversion and resistance, or they might refer to ‘political lies’ (Hannah Arendt) and a betrayal of trust (to political leaders and political ideologies) that can in turn signify the assault to the political corpus (the people/demos) and a denial of their own experience and reality. As Adrienne Rich argues the lie serves only to deny reality “the importance of an event, or person, and thus deprives ourselves of a part of our lives. Thus we lose faith even with our own lives”.
In the field of clinical knowledge, we might consider that the obsession for knowledge in science and psychoanalysis has betrayed the hysteric and removed them away from their own truth; the obsession of the clinician thus being intertwined with the hysteric’s madness. The unconscious wants the truth - a truth that, however, escapes epistemic definitions. We invite participants to explore the themes of betrayal. We pose the question whether a disavowed betrayal continues to haunt the hysterical woman and more generally the psychoanalytic subject. We seek to find and draw together alterative ways of attending to hysteria, asking whether and if so why hysteria presses upon notions of truth and justice. What can be heard by the clinical practice of psychoanalysis and alternative therapies? What are the ways in which the experience of madness is betrayed in various institutional and creative settings? How might the analyst avow their own betrayal? Possible themes include:political betrayal; betrayal and crisis; betrayal and movements for social justice betrayal and psychoanalysis; betrayal and language; betrayal and intimacy; betrayal and ethicsbetrayal and affective modes (hope, fearfulness, suspicion)betrayal and hysteria
The Hysteria Festival will host a one-day Symposium Day
Title: Betrayals “I owe you the truth from the moment I speak to you” (Derrida).
feminism/////performa
nce
art/hysteria//Luce
Irigaray///psychoanal
ysis///performative
writing//cinematic
writing//performing
body//the
mirror//betrayal//fer
al//excess//devouring
//Ritual//blood//
the
scream//unsayable//em
bodied///
Thank you
If you would like to participate in the Hysteria Festival get in touch
Catherine [email protected]
Chrysanthi [email protected]