Session 3:
11/06/25
2-4pm
11 June 2025
Holy Trinity, Prince Consort Rd
London SW7 2BA
Teresa Calonje / Louise Nelstrop / Elena Unger
Panel discussion chaired by Teresa Calonje.
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Film Still: “Now I am yours” (1992) Nina Danino
Panel chaired by Dr. Teresa Calonje. This panel will explore recent interest in Christian mysticism and the apophatic in Performance art in particular and in the writings of Anne Carson (2005), Julia Kristeva (2008) and Fred Moten (2013).We will approach questions around Christian mysticism and its appropriations innocently and with care, as Dr Louise Nelstrop puts it, in order not to pull things out of shape. What is a return to mysticism responding to or reacting against? What in Performance art can relate to the mystic embodied experience? What is mysticism without the Bridegroom? What is gained, what is lost as the mystical experience (which is given and intimate) becomes object of thought, is written down, and eventually becomes a constructed artwork, technê?
Teresa Calonje
Bio
Dr. Teresa Calonje focuses her research on questions of the body and its multiple forms of appropriation. Her PhD in the Art Department at Goldsmiths, University of London was concerned with performance art's bodily gestures and how these have come to be legally owned and sold on a market. In 2014, she edited Live Forever: Collecting Live Art (Koenig Books) and is an occasional curator.
Louise Nelstrop
Bio
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Elena Unger
Bio
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with thanks to Revd Jennie Adams
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2-4pm
11 June 2025
Holy Trinity, Prince Consort Rd
London SW7 2BA
Teresa Calonje / Louise Nelstrop / Elena Unger
Panel discussion chaired by Teresa Calonje.
Film Still: “Now I am yours” (1992) Nina DaninoPanel chaired by Dr. Teresa Calonje. This panel will explore recent interest in Christian mysticism and the apophatic in Performance art in particular and in the writings of Anne Carson (2005), Julia Kristeva (2008) and Fred Moten (2013).We will approach questions around Christian mysticism and its appropriations innocently and with care, as Dr Louise Nelstrop puts it, in order not to pull things out of shape. What is a return to mysticism responding to or reacting against? What in Performance art can relate to the mystic embodied experience? What is mysticism without the Bridegroom? What is gained, what is lost as the mystical experience (which is given and intimate) becomes object of thought, is written down, and eventually becomes a constructed artwork, technê?
Teresa Calonje
Bio
Dr. Teresa Calonje focuses her research on questions of the body and its multiple forms of appropriation. Her PhD in the Art Department at Goldsmiths, University of London was concerned with performance art's bodily gestures and how these have come to be legally owned and sold on a market. In 2014, she edited Live Forever: Collecting Live Art (Koenig Books) and is an occasional curator.
Louise Nelstrop
Bio
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Elena Unger
Bio
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with thanks to Revd Jennie Adams
