(Dis)Association: the Presence of a Holler Rat

(Dis)Association: the Presence of a Holler Rat

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October 17, 7-8pm ET: for this edition of the LOFT series, performance artist and author Anya Liftig and Founder of PPL (Panoply Performance Laboratory), Esther Marveta Neff discussed the role of different states of consciousness in Liftig’s recent performance art memoir, Holler Rat. The conversation explored the psychology of the traditional memoir form as performance art and the role of association and dissociation in written language. Is language just a shell or is it the fundament of consciousness itself? How do different modes of performance–public, gallery, video, written–shift states of consciousness?

More about the book: http://www.anyaliftig.com/

Video documentation of the October 17, 7:00-8:00pm ET event of (Dis)Association: the Presence of a Holler Rat Recorded on Zoom, edited by Xinan Ran

Co-Presenter Bios

Esther Marveta Neff is the founder of PPL, a thinktank, performance-making collective, and organizational entity. Neff’s solo and collective performance work has been made across spheres and sites, from academic conferences and museums through public libraries and street corners. Their critical and theoretical writing can be found in the Routledge Companion to Performance Philosophy, the Palgrave Macmillan Handbook of Queer and Trans Feminist Performance Art, and in various journals and other publications. Their “operating manual” for performance philosophy, Embarrassed of the (W)Hole, was published in 2023 by Ugly Duckling Presse. www.panoplylab.org.

Anya Liftig is a performance artist and writer. Her works have been exhibited at TATE Modern, MOMA, Queens Museum, Movement Research, Performer Stammtisch Berlin, Performance Space London, and many other venues around the world. As a dancer and actress. Liftig’s work has been published and written about in theNew York Times Magazine, BOMB, The Wall Street Journal, Vogue Italia, PAJ, New York, Theater Magazine, and many others. Her experimental film and video work has been screened in festivals globally. Her essays have been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and noted in Best American Non-Fiction. She is a Connecticut Council for the Arts Emerging Arts Fellow in Creative Writing, a recipient of a Franklin Furnace Award, and fellowships at MacDowell and Yaddo. www.anyaliftig.com

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(Dis)Association: the Presence of a Holler Rat is an online event at the Franklin Furnace LOFT, with the support of New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council, the New York State Council on the Arts and friends and members of Franklin Furnace Archive. 

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