[-empyre-] Introducing Kelina Gotman, Alexander Wilson, and Steve Potter

[Renate Ferro]

It is our last night in Paris and I have just been able to squeeze in a
little free internet so I'm sending three new bios of participants of the
Making Sense Colloquium that I'm hoping will feel free to summarize those
events at the conference they want to talk about. We had a wonderful lunch
with Kelina and Steve and Alexander and am hoping that they will feel free
to make numerous posts this week.  We spend the entire day at the
Contemporary Art Fair at the Royal Palais and the Louvre.  Christina McPhees
film is being shown there but we missed it by an  hour and a half.  We keep
looking for at the cafe's but so far no sightings.  A bien tot.  Renate

Dr. Kélina A. Gotman
Department of English
King's College London
Strand WC2R
2LS


Kélina Gotman is a Lecturer in Theatre and Performance Studies at King’s
College London and Convenor of the MA in Text and Theatre and Performance
Studies. She was Audrey and William H. Helfand Fellow in the Medical
Humanities at the New York Academy of Medicine (2008-2009), and a speaker at
the Institute for the History of Psychiatry Research Seminar, Cornell-Weill
Medical Center and New York Presbyterian Hospital, as well as the
International Epilepsy, Brain and Mind Congress (Prague, 2010). She has
contributed to *PAJ*, *TDR*, *Theatre Journal*, *Parachute*, and *Conversations
across the Field of Dance Studies*, among others, and translated Félix
Guattari’s *The Anti-Oedipus Papers* (Semiotext(e)/The MIT Press, 2006). As
a performer, dramaturg, translator, and choreographer, she has worked on
over two dozen theatre and dance productions in the USA, the UK, Canada and
Belgium, including *Bone*, choreographed by Nadine Thouin for the Beijing
Modern Dance Company (Place des Arts, Montreal, CD recording with Jerry
Snell), *Agamemnon*, dir. Gisela Cardenas (St. Veronica’s Church, NYC, Drama
Desk Award Nominee, 2006), the UK premiere of John Cage’s *Variations
IV* (Oxford
Festival of Contemporary Music), and Olivier Cadiot’s *A.W.O.L.* (59E59 St.
Theatre). She is an artistic associate of Witness Relocation, for whom she
translated Racine’s *Andromaque* (*In A Hall in the Palace of Pyrrhus*, Ice
Factory Festival, NYC), and Charles Mee’s *Heaven on Earth* (P.S. 122,
2010). As a consultant and artistic advisor, she worked with the Festival
International de Nouvelle Danse/International New Dance Festival (FIND)
(Montreal), Misnomer Dance Theatre, and the English National Opera. Her
performance poetry is anthologized in *Poetry Nation: The North American
Anthology of Fusion Poetry *and *Short Fuse: The Global Anthology of New
Fusion Poetry*.* *She has taught cultural and critical theory, experimental
theatre, literary theory, dance, and rhetoric at Brown University, Columbia
University, Bard College’s Language and Thinking Programme, The Eugene Lang
College for Liberal Arts at The New School, and KCL. She is currently
completing a book on dance manias in nineteenth-century medical literature,
and working towards a new project on zooanthropy. She was born in Montreal,
and dances tango in her spare time.

Alexander Wilson

Alexander Wilson is a media artist, performer, musician, theatre director,
and thinker based in Montreal, Canada. He is co-founder of Parabolik
Guerilla Theatre (www.parabolikguerilla.com) with whom he directs
experimental media-enhanced works incorporating a physical training regimen
inspired by Japanese Butoh. He also produces video-music works as well as
interactive and architectural multimedia installations combining software,
sound, images and light. Apart from collaborations and commissions, his
music usually revolves around projects for the his own theatre and media
productions, as well his solo music project 01ek (01ek.bandcamp.com) and
with the experimental live-electronics trio K.A.N.T.N.A.G.A.N.O. (
kantnagano.bandcamp.com) with musicians Alexandre St-Onge et Jonathan
Parant. Alexander is currently pursuing an art-theory PhD at UQAM, in
Montreal. His thesis involves various philosophical explorations of how
artistic practice and creativity relate to memory, the body, and time,
drawing from sources like Deleuze’s philosophy of repetition, Simondon’s
theory of individuation, and Stiegler’s general organology.



Steve Potter


For some reason I do not have Steve's biography. He is a composer and just
completed his Phd so I'm hoping that for his first post he will send along a
bio,
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