The School of Making Thinking presents "Words & [ ] — a Durational Conference of Art & Thought" a 56-hour (French/English bilingual) event to take place at The Darling Foundry May 6 - 8 2016, featuring round-the-clock live programming of 100 interdisciplinary performative presentations. We encourage both presenters and audience to play with their durational limits of thinking, making, dreaming, talking, feasting and living as we together build a philosophical community which vibrantly intermingles art and thought, and dissolves the barriers between individuals, disciplines, methods, and cultures. Our conference asks: What kinds of work might emerge when we enter creative overload together? What new pathways of care might be opened within this methodological breakdown?

Move through over 20 different movement workshops - experience more than 15 durational performances - relax on a couch and watch a filmic deconstruction of language - meander over to wind garments displayed along the Jardin des Écluses - sleep underneath an artwork and wake up to a private dream interpretation of your experience - get held hostage by our pirate radio airwaves - partake in the inaugural Word Racing International Competition - witness the creation of a love poem written one sentence at a time on ladders with typewriters 50 feet apart - take part in an i.d. rave where spoken articulations of your own identity mix with dynamically fluctuating dance music - walk into verbs in the morning, an afternoon of past and future-tense and some late night adjectives - encounter solandra grandiflora plants hosting a series of short performative texts - discover the secret naming of clouds - think through language with performative lectures that weave thinkers such as Nancy, Kristeva, Derrida, Deleuze, Beckett, Whitehead, Manning, Massumi, Nyong’o, Lacan, Freud, and more. 

Registration details are now available online along with a complete list of our presentations and artist bios at www.smtconference.com. 

The School of Making Thinking presents “Words & [ ] — a Durational Conference of Art & Thought” a 56-hour (French/English bilingual) event to take place at The Darling Foundry May 6 - 8 2016, featuring round-the-clock live programming of 100 interdisciplinary performative presentations.  We encourage both presenters and audience to play with their durational limits of thinking, making, dreaming, talking, feasting and living as we together build a philosophical community which vibrantly intermingles art and thought, and dissolves the barriers between individuals, disciplines, methods, and cultures.  Our conference asks: What kinds of work might emerge when we enter creative overload together? What new pathways of care might be opened within this methodological breakdown?

Presentations cover a wide range of topics related to how words, not-words and quasi-words rub up with and against the intuitive, the sensuous and the embodied. As this theme cuts across art and thought, so too will our conference feature a diverse array of platforms that push-up against the word-centric methodologies of traditional conferences. These platforms will include: performative lectures, talks, structured conversations, short theater pieces, interactive workshops, installation pieces, durational performance art, guided walks, constructed situations, dreaming workshops, relational art, dance, and musical performances.  

Some of our presenters include: The Center for Expanded Poetics, The Topological Media Lab, matralab, Senselab, Eastern Bloc, Lorna Bauer, Marie-Michelle Deschamps, David Johnston, Eastern Bloc, Fortner Anderson, Andreanne Abbondanza-Bergeron, Ian Ferrier, Jordan Arseneault, k.g. Guttman, Anna Wolfe-Pauley, John Jacobs, Flurina Badel & Jeremie Sarbach, Robert Kingsbury, Ted Strauss, Lauren Siegel, Elena Ailes.