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The 4th PSL on After/Lives took place June 29-July 7, 2022, in Makrinitsa - after a two-year hiatus due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Like so many events, from vacations, weddings, reunions, graduations, academic conferences, planned for 2020… and then held in 2021, 2022 or never at all, Pelion Summer Lab 4 was haunted by its constitutive afterness. Unfortunately we had several faculty members and students who could not attend due to COVID 19-related illness or travel issues.
PSL 2022 on the theme of After/Lives addressed this pandemic-heightened sense of living-on in a haunted world and on a damaged planet. After/Lives names the line that, like a glitch, both interrupts and relays a transitional spacetime without foreseeable transition: of endurance after exhaustion, life after death, survival after extinction, emergence after submergence. Whereas the normative events mentioned at the outset presume an anthropocentric capitalist calendar, a drive to control (re)productive times, spaces, and bodies, and the civilizational conceits of an inconvenienced white privilege, PSL 2022 called for reparative readings of the present based in experimental reckonings with colonial histories of violence and their attendant late liberal economies of ruination and abandonment.
The summer lab was thus organized into three clusters - Spectrality, Ruination and Survivance - and complemented by Experimental Humanities Studio Space-Time and the Laboratory of Speculative Ethnology. PSL 4 culminated on July 7 in Makrinitsa with a final public experiment designed and created by the cohort: the collaborative construction of a Shrine.
PSL 4 was made possible with the support of the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research and the Experimental Humanities Collaborative Network (ECHN).
The organizing committee for PSL 2022: Penelope Papailias, Pantelis Probonas, George Mantzios, Eftychia Vardouli.
The following seminars and workshops were held by PSL 2022 faculty:
Like so many events, from vacations, weddings, reunions, graduations, academic conferences, planned for 2020… and then held in 2021, 2022 or never at all, Pelion Summer Lab 4 was haunted by its constitutive afterness. Unfortunately we had several faculty members and students who could not attend due to COVID 19-related illness or travel issues.
PSL 2022 on the theme of After/Lives addressed this pandemic-heightened sense of living-on in a haunted world and on a damaged planet. After/Lives names the line that, like a glitch, both interrupts and relays a transitional spacetime without foreseeable transition: of endurance after exhaustion, life after death, survival after extinction, emergence after submergence. Whereas the normative events mentioned at the outset presume an anthropocentric capitalist calendar, a drive to control (re)productive times, spaces, and bodies, and the civilizational conceits of an inconvenienced white privilege, PSL 2022 called for reparative readings of the present based in experimental reckonings with colonial histories of violence and their attendant late liberal economies of ruination and abandonment.
The summer lab was thus organized into three clusters - Spectrality, Ruination and Survivance - and complemented by Experimental Humanities Studio Space-Time and the Laboratory of Speculative Ethnology. PSL 4 culminated on July 7 in Makrinitsa with a final public experiment designed and created by the cohort: the collaborative construction of a Shrine.
PSL 4 was made possible with the support of the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research and the Experimental Humanities Collaborative Network (ECHN).
The organizing committee for PSL 2022: Penelope Papailias, Pantelis Probonas, George Mantzios, Eftychia Vardouli.
The following seminars and workshops were held by PSL 2022 faculty:
- Cluster on Spectrality with Margaret Gibson (Griffith University). Unfortunately Susan Lepselter (Indiana University) and Özge Serin (Whitman College) who helped plan the sessions could not attend due to COVID-19 related issues.
- Cluster on Ruination with Gaston Gordillo (University of British Columbia), Pamila Gupta (University of Witwatersrand) and Alice von Bieberstein (Humboldt-University of Berlin)
- Cluster on Spectrality with Olga Cielemęcka (University of Turku) and Gene Ray (Geneva School of Art and Design)
- Experimental Humanities Studio Space-Time
- Krista Caballero (Bard College) on Flutter Books & Sun Prints
- A. Sayeeda Moreno (Bard College) on Birth Story Narratives
- Dominique Townsend (Bard College) on Navigating the Bardos
- Gwyneira Isaac (National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian) for Face/Body Casting Workshop
- Laboratory of Speculative Ethnology - 'Do You Want to Make a Robot?' with Elizabeth Chin (Art Center College of Design in Pasadena)
- Serious Games with Jenny Marketou
