Symposia, Lectures & Conferences – up-coming events
Tuesday 2 - Friday 12 September 2008
Austrian Cultural Forum London
Shannee Marks & Peer Wolfram:
The Faust Series Opus 8 : The Accident Colony
Dramatic Investigations
Triptych from The Dark Night of Suburbia
With the support of the Austrian Cultural Forum London
Performance - Symposium - Exhibition
“Die Welt ist alles, was der Unfall ist.”
A Wittgenstein Victim
Symposium: “Ways out of Wittgenstein”
Dr Simon Glendinning, LSE, London;
Dr Martin Liebscher, IBC-IGRS, London;
Prof Bernard Burgoyne, Middlesex, University London;
Dr Stephen Mulhall, New College, Oxford ;
Rev Dr Simon Francis Gaine, OP, Blackfriars, Oxford;
Chair: Dr Shannee Marks
Performance : Sept 2 , 2008, 18.30h
Symposium : Sept 9, 2008, 18.ooh
Exhibition : Sept 2 – 12, 2008
The Accident Colony Triptych - Dark Night of Suburbia investigates a variety of spiritual crises. At the centre of all these crises is some sort of deformation of the will, a species of lostness.
Much of contemporary life takes place in darkness and unknowing. ordinary feelings are labyrinths, passing thoughts can be deadly traps. What one does and what one thinks are miles apart. On the
other hand, life seems to be a perpetual holiday, a capitalist utopia of unlimited self-expression and never having to go to work again. Faustian temptations appear disguised as “life changing experiences”. The devil runs a free introductory workshop. Simple calculations, common sense reasoning lead imperceptibly to madness, fatal indecision masquerades as decisiveness. Impulsive actions end in inexplicable accidents or disappearances. Everywhere one finds evidence of the atrophy of the will.