The Garden of Dystopian Pleasures

Abstract

His current researchfocuses on the relationships between Futures Studies and Performance Studies; and between theatre, education and society. He has published on theatre translation and adaptation, directing and dramaturgy, and disability aesthetics. In his practice, Pedro has extensive experience as a director, workshop facilitator, performer and dramaturg. He is an associate director with SignDance Collective, a disabled-led dance-theatre company using sign languages as a basis for their choreographic practice.Richard Pfützenreuter is an independent artist and dramaturg. He studied theatre in Berlin and has worked for various theatres and performance groups over the last 15 years. With the group Panzerkreuzer Rotkäppchen he regularly explores themes of the post-GDR. His solo performances primarily explore the connections between ideology, body and control in late capitalism. FYTA is a conceptual audiotextual performance duo, consisting of Fil Ieropoulos [Buckinghamshire New University] and Foivos Dousos [Royal Holloway]. Since 2012 they have participated in a number of events as performers, but also as curators. They were founding members of the queer music label Fytini (with over 30 releases), the performance art platform Sound Acts (presenting the work of 80+ artists in three years) and the activist space AMOQA with various collaborators from the queer scene. In 2021 they are presenting the video opera "Orfeas 2021" based on a queer adaptation of Claudio Monteverdi's L'Orfeo. Foivos Dousos has completed his PhD on narcissism in new media cultures and maintains a strong research interest in Lacanian psychoanalysis, literary avant-gardes of the 20th century and queer & feminist formally innovative writing. As a poet, he has published work both in Greek and in Englishin 2019 one of his poems was included in the collective volume A Queer Anthology of Sickness by Pilot Press and he collaborated with poet D. Mortimer on the Pamphlet "We are the same number now". Fil Ieropoulos was born in Athens in 1978 and raised in northern greece. He studied media arts in the UK and in 2009 completed his PhD on poetics and film, under the supervision of Nicky Hamlyn and Judith Williamson. He has been working at Buckinghamshire New University since 2003 and his films, performances, artworks and writing have been shown in numerous festivals, conferences and showcases around Europe.