Guttman researches the material and discursive forces of the host, guest, and site within colonial and settler colonial conditions. Written and explored from the perspective of a Canadian settler scholar and artist, the dissertation argues for a critical and creative mode of engagement with the social, material, and political relations of a site and the world-building potential of performance.

This argumentation resonates in Guttman’s artistic work through which a series of residential sites in Canada and the Netherlands are performatively activated. Through these choreographed encounters between host-dancer, guest-audience, and site-performance, forces of territoriality are animated. Documentary photographic images, voice recordings, and drawings constitute a final form of the research.

PUBLIC DEFENSE k.g. GUTTMAN
10 November 2020 at 16.15 CET
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SUPERVISORS
Prof. dr. Janneke Wesseling, Professor in Practice and Theory of Research in the Visual Arts, Academy of Creative and Performing Arts, Leiden University
Prof. Frans de Ruiter, Professor emeritus of Creative and Performing Arts, Academy of Creative and Performing Arts, Leiden University
Dr. Sher Doruff, DAS Research, Academy of Theatre and Dance, Amsterdam University of the Arts