Fragments, Lists & Lacunae
February 13–15, 2020
Presented by New York Live Arts
Press
The New York Times, CultureBot, The New School Free Press
Fragments, Lists & Lacunae focuses on three college students who are taking a course about gaps, holes, blanks, and white space – examples include the 18-minute gap in Nixon’s White House tapes, Sappho’s poetry, Swiss cheese, the 12 Steps, and the politics of “disappearance.” In a series of nine lectures, their professor, played by American philosopher and gender theorist Judith Butler, offers multimedia provocations on absence, silence, negation and nothingness. Meanwhile, the students’ class notes and their personal notes to each other – all projected overhead – dramatize the lived meanings of the course’s concepts.