Art Science Connect invites you to attend an artist talk with performance and installation artist Kris Verdonck and Professor Peter Eckersall from the Theatre and Performance program at the Graduate Center. We will discuss Kris’s approach to devising performances that show human and nonhuman worlds in new relationships, and we will explore how his creative practices bridge art and the sciences in completing and transformative ways. Kris’s work explores the compelling symbioses of nonhuman and human worlds that lead us to consider new forms of subjectivity, new knowledge, and the paradoxical experience of always being connected to machines while generating moments of inventiveness and flow. This event will take place on Zoom on December 6, 2023 at 12pm EST. Please register in advance on Zoom or at Eventbrite to attend!
Kris’s work often addresses questions of human vulnerability, and he explores themes relating to climate change, technology, and AI, and how we are living in an age of mass extinctions. Kris is a prolific artist who has produced more than 40 theatre productions and art installations, and his work has been shown widely in Europe, Australia, Japan, and the US. His work has been written about by scholars and critics in journals and art magazines, and in books, New Media Dramaturgy (Palgrave, 2017) and Machine Made Silence: The Art of Kris Verdonck (Performance Research Books, 2020).
Kris Verdonck is a performance and installation artists based in Brussels, Belgium. He is the founder and artistic director of A Two Dogs Company. His works have been seen in Europe, the US, Asia and Australia and his is the subject of books and critical essays. His most recent works include ENTITIES (2022 KANAL Centre Pompidou), PREY (2023, Muziektheater Transparant) and DEMO (2023).
Peter Eckersall is 
Professor of Theatre Studies at The Graduate Centre, City University of New York. His research concentrates on Japanese theatre, dramaturgy and trends in contemporary performance. He was the cofounder of Dramaturgies and is the resident dramaturg for the performance group Not Yet It’s Difficult.