Perspectives on Performance with Shannon Jackson

Theater, Dance & Media welcomes Shannon Jackson for its last Perspectives on Performance artist talk of the year, "Humans Performing More-Than-Human: Paradoxes in Ecological Aesthetics." If reckoning with the effects of climate change means challenging the assumptions and values of human-centered thinking, how do the arts respond? How especially do performance forms invested in the so-called ‘live’ figure of the human navigating their own de-centering? 

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About Shannon Jackson

Shannon Jackson is Cyrus and Michelle Hadidi Professor at the University of California, Berk

eley, where she currently serves as the Chair of the History of Art department. She is also a professor of Rhetoric and of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies and former Associate Vice Chancellor for the Arts + Design. Her more recent publications include Social Works (2011), Public Servants (2015), The Builders Association (2016), Back Stages (2022), and The Human Condition (2022) along with edited online platforms such as In Terms of Performance, Media Art 21, and Relevance of Place at Tippet Rise Art Center. Jackson is a frequent speaker at museums, theaters, biennials, and universities, nationally and internationally, and serves on several boards, including the Kramlich Art Foundation, the Minnesota Street Project Foundation, OMCA, BAMPFA, and the Cultural Commission of the City of Berkeley.