The Global Performance + Sound Lab [GPS*] is an inter-institutional collaboration that is a growing network and resource that can help to manifest new work, performances, research, scholarship, pedagogies, connections, and knowledge and practice sharing among those in these constantly developing interdisciplinary fields.
The inaugural Global Performance and Sound Lab gathering will take place on October 18th and 19th, 2025 at Rutgers University-Newark and New York University thanks to colleagues at the Department of Art, Culture and Media, Express Newark, the Clement A. Price Institute, and Clement’s Place and Institute of Jazz Studies at Rutgers University-Newark and the Colloquium for Unpopular Culture and Performance Studies at NYU, and support from the Rutgers University-Newark Chancellor’s Impact Seed Grant for the Decolonizing Curatorial and Museum Studies Project.
The First Gathering includes core group of practitioners who are active in the field as creatives, practitioners, organizers, researchers, and scholars or a combination of these. Foci at the gathering will include decolonizing practices, diaspora and embodied practices, ritual, community engagement, contemporary Indigenous art, engagements with archives/collections/presenting practices, technologies, interdiscplinary pratices, and the eco crisis.
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