Join us on 27 March 2025 for the launch of the new monograph Contemporary Performance and Political Economy: Oikonomia as a New Ethico-Political Paradigm, by Katerina Paramana.
Reserve your space via Eventbrite here.
The author’s short talk about the book will be followed by discussion and responses to the book by:
- Shane Boyle, Senior Lecturer in Theatre and Performance Studies, Queen Mary University of London and author of The Art of Logistics: Artistic Production in Supply Chain Capitalism
- Rosalie Doubal, Tate Modern Senior Curator, Performance & Participation, International Art
- Marcela A. Fuentes, Associate Professor in Performance Studies, Northwestern University, US and author of Performance Constellations: Networks of Protest and Activism in Latin America
- Elena Loizidou, Professor of Law and Political Theory, Birkbeck, University of London and author of Anarchism: An Art of Living Without Law
The event will be chaired by Maria Chatzichristodoulou (aka Maria X), Professor of Performance and Digital Transformation and Dean of Research and Knowledge Exchange at University of the Arts London.
We will close with some wine and refreshments.
Start Time: 6:30pm
Location: Artsadmin Caffe, London E1 6AB
Reserve your space here.
We look forward to welcoming you!
Reviews of the Book:
‘In this inspiring and timely book, Katerina Paramana attunes readers to the globe as a haunted house of capitalism. To illustrate how we might live differently with the ghosts produced therein, she examines performances to rehearse and reimagine relationships between economy, politics, and ethics that might invigorate social transformation’.
Professor Sean Metzger, Head of Theatre and Performance Studies, UCLA
“There has been a flurry of writing in performance studies on political economy but little as incisive as Katerina Paramana in her new book launched tonight. The sub title ‘Oikonomia as a New Ethico-Political Paradigm’ hints at the courage of a writer who knows what’s what & why.”
Professor Alan Read, Kings College London
“A much-needed conceptualisation of the changing world of performance, viewed through the lens of oikonomia (originally an ancient Greek term for household management), now brilliantly reconceptualised by Katerina Paramana as a new ethico-political paradigm that pushes the concept of performance and oikonomia to new limits in order to analyse and critique the capitalist political economy”.
Professor Marina Gržinic, Philosopher, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna
In “this excellent, inspiring, and beautifully written monograph”, Katerina Paramana “searches for friendly ghosts amongst other ghost stories we live by – patriarchy, racial capitalism, colonialism, militarisation. It is against this backdrop of hauntology that she introduces the central, and highly original, conceptual framework of the book: the notion of ‘oikonomia’” (Journal of Studies in Theatre and Performance).
Professor Silvija Jestrovic, University of Warwick