In the past year Elke Van Campenhout worked on the
research project Sense Radio, initiated by choreographer and artist
Lilia Mestre. A very important part of this research was concerned with
the understanding of the emotional body as a social body, as a body in
constant negotiation with other bodies and objects. In this week of
Reading Sessions, we go through some of the ideas of Spinoza, Brian
Massumi, Nigel Thrift, Sara Ahmed, Gilles Deleuze and others on
affect/emotion as a mode of social circulation en exchange. At the same
time watching performance material (Meg Stuart, Lilia Mestre, ...) that
corresponds to this kind of conception of the performance and the body
of the performer.