Hysterical Methodologies in the Arts

Johanna Braun is an artist, scholar, curator, and Principle Investigator of the postdoctoral research project “The Hysteric as Conceptual Operator” [J 4164-G24], sponsored by the Austrian Science Funds [FWF], and situated at the University of California, Los Angeles, Stanford University and the University of Vienna (2018-2020).

• 1. Introduction: Searching for Methods in this Madness; Johanna Braun.- 2. L’Arc de Cercle, or the Movement of Modernism (1620-2020); Nathan J. Timpano.- 3. Hysterias in Pictures; Anna Furse.- 4. From “Private Theatres Onstage” to Anti-Hysterical Performances: Reclaiming the Feminist Interest in Hysterical Performances since the 1990s; Tanya Augsburg.- 5. State of Anxiety: Hysterical Studies for Reproduction Struggles; Elke Krasny.- 6. Hysteria, Turning a Diagnosis into a Call; Mette Kjærgaard Præst.- 7. To Arc, and Other Studies on Hysterical Gesturing; Cindy Rehm and Johanna Braun.- 8. The Other Self of Imagination: Cindy Sherman’s Hysterical Performance; Elisabeth Bronfen.- 9. Hysterical Representation in the Art of Mary Sibande; Anne Scheffer, Ingrid Stevens and Amanda du Preez.- 10. A Storm in a Teacup, and other minor melodramas: Narratives of Containment and Excess in cultured colonies / colonial cultures; Leora Farber.- 11. Making Ghosts Heard; Laura González.- 12. Hysterical Aesthetics in Contemporary Performance: Theatre, Dance, Voice; Jonathan W. Marshall.- 13. H. Y. S. T. et al, on Archiving Hysteria’s Past in the Present; Shana Lutker and Johanna Braun.- 14. Male Hysteria and the Archive: An Auto-Ethnographic Reflection; Thomas Ballhausen.- 15. Notes on Hysteria in and as Arts-based Research; a Case Study; Johanna Braun.- 16. Dora with Medusa: Is Hysterical Writing a Subversive Revolution?; Elisabeth Schäfer.- 17. Lecture Performance: On Truth and its Relation to the Cellar Regions of the Body; Arno Boehler and Susanne Valerie Granzer.- 18. Via Telefaune; a Phone Call with Hélène Cixous; Helene Cixous and Elisabeth Schäfer.