Visual and Performing Arts Conference
Opens
Friday, October 23, 2026
Location
Long Beach, California, USA
Venue
California State University, Long Beach
Hosted by
Dance Studies Association
The conference examines how bodies move through—with and against—systems of control, extraction, discipline, and erasure in a post-truth moment shaped by spectacle, migration, media, labor, and ecological extremes. It asks what possibilities emerge when movement is imagined as an affirmative form of world-making. The site is the original Tongva village of Puvungna, meaning 'gathering place,' featured in Tongva/Gabrieleno/Acjachemen creation stories and emergence narratives. Conference co-chairs
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Torino, Italy
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Baltimore, Maryland, United States
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