Subject-Based Discussion by Demet Kurtoğlu Taşdelen

 “Performative Philosophy: The Meeting of Philosophical Exploration and Movement”

Demet Kurtoğlu Taşdelen

Anadolu University

Performative philosophy as I perceive and practice it, is a research area of thinking-visuality-movement-artful creativity in which the research is carried out through experiments and in which philosophical questions and concepts are made possible to yield a life. With philosophical discussion being put at the heart of the experiments, the research is carried out in the togetherness of the realm of thought and senses. It aims at making concepts visible, transforms concepts and images into movements and produces knowledge by means of experiments regarding the quest of the self.

As a philosopher, the reason why I bring performance and philosophy together has always been to experiment with how such togetherness opens new modes of doing philosophy. As I believe there might possibly be other ways of answering a philosophical question, my method of doing performative philosophy consists of asking a philosophical question and trying to answer it by creating an atmosphere with the audience in a concrete milieu where there is philosophical presentation, discussion and performance.

In this subject-based discussion I will focus on how I started to do performative philosophy and how my journey has evolved.