Oct 22 2025
Open House | Women & Performance: a journal of feminist theory
Wed | 7PM
SI in collaboration with the editorial collective of Women & Performance: a journal of feminist theory is pleased to present an evening of performances by Barbara Browning and Sébastien Régnier, aka Imre Lodbrog et Sa Petite Amie, and isa saldaña.
Founded in 1983 by graduate students in the Department of Performance Studies at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts, the journal continues to publish groundbreaking scholarship and maintains a deep commitment to feminist theory, criticism, and performance that is interdisciplinary, experimental, and intersectional.
As its first open house since 2019, this special event will bring current, former, and future members of the editorial collective together with its readers to celebrate the journal.
Please RSVP to rsvp@swissinstitute.net.
Barbara Browning is an academic and writer of fiction. She has taught for the last thirty years in the Department of Performance Studies at NYU. She has published three novels (The Gift and The Correspondence Artist, both winners of the Lambda Literary Award, and I’m Trying to Reach You, finalist for The Believer Book Award), and numerous works of nonfiction (most recently The Miniaturists).
Sébastien Régnier is an award-winning screenwriter (notably of Kabloonak with Claude Massot and Martha… Martha with Sandrine Veysset), singer/songwriter, and psychonaut (that last career was not what he got the awards for, but maybe he should have). With Barbara Browning, he previously published Who the Hell is Imre Lodbrog and The Terrarium, and the two recently completed a new manuscript on psychedelia, with a companion EP of songs. Musically, they perform together as Imre Lodbrog et Sa Petite Amie.
isa saldaña was born from and to moving oceans, mountains, and islands, from and to peoples whose peoples were moved through and across them. They grow and grew near rivergrounds stewarded by those moved and moving––called by many, common, ancient, translated, other, names (sometimes-people and sometimes-bodies)––among them. They practice and study performance to study and practice messy weavings of intimacy, labor, and sensation.
Image: Untitled. Photo by Alhena Katsof.