[Candrama] FINAL REMINDER: CFP: FOOT 2017 Sounding the Inner Ear of Performance

[Sebastian Samur]

FINAL REMINDER

*Call for Papers, Performances, Presentations and Artistic Works*

*Festival of Original Theatre (FOOT)*

*Sounding the Inner Ear of Performance*

*February 2- 5, 2017*

The Centre for Drama, Theatre and Performance Studies

University of Toronto



The 25th annual Festival of Original Theatre (FOOT) invites proposals to
our 2017 conference entitled *Sounding The Inner Ear of Performance* — an
interdisciplinary exploration of the history and evolution of sound and
aurality in theatrical and performative cultures.



In recognition and celebration of both the festival’s 25th anniversary and
the 50th anniversary of the Centre for Drama, Theatre and Performance
Studies, FOOT 2017 invites proposals for papers, lecture-presentations,
performances, installations, audio essays and workshops.



Possible topics include (but are not restricted to):



●         Listening, sound-making and performing bodies;

●         Issues of voice, gender, technology and politics in performance;

●         Explorations in voice acting and improvisation;

●         The acoustic and architectural spaces of performance;

●         Practices for addressing performers or audience members with
disabilities;

●         Literary and/or dramaturgical approaches to sound (I.e., ’writing
*for* sound’);

●         The evolving interplay between ‘audience sound’ and ‘stage sound’;

●         Collaborative or participatory methodologies for producing and
performing through sound;

●         Sound-centric investigations combining performance and cognitive
science;

●         Design/integration of sound with other elements, such as
lighting, sets, costume, video;

●         The history and evolution of sound production technologies in
theatre and performance;

●         The growing proliferation of wearable audio technologies (such as
headphones, iPods, listening-assistance systems and in-ear monitoring) in
theatre and performance culture;

●         Sound-making and listening in the evolution of performance genres
and forms such as concert rituals, music-theatre, opera, radio, film sound,
mobile audio guides, and web streaming;

●         Sound design methodologies for immersive and interactive systems
such as video games, sound installations, and virtual reality environments.



FOOT 2017 is especially interested in non-traditional proposals that blend
art and academia, activism and criticism, theory and practice, as well as
interdisciplinary research projects involving architecture, environmental
studies, sound studies, ethnomusicology, gender and sexual diversity
studies, cultural studies, cinema studies, applied theatre, education,
dramatic and comparative literature, philosophy, knowledge media design,
computing and information sciences, neuroscience, and health-related fields.



We are equally interested in staging original artistic works that engage
with the conference theme. Interested artists are strongly encouraged to
send a description of their artistic work along with an excerpt (if
available), and necessary technical requirements (if applicable).



*Application Deadline: October 1, 2016*
*For those that need an extension, we will accept proposals as late as
October 8th.*


Please send a 300-word paper proposal or description of your artistic work,
as well as a short bio to: foot.graddrama at utoronto.ca.



For more information, please visit our website:
<http://foot2017.wordpress.com/>foot2017.wordpress.com/
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