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<DIV><FONT face=Helvetica color=#000000 size=+1>Call for Contributions to
Performance Research Vol. 11</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Helvetica color=#000000 size=+1><B>Lexicon<BR><BR></B>And for<B>
Made to Order</B> Issue No. 11:1 (Spring 2006)<BR><BR>Editors: Ric Allsopp,
Richard Gough, Claire MacDonald<BR><BR>In the spring of 2006 Performance
Research will begin its second decade of publication, and we are devoting the
four-issues of Volume 11 to an exploration of the terms under which performance
is debated, discussed, conducted, written about and constructed, in the form of
lexicons and dictionaries, encyclopedias and key words.<BR>Over the past ten
years Performance Research has generated issue titles that provoke response and
debate, using them to stimulate, frame and respond to current trends in art and
performance. The intention has been not merely to offer subjects for discussion,
but to extend the imaginative field of performance discourse. Over the decade we
have offered titles as 'word play, that is as terms that can be subjected to
pressure and so reveal a multiplicity of possible uses and meanings. The list is
a long one, but a random sequence might include: refuge, silence, departure,
navigation, risk, illusion, generation, voices, correspondence and civility, as
well as subjects like archiving, editing, animals, place, the page and theatre
itself, that seek to identify subject matter that is significant to current
critical and creative practice. In Volume 11 we take our interest in words,
discourse, linguistic systems and their relationship to performance practice
much further, and to ask artists and writers to consider these in relation to
the histories, philosophies and pragmatics of performance, art making and
performance writing.<BR><X-TAB> </X-TAB>Volume 11 will begin
with 'Made to Order', whose call for papers is below. It will continue with two
issues on key words, and end with an issue on the nature of the index. We would
be interested in proposals from writers and artists who would be interested in
contributing to issues over the year, as well as for individual contributions to
particular issues.<BR><BR><BR><BR><B>Issue 11.1 (spring 2006) Made to
Order<BR><BR></B>Issue Editor: Claire MacDonald<BR><BR>What is the relationship
between performance practice and the ordering systems that generate and archive
it? To begin our anniversary year we are considering ordering systems -
encyclopedias, lexicons, dictionaries, lists, stage directions - in relation to
the histories, practices, theories and discourses of performance. From Georges
Perec's 'A Species of Spaces' to Forced Entertainment's recent performance
lexicon, what do dictionaries, lexicons and encyclopedias tell us about their
subjects and about their compilers? Conversely, we are also interested in the
ways in which systems of order, alphabetical and otherwise, might be conceived
of as instances of performance practice in themselves. From the invented
alphabets of Lettrism to the transformed visual letters of artist Xu Bing, the
notion of performing alphabetical order has been a central part of avant garde
practice, and therefore of performance art. We might also consider how patterns
and concepts of order work in space and time on the page, in the performance
space, in site-specific work and in the book, as well as how performance events
and material objects relate to their archival entries? Lists, sequences and
series appear in the work of many artists, but how does sequence relate to
narrative?</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Helvetica color=#000000 size=+1>The issue will preface two
subsequent issues dealing with performance keywords, not simply terms that are
currently crucial to the emerging field as it grows, but 'key words' in the
sense for which Raymond Williams coined the term in the 1970s - terms in flux,
terms that indicate tension and change or that show shifts in thinking; terms
that divide generations, or that continue to provoke dissent. 'Made to Order' is
a companion to the projected final issue of the volume, 'Indexical Traces', an
issue that looks at the nature of the index as a form and at indexes tell us
about the textual and performance forms that they relate to.<BR><BR><B>Deadlines
for issue 11:1 are as follows:<BR><BR></B>Proposals: 27th May
2005<BR>Draft manuscripts: 18th July 2005<BR>Finalised material: 19th September
2005<BR>Publication Date: Spring 2006<BR><BR><B>ALL proposals, submissions
and general enquiries should be sent direct to:<BR><BR></B> Linden Elmhirst
- Administrative Assistant<BR> Performance Research<BR> Dartington
College of Arts, Totnes,<BR> Devon TQ9 7RD UK<BR> tel. 0044 1803
861683<BR> fax. 0044 1803 861685<BR> email:<U>
performance-research@dartington.ac.uk<BR></U> web:<U>
http://www.performance-research.net<BR><BR></U><B>Content specific enquires
should be directed to Claire Macdonald
at:<BR></B><U>prissue@mac.com<BR><BR></U><B>Enquiries about the volume as a
whole should be directed to:<BR></B>Ric Allsopp <U>
transomatic@orange.net</U> OR <U>
r.allsopp@dartington.ac.uk<BR><BR></U><B>For complete Guidelines for Submissions
please
see:<BR></B><U>http://www.performance-research.net/pages/guidelines.html<BR><BR></U>Performance
Research is MAC based. Proposals will be accepted in hard copy, on CD or by
e-mail (Apple Works, MS-Word or RTF). Please DO NOT send images without prior
agreement.<BR>Please note that submission of a proposal will be taken to imply
that it presents original, unpublished work not under consideration for
publication elsewhere. By submitting a manuscript, the author(s) agree that the
exclusive rights to reproduce and distribute the article have been given to
Performance Research<BR><BR></FONT></DIV><X-SIGSEP></FONT></STRONG></DIV>
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<DIV><STRONG><FONT color=#0000ff>"To celebrate this award, and the work it
recognizes of those around the world, let me recall the words<BR>of Gandhi: My
life is my message. Also, plant a tree."--Wangari Maathai, winner of the 2004
Nobel <BR>Peace Prize.</FONT></STRONG></DIV>
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<DIV><STRONG><FONT color=#0000ff>" . . . and they shall beat their swords into
plowshares, and their spears into pruning-hooks: <BR>nation shall not lift up
sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more."<BR> Isaiah
2.4<BR>___________________<BR>Denis Salter<BR>Professor of Theatre<BR>McGill
University<BR>853 Sherbrooke Street West<BR>Montreal, QC<BR>H3A 2T6<BR>Tel (514)
398 6550<BR>Fax (514) 398 8146<BR><A
href="mailto:d.salter@videotron.ca">d.salter@videotron.ca</A><BR><A
href="mailto:denis.salter@mcgill.ca">denis.salter@mcgill.ca</A><BR>__________________</FONT></STRONG></DIV>
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