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<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff><FONT color=#000000><FONT face=Times
size=4>Performance Research<BR>Vol. 12 No. 4 (December 2007)<BR><BR>'On Objects'
- Call for Contributions<BR><BR>Issue Editors:<BR>Laurie Beth Clark, University
of Wisconsin, Madison, USA<BR>Richard Gough, Centre for Performance Research,
UK<BR>Daniel Watt, University of Loughborough, UK<BR><BR>In this issue of
Performance Research we hope to explore the various transformations of the
object in theatre and performance, from sacred to sacrilegious, fetishised to
worthless, functional to aesthetic, craft to commodity, unstable yet
enduring. Contributions might focus on very specific objects or sets of
objects and/or provoke more thought about some of the questions and themes
below. We are interested in the presence of objects in a variety of theatrical
and performance media from Futurism and Surrealism to forms of puppet theatre,
the Bio-objects of Tadeusz Kantor to the boxes of Joseph Cornell. We are also
interested in the philosophical designation of objects and their relation to the
stage, from Heidegger's<I> things</I> to the ghostly trace of Derrida, from the
body without organs of Deleuze and Guattari to Bachelard's dreamy geometry of
shells.<BR><BR>We invite scholars and practitioners to engage with some
questions about objects, performance and culture in the form of essays or artist
pages. We encourage you to consider all manner of objects: props, icons,
antiques, artifacts, salvage, inventory,<I> tchotchkes</I>, flotsam, jetsam,
lagan, fetish objects, sex toys, digital objects, waste, detritus, prostheses,
souvenirs...<BR><BR>Contributions might focus on very specific objects or sets
of objects and/or provoke more thought about some of the questions and themes
below.<BR> <BR></FONT><FONT face="Times New Roman">*<FONT
size=-2> <SPAN></SPAN> </FONT></FONT><FONT
face=Times size=+1> What is an object? How is its ontological status determined
and what are the differences</FONT></FONT>
<DIV><FONT face=Times color=#000000
size=+1><STRONG> between things
and objects?</STRONG></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Times New Roman" color=#000000><STRONG>*<FONT
size=-2> <SPAN></SPAN> </FONT></STRONG></FONT><STRONG><FONT
face=Times color=#000000 size=+1> What does it mean for an object to
perform?<BR></FONT><FONT face="Times New Roman" color=#000000>*<FONT
size=-2> <SPAN></SPAN> </FONT></FONT></STRONG><STRONG><FONT
face=Times color=#000000 size=+1> How are objects deployed in creative and
quotidian contexts?<BR></FONT><FONT face="Times New Roman" color=#000000>*<FONT
size=-2> <SPAN></SPAN> </FONT></FONT></STRONG><STRONG><FONT
face=Times color=#000000 size=+1> How is the status of an object determined and
contested?<BR></FONT><FONT face="Times New Roman" color=#000000>*<FONT
size=-2> <SPAN></SPAN> </FONT></FONT></STRONG><STRONG><FONT
face=Times color=#000000 size=+1> Why do we still care about
things?<BR></FONT><FONT face="Times New Roman" color=#000000>*<FONT
size=-2> <SPAN></SPAN> </FONT></FONT><FONT
face=Times color=#000000 size=+1> How are the boundaries between objects and
subjects drawn, affirmed, re-instated or</FONT></STRONG></DIV>
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size=+1><STRONG>
transgressed?</STRONG></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><STRONG><FONT face="Times New Roman" color=#000000>*<FONT
size=-2> <SPAN></SPAN> </FONT></FONT><FONT
face=Times color=#000000 size=+1> How is the study and deployment of objects
differently inflected across established</FONT></STRONG></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Times color=#000000
size=+1><STRONG> disciplines
(art, theatre, history, archeology, anthropology, sociology) and
emerging</STRONG></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Times color=#000000
size=+1><STRONG>
interdisciplines (performance studies, food studies, tourism
studies)?</STRONG></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><STRONG><FONT face="Times New Roman" color=#000000>*<FONT
size=-2> <SPAN></SPAN> </FONT></FONT><FONT
face=Times color=#000000 size=+1> Do the environments of theatre and performance
offer a unique arena for the reassessment</FONT></STRONG></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Times color=#000000
size=+1><STRONG> of the status
of the object?</STRONG></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Times New Roman" color=#000000><STRONG>*<FONT
size=-2> <SPAN></SPAN> </FONT></STRONG></FONT><STRONG><FONT
face=Times color=#000000 size=+1> What are the possibilities and constraints for
to the use of objects in a theatrical space?<BR></FONT><FONT
face="Times New Roman" color=#000000>*<FONT
size=-2> <SPAN></SPAN> </FONT></FONT><FONT
face=Times color=#000000 size=+1> How has (endurance obsessed) archival culture
contributed to the enhancement or stagnation</FONT></STRONG></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Times color=#000000
size=+1><STRONG> of
objects?</STRONG></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Times New Roman" color=#000000><STRONG>*<FONT
size=-2> <SPAN></SPAN> </FONT></STRONG></FONT><STRONG><FONT
face=Times color=#000000 size=+1> What are the pleasures of objects? What
are objects of pleasure?<BR></FONT><FONT face="Times New Roman"
color=#000000>*<FONT
size=-2> <SPAN></SPAN> </FONT></FONT></STRONG><STRONG><FONT
face=Times color=#000000 size=+1> What does it mean to think about the body as
an object?<BR></FONT><FONT face="Times New Roman" color=#000000>*<FONT
size=-2> <SPAN></SPAN> </FONT></FONT></STRONG><STRONG><FONT
face=Times color=#000000 size=+1> What about bodies that are merged with
objects?<BR></FONT><FONT face="Times New Roman" color=#000000>*<FONT
size=-2> <SPAN></SPAN> </FONT></FONT></STRONG><STRONG><FONT
face=Times color=#000000 size=+1> What professions (like curating) have special
relationships with object culture?<BR></FONT><FONT face="Times New Roman"
color=#000000>*<FONT
size=-2> <SPAN></SPAN> </FONT></FONT></STRONG><FONT
face=Times color=#000000 size=+1><STRONG> What do objects teach
us?<BR><BR><BR><BR>Deadlines are as follows:<BR><BR>Proposals: 15th January,
2007<BR>Finalised material: 18th May 2007<BR>Publication date: December
2007<BR><BR>ALL proposals, submissions and general enquiries should be sent
direct to:<BR><BR> Linden Elmhirst - Administrative
Assistant<BR> Performance Research<BR> Dartington College of Arts,
Totnes,<BR> Devon TQ9 6EJ UK<BR> tel. 0044 1803 861683<BR> fax.
0044 1803 866053<BR> email:
performance-research@dartington.ac.uk<BR> web:
http://www.performance-research.net<BR><BR>Issue specific enquires should be
directed to:<BR><BR>Laurie Beth Clark: lbclark@wisc.edu<BR>Or<BR>Daniel Watt:
D.P.Watt@lboro.ac.uk<BR>For complete Guidelines for Submissions please
see:</STRONG></FONT></DIV>
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size=+1><BR><STRONG>http://www.performance-research.net/pages/guidelines.html<BR><BR>Performance
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unpublished work not under consideration for publication elsewhere. By
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<DIV><STRONG><FONT face=Arial
color=#0000ff>_________________________________________________________________<BR>"
. . . we have to accept that our tragedy lies always in our past, that we have
to live with our ancestors' folly and suffer for it, just as they, in their
turn, suffered, and as we, through our vanity and ignorance, ensure the pain and
suffering of our own children. How to correct history, that's the
thing."--Robert Fisk<BR>____________________________________<BR>"In 2005, the
world . . . pass[ed] the trillion-dollar mark in the expenditure, annually, on
arms. We're fighting for $50 billion annually for foreign aid for Africa: the
military total outstrips human need by 20 to 1. Can someone please explain to me
our contemporary balance of values?" --Stephen
Lewis.<BR>__________________________________________________<BR>Denis
Salter<BR>Professor of Theatre<BR>McGill University<BR>853 Sherbrooke St.
West<BR>Montréal, QC<BR>H3A 2T6<BR>Tel (514) 398 6592 <BR>Regular Fax (514) 398
8146<BR>Computer Fax (309) 294 0444<BR><A
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