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color=#000000>PSi #13 Happening/Performance/Event<BR><BR> <BR><BR>8th -
11th November 2007<BR><BR> <BR><BR>New York
University<BR><BR> <BR><BR>PSi #13, Happening/Performance/Event will look
to both performance studies' history and futurity. The invocation of Happening
harkens to the performance practices that emerged from the late 1950's. That
mode of Avante-Garde performance and the critical approach developed by Michael
Kirby for describing it are key sites for the origins of Performance Studies.
The event has been theorized as an occurrence that is ultimately an interruption
that represents the not-yet-imagined new. This conference seeks papers, panels,
and performances that consider the happening and the event, and their key
relationship to the field of performance studies.<BR><BR> <BR><BR>Proposals
might include:<BR><BR> <BR><BR>- The
relationship between performance and
futurity.<BR><BR>- The new that performance
promises: <BR><BR>- new
technologies<BR><BR>- new political
strategies<BR><BR>- new understanding of self,
other, race, gender, sex, ability<BR><BR>- New
forms of performance that serve as an interruption in the continuum of the
present.<BR><BR>- The history of researching the
new that Performance Studies has always undertaken.
<BR><BR>- The history and future of the
happening.<BR><BR>- Performance and performance
studies as interdisciplinary rubrics to consider events that generate
possibilities to understand the new. <BR><BR>-
Performances of great magnitude and the everyday.
<BR><BR>- Theories of eventhood in performance,
art and cultural theory.<BR><BR>- Questions of the
relation between performance and visual art, dance and performance in everyday
life.<BR><BR>- The relationship between the body
and the event, the body and a happening.<BR><BR> <BR><BR>The conference
will be staged in the middle of New York City's PERFORMA Biennial. PERFORMA is a
non-profit interdisciplinary arts organization committed to the research,
development, and presentation of performance by visual artists from around the
world. The organization is directed by the Performance historian and curator
RoseLee Goldberg and mounted the first Performa Exhibition in 2005, a major new
Biennial of Visual Art and Performance. PSi #13 will be developed in
collaboration with PERFORMA, sitting inside its schedule and aside its numerous
performance events across the city of New York. The conference will be hosted by
New York University's Department of Performance Studies and the conference hub
will be the newly renovated departmental facilities. Due to a limited amount of
space, please note that this year's conference will have fewer concurrent panels
than in years past. <BR><BR> <BR><BR>Paper and presentation
proposals:<BR><BR> <BR><BR>Proposals for papers and presentations should
include a 250-word abstract including your name, affiliation, mailing address,
and email address. In addition, please indicate, in advance, what your spatial
and technical (including details such as formats and regions of media, laptop
set up, etc.) Full-length papers will not be accepted.
<BR><BR> <BR><BR>Panel proposals:<BR><BR> <BR><BR>All panel proposals
should include a 300-word rationale. If you have constituted the members of your
panel (usually three speakers), you should include participants' names and
contact information. <BR><BR> <BR><BR> <BR><BR>Proposals should be
sent to </FONT><A href=""><FONT
face="Times New Roman">psinternational13@nyu.edu</FONT></A><FONT
face="Times New Roman" color=#000000> and are due no later than February 1,
2007. <BR><BR> </FONT><BR></DIV></FONT>
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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 / 487 7309 <BR>Fax (514)
398 8146<BR>Computer Fax (309) 294 0444<BR><A
href="mailto:denis.salter@mcgill.ca">denis.salter@mcgill.ca</A>
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