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ASTR 2009<BR>
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<I>“Pointing at the Experiential: Constellating the Multiple Realities of Performance as Research”
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The Performance as Research Working Group examines the interconnections of performance, research, creativity, and pedagogy. The Working Group invites artists, scholars and artist-scholars to participate in an interdisciplinary dialogue to articulate and address the fundamental epistemological, ethical, methodological, disciplinary, and institutional challenges intrinsic to the developing field of Performance as Research.<BR>
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The Working Group aims to facilitate a cross-disciplinary analysis of the centrality of embodied experience in both the creation and reception of performance, as well as the challenges (methodological, theoretical, rhetorical) attendant on the process of its articulation. We focus on the experiential not only as a dimension that bridges the concerns of theorists and practitioners, but also as a productive locus for interrogating the limits and conventions of scholarly discourse. Work by figures such as Baz Kershaw, Matthew Goulish and Peggy Phelan has had a profound generative influence in the renegotiation of such boundaries, demonstrating the multiple competencies and shifts of perspective intrinsic to the production of Performance as Research. By foregrounding the central role of the experiential in Performance as Research, we wish to encourage rigorous methodological reflection and rhetorical experimentation responding to the challenges of articulating embodied perception and somatic experience within the frame of a scholarly text.<BR>
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<B>Possible Topics<BR>
</B>While proposals need not be limited to these topics, we have identified the following as<BR>
examples of issues related to performance-based research:<BR>
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</SPAN></FONT><UL><LI><FONT FACE="Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:12.0px'>The multiple concepts and contested definitions of Performance as Research,
</SPAN></FONT><LI><FONT FACE="Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:12.0px'>Methodologies,
</SPAN></FONT><LI><FONT FACE="Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:12.0px'>Forms of articulation of experiential and embodied knowledge,
</SPAN></FONT><LI><FONT FACE="Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:12.0px'>The phenomenon of the artist-scholar and the challenges individuals that this profile faces and raises within the context of academic research,
</SPAN></FONT><LI><FONT FACE="Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:12.0px'>The various and seemingly heterodox epistemological perspectives encompassed by the concept of Performance as Research,
</SPAN></FONT><LI><FONT FACE="Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:12.0px'>Performance as Research and performance pedagogy
</SPAN></FONT><LI><FONT FACE="Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:12.0px'>The academic evaluation of Performance as Research
</SPAN></FONT><LI><FONT FACE="Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:12.0px'>Historical and phenomenological studies of theatre as laboratory<BR>
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<B>Format<BR>
</B>Selected participants will be notified on June 1, 2009. We will initiate email discussion on the basis of abstracts on August 1, 2009, with an initial draft of a paper no longer than 10 pages to be circulated no later than September 15th, 2009. We expect that participants will engage in sustained dialogue on evolving work during the months prior to the conference. Rather than regurgitating synopses of individual essays, discussion at the November meeting will highlight key issues that emerge during pre-conference interaction. <BR>
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Proposals should not exceed 300 words and be accompanied by a short bio. Send proposals by May 15, 2009, to the conveners.<BR>
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<B>Conveners<BR>
</B>Daniel Mroz, University of Ottawa, dmroz@uottawa.ca<BR>
Kris Salata, Florida State University, ksalata@fsu.edu<BR>
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Daniel Mroz, Ph.D.<BR>
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Assistant Professor of Theatre / Professeur adjoint de théâtre<BR>
University of Ottawa / Université d'Ottawa<BR>
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