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lang=EN-US><FONT face=Arial size=2>ESSAYS IN PERFORMANCE &
ECOLOGY</FONT></SPAN></P>
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lang=EN-US><FONT face=Arial size=2>Edited by Wendy Arons and Theresa J. May
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lang=EN-US><FONT face=Arial size=2>Estimated publication: 2011</FONT></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 36pt"><FONT
face=Arial><FONT size=2><SPAN lang=EN-US>In March 2009 the Public Art Research
Cluster at Carnegie Mellon University hosted a symposium entitled “Greening the
Future of Live Performance,” organized and moderated by Wendy Arons,
</SPAN><SPAN lang=EN-US style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">director of the Performance and
Ecology Public Art Initiative and Associate Professor of Dramatic Literature and
Dramaturgy.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>In </SPAN><SPAN
lang=EN-US>May 2009 Earth Matters on Stage (EMOS) convened a Symposium on
Theatre & Ecology at the University of Oregon, organized by EMOS founder and
artistic director, Theresa May, Assistant Professor of Theatre Arts.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>These are two recent examples of a
significant and growing ecological sensibility in our collective professional
imagination.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Notes from the EMOS
schedule provide a window into this emerging discourse:
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lang=EN-US><FONT face=Arial><FONT
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt"><SPAN lang=EN-US><FONT
face=Arial size=2>The array of papers and presentations at the EMOS Symposium
indicated not only a growing concern, mounting artistic will, but also faith in
the imagination as an aspect of our ecological selves.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Practice-based sessions reminded us that
theatre is a way of knowing; dance and architecture reminded us that our work is
necessarily embodied; critical animal studies insisted we are not alone here;
theatre historiography treated the land as archive; ecopolitics embraced
ecopoetics; and in almost every session we witnessed a re-calibration toward
community collaboration and local means (May 09). </FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-US><FONT
face=Arial><FONT size=2> <o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><FONT face=Arial><FONT
size=2><SPAN lang=EN-US>The editors of this proposed anthology of essays,
interviews, and artist statements invite papers that further identify,
illuminate, or complicate ecocritical concerns as they relate to theatre and
performance (broadly construed).<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>We
are especially interested in explorations that employ the science (rather than
merely the metaphor) of ecology as a critical framework; or employ environmental
history to contextualize performance.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>We welcome papers on topics including but not limited to: the ecological
situatedness of language; the dialogic relationship between onstage/offstage
ecological discourses; intersections and complications of landscape/body;
performances that participate in/reflect ecological debates; </SPAN><SPAN
lang=EN-US style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt">ecology, technology and
representation; the cultural (de)construction of "nature"; performative
intersections of social justice and ecological issues; partnership projects in
the arts and sciences; ecological dramaturgy; community/place and ecology; the
body as a site of ecological intersections; the ecologies of theatrical space;
semiotics of “nature”; subjectivity/inter-subjectivity and the ecological self;
animal representation on/off stage; eco-activism/community-based
performance.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 36pt"><SPAN
lang=EN-US><FONT face=Arial size=2>We encourage submissions by artists working
in the area of eco-performance and who reflect critically on their work and/or
process. We encourage proposals that go beyond a recitation of ideas or
positions, but instead critically engage a driving question about how
performance (broadly constructed) has or might function as part of ecological
communities.</FONT></SPAN></P>
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lang=EN-US><FONT face=Arial><FONT
size=2> <o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-US
style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt"><FONT face=Arial size=2>Please send a working
draft (conference length is fine), or a finished draft, or (if you must) an
abstract of 500 words to both editors:<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Theresa J. May </FONT><A href=""><FONT face=Arial
size=2>tmay33@uoregon.edu</FONT></A><FONT face=Arial size=2>, and Wendy Arons
</FONT><A href=""><FONT face=Arial size=2>warons@andrew.emu.edu</FONT></A><FONT
face=Arial><FONT size=2> by October 1, 2009. Documents should be sent as
attachments. <o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-US
style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt"><FONT face=Arial size=2>Thank you!<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>We look forward to reading your
submission.</FONT></SPAN></P></DIV></DIV>
<DIV><STRONG><FONT face=Arial
color=#0000ff>_________________________________________________________<BR>"They
were neither one thing nor the other; neither Victorians nor themselves. They
were suspended, without being, in limbo." Virginia Woolf, Between the
Acts.
<BR>_________________________________________________<BR>"Essentially, we strip
Mother Nature to a skeletal form. We still worship and appreciate that, but we
don't realize that it's a skeletal form. Not understanding that it's skeletal,
we also have no idea how close to perishing it is."--Richard
Hebda.<BR>______________________________________________________</FONT></STRONG></DIV>
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<DIV><STRONG><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff>Denis Salter<BR>McGill<BR>853
Sherbrooke St. West<BR>Montreal, QC<BR>H3A 2T6</FONT></STRONG></DIV>
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