<html><body><font face="Tahoma" size="2"><b>CATR/ACRT 2014<br>Canadian Association for Theatre Research / Association Canadienne de la Recherche </b><b><strong>Théâtrale</strong></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><br>Call for Submissions
for Conference 24-27 May 2014 Brock University</b><u><br><br><br><b>CALL FOR PROPOSALS</b></u><b><br><br>360</b><span style="font-family:Symbol;mso-char-type:
symbol;mso-symbol-font-family:Symbol"><span style="mso-char-type:symbol;
mso-symbol-font-family:Symbol"><b>°</b></span></span><b>of Engagement:</b><b> Publicly-situated performance—Publicly-situating
performance process</b>
<br><br>This seminar aims to provide a forum for those
on (or between) the borders of various disciplines — activist, artist, scholar
— to explore the relationship between theory and praxis through a shared
devising process. Each participant will develop a short performance
intervention, to take place on or in the near vicinity of the campus, during
breaks between conference sessions. We are interested in proposals that engage
the particularities of Brock as a public space – architectural, institutional,
virtual, quotidian, geopolitical – and that explore how multiply-located bodies
are differently interpellated as they negotiate the space through both their
presence and their absence.
<p class="MsoNormal">In addition to publicly-situated performances we are
interested in publicly situating the always complex and often hidden
navigations across the intersecting terrains of artistic creation, scholarly
inquiry, and political activism. This process will take the form of a blog that
will act virtual studio in which we can participate in a collective devising
jam session and a public forum. </p>
<u>Timeline</u>
<ul style="margin-top:0in" type="disc"><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;tab-stops:list .5in">January:
Via the blog, seminar organizers will launch share artifacts (images,
maps, articles) from a site-visit to Brock.</li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;tab-stops:list .5in">January
- May: Participants will connect and begin sharing their processes and
providing feedback via the blog. Participants will be expected to visit
the blog, to share elements of their devising processes (3-4 entries), and
to give feedback (2-3 entries) on the devising process of other group
members.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;tab-stops:list .5in">May–CATR
Conference: Performance interventions will take place during the first two
days of the conference. Each participant will attend one intervention as
an observer. At the post-performance seminar, we will share reflections on
both the process and performance. </li></ul>
<p class="MsoNormal">We welcome proposals from artists/scholars/activists
interested in animating and activating public space via performance. We
encourage submissions from graduate students and non-affiliated artists. The
group will be limited to eight projects. Interested participants are asked to
submit:</p>
<ul style="margin-top:0in" type="disc"><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2;tab-stops:list .5in"><b>A
300-word abstract outlining your proposed project. We welcome projects
still in the early stages of development.</b></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2;tab-stops:list .5in"><b>A
150-200 word bio.</b></li></ul>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Please submit proposals to seminar organizers Kimberley
McLeod (kmcleod1@yorku.ca) and Helene Vosters (hvosters@yorku.ca) by 13 January
2014.</b></p></font></body></html>