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<!--StartFragment--><p align="" class="Default" style=""><b><span style="color: windowtext; ">2015
Canadian A</span></b><b><span style="color: windowtext; ">ssociation for Theatre Research -- </span></b>University of Ottawa, May 30th - June 2 2015</p><p align="" class="Default" style=""><b><span style="color: windowtext; ">Praxis
Seminar Co-organizers </span></b><span style="color: windowtext; "><o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="" class="Default" style=""><span style="color: windowtext; ">Melanie
Bennett (York University)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="" class="Default" style=""><span style="color: windowtext; ">Keren Zaiontz (Simon Fraser University)</span><b><span style="color: windowtext; "><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p align="" class="Default" style=""><b><span style="color: windowtext; ">CALL FOR
PARTICIPANTS </span></b><span style="color: windowtext; "><o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="" class="Default" style=""><b><span style="color: windowtext; ">Capital
Wayfaring: Peripatetic Explorations of Monuments and Moose Droppings in Ottawa</span></b></p><p align="" class="Default" style=""><span style="color: windowtext; ">The art of
walking the city includes a long history of mobile critics wandering through
urban capitals on foot. Walter Benjamin’s pre-war detours through Paris, the
Situationists’ anti-capitalist dérives, and Michel de Certeau’s digressions
through New York City have established the act of walking as both a mode of
contemplation and performance. In contemporary culture, walking a city can be
less of a drift and more of a frantic pursuit. Even the leisure time of
tourists is frequently characterized by a “to do” list that revolves around
visiting iconic sites for photo-ops and shopping for souvenirs. Most tourists
leave little for the contemplative sashaying that inspired Baudelaire’s poetry
and Benjamin’s musings. In response to this capitalistic model of urban tourism
and a Western lifestyle that tends to perceive walking as utilitarian (for
exercise, shopping, getting to and from), there has been an influx of artists
who have revived the romanticized preoccupation with flânerie and the dérive
(Wrights & Sites, Vancouver Walking Projects, etc.) Some performance
scholars, however, have questioned how the “well-trampled fields” (Heddon and
Turner 21) of the flâneur and dérivist have privileged the narratives of
specific bodies, classes, and spaces over others. Our praxis seminar will
contribute to a growing movement of “alternative mobilizations” (Wilkie 207)
that move beyond ablelist, lone itinerant, and tourist paradigms. We will
organize two art walks in Ottawa that explore how itinerancy can be used to engage
with monumental proximity and patriotism (such as taking your picture with the
Famous Five) as well as banal commodity consumption (such as buying a Mountie
fridge magnet). Our seminar will question the signs embedded in Canada’s
capital by taking as much </span>interest in
the sales clerk selling chocolate moose droppings in ByWard Market as the
official histories of monuments and Parliament buildings of Ottawa.</p><p align="" class="Default" style=""><b><span style="color: windowtext; ">Structure </span></b><span style="color: windowtext; "><o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="" class="Default" style=""><span style="color: windowtext; ">Our praxis
seminar will include two guided walks (approximately one hour each) through different
neighbourhoods in downtown Ottawa and one hour-long post-walk session on campus
where participants will reflect on the ambles as well as engage with specialist
readings on the mobilities turn in performance studies. Citing Ottawa’s tourist
campaign language, the first walk, “Discover Canada’s Past”, will be oriented
around Ottawa’s official monuments, cultural institutions, and statues. The
second walk, “Taste of Canada”, will involve ambling through ByWard Market
where we will go in search of BeaverTails pastries, maple syrup, Quebec cheese,
timbits, flag cookies, and interact with service workers in tourist hot spots.</span></p><p align="" class="Default" style=""><span style="color: windowtext; ">We will ask
our participants to select one site, monument, or souvenir that can be linked
to either the first or second walk. Participants will be asked to consider how
their selected site or object is linked to their own research interests. During
the walks, contributors will be invited to deliver five minute interventions at
their chosen site or beside their souvenir. The interventions can take the form
of short reflections, manifestos, or performances. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="" class="Default" style=""><span style="color: windowtext; ">Monuments and
sites of interest to choose from (“Discover Canada’s Past” walk):</span></p><p align="" class="Default" style=""><span style="color: windowtext; ">● Laurier
House <o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="" class="Default" style=""><span style="color: windowtext; ">● Notre Dame
Basilica <o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="" class="Default" style=""><span style="color: windowtext; ">● National
Gallery of Canada (including Giant Spider) <o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="" class="Default" style=""><span style="color: windowtext; ">● Major’s Hill
Park (including Kneeling First Nations Anishinabe Scout)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="" class="Default" style=""><span style="color: windowtext; ">● Canadian
Parliament Buildings (including Famous Five sculpture, Peace Tower, Centennial
Flame, Victory Tower Bell, John A. MacDonald statue, Queen Victoria statue,
Queen Elizabeth statue, the closed down cat sanctuary, and more) <o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="" class="Default" style=""><span style="color: windowtext; ">● Nepean Point
(including Samuel de Champlain statue and former location of First Nations
Anishinabe Scout) <o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="" class="Default" style=""><span style="color: windowtext; ">● National
Arts Centre (including Oscar Peterson statue) <o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="" class="Default" style=""><span style="color: windowtext; ">● Museum of
Classical Antiquities <o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="" class="Default" style=""><span style="color: windowtext; ">● Confederation
Square (including National War Memorial and Valiants Memorial) <o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="" class="Default" style=""><span style="color: windowtext; ">● Currency
Museum of the Bank of Canada <o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="" class="Default" style=""><span style="color: windowtext; ">● National
Archives <o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="" class="Default" style=""><span style="color: windowtext; ">● Supreme
Court of Canada <o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="" class="Default" style=""><span style="color: windowtext; ">● Canadian
Tribute to Human Rights <o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="" class="Default" style=""><span style="color: windowtext; ">● Canadian War
Museum (including tomb of the Unknown Soldier) <o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="" class="Default" style=""><span style="color: windowtext; ">● Canadian
Museum of Nature</span></p><p align="" class="Default" style=""><b><span style="color: windowtext; ">Description
of work </span></b><span style="color: windowtext; "><o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="" class="Default" style=""><span style="color: windowtext; ">**Participants
will take part in one or both walks through downtown Ottawa as well as
participate in a final forum and discussion, which will include assigned
critical reading(s). Space is limited. We will only accept participants who can
attend a minimum of one of the two walks, complete the readings, and
participate in the post-walk session.</span></p><p align="" class="Default" style=""><b><span style="color: windowtext; ">Proposal
Requirements </span></b><span style="color: windowtext; "><o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="" class="Default" style=""><span style="color: windowtext; ">Potential
participants are asked to submit a proposal of no more than 300 words detailing
(1) which walk or walks they wish to participate in; (2) their monument,
statue, institution, or souvenir of interest; (3) how they think this potential
site or object of interest would ‘complicate’ and extend their research.
Proposals should detail what you hope to gain for your own research from the
encounter with Ottawa, but crucially what you feel your research will offer to
a mobile engagement with Ottawa in the context a praxis seminar.</span></p><p align="" class="Default" style=""><b><span style="color: windowtext; ">Works Cited
</span></b><span style="color: windowtext; "><o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="" class="Default" style=""><span style="color: windowtext; ">Heddon, Dee
and Cathy Turner. “Walking Women: Interviews with Artists on the Move.” </span><i><span style="color: windowtext; ">Performance
Research </span></i><span style="color: windowtext; ">15.4
(2010): 14-22.</span></p><p align="" class="Default" style=""><span style="color: windowtext; ">Wilkie, Fiona.
“Site-specific Performance and the Mobility Turn.” <i>Contemporary Theatre</i> </span><i><span style="color: windowtext; ">Review </span></i><span style="color: windowtext; ">22.2 (2012): 203-212.</span></p><p align="" class="Default" style=""><b><span style="color: windowtext; ">Proposal
Due Date </span></b><span style="color: windowtext; "><o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="" class="Default" style=""><span style="color: windowtext; ">15 January 2015</span></p><p align="" class="Default" style=""><b><span style="color: windowtext; ">Email your
proposals to </span></b><span style="color: windowtext; "><o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><a href="mailto:melanielynnbennett@hotmail.com">melanielynnbennett@hotmail.com</a>, <a href="mailto:kzaiontz@sfu.ca">kzaiontz@sfu.ca</a></p>
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