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<p><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Download this CFP as a PDF: <a href="https://gps.psi-web.org/libraryFiles/downloadPublic/14" target="_blank">https://gps.psi-web.org/libraryFiles/downloadPublic/14</a></span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">CALL FOR PROPOSALS</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Uhambo: translating embodied wanderings into performance practices and epistemologies through audio/multimedia walks</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Following the <em>Uhambo Luyazilawula </em>PSi28 conference in Johannesburg, South Africa, in August 2023, the <a href="https://gps.psi-web.org/" target="_blank"><em><span style="color:#111111">Global
Performance Studies</span></em></a> (<em>GPS</em>) journal invites proposals for sound/audio walk or multimedia walk contributions in conversation with the presentations at the <em>Uhambo Luyazilawula </em>conference.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Format</span></b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">: Sound/audio walks or multimedia walks</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Deadline</span></b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">: 27 November 2023 (first call); 04 December 2023 (final call)</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Editors</span></b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">: Felipe Cervera, Theron Schmidt, Neka Da Costa, Kamogelo Molobye, Hamish Neill</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Framing</span></b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">:</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><em><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Uhambo</span></em><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"> (“a/to journey”) was an invitation by the Performance Studies international
conference #28 to surrender to journeys that connect us, and to explore ways of understanding and critiquing how we came to be through praxis and reflection. Framed through Performance Studies, <em>uhambo </em>is a creative art and a research paradigm through
which practitioners and scholars can contemplate and unpack the significance of journeying as embodied practices of movement, nomadism, migration, immigration and cultural exchanges, among its many other dimensions. We position <em>Uhambo Oluzilawulayo</em> (a
journey that is self-controlling or self-fulfilling) as a critical-place studies framework that encourages intertextual critiques of space, location, society, culture, and politics as necessary for the diversity of embodied knowledge emerging from communities
and people (Stevenson, 2008). As such, <em>uhambo</em> inspires engagements in walking, travel or movement as a form of socio-cultural exchange in order to discover and reveal artistic and intellectual practices that assert the intersectionality of space and
place as fluid stimuli intertwined with human experiences.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">This call invites post-conference elaborations on the notion of <em>uhambo</em> to frame how scholars, researchers, and artistic practitioners explore environments and the self
as archives and institutions of knowledge that contextually, socially, and culturally influence performance studies practices both in Africa and around the world. We have chosen to locate the publication of such knowledge in the form of sound/audio and multimedia
walks which, through active and immersive listening, conflate space, place and sound with critical documentation and reflection. Sound/audio walks and multimedia walks are provocations that invite listeners or audiences to take an actual and/or imaginative
journey on a route or in a location carefully planned on a map or documented through photography, videography, or sonic scapes that capture a specific environment and narrative.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Sound/audio and multimedia walks extend the concept of <em>uhambo</em> through generating multisensory experiences that make knowledge sharing and production more inclusive and
accessible. The communal mobility embraced by sound/ audio and multimedia walks means that they are often site-specific in their documentation, containing recorded instructions for listeners and audiences to follow as they walk and engage with the stories
or critical research shared by the author. <em>Uhambo </em>considers sound/audio or multimedia walks as an entry point to create dynamic research that reflects on the relationships between humans, communities and the politics of indigenous knowledge gathered
and developed through practices of movement, mapping, sensory and immersive performance, conceptual art practices, photography and sonic installations (Hauge, 2007).</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Through the curation and publication of sound/audio and multimedia walks, we aim to collate research that questions the creation, production, reproduction and legitimacy of knowledges
both inside and outside of institutions. We encourage artists and scholars to grapple with knowing as interpersonal construction, knowing as re-membering, knowing as contextually situated, and knowing as located through body, place, and time (Risner, 2014:
155) and expand the notion of <em>uhambo </em>in multiple contexts. Proposed sound/audio and multimedia walks should centre the personal-as-political, the personal-as-pedagogic, and the personal-as-epistemic to excavate endemic vocabularies and prioritise
‘original’ knowledges that store, transfer, and disseminate history and philosophical wisdom (Magoqwana, 2018).</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">To walk, to wander and to embody is to recontextualise cultures, traditions, and identities and incorporate them into new ways of self-understanding that inform performance studies
(Okere, 1983). Thus, this call invites contributors to use sound/audio or multimedia walks to critique the complexities and nuances that emerge from themselves and their environments, particularly considering that <em>uhambo</em> centres living and embodied
epistemes as legitimate forms of knowledge that can inform, challenge and decolonise contemporary performance practices.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Proposals are requested through two mediums:</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Long-form - 20 - 30 minute sound/audio walks: sound/audio walks invite scholars and creatives to consider publication that explores the art of walking and hearing an academic and/or creative
publication. Applicants are encouraged to think of the sound/audio walk as a scholarly sonic guided experience that can be facilitated through frames that suggest to walkers and listeners the kinds of routes, sites, and places to occupy or journey through
while listening and engaging with the audio walk. The sound/audio walk should be accompanied by a full transcript of the paper read during the experience. .</span><o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
<span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Short-form, 12-20 minute multimedia walks: multimedia walks invite applicants to consider visual and audio media features accompanying the paper. Audiences can engage with images, animation,
video and texts as the digital landscapes to accompany audio publications. The format may be suitable for short papers and poetic writings, or poster papers.</span><o:p></o:p></li></ol>
<p><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Proposals are welcomed in one or more of the following sub-themes:</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Performative mappings, wanderings and wonderings;</span><o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo2">
<span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Indigenous knowledge systems and cultural performance practices;</span><o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo2">
<span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Spaces and places as sites of contextually located knowledge;</span><o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo2">
<span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Living and embodied archives as institutions of performance studies knowledge;</span><o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo2">
<span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Alternative epistemologies: explorations of undiscovered performances, pedagogies and practices;</span><o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo2">
<span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">The migration of performance and performance studies;</span><o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo2">
<span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Translations and interpretations as performance studies;</span><o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo2">
<span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Intergenerational knowledge, explorations, and re-membering;</span><o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo2">
<span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Archives, documentation and performance studies;</span><o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo2">
<span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Identities, fluidities and performance studies;</span><o:p></o:p></li></ul>
<p><b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Submission procedure</span></b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">:</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Applicants are invited to submit an abstract, concept, or framing document (maximum 1000 words) on or before November 27, 2023, by email to <a href="mailto:gps-uhambo@psi-web.org" target="_blank"><span style="color:#111111">gps-uhambo@psi-web.org</span></a>.
The abstract should clearly explain the intention, mission and exploration of their proposed audio or multimedia walk. Applicants will be notified by January 15, 2024, about the status of their proposals and will be sent audio/multimedia walk guidelines. The
complete audio/multimedia walk is expected to be submitted for peer-first review by April 22, 2024.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Important dates</span></b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">:</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Proposal deadline: 27 November 2023</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Proposal outcome: 15 January 2024</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">First audio/multimedia walk submission: 18 March 2024</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Review results: 22 April 2024</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Second review process: 17 May 2024</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Final audio/multimedia walk submission: 14 June 2024 (possible publication in June/July 2024)</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">References:</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Hauge, Å.L. (2007). Identity and Place: a critical comparision of three identity theories. <em>Architectural Science Review</em>, 50(1), pp. 44-51.</span><o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3">
<span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Magoqwana, B. (2018). Repositioning uMakhulu as an institution of knowledge: beyond ‘Biologism’ towards uMakhulu as the body of indigenous knowledge. In: J Bam, L Ntsebeza., and A Zinn (eds.). <em>Whose
history counts? Decolonising African pre-colonial historiography</em>. Cape Town: AFRICA Sun MeDIA, 75-90.</span><o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3">
<span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Okere, T. (1983). <em>African philosophy. A historic-hermeneutical investigation of the conditions of its possibility</em>. Lanham, New York, London: University Press of America.</span><o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3">
<span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Risner, D. (2000). Making Dance, Making Sense: epistemology and choreography. <em>Research in Dance Education</em>, 1(2), pp. 155-172.</span><o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3">
<span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Stevenson, R.B. (2008). A critical pedagogy of place and the critical place(s) of pedagogy. <em>Environmental Education Research</em>, 14(2), pp. 353-360.</span><o:p></o:p></li></ul>
<p><b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Send proposals and inquiries to</span></b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">: <a href="mailto:gps-uhambo@psi-web.org" target="_blank">gps-uhambo@psi-web.org</a></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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