ANNOUNCING> LIMEN: The interactive performance journal

[Kaos Theatre Australia]

        >KAOS THEATRE (AUSTRALIA) AND MURDOCH UNIVERSITY
        >are proud to announce the launch of
        >
        >LIMEN: the interactive performance journal.
        >
        >URL - http://kali.murdoch.edu.au/limen/

Readers of LIMEN  are also - quite tangibly - writers. LIMEN is constructed
around the philosophy that scholarship and thought should be dialogical
endevours and not monological statements.

LIMEN is probably one of the more fully 'peer-assessed' journals in the
field as it passes
through two filters of assessment. Firstly it passes through the LIMEN
Editorial Review
Board and then it passes through the reader/writership of the users.

The journal is intended for practitioners and scholars alike in an attempt
to bring into
contact the two worlds of activity. In LIMEN extreme theory and extreme
practice can
co-habit within the domain of thought, bridged by the threads of the user.



        >A MANIFESTO FOR LIMEN

"Performance" as a major challenge and alternative to Modernist Logocentric
thinking and a
focus of interdisciplinary research no longer needs legitimizing as such.
We are all familiar
now with attacks on the primacy of "text" in Western thinking, and on the
way that
performance has expanded from its old sense of simply the theatrical
realisation of a text to
its new status as a spectrum of events, of which theatre is only one.
Already, contributions
to the investigation and definition of "performance" have been made by
psychologists,
physicists, cognitive scientists as well as sociologists,
anthropologists... the list can be
extended almost indefinitely.

But certain dangers and misconceptions still undermine this enterprise:

- slippage back into "theatre";

- a reductionist methodology trapped in a "hermeneutic circle;"

- residual cultural arrogance unaware of the contributions which have
already
  been made not to mention those still latent in non-European cultures;

- a continuing resistance by "the profession" to "theory," let alone
philosophy;

- a continuing ignorance from "the theorists" to the philosophical
achievements of
  "the profession";

- the continuing division between the "sciences" and the "soft"
disciplines;

- a lack of precision in terminology;

LIMEN is dedicated to:

- a philosophical investigation of Performance as an epistemological
system;

- research into the precise meaning of key terms such as "event,"
"process,"
 "experience" (not to mention" liminality"...);

- research into the nature and significance of performance time, space,
person,
  object, etc;

- cross-cultural research to identify the nature of "performance cultures,"
  "performance psychology," "the performing body," "archaeology,"
  "anthropology"...;cognitive, "chaotic" and other overlapping paradigms;

- hypermedia as a new frontier for performative thought;

- debate between "theorist" and "practitioner".

In other words, a "Performocentric" alternative to the old Logocentric
paradigm...

VISIT LIMEN NOW - http://kali.murdoch.edu.au/limen/



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Phil Morle - pmorle at central.murdoch.edu.au
http://kali.murdoch.edu.au/kaos/people/phil.html
Artistic Director - KAOS THEATRE AUSTRALIA
Managing Editor - LIMEN
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