Fw: [SCUDD] CFP: Performance Studies international Conference 11 (Brown, USA 2005)

[Denis Salter]

Apologies for any cross listing.
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> Performance Studies International Conference #11
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> To be held at Brown University o Providence,
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> Rhode Island, USA o March 30-April 3, 2005
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> A conference toward performance/studies: modes of
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> thinking, physical methodologies, spatial
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> thoughts, sound disturbances, and knowing bodies.
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> We acknowledge that the conference title
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> understates, closets, titillates, misarticulates,
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> sneaks-up upon, middle-classifies, play-acts, and
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> jumps track. We also hope that it incites action,
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> direction, thought, movement, and choice. For us,
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> when we started planning, the title referred to
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> the necessary discomfort in building a
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> performance, a life, a discipline, a world.
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> Newer, darker meanings have since accrued.
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> Ports of passage:
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> Insular Danger  Worry Idea  Panoptic Citizen
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> Nation's Hood  Skin Flesh Bone  A(cute)
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> Dissonance... Gender Desire  Pain Play  Terror
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> Space  Photography Torture  Raced Limits  Queers
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> Embedded  Active Distance  BioCulture  Abducted
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> Neuroscience  Aesthetic Ordinance  Border
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> Scholarship  Amos and Fluxus  Comfort Zoned
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> History Currents... Impossible Performance  Blank
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> Spots  UnSafes  Whatever Being
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> We invite you to historicize, contemporize,
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> embody, celebrate, or challenge our title. We
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> will do our best to provide structures and spaces
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> to test out, play with, perform, and transform
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> your ideas.
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> 1) We seek to set up alternative modes of
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> participation that will allow for the development
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> of ideas and projects through workgroups of
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> like-minded (or not so like-minded) scholars and
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> artists working off of specific themes. Please
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> submit curatorial proposals for six to nine hours
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> time focusing on guided events, joint
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> methodological journeys, workshopped objects,
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> etc. The six to nine hours' may be continuous or
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> may extend over three days (or be in scattered
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> spurts); you tell us what might be best.
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> Examples: midnight to 6 a.m., Thurs/Fri/Sat a.m
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> or p.m for two or three hours per day. In 500
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> words or less (or else), let us know what you
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> would like to do and with whom/how many you would
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> like to do it. State if it would remain insular
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> or open up to an audience. We offer: black boxes,
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> white boxes, lecture halls, seminar rooms, dance
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> floors, corridors, open spaces, monuments,
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> riverbanks, highway bridges, and what you are
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> imagining (so let us know). Deadline for curators
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> is August 15. We'll get back to you by September
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> 1.
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> 2) We also issue an open call for panels and for
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> individual presentations that might be parts of
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> panels. These might include performances, visual
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> displays, and publishable and unpublishable
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> papers. We encourage you to go beyond the demands
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> of print culture in presentation. We offer smart
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> classrooms (PowerPoint, video, DVD, sound),
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> stages, seminar rooms, video feeds, etc. Please
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> explain what you have in mind in 500 words or
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> less. Deadline for panels and related
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> presentations and papers is October 1.
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> Notification by November 15.
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> 3) We plan to feature separate performances,
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> media displays, and installations that will be of
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> general interest to those attending. We invite
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> your suggestions and proposals. Budgetary support
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> for such presentations will be minimal, at best,
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> but let us know what you would need to bring your
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> work here. Deadline is September 15. Notification
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> by November 1.
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> 4) We wish to provide times and spaces to meet
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> informally with performers and with scholars. Let
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> us know, for example, if you would like the
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> opportunity to discuss your recent publications
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> and performances as part of a book fair, a
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> roundtable discussion, or in other venues.
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> 5) We plan to sportively create cabaret-like
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> spaces/events for performative responses, "slam
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> scholarship," mini-performances, unexpected
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> groupings, etc. We invite your suggestions for
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> such events by October 1.
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> If you need letters immediately stating our
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> acceptance of your participation at the
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> conference in order to start applications for
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> funding, visas, etc., please note this with your
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> proposal. Such letters can be provided.
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> Proposals, suggestions, and requests:
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> e-mail: Ken Prestininzi, conference co-ordinator, PSi at brown.edu
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> fax: attention John Emigh or Ken Prestininzi in USA, (1) 401-863-7529
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> write: John Emigh, conference director or Ken
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> Prestininzi, conference co-ordinator, Brown
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> University Box 1897, Providence, RI 02912, USA
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> website (under construction)
www.brown.edu/Department/Theatre_Speech_Dance/
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> Summary of deadlines: Curated events, August
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> 15th, Performances, Installations, etc. September
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> 15th, Panels and Presentations: October 1st,
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> Suggestions for cabaret like events and "slam
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> scholarship": October 1st
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