CFP: Space and Subjectivity in Performance

[Laura Levin]

Theatre Research in Canada/ Recherches Théâtrales au Canada would like 
to invite submissions for a special issue on:

SPACE AND SUBJECTIVITY IN PERFORMANCE

"The transition to a new age requires a change in our perception and 
conception of space-time, the inhabiting of places, and of containers, 
or envelopes of identity."
--Luce Irigaray

In recent years, a rich body of performances has emerged to question 
conventional approaches to theatrical space.  These works reorient the 
environmental fields that shape performance and the spatial 
relationships between spectator, performer, and setting.  Attempts to 
rethink space in performance have led to the creation of exciting new 
genres, including environmental theatre, landscape theatre, and 
site-specific theatre.  Though disparate in form, these kinds of 
theatrical experiments push against the boundaries of embodied 
subjectivity.  Not only do they reorient the disembodied position that 
is normally accorded to the spectator-subject, but they also unsettle 
the subject’s self-conscious and fixed position in space.

This issue will explore alternative conceptions of space and 
subjectivity in Canadian theatre.  It seeks to ask how performance 
space and spaces of performance can serve as productive locations for 
testing out the limits of self in the contemporary world.

We welcome 1) critical papers that explore this theme from a variety of 
interdisciplinary perspectives (theatre, performances studies, cultural 
geography, architecture, archaeology, etc.); and 2) nontraditional 
essays that performatively engage with intersections of space and 
identity.

Possible topics include:

- Alternative Spaces and Places in Performance
- Site-Specific and Environmental Performance
- Subjectivity and Spatial Form (site, architecture, scenic design, 
etc.)
- Subjectivity and Theories of Space (psychoanalytic, phenomenological, 
poststructuralist)
- Staging Marginalized Spaces  (gender, race, class, sexuality and 
space)
- Theatre, Bodiescapes, and Mapping the Body in Performance
- Theatre, Geography, Mapping and Navigational Identities
- Theatre Architectures and the Architectural Writing of Theatre Texts
- Theatre, Subjectivity, and Virtual Spaces

A related theme panel on Space and Subjectivity in Performance is 
planned for the 2005 annual conference of the Association for Canadian 
Theatre Research.  The Call for Papers will soon be announced.  While 
participation in the panel does not guarantee inclusion in this special 
issue of TRIC, the conference represents an excellent opportunity to 
initiate, explore, and evaluate potential topics for publication.

Articles will be peer-reviewed, and should follow the submission 
guidelines for TRiC/RTaC.  Please see:

http://www.lib.unb.ca/Texts/TRIC/subguide.html

Articles are usually no longer than 5,000 words.  Shorter works that 
may be submitted include pieces for the review or forum sections, and 
critical essays that experiment formally with the presentation of 
research.  We also encourage the submission of visual materials 
(photos, plans, etc.).

Papers can be sent by mail or email.  Please send papers by August 1, 
2005 to either:

Laura Levin
Dept. of Theater, Dance,
and Performance Studies
University of California, Berkeley     	
101 Dwinelle Annex                      	
Berkeley, CA USA 94720-2560
llevin at berkeley.edu                          	

Andrew Houston                                          	
Dept. of Drama and
Speech Communication
University of Waterloo
200 University Avenue West
Waterloo, Ontario, Canada N2L 3G1
houston at uwaterloo.ca

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