Call for Papers: Intermediality and Theatre in Canada

[Bruce Kirkley]

Call for Papers


Theatre Research in Canada / Recherches théâtrales au Canadainvites
submissions for a special issue on

Intermediality and Theatre in Canada

 
With accelerating momentum throughout the twentieth century and into
the twenty-first, the development of new media technologies has had
broad and deep transformative effects upon contemporaneous cultures and
ideologies.  Specifically, despite early (and enduring) efforts of
entrenchment, these evolutionary tensions have thoroughly infiltrated
theatrical practice and theory, with profound implications. As artists
and theorists explore new integrations of media and performance, they
simultaneously question, reinterpret, problematize, and defy existing
boundaries between art forms, between media, between “liveness” and
recording, and between “presence” and representation. 
In Intermediality in Theatre and Performance (2006), Freda Chapple and
Chiel Kattenbelt define intermediality as “a powerful and potentially
radical force, which operates in-between performer and audience;
in-between theatre, performance and other media; and in-between
realities […] In addition, intermediality is positioned in-between
several conceptual frameworks and artistic/philosophical movements.” The
effects of intermediality, they contend, include “new modes of
representation; new dramaturgical strategies; new ways of structuring
and staging words, images and sounds; new ways of positioning bodies in
time and space; new ways of creating temporal and spatial interrelations”
(11-12).  In addition to these formal and conceptual characteristics,
however—perhaps even more definitively—intermediality may be understood
as a cultural and ideological positioning and basis for strategy. 
According to Klaus-Peter Busse, “intermedia is not performance, but
performative action” (Intermedia: Enacting the Liminal [2005] 264). 
This issue of TRiC / RtaC proposes to investigate the “radical force”
and “performative action” of theatrical intermediality in Canada,
through the investigation of a wide range of forms, territories,
strategies, and motivations.

 
Possible topics:
The reinterpretation of boundaries: mixed media, multimedia, crossover
and hybrid performances, “live” performance in virtual space and virtual
performance in “live” space
Remediations: explorations of the ways recent media remediate earlier
media (i.e. filmic remediation of theatre; televisual remediation of
radio, theatre, and film; digital remediation of print, photograph,
television, etc.)
Intermedial dramaturg(ies)
Spatial and temporal representation and interrelationships
Intemedial bodies in performance
Perception, memory, and/or consciousness in intermedial performance
 Intercultural Intermedia
Intermedial audiences
Online theatre and performance
Training models for intermedial performance
Intermedial theatre criticism and education

All articles will be peer-reviewed, and should follow the submission
guidelines for TRiC/RTaC.  Please carefully review the guidelines
printed in the current issue and available at: 
http://www.lib.unb.ca/Texts/TRIC/subguide.html
Articles are usually no longer than 5,000 words. We also encourage the
submission of visual materials (photos, illustrations, plans, etc.),
“Forum” section items (see submission guidelines on the TRIC website
for criteria), and titles for appropriate book review items.
Papers should be sent to the addresses given below.  Submissions can be
sent by email or regular post; in either case, please send to both
addresses.  
Please forward a statement of intention by 30 June 2008 to:



Bruce Kirkley                                             OR
Theatre Department
University of the Fraser Valley
45635 Yale Road
Chilliwack BC  V2P 6T4
bruce.kirkley at ucfv.ca
Bruce Barton
Graduate Centre for Study of Drama 
University of Toronto
214 College Street, 3rd Floor
Toronto, ON M5T 2Z9
bruce.barton at utoronto.ca

 
The deadline for the submission of papers is 1 September 2008.
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