CFP - Working Group on Performance as Research, ASTR 2009

[Daniel Mroz]

Performance as Research Working Group - Call for Papers
ASTR 2009
 
³Pointing at the Experiential: Constellating the Multiple Realities of
Performance as Research²
 
The Performance as Research Working Group examines the interconnections of
performance, research, creativity, and pedagogy. The Working Group invites
artists, scholars and artist-scholars to participate in an interdisciplinary
dialogue to articulate and address the fundamental epistemological, ethical,
methodological, disciplinary, and institutional challenges intrinsic to the
developing field of Performance as Research.
 
The Working Group aims to facilitate a cross-disciplinary analysis of the
centrality of embodied experience in both the creation and reception of
performance, as well as the challenges (methodological, theoretical,
rhetorical) attendant on the process of its articulation. We focus on the
experiential not only as a dimension that bridges the concerns of theorists
and practitioners, but also as a productive locus for interrogating the
limits and conventions of scholarly discourse. Work by figures such as Baz
Kershaw, Matthew Goulish and Peggy Phelan has had a profound generative
influence in the renegotiation of such boundaries, demonstrating the
multiple competencies and shifts of perspective intrinsic to the production
of Performance as Research. By foregrounding the central role of the
experiential in Performance as Research, we wish to encourage rigorous
methodological reflection and rhetorical experimentation responding to the
challenges of articulating embodied perception and somatic experience within
the frame of a scholarly text.
 
Possible Topics
While proposals need not be limited to these topics, we have identified the
following as
examples of issues related to performance-based research:
 
* The multiple concepts and contested definitions of Performance as
Research, 
* Methodologies, 
* Forms of articulation of experiential and embodied knowledge,
* The phenomenon of the artist-scholar and the challenges individuals that
this profile faces and raises within the context of academic research,
* The various and seemingly heterodox epistemological perspectives
encompassed by the concept of Performance as Research,
* Performance as Research and performance pedagogy
* The academic evaluation of Performance as Research
* Historical and phenomenological studies of theatre as laboratory

Format
Selected participants will be notified on June 1, 2009.  We will initiate
email discussion on the basis of abstracts on August 1, 2009, with an
initial draft of a paper no longer than 10 pages to be circulated no later
than September 15th, 2009. We expect that participants will engage in
sustained dialogue on evolving work during the months prior to the
conference. Rather than regurgitating synopses of individual essays,
discussion at the November meeting will highlight key issues that emerge
during pre-conference interaction.

Proposals should not exceed 300 words and be accompanied by a short bio.
Send proposals by May 15, 2009, to the conveners.

Conveners
Daniel Mroz, University of Ottawa, dmroz at uottawa.ca
Kris Salata, Florida State University, ksalata at fsu.edu



Daniel Mroz, Ph.D.
 
Assistant Professor of Theatre / Professeur adjoint de théâtre
University of Ottawa / Université d'Ottawa


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