[Candrama] Conference: Mediating Performance: Technologies, Communities, Spaces (Malta)

[Stefan Aquilina]

*Call for Papers: Mediating Performance: Technologies, Communities, Spaces*

*Annual Conference of the School of Performing Arts, University of Malta,
23–25 March 2022, online*



Keynote Speakers:

Prof Daphne Lei, University of California, Irvine

Prof Steve Dixon, LASALLE College of the Arts, Singapore

Prof Stephanie Schroedter, University of Music and Performing Arts, Vienna



We are delighted to announce the eighth Annual Conference of the School of
Performing Arts, University of Malta, which will take place online on 23,
24 & 25 March 2022, and to open the call for papers!



The conference considers performance through its mediation, particularly in
reference to the technologies, communities, and spaces imbricated in
contemporary and historical performance practices. Mediation is here
conceived in its broadest sense, encompassing both the physical and digital
media of technological (re)production and the mediation between performer
and audience, event and community, participation and spectatorship. This
conference brings together scholars and practitioners in dance, theatre,
and music, undertaking work on the conception, transmission, reception,
theorisation, and study of performance. Mediation thus occurs at the
interstices of disciplinary practices, necessitating an approach that
combines methodologies from the arts, sciences, and humanities.



We invite proposals that engage with any aspect of the conference theme,
especially those using inter-and multidisciplinary approaches. Conventional
presentations are typically 15–20 minutes plus Q&A, but we also encourage
proposals that use any alternative presentation format, such as
lecture-recital, collaborative paper, themed session, performance,
intervention, etc. Please note that, in view of health and environmental
concerns, and to increase accessibility, the conference will take place
online.



Potential topics include, but are not limited to:



·      the dissemination of performance and its role in culture and society;

·      interaction between performance and community;

·      the impact of digital technologies in performance practice;

·      the intersection of race, gender, and class in questions of access
and inclusion in performance;

·      historical or ethnographical examples of mediated performances;

·      physical media and material agency;

·      performance and wellbeing, or performance as therapy;

·      public and private social spaces of performance;

·      the ‘liveness’ of performance and its cultural value;

·      politics and poetics of traditional and non-traditional venues of
performance, including performance art, opera, experimental theatre, and
other forms.



Proposals should include an abstract of c. 300 words, name(s),
institutional affiliation (if any), email address(es), brief biography
(additional 125 words maximum), and details of presentation format
(including duration), and should be submitted by *Friday, 17 December 2021*
to the conference convenors at the following email addresses:  Jeremy
Coleman (jeremy.coleman at um.edu.mt) and Max Erwin (max.erwin at um.edu.mt).
Acceptance will be confirmed in January 2022. If you have any questions
about the conference or your proposal, please contact either of the
convenors.



Conference Convenors:

Dr Jeremy Coleman

Lecturer, Department of Music Studies, School of Performing Arts,
University of Malta

jeremy.coleman at um.edu.mt



Dr Max Erwin

Lecturer, Department of Music Studies, School of Performing Arts,
University of Malta

max.erwin at um.edu.mt
Dr Stefan Aquilina <https://www.um.edu.mt/profile/stefanaquilina>
Director, School of Performing Arts <https://www.um.edu.mt/performingarts>
Senior Lecturer, Department of Theatre Studies
<https://www.um.edu.mt/performingarts/theatre>
University of Malta

Co-Director, Stanislavsky Research Centre
<https://stanislavsky-research.leeds.ac.uk/>
Director, CTATT Research Project <http://www.ctatt.org/>

Book Publications:
*Amateur and Proletarian Theatre in Post-Revolutionary Russia: Primary
Sources
<https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/amateur-and-proletarian-theatre-in-post-revolutionary-russia-9781350170971/>*
(2021;
Bloomsbury)
*Modern Theatre in Russia: Tradition Building and Transmission Processes
<https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/modern-theatre-in-russia-9781350066106/> *(2020;
Bloomsbury)
*Interdisciplinarity in the Performing Arts: Contemporary Perspectives
<https://www.um.edu.mt/mup/onlinebookstore>*(2018; Malta University Press)
*Stanislavsky in the World: The System and its Transformations across
Continents
<https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/stanislavsky-in-the-world-9781472587886/>
*(2017;
Bloomsbury)
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