AAG 2006 CALL FOR PAPERS
Chicago 7th-11th March 2006
ART, SPACE AND PERFORMANCE: THEATRICAL GEOGRAPHIES.
The intersection between geography and the arts (in the broadest sense to
include the visual and performing arts, dance, music, theatre, their
practitioners and organisers) is now a well established area of the
discipline. This has come particularly with the ideas of art as a cultural
production and of performance as a mode of artistic expression. Yet with
this, the role of the theatrical, understood as both artistic and
performative practice, has been underexamined. Theatricality can be seen as
that shifting, morphing quality located in, and manifested through, the
intersections between time, space, action, performer and audience (Cheng
2002). This session hopes to further examine the role of the arts and
performance within geography with reference to the theatricality involved in
artistic performances and spaces both within and beyond the theatre.
Contributions might address themes and subjects such as:
* The geographies of theatrical spaces (staging, scenography, props,
costume)
* The geographies of theatrical performance (in terms of embodied
performances, characterisation, expressivity, and connections to audiences
and locations)
* Site-specific performance art, 'community' and 'applied' theatres, and
the theatrical fashioning of unconventional performance spaces
* Creating landscape, place and space through theatrical performance
* Creating performances from landscapes, places and spaces
* Local, regional, national, diasporic and global theatrical forms
* The travelling and translation of performances and theatrical texts
across space and borders
* Transculturation, theatre and performance
* Art, performance and the negotiation of identity
* Memory, theatre and performance
Please send abstracts of not more than 250 words to the organizers (Amanda
Rogers: [log in to unmask] or Philip Crang: [log in to unmask]) by 16th
September 2005.
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