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Hi,
It is: Munich, July, 26-31, 2010
http://www.iftr2010.theaterwissenschaft.uni-muenchen.de/iftr2010/generalinfo
/index.html
Best wishes!
David
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Dr. David Roesner
Head of Department
Department of Drama
School of Arts, Literatures and Languages
University of Exeter
Thornlea, New North Road
EX4 4LA Exeter
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>>>>>>>> Does anybody know the dates for this conference?
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>>> FIRT/IFTR Performance as Research Working Group Munich Conference, 2010
>>> PERFORMANCE AS RESEARCH AND THE MULTI-LAYERED ARCHIVE:REPETITION, TIME and
>>> GENERATIVE PROCESSES Call for Contributions Repetition is fundamental to
>>> generative and compositional processes in performance, from traditional
>>> notions of rehearsal (indeed, répétition in French) to all other processes
>>> through which manifestations of performance processes iterate themselves.
>>> The performances we produce might be derived from improvisational
>>> strategies, scores, scripts, physical/sonic/ visual 'writing' in space and
>>> time, and/or solo or collaborative processes of myriad kinds, but all of
>>> them involve relationships between conception, repetition and choices around
>>> the transformations caused by iteration and reiteration, including the ways
>>> we adapt a performance to its social, cultural, financial and institutional
>>> contexts. What new knowledge, understanding, practices and imperatives does
>>> the act of repetition drive in performance? How do multiple iterations of a
>>> creative process or concept provide fertile ground for exploring this
>>> territory? Derived from the above, for this year's meeting, we would like
>>> to interrogate together how iterative processes in Performance as Research
>>> build on each other, which will explore questions such as: What kinds of
>>> knowledges emerge from repeating within our creative and production
>>> processes? How does the multi-layering engendered by repetition,
>>> documentation and reiteration impact on the new knowledges created through
>>> these processes? How does this process draw on performance and theatre
>>> rehearsal histories and methods? To what extent do our creative processes
>>> simply re-embody or reiterate aesthetic decisions made by others in the past
>>> and present? What do we learn from reiterating in this way? How does
>>> Performance as Research - generating insight and knowledge through an
>>> analytical/doing continuum - contribute to exploring palimpsest and
>>> iteration in unique ways? Responding to the above engages necessarily with
>>> what we might call the 'liveness debate'... from Phelan's assertion that
>>> performance's specificity is that its experience cannot really be repeated -
>>> insisting on its ephemerality - through to Auslander's opinions suggesting
>>> that we are simply romanticising the live to view it as so precious. Makers
>>> of work, however, are always conceiving, trying, iterating, revising,
>>> repeating and trying again; balancing the precious and the ephemeral and
>>> weighing it against what might be repeated. Beyond the polarities of the
>>> liveness debate, case studies from personal practice can add insight to
>>> these questions from a series of original and inter-subjective standpoints,
>>> and can also re-engage with the role of documentation and the ways it can
>>> nourish iterative processes from a practitioner standpoint. For this year's
>>> IFTR meeting, and after exploration of several formats for sharing our
>>> knowledge via a range of practices from paper-giving to performance lectures
>>> to immersive practices, we invite contributions that respond to this call in
>>> the following format: 1. Potential participants in the Working Group should
>>> send an abstract of maximum (250) words to Anna Birch ([log in to unmask]
>>> <mailto:[log in to unmask]> ) in English or French by: 31 January 2010. 2.
>>> The process for accepting abstracts will be competitive. A sub-group
>>> consisting of the Working Group convenors Anna Birch and Mark Fleishman,
>>> assisted by Yvon Bonefant, will review all abstracts and make selections.
>>> Those applicants whose abstracts are selected will be asked to develop a
>>> fully-fledged paper of around 3000 words which will be posted to a secure
>>> web site. The concept Opaper¹ should be understood as including a range of
>>> styles and formats from the more traditional academic writing to performance
>>> writing to theorised, media-rich formats. The paper will be due on 15 May
>>> 2010 and any papers submitted after this date will be excluded from the
>>> Working Group. 3. A maximum of 12 papers will be selected. 4. All papers
>>> will be available to Working Group members on a secure web site. 5. Three
>>> groups made up of up to three core Working Group members (those who have
>>> been involved in the Working Group for a period of atleast one year) will be
>>> invited to communicate with one another to begin to develop performative
>>> responses to the papers, across the whole range of possible formats
>>> (workshops for participants, performances, improvisations, multi-media
>>> experiences). These might be based around concerns raised across papers,
>>> topical/thematic groupings, or individual or small group critical responses.
>>> 6. During the Working Group meeting in Munich, these performative responses
>>> will be presented for and together with, the full Working Group present and
>>> improvisatory responses to them will take place as part of a dialectic
>>> process which will be facilitated by group members. 7. The above process
>>> will be documented by the group. 8. An important part of the remit of the
>>> Working Group has been to encourage newcomers to the international
>>> performance as research debate to engage with the core group's research
>>> processes. Therefore, in addition to the 12 participants whose papers are
>>> selected a further 10 places will be open to attendees who have not
>>> participated in the working group before but will be at the conference and
>>> who wish to participate in the Working Group meetings. This will make space
>>> for new or more recent members to partake in the work. Applicants who wish
>>> to be considered for one of these 10 places should submit a brief CV and
>>> statement of interest in Performance as Research to the convenors by 31
>>> January 2010. 9. In addition to the Working Group sessions described above,
>>> Annette Arlander will convene a panel in the Main Programme on behalf of the
>>> Working Group entitled: "Exhausting modernity - repetition, time and
>>> generative processes". This panel is open to core group members only (those
>>> who have attended at least one conference Working Group meeting). Those
>>> people making panel presentations will be expected to attend the working
>>> group and participate in the activities. If you wish to be considered for
>>> this panel please indicate this clearly at the top of your application and
>>> submit your abstract of maximum (250) words to Anna Birch ([log in to unmask]
>>> <mailto:[log in to unmask]> ) in English or French by: 31 January 2010. 10.
>>> All accepted contributors will be asked to take on roles in managing the
>>> development of the responses and the exchanges about the papers in
>>> preparation for the meeting.
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