Dear colleagues,
We would like to announce the 3rd Global Conference: Performance - Visual
Aspects of Performance Practice.
You will find detailed information forwarded below; please forward the CFP
to institutions, members and staff. For any questions, do not hesitate to
contact the organising chairs.
Please note that the deadline for the submission of abstracts is Friday 4th
May 2012.
Best regards,
Sofia Pantouvaki
3rd Global Conference
Performance: Visual Aspects of Performance Practice
Tuesday 13th November – Thursday 15th November 2012
Salzburg, Austria
Call For Papers:
Theatre and the many varied expressions of performance practice are
by their nature inter-disciplinary forms of art. They draw ideas and
symbolisms from diverse theoretical and creative fields of humanities,
making historical references and links, presenting social relations,
putting forward great ideas and dilemmas of the mind, highlighting
aspects of the human personality and employing all existing art-forms
in order to create a performance as a whole. Performance practice,
whether in a theatrical space, site-specific space, or as a street or
public performance of any nature, can be examined from the artistic
point of view, but also from a cultural, a sociological, a historical,
a psychological, a semiological, an anthropological, as well as from
an educational perspective. The term “performance practice” refers
to the interface within which the work of the director, performer,
movement director and choreographer, scenographer (set and costume
designer), musical director, composer, lighting designer and sound
designer meet. It also includes all aspects and issues involving the
creative process, from the initial concept to the final realization
and presentation to an audience.
The aim of this conference is to develop discussion with a focus on
the visual aspects of performance brought up by visual and spatial
artists and researchers in various performance disciplines and
practices.
Papers, workshops, presentations and pre-formed panels are invited
on any of the following themes:
1. Narrative and Meaning
* Visual interpretation of text / of narrative
* Visual literacy and perception within performance
* The relationship between narrative, visuality and textuality
* Challenging of established aesthetics, the relationship of old and
new traditions
* Visual expression and symbolism in theatre and performance
* The notion of the visual metaphor
* The role of imagination today (before, during and after a
performance)
2. Design Processes
* The birth of a visual concept
* Design as theatrical action
* Visual resources, and interpretation in performance
* Scenographic materials, form, texture, composition and light
* From design to realization – the process for the creation of a
visual/spatial environment
* Collaboration and practice in the visual aspect of performance
making
* Aesthetics and visual principles in performance
* Media and new technology as performance visual elements
* Challenging traditions: New approaches in performance design and
practice
3. Set and Costume, discourse and practice
* Scenographer: The author of space?
* History of scenography
* Leading figures in the world tradition of scenography
* Costume and the body, embodiment and expression
* Actor-character: Dressing the performer, dressing the character
* Body and space: The spatial dynamics of costume
* The performativity of costume / The narrative of dress in
performance
* Costume sociology
4. Perception
* The gaze of the spectator / Aspects of spectatorship
* Experience and perceptions of the performer
* Experience and perceptions of the audience
* Cross-cultural appropriation, Inter-disciplinarity and
Interactivity in performance
* The impact of new media on performance
* Liveness / humanness and the contemporary technological context
5. Pedagogy & Policy
* Designing theatre for diverse settings and audiences (e.g.
children, elders, communities, people with disability)
* Performance, ethics, poetics, and politics – visual approaches
* Teaching the visual aspects of performance practice, context and
approaches
Papers will also be considered on any related theme. 300 word
abstracts should be submitted by Friday 4th May 2012. If an abstract
is accepted for the conference, a full draft paper should be submitted
by Friday 3rd August 2012.
300 word abstracts should be submitted to the Organising Chairs;
abstracts may be in Word, WordPerfect, or RTF formats, following this
order:
a) author(s), b) affiliation, c) email address, d) title of abstract,
e) body of abstract, f) up to 10 keywords.
E-mails should be entitled: Performance3 Abstract Submission
Please use plain text (Times Roman 12) and abstain from using any
special formatting, characters or emphasis (such as bold, italics or
underline). Please note that a Book of Abstracts is planned for the
end of the year. All accepted abstracts will be included in this
publication. We acknowledge receipt and answer to all paper proposals
submitted. If you do not receive a reply from us in a week you should
assume we did not receive your proposal; it might be lost in
cyberspace! We suggest, then, to look for an alternative electronic
route or resend.
Organising Chairs:
Sofia Pantouvaki
Professor of Costume Design for Theatre and Film
Aalto University; School of Arts, Design and Architecture;
Finland
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Rob Fisher
Network Founder and Leader, Inter-Disciplinary.Net,
Freeland, Oxfordshire,United Kingdom
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The conference is part of the Critical Issues programme of research
projects. It aims to bring together people from different areas and
interests to share ideas and explore various discussions which are
innovative and exciting. All papers accepted for and presented at the
conference will be eligible for publication in an ISBN eBook. Selected
papers may be developed for publication in a themed hard copy
volume(s).
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