Call for Papers and Performances
EMBODIED MONOLOGUES SYMPOSIUM - MARCH 31, 2017
MAYNOOTH UNIVERSITY, IRELAND
Deadline for proposals: January 9, 2017
In recent years, the emergence of practice-based and performance-led research has generated dynamic, productive and provocative new forms of understanding in humanities scholarship. Knowledge and experience derived from embodied practices have done much to expand the epistemic fields centred on the body and its place in philosophy and aesthetics. Associated with these developments, topics such as voice, performativity and subjectivity have been transformed and have in turn reshaped contemporary political and social concerns, and questions of human rights, disabilities, inequality, gender, and racial and social segregation.
The emergence of movement philosophy and literature especially, as well as a greater emphasis on the performer's body as predicated in contemporary theatre practices, has opened new pathways for research only recently applied to music performance. As the one and only dramatic figure in monologues and monodramas, the solo performer has unprecedented agency in the dramaturgy and enactment of the piece. Yet even in monodrama, a dramatic genre supposedly condensed into one stage figure, production and staging are still the result of multilayered processes and agencies.
Embodied Monologues seeks to generate responses and challenges to the idea of solo or 'mono' performance. What is the role of the intertextual, the multimedial, the intercorporeal in this mode of performance? According to Bakthin's The Dialogic Imagination "the centripetal forces of the life of language, embodied in a unitary language, operate in the midst of heteroglossia". In performance, monologues and monodramas demonstrate the dynamics of this notion, combining the individual and the collective, the solo and the dialogical in complex and revealing ways. The symposium will explore solo performance through practice and research across the humanities, investigating the multiple forces at work during the production and performative processes. Embodied Monologues aims to promote an interdisciplinary exchange among performers, researchers, and practitioners whose work is based primarily-however not exclusively-on solo performance.
Proposals are invited for individual papers, lecture recitals, research reports, posters, video-installations and specific sessions in any area of solo embodied or practice-led research. Deadline for abstract (maximum 300 words) and short bio (maximum 100 word) is January 9, 2017. Proposals should be uploaded at http://www.embodiedmonologues.com/
KEYNOTE EVENTS:
Catherine Laws, Senior Lecturer Department of Music University of York, Senior Research Fellow at the Orpheus Institute, Ghent (BE);
Róisín O'Gorman, Lecturer in Drama & Theatre Studies, University College Cork.
SYMPOSIUM ORGANIZER:
Francesca Placanica, Maynooth University [log in to unmask]
COMMITTEE:
Christopher Morris, Professor of Music, Maynooth University;
Francesca Placanica, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Maynooth University;
Benjamin Spatz, Senior Lecturer in Drama Theatre and Performance, University of Huddersfield.
Dr Francesca Placanica
Irish Research Council Post-doctoral Research Fellow, 2015-7
Principal Investigator of 'En-Gendering Monodrama: Artistic Research and Experimental Production'
Department of Music, Maynooth University
Visiting Research Fellow
Department of Music, Humanities and Media
University of Huddersfield
Co-Editor: Cathy Berberian Pioneer of Contemporary Vocality Ashgate, 2014
www.francescaplacanica.com
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