International Journal of Performance Arts and Digital Media
SPECIAL ISSUE CALL FOR PAPERS: RETERRITORIALIZING DIGITAL PERFORMANCE FROM
SOUTH TO NORTH
Guest editors: Sonali Pahwa and William W. Lewis Deadline for submission:
28th February 2019
Publication: 2019 in Volume 15, Issue 3
The International Journal of Performance Arts and Digital Media is seeking
contributions by 28th February 2019 for a special issue on
'Reterritorializing Digital Performance From South to North'.
Digitally mediated bodies have become key sites of performance in the
contemporary world, providing individuals space for working outside
politicized media and corporatized theaters. In what ways do digital
embodiments relate to territorial politics? While there prevails a utopian
notion that digitalization of culture brings a flattening of hierarchies,
digital media are often entangled in corporate and governmental politics.
They work in unequal ways based on geopolitics, economics, and social
structures. This special issue of IJPADM examines modalities of digital
and post-digital performance that cross between online platforms and
territories of embodiment. Putting in dialogue case studies from the South
and North of the global economy, we ask how digital performance places and
dis-places identity politics.
In both South and North, creative digital performances open up the
politics of normative space, and attempt to refigure the territories from
which they launch. Digital performance from Asia, Africa, and Latin
America often emerges from political unfreedom, intersects with activist
efforts, and counters corporate production practices. Actors here assemble
virtual territories within geographical space in order to perform
posthuman agency (Barad 2003). They move between online and offline
domains to territorialize critical embodiments and make political claims
matter. In the Global North, media channels are perceived as more open,
but are only democratic to the extent allowed by players controlling
information
platforms and pipelines. Gatekeepers such as Google and Facebook tip the
scales of power by offering a pseudo-freedom, while minutely controlling
the information they surveil, collect, and disseminate. Performing bodies
in digital assemblages are outcomes of these societies of control, where
algorithms generated via digital tracking fix territories and figure a
limited range of human identities.
How can performance studies lenses help to explicate the performativity of
genres enabled by digital technology? What practices do digital
performances contribute to cultural repertoires of embodiment? A key
question informing our dialogue between digital performance in the Global
South and North is how to think of the differences between communication
networks entangled with separate (though intertwined) politico- economic
structures. How are respective social and economic relationships
reassembled when culture becomes pervasively mediatized (Couldry and Hepp
2017)? We propose to reframe the concepts of North and South in terms of
territorialization rather than territory, attending to the material
relations of digital networks with geographically situated powers. We also
examine how particular configurations of human and nonhuman actors (as in
social media algorithms) shape the intervention of digital performance in
political territories. Following conceptual frameworks of agential
realism, new materialism, and critical posthumanism, we introduce politics
of territorial difference into the analysis of distributed materiality in
digital performance.
This special issue, guest edited by Sonali Pahwa and William W. Lewis,
considers how the materiality of digital networks affects the agency of
performance in varied territorial (political, economic, cultural) domains.
We ask: How does digital performance change the territories upon which and
through which it acts? How do these territories ground the performance of
agency in digital networks? Does digital creation and digital labor
destabilize human agency in favor of technological agency? We invite
contributions that examine the way territorial relations affect digitally
informed performance; how digital performance reconfigures conceptions of
labor and activism; how the digital reassembles human-nonhuman relations
as it links embodiments across platforms; how digital circulation changes
the affective or economic impact of performance; and how digitality can
stage community between and within territories. Our volume seeks to
contribute case studies of digital (or digitally-informed) performance
complementing
pioneering theatre and performance studies scholarship at the intersection
of new materialism, communication studies, and post humanism.
Please submit your contribution, formatted according to the Routledge
journal style, through the journal¹s website
<https://www.tandfonline.com/action/authorSubmission?journalCode=rpdm20&pag
e=instructions>.
For further enquiries, please contact the guest editors at
[log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]> and [log in to unmask]
<mailto:[log in to unmask]>. Potential contributors are invited to send a
draft abstract for early feedback on suitability for the special issue.
--
Dr Maria Chatzichristodoulou
Reader in Performance & New Media
Head of Division, Creative Industries
Director, External Development & Enterprise
Director, Centre for Research in Digital Storymaking
<http://digitalstorymaking.co.uk>
Editor-in-Chief, International
Journal of Performance Arts & Digital Media (IJPADM)
<http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rpdm20/current>
School of Arts and Creative Industries,
London
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