Please find attached a Call for Papers for an upcoming interdisciplinary practice-based research conference, including updated information about keynote presenters. We would appreciate it if you could circulate within your Department and to any other relevant
parties.
Feel free to email if you would like more information.
Kind regards,
Nisha Ramayya.
(Conference Organising Committee)
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Update: We are very excited to announce our keynote presenters - Tim Etchells, Matthew Goulish & Lin Hixson (Every House Has A Door), and Amanda Beech!
Generative Constraints is an interdisciplinary practice-based conference that intends to interrogate the politics, poetics and performativity of limitation and production. Organised by postgraduate researchers across departments
of English and Drama at Royal Holloway University of London, the aim of this conference is to foreground practice as a means of exploration and creative criticality. Considering the place of limitation and constraint within artistic production, we invite subversion,
intervention and adherence in the form of performances, workshops, durational works, screenings, installation pieces and academic papers.
The conference is open to postgraduate students, career researchers and artists from all disciplines, presenting work that both relates to the theme and has practice as an integral element of a new way of thinking. Addressing
the possibility of liberation and freedom through constraint, we welcome abstracts concerned with:
• Working with form and source material
• Repetition, as appropriation or as commitment
• Physical, mental and emotional limitations
• Compulsion towards rebellion or conservation
• Practicalities and the arbitrary
In submissions, please indicate the nature of your participation, whether workshop, performance or twenty minute paper. Submit proposals to [log in to unmask] by 16th August 2013. For further information see: generativeconstraints.tumblr.com.
Find us on Facebook (www.facebook.com/rhulpracticebasedphd) and Twitter (@PracticeRHUL).
This conference is being organized with the help and sponsorship of the practice research unit, Kingston University.
