Date: Tue, 9 Jul 2013 13:41:41 +0100 From: Lucy Nevitt <[log in to unmask]> Subject: Reminder: Call for papers: Questions of Aesthetics and Participation >>>>>>> A FRIENDLY REMINDER: if you click REPLY to this email, you will be sending an email to over 2500 subscribers. Please do so only if you wish to respond to everyone. Emails represent the views of individuals and not SCUDD. Events advertised via the list are not endorsed by us. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ RiDE: The Journal of Applied Theatre and Performance Call for papers: Questions of Aesthetics and Participation In this themed edition on questions of aesthetics and participation, we seek contributions to debates about audience and participation and about the ways that notions and practices of aesthetics and reception affect notion and practices of participation, or provoke the existence of participatory work in the first place. In November 2010, this journal published a themed edition on the aesthetics of applied theatre and performance. The editors and contributors developed a series of interventions into debates and discourses of aesthetics in applied theatre practice. Following on from this work, and from the publication of Claire Bishopıs Artificial Hells: Participatory Art and the Politics of Spectatorship (2012), we would like to invite artists, educators, scholars and cultural critics to participate in further debate. This, then, is an invitation to engage in questions about the cultural value and artistic quality of applied and community performance, but specifically to relate the discussion to questions and problems of participation in theatre, performance and education. For the purposes of this discussion, we might choose to think very broadly about participation, or even to ask questions that make more precise our use of the term. We are interested in hearing about the many works and projects that attempt to upset, blur or otherwise confound the distinction between facilitator and participant. We are also keen to consider how notions and relations of education and learning contribute to the cultural or artistic value of participation. It also seems important to address the way that works are framed: how do notions of aesthetics, beauty and art inform reception and production in participatory work? To look at the question from another perspective, we can also ask how experiences of beauty and transcendence are communicated beyond the specific moment of performance in works that are primarily focused on participants. The working methods and aesthetic innovations of community work, for example, belong among the significant achievements of culture, and yet innovations often remain restrictively isolated and specific. When making community or participatory performance, to what extent is it possible to think (only) of the audience? How might audiences prepare for the watching of this work? How do we develop an elaborated culture of reception for community and participatory art work? How do educators relate their own artistic practice and participation to debates around aesthetics and cultural value? We seek proposals for work in the following forms: Scholarly articles of around 5,000 words Review essays of works (performed and written) that have importance to this theme. Provocations and other accounts by practitioners Interviews and dialogues between performance makers/practitioners Contributions that challenge or extend the possibilities for participating in this conversation As part of the development of conversations around this themed edition, there will be an invited symposium on 18th September 2013 at the University of Hull, UK. This symposium will be an opportunity to develop focused discussion on questions of aesthetics and participation. The symposium will give opportunity to develop arguments and ideas for the themed issue. Colleagues might wish to contribute to the symposium and also to the themed issue, or to one or other of these conversations. RiDE: The Journal of Applied Theatre and Performance is a refereed journal aimed at those who are interested in applying performance practices to cultural engagement, educational innovation and social change. It provides an international forum for research into drama and theatre conducted in community, educational, developmental and therapeutic contexts. The journal offers a dissemination of completed research and research in progress, and through its Points and Practices section it encourages debate between researchers both on its published articles and on other matters. Contributions are drawn from a range of people involved in drama and theatre from around the world. It aims to bring the fruits of the best researchers to an international readership and to further debates in the rich and diverse field of educational drama and applied theatre. Peer Review Policy: All research articles in this journal undergo rigorous peer review, based on initial editor screening and anonymised refereeing by at least two anonymous referees. All reviewers are internationally recognized in their field, and the editorial board of RiDE aim to support scholars from many different parts of the world. Expressions of interest in Symposium: 30th July 2013 Detailed abstracts: 1st November 2013 Full drafts of articles: 1st February 2014. All enquiries and submissions should be sent to Colette Conroy, the editor of the themed edition: [log in to unmask] FRIENDLY REMINDER: if you click REPLY to this email, you will be sending a message to over 300 subscribers. 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