CALL FOR PROPOSALS
Beyond Application?
Immanent Encounters between Philosophy & the Arts
A one-day symposium hosted by
the Centre for Performance Philosophy at the University of Surrey
Funded by the TECHNE consortium
Friday 27th January 2017
10am-5pm
Invited contributors:
Bojana Cvejić
Andrew Bowie
William Brown
John Ó Maoilearca
Anna Pakes
Efrosini Protopapa
This interdisciplinary symposium seeks to explore the question of how philosophy and the arts might encounter one another in ways that challenge the tendency towards application - for instance, when the arts are treated as illustrative of extant, transcendent philosophical ideas rather than as generating their own, new philosophy immanently.
We want to examine the relationship between these ideas - as explored in Film-Philosophy, Performance Philosophy, Dance and Music scholarship - and the notion of 'practice as research', alongside contemporary concerns with the form and methods of philosophy insofar as it might seek to be a philosophy of immanence.
At the same time, the event aims to consider to what extent it is possible or even desirable to 'escape' application in this sense and to provide a platform for both scholarship and practical research confronting the value and challenge of bringing philosophy and the arts together.
The organizers invite proposals from researchers of any discipline concerned with:
• The relationship between philosophy or "theory" and the arts (particularly artistic practice)
• Critiques and defences of the application / illustration paradigm
• The debates surrounding the notion of 'film as philosophy', 'music as philosophy', 'performance as philosophy' and related ideas of 'practice as research', art as a way of thinking, etc.
• The concepts of immanence and transcendence in philosophy
Proposals can be for presentation in a range of forms and durations, including but not limited to:
• 20 minute presentations including papers, short performances, presentations including demonstration/performance/screening etc., followed by 10 minutes of questions;
• 30 minute practical, participatory workshops
However, please note that organizers are also open to accommodating proposals to present research in other forms and durations - such as installation, intervention etc.
Please submit a max. 200 word abstract outlining your proposed contribution along with a max. 100 word bio, any space or technical requests and details re. numbers of participants if you are proposing a workshop – to Laura Cull Ó Maoilearca at [log in to unmask] by the 30th October.
In terms of space and technical requirements, specialist resources (eg. sprung floor, pianos) are available but please keep requests to a minimum and be prepared to be as self-sufficient as possible.
Proposals are particularly sought from TECHNE/AHRC studentship-holders and TECHNE associates, but are also warmly invited from other PhD students and University staff, as well as from independent researchers.
Deadline for proposals: 30th Oct 2016
Decisions by: 15th November 2016
NB. The event will be free to TECHNE studentship-holders and to TECHNE associates. Tickets for non-TECHNE guests (including non-TECHNE presenters) will be £7 full / £5 concessions, to contribute towards costs.
For more information about the Centre for Performance Philosophy
http://www.surrey.ac.uk/schoolofarts/research/centre_for_performance_philosophy/
For more information about the TECHNE consortium
http://www.techne.ac.uk
Dr. Laura Cull Ó Maoilearca
Reader in Theatre & Performance
Director, Centre for Performance Philosophy
Department of Acting and Performance, GSA
University of Surrey
Guildford, UK
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http://www.performancephilosophy.org/
