Qual è il rapporto tra l’attivismo queer e la performance in Italia e come si è sviluppato nei decenni recenti? Che tipi di dialogo sono in corso, e con quale effetto?
: Come potremmo utilizzare le teorie sulla performatività per migliorare le nostre interpretazioni delle performance queer, e/o le nostre interpretazioni queer delle performance? Possiamo guardare i movimenti LGBTQAI attivisti tramite
le stesse lenti teoriche?
: Qual è il ruolo del corpo o del sè queer incarnat* nell’attivismo e nella performance queer?
Qual è l’importanza della creatività per l’attivismo? Come potrebbe essere sviluppata attraverso delle iniziative collaborative?
: Qual é/potrebbe essere il ruolo delle relazioni e dei dialoghi transnazionali nello sviluppo delle pratiche creative e/o attiviste?
L* QuIR invita studios*, artist* ed attivist* a proporre abstract per interventi, dichiarazioni artistiche e idee per spettacoli che in qualche modo rispondano, o mettano in questione, le tematiche proposte. Gli eventi includeranno diverse tipologie di sessioni
nei due giorni, tra cui spettacoli, tavole rotonde e brevi interventi. Le due lingue dei laboratori saranno l’italiano e l’inglese. Vi invitiamo a mandare un abstract/proposta o una proposta di dichiarazione artistica di 300-500 parole, ed una breve biografia
al seguente indirizzo:
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CALL FOR PARTICIPANTS
QuIR Queer Italia Network
As Queer Italia Network (QuIR) continues to build an international network of scholars, activists, and cultural practitioners who engage with queer sexualities, identities, cultures, scholarship and politics in Italy (see our website www.queeritalia.com for
more information), we are calling for participants for our 2nd and 3rd workshops.
Each workshop focuses on a specific theme and its relation to critical theories and practices of queerness and Italianness. Thus, interested persons are invited to submit proposals for the workshop that best corresponds to their specific lines of inquiry and
engagement. See the calls below for details.
Workshop 2: Translating Queer Historicities
23-24 June 2017
Institute of Modern Languages Research, London
This workshop is dedicated to exploring phenomena across languages, cultures and time. It will include visual, performative, and scholarly inquiries into the ways that Anglo and/or Italian queerness shapes and are shaped by language, culture, and time.
This workshop will center on the following areas of inquiry:
1. Historical Queerness: How might we frame our understanding of the possibilities of past/historical Italian queerness? What is at stake when we trace queerness in historical excavations and analyses of dissidence (both sexual and otherwise)?
2. Queerness and the Italian Archive: How do we identify, remember or otherwise engage with the Italian queer archive on the level of form, content, or memory?
3. Queering Time and Language: How have forms of queerness migrated and evolved across time, cultures and languages? What may Italian specific studies contribute to queering temporal-linguistic relations?
4. Time and Translation: What processes of ‘translation’ are at work when we seek to make sense of queerness in other temporal, cultural and linguistic zones? What are the ways that translation can be queered to understand the relationships between texts
and time?
5. Translation as/and Italian Activism: When engaging in LGBTQAI activism in the Italian context, what role might translation play? Can translation be activism? What might queering translation contribute to historical understandings of activism?
Workshop 3: Queer Transnational Arts and Activism
13-14 July 2017
Università degli studi del Piemonte Orientale, Vercelli
This workshop will interrogate the ways that arts and activism intersect, build upon one another, and use their divergent and/or complementary strengths to create spaces, dialogues, and politics of queerness in an Italian context.
Some questions this workshop seeks to address are:
1. Activism and Performance: What is the relationship between queer activism and performance in Italy and how has this developed in recent decades? What kinds of dialogue are in progress and to what effect?
2. Performativity: How might theoretical approaches to performativity inform our understandings of queer performance or queer readings of performance? Might we use these same theoretical lenses when approaching Italian LGBTQAI activist movements?
3. Embodiment: What role has the body or the embodied queer self played in queer activism and performance?
4. Creativity and Collaboration: How significant is creativity in activism? How might this be developed through collaborative initiatives?
5. Transnational approaches: What role can/might transnational relationships and dialogues play in evolving creative and/or activist practices?
QuIR invites scholars, artists, and activists to submit paper proposals, artist statements, and performance ideas that in some way address, or call into question the issues above. The workshops will consist of various formats including but not limited to performances,
roundtable discussions, and panels over the course of each day. The workshops will be in both English and Italian. Please submit an abstract or artist statement/proposal of 300-500 words, and a brief accompanying bio to:
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20 January 2017. Please specify to which workshop your proposal relates
in the subject line of your email.