Dear Colleagues,
I hope to draw your attention to the below CfP. We are looking for truly
interdisciplinary proposals and I hope you will be excited by the
opportunity for public engagement and outside-the-box thinking!
Please get in touch with any questions.
For acessibility purposes the call out is also available in video form here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=05zb-y-Nkx0
Best wishes,
Phoebe
*Call for Participation*
*SIDE BURNS: THE //BUZZCUT// SYMPOSIUM! *
*6-10 April 2016*
Pearce Institute, Govan, Glasgow.
// Call for Participation: Strengthening Communities in Precarious Times //
We invite those from all disciplines with interdisciplinary perspectives to
examine how communities can be strengthened, supported and nurtured in
times of economic, political, ecological and social crisis.
As part of their fifth festival //BUZZCUT// are holding a symposium event
in association with the University of Glasgow. //BUZZCUT//’s ethos is
centred around the enquiry, ‘How can an event strengthen a community?’ and
looks to open up new spaces for performance to happen and bring new
audiences to live art. With this in mind, this symposium seeks to reimagine
structures around the sharing of ideas, and create an environment that is
open and accessible for those of all backgrounds to come together to eat,
talk, think and dance.
As we face the violence of government-enforced austerity policies, those in
the arts and university sectors, those with precarious incomes and those
reliant on a welfare system come together to share and examine ways to
resist divisive rhetoric, create supportive environments and imagine
alternative futures.
// We encourage collaboration, new ways of thinking and different ways of
doing. //
// We encourage responses in the form of papers, practice-based
presentations, sessions, events, panel proposals, interventions, etc. //
// We encourage you to be provocative, polemic, celebratory, revolutionary,
experimental, generous, rebellious and radical. //
// We encourage you to think about public engagement, we want you to ensure
that your ideas can communicate with a broad and diverse audience. //
// We encourage you to think about the space you might present in and who
might be present in that space. //
// We encourage applications from those located in Govan, Glasgow, Scotland
and internationally. //
// We welcome applications from those with disabilities and have resources
to meet accessibility requirements. //
Responses to this call may refer, but are not limited to: education, arts
and elitism; politics and art in areas of economic depravation; money as a
corrupting/liberating force; social struggles extending to migrants,
refugees and displaced peoples; gentrification and social cleansing;
inclusion and exclusion in the arts; communities as a mode of resistance to
commodification/exploitation/oppression/ecological destruction; the
strengths and weaknesses of socially engaged/community arts practice;
models of free education; the arts as an anti-capitalist endeavour;
alternative modes of social organisation; thinking locally, acting
globally; alternative economies; arts and austerity.
The conference will be concurrent with //BUZZCUT// and everyone will be
able to attend both the conference and festival, with all events pay what
you can.
//BUZZCUT//* is a radical artist-led five day performance festival that
happens annually in Govan, Glasgow. Through an open application process the
programme is made up of sixty performances from a range of local, national
and international artists working across live art, experimental theatre and
dance. The entire event is pay-what-you-can and takes place in the Pearce
Institute, a community centre with a hundred years of radical history. For
more information on *//BUZZCUT//* please go to the website*:
https://glasgowbuzzcut.wordpress.com/
To apply, please send us proposal that includes:
- An *abstract* [A summary of your proposed contribution] (200 words max)
- A suggestion of the location(s) the proposal may be appropriate to
[in Govan].
- A brief biographical note (50 words max).
- Any additional access requirements or technical resources you may
require to participate/present.
If you would like to apply via a video message, please do so. Ensure it
contains the same above information within a 3 minute video.
Please email to [log in to unmask] by the end of *Friday 11 December
2015*.
If you have any questions please get in touch on the symposium email:
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Nick Anderson, Rosana Cade (//BUZZCUT//), Dr Stephen Greer (University of
Glasgow) and Phoebe Patey-Ferguson (Goldsmiths).
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