1st Global Conference
Performance: Visual Aspects of Performance Practice
Thursday 11th November - Saturday 13th November 2010
Prague, Czech Republic
Call for Papers
Theatre is an inter-disciplinary form of art in
itself, drawing ideas and symbolisms from the
fields of humanities, making historical
references and links, presenting social relations,
putting forward great ideas and dilemmas of the
mind, highlighting aspects of the human
personality and employing all existing art-forms
in order to create a performance as a whole.
Performance practice can be examined from the
artistic point of view, but also from a cultural,
a sociological, a historical, a psychological, a
semiological, an anthropological, as well as from
an educational perspective. The term performance
practice refers to the interface within which the work of
the director, actor, movement director and
choreographer, scenographer (set and costume
designer), musical director, composer, lighting
designer and sound designer meet. It also includes
all aspects and issues involving the
theatrical process, from the initial concept to
the final realization.
The aim of this conference is to develop
discussion with a focus on the visual aspects of
performance brought up by visual and spatial
artists and researchers in various performance
disciplines and practices.
Papers, workshops, presentations and pre-formed
panels are invited on any of the following themes:
- Visual interpretation of text / of narrative
- The birth of a visual concept
- Visual literacy and visual perception in
performance
- Aesthetics and visual principles in
performance
- Visual expression and symbolism in theatre
- The notion of the visual metaphor
- Scenographer: The author of space?
- Design as theatrical action
- Visual resources and interpretation in theatre
- Scenographic materials, form, texture,
composition and light
- From design to realization - the process
for the creation of a visual environment
- Collaboration and practice in the visual
aspect of performance making
- Actor-character: Dressing the actor,
dressing the body
- Body and space: The spatial dynamics of
costume
- The performativity of costume / The
narrative of dress in performance
- Costume sociology
- History of scenography
- Leading figures in the world tradition of
scenography
- Performance and politics - visual approaches
- Designing theatre for children
- Teaching the visual aspects of performance
practice
- Media and new technology as performance
visual elements
- New approaches in performance design
Papers will also be considered on any related
theme. 300 word abstracts should be submitted by
Friday 28th May 2010. If an abstract is accepted
for the conference, a full draft paper should be
submitted by Friday 24th September 2010.
300 word abstracts should be submitted to the
Organising Chairs; abstracts may be in Word,
WordPerfect, or RTF formats, following this order:
a) author(s), b) affiliation, c) email address, d)
title of abstract, e) body of abstract
E-mails should be entitled: Performance Abstract
Submission
Please use plain text (Times Roman 12) and abstain
from using any special formatting, characters or
emphasis (such as bold, italics or
underline). We acknowledge receipt and answer to
all paper proposals submitted. If you do not
receive a reply from us in a week you should
assume we did not receive your proposal; it might
be lost in cyberspace! We suggest, then, to look
for an alternative electronic route or resend.
Organising Chairs:
* Sofia Pantouvaki
Scenographer, and Department of Theatre Studies,
University of Peloponnese
Greece
E-mail: sofsceno@gmail.com
* Rob Fisher
Network Founder and Leader, Inter-Disciplinary.Net,
Freeland, Oxfordshire,
United Kingdom
E-mail: perform@inter-disciplinary.net
The conference is part of the Critical Issues
programme of research projects. It aims to bring
together people from different areas and
interests to share ideas and explore various
discussions which are innovative and exciting. All
papers accepted for and presented at the
conference will be eligible for publication in an
ISBN eBook. Selected papers may be developed for
publication in a themed hard copy volume(s).
For further details about the project please visit:
http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/critical-issues/ethos/performance/
For further details about the conference please visit:
http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/critical-issues/ethos/performance/call-for-papers//critical-issues/ethos/performance/call-for-papers/
Sponsored by: Inter-Disciplinary.Net
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