2nd Global Conference: Performance: Visual Aspects
of Performance Practice
Sunday 6th November – Tuesday 8th November 2011
Prague, Czech Republic
Theatre and other types of staged performance are
inter-disciplinary forms of art, 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historical references and links, presenting social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
- Visual literacy and perception within performance
- The relationship between narrative, visuality
and textuality
- The birth of a visual concept
- Design as theatrical action
- Visual resources and interpretation in performance
- 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
- Aesthetics and visual principles in performance
- Challenging of established aesthetics, the
relationship of old and new traditions
- Visual expression and symbolism in theatre and
performance
- The notion of the visual metaphor
- Scenographer: The author of space?
- 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
- Media and new technology as performance visual
elements
- The impact of new media on performance
- New approaches in performance design
- The gaze of the spectator / Aspects of spectatorship
- Cross-cultural appropriation,
Inter-disciplinarity and Interactivity in performance
- Designing theatre for particular settings and
audiences (e.g. children, elders, communities,
people with disability)
- Performance and politics – visual approaches
- Teaching the visual aspects of performance practice
Papers will also be considered on any related
theme. 300 word abstracts should be submitted by
Friday 17th June 2011. If an abstract is accepted
for the conference, a full draft paper should be
submitted by Friday 23rd September 2011.
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
Email: sofsceno@gmail.com
Rob Fisher
Network Founder and Leader, Inter-Disciplinary.Net,
Freeland, Oxfordshire,
United Kingdom
Email: perform2@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 of the project, please visit:
http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/critical-issues/ethos/performance/
For further details of the conference, please visit:
http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/critical-issues/ethos/performance/call-for-papers/
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