Performance: Visual Aspects of Perfomance Practice
Tuesday 13th November – Thursday 15th November 2012
Salzburg, Austria
Call For Papers:
Theatre and the many varied expressions of
performance practice are by their nature
inter-disciplinary forms of art. They draw ideas
and symbolisms from diverse theoretical and
creative fields of humanities, making historical
references and links, presenting social relations,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, whether in a theatrical
space, site-specific space, or as a street or
public performance of any nature, 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,
performer, 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 creative process, from the
initial concept to the final realization and
presentation to an audience.
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:
1. Narrative and Meaning
- Visual interpretation of text / of narrative
- Visual literacy and perception within
performance
- The relationship between narrative,
visuality and textuality
- 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
- The role of imagination today (before,
during and after a performance)
2. Design Processes
- 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/spatial environment
- Collaboration and practice in the visual
aspect of performance making
- Aesthetics and visual principles in performance
- Media and new technology as performance
visual elements
- Challenging traditions: New approaches in
performance design and practice
3. Set and Costume, discourse and practice
- Scenographer: The author of space?
- History of scenography
- Leading figures in the world tradition of
scenography
- Costume and the body, embodiment and expression
- Actor-character: Dressing the performer,
dressing the character
- Body and space: The spatial dynamics of costume
- The performativity of costume / The
narrative of dress in performance
- Costume sociology
4. Perception
- The gaze of the spectator / Aspects of
spectatorship
- Experience and perceptions of the performer
- Experience and perceptions of the audience
- Cross-cultural appropriation,
Inter-disciplinarity and Interactivity in performance
- The impact of new media on performance
- Liveness / humanness and the contemporary
technological context
5. Pedagogy and Policy
- Designing theatre for diverse settings and
audiences (e.g. children, elders, communities,
people with disability)
- Performance, ethics, poetics, and politics –
visual approaches
- Teaching the visual aspects of performance
practice, context and approaches
Papers will also be considered on any related
theme. 300 word abstracts should be submitted by
Friday 4th May 2012. If an abstract is accepted
for the conference, a full draft paper should be
submitted by Friday 3rd August 2012.
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, f) up to
10 keywords.
E-mails should be entitled: Performance3 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).
Please note that a Book of Abstracts is planned
for the end of the year. All accepted abstracts
will be included in this publication. 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
Professor of Costume Design for Theatre and Film
Aalto University; School of Arts, Design and
Architecture;
Finland
Email: sofsceno@gmail.com
Rob Fisher
Network Founder and Leader, Inter-Disciplinary.Net,
Freeland, Oxfordshire,United Kingdom
Email: perform3@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/
Please note: Inter-Disciplinary.Net is a
not-for-profit network and we are not in a
position to be able to assist with conference
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