INTIMACY
Across Visceral and Digital Performance
OPEN CALL FOR PAPERS, POSTERS & PERFORMANCES
INTIMACY Across Visceral and Digital Performance
is supported by the AHRC ICT Methods Network,
Goldsmiths Graduate School , Goldsmiths Digital
Studios, Goldsmiths Drama Department and LABAN.
ABOUT
INTIMACY is a three-day interdisciplinary
programme of events made to elicit connectivity,
induce interaction and provoke debate between
makers, participants and witnesses of works that
explicitly address proximity and hybridity in
performance. It will feature workshops,
seminars, performances, posters, and a 1-day
symposium. INTIMACY will employ digital and
live art practices as agents, aiming to further
practical exploration of and vibrant discourse
into notions of intimacy in contemporary
performance. It is framed as a forum for
artists, scholars, community workers,
performers, cultural practitioners, researchers
and creative thinkers.
INTIMACY will provide a platform for the
discussion of live art/performance practices
concerned with displaying intuitive, intimate
and visceral relationships between artist and
other. It will explore performance practices
that engage in intimate encounters, raising
issues around bodies of data and flesh; presence
as aura and representation; desire as embodied
condition and disembodied fantasy; the human and
posthuman self. Confirmed contributors include:
Johannes Birringer, Kira O'Reilly, Tracey Warr,
Janis Jefferies, Amelia Jones, Dominic Johnson,
Paul Sermon.
SPACETIME
INTIMACY will take place on the 7th, 8th and 9th
December in and around Goldsmiths University of
London, LABAN and The Albany ( South London ).
CO-DIRECTORS
Rachel Zerihan and Maria Chatzichristodoulou [aka maria x]
BOARD
Prof. Johannes Birringer, Chair in Drama and
Performance Technologies, School of Arts, Brunel
University of West London; Artistic Director of
AlienNation Co.
Hazel Gardiner, Senior Projects Officer, AHRC ICT Methods Network; Researcher.
Dr. Adrian Heathfield, Principal Research Fellow
(Performance and Live Art), School of Art and
Design, Nottingham Trent University ; Writer;
Curator.
Prof. Janis Jefferies, Artistic Director,
Goldsmiths Digital Studios; Director Constance
Howard Resource and Research Centre in Textiles;
Artist; Writer; Curator.
Gerald Lidstone, Head of Drama Department, Goldsmiths University of London .
PROPOSALS
All participants will be selected on an open
submissions basis. Proposals will be peer
reviewed by the INTIMACY Board and Advisory
Panel. Proposals must not exceed the word limit
specified. You may provide additional info such
as links to digital material including online
video, photos and websites. Further supporting
documentation such as hard copies and discs are
welcome; if you want these returned please
enclose a SAE. We are accepting proposals for:
Paper presentations or Performance Lectures
Poster presentations
Live performances -physical and/or digital
Proposals should be concerned with the
relationship between visceral and digital
environments/methodologies being explored in
contemporary performance practice. Specifically,
topics of interest include but are not limited
to:
The politics of intimacy in contemporary performance
Risk in relation to intimacy in contemporary performance
Pornography/erotics and performed intimacy
(Dis)embodiment, (tele)presence and intimate performance encounters
Technologies as affective instigators of intimacy
Intimate aesthetics in contemporary performance
Interfaces of performed desire
Accepted proposals will be published on our
website. Further publishing possibilities are
being explored.
HOW TO SUBMIT
Submit by email to Maria X at
<<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
and Rachel Zerihan
<<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
writing INTIMACY SUBMISSION in the subject line.
Send hard copies to INTIMACY c/o 22 Dutton Street , London , SE10 8TB .
Performances: Submit 1) 500-word statement
detailing your project; 2) 200-word CV; 3) Tech
Drive; 4) Any other supporting material as
described above. Please note that only limited
technical support can be provided.
Papers/ Performance Lectures: Submit 1) 500-word
abstract. This contribution would form a 15
minute paper to be presented at the Symposium on
Sunday 9th December; 2) 200-word CV; 3) Any
other supporting material as described above.
Posters: Submit 1) 300-word abstract /summary;
2) 200-word CV; 3) Any other supporting material
as described above.
DEADLINE
Deadline for submissions: 19 August 2007.
Notification of acceptance: early October 2007
ADVISORY PANEL (confirmed to date)
Ø Daisy Abbot, AHDS Performing Arts Glasgow
Ø Gavin Barlow, CEO The Albany
Ø Alice Bayliss, School of Performance
and Cultural Industries, University of Leeds
Ø Brian Brady, Head of Programming, LABAN
Ø Anna Furse, Drama Department,
Goldsmiths University of London ; Director
Ø Marc Garrett, Artist, Co-director Furtherfield
Ø Gabriella Giannachi, Co-director
Centre for Intermedia, University of Exeter
Ø Joe Kelleher, School of Arts , Roehampton University
Ø Simon Donger, Central School of Speech and Drama
Ø Roberta Mock, Faculty of Arts, University of Plymouth
Ø Molly Mullen, Re-Write Co-ordinator
Ø Lauren Berlant, University of Chicago
Ø Chris Salter, Artist; Concordia University ( Canada )
Ø Jennifer Sheridan, Director BigDog Interactive
Ø Igor Stromajer, Artist ( Slovenia )
Ø Bojana Kunst, University of Ljubljana , Slovenia
Ø Teresa Dillon, Polar Produce
Ø Tony Thatcher, Choreographer; Programme Leader LABAN
Ø Helen Varley Jamieson, Performer ( New Zealand )
For more information on INTIMACY please visit
<http://www.cybertheater.org>http://www.cybertheater.org
If you have further queries, please contact
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