CALL FOR PAPERS
Performance Studies international
#10 Perform: State: Interrogate:
15 to 18 June Singapore 2004
The Organizing Committee of Performance Studies international #10 invites proposals for papers to be presented at the conference Perform: State: Interrogate: which will take place from 15 to 18 June 2004 in Singapore.
Performance Studies international
(PSi) was launched by the Department of Performance Studies at New York University
in 1995. In its nine years of existence, the conference has staged gatherings
that have attracted a wide range of scholars and artists working in the field
of performance.
PSi #10 Singapore 2004 aims to bring the field of Performance Studies to the
attention of researchers, theorists, artists and activists across diverse practices
and disciplines in the "Asian" region, while introducing the current
state of "Asian" performance theory and practice to researchers, theorists,
artists and activists from other regions.
The title, "Perform:
State: Interrogate:", comprises three verbs related to articulation
that have multiple resonances. The critical reflexivity we demand is echoed
by the word "interrogate," which implies the questioning of power,
both in the sense of being directed at and originating from power - as in the
power of theory, practitioners, the "people" or the state. Indeed
the
"state" figures centrally in much of performance in Asia - from patronage
to engagement to resistance to complicity. Arguably the central "performance"
that takes place in a nation like Singapore is that of stating the concerns
of the "state." While "perform" connotes the more conventional
understandings of the term (theatrical performance, etc.,) there is also the
question of how theory "performs" - what are the ways in which it
can be tested, evaluated? What are its effects? How does it contain, domesticate,
obfuscate, and appropriate, or liberate, enable, and enlighten?
Deadlines & Details
PLEASE NOTE: The closing date for submission of proposals for papers is 30 September
2003.
Proposals should not be more than 500 words and should be sent as hard copy as well as an email attachment to the organizers at the following addresses:
Papers for PSi #10
c/o Lee Weng Choy
The Substation
45 Armenian Street
Singapore 179936
tel: (65) 6337 7535 fax: (65) 6337 2729
email: <papers@singaporepsi.org>
The following are proposed Interest Groups. To help us sequence your presentation in the conference, please tick three areas that you feel your work could most accurately be categorized under:
Everyday &
Social Performance; Ritual; Ethnographies
City/Urban & Rural Development
Ethno-Identitarian Issues
Performance Conferences/Events; Regional Networks; Performance Studies
Publications; Economies of Performance
Traditional & Aesthetic Disciplines
Pedagogy & Development; Mapping Social Development
Tensions between Theory and Practice
Performance Languages & Translations
Contemporary Theatre/Performance Art
Visual Cultures: Icons, Iconoclasms & Iconoclashes
Nature, Culture & Other Species
Spectacle/Nation/State; Transnational Practices & Structures
Technologies & Simulations
Bodies & the Sensorium
Gender & Sexuality
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Call
for submissions
Pieces will get at least
a four day showing or more. We will supply publicity (lots of it), technical
help, theater space and some rehearsal space).
We are looking for the whole spectrum of LGBT lives. We think of ourselves as
supporting the UN-Will and Grace faction of our universe.
Plays from writers outside of NYC (in some parts of this city that passes for
international) and especially from outside the US are specially welcome. Attention
New York City writers and performers specially from the "outer boroughs":
you are not excluded. Really!
Transgender, Lesbian, Bisexual, Disabled and/or any ethnic, class, religious
or racial group that is part of our community----we'd love to hear from you.
We plan to get a lot of
attention so if you don't mind coming to the Big Apple in July ("Now tell
me what street compares with Mott St. in July?") and have a show that needs
a NY venue please let us see your work. Scripts and especially VHS tapes of
shows, needed. Entry fee is $20 US currency. Checks or money orders should be
made out to New Village Productions. (New Village Productions is a tax exempt
non-profit)
Send to:
New Village Productions
145 East 27th. Street, 1A
New York, NY 10016.
If you have any questions
you can email me at the address above. I'll let you know when our website is
up.
PS: If you are or will be in NYC and want to be a part of this event in some
way please let us know.
carol polcovar
polcovar@yahoo.com
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Scripts and shows by
and about transgender/ transsexual/ transgressively gendered people
The first transgender theatre
festival is seeking long and short, traditional and avant-garde, new and old
works for the stage for September 2003. Stages will feature the voices of our
communities in a way that they have never been heard before.
Deadline May 1, 2003- Selections will be announced no later than June 1, 2003
Here is the deal: We want to see your work! We have some (limited) resources
to produce shows, so we are looking for two things:scripts, all by themselves,
looking for a director, some actors and black box theatre; AND shows that you
have done or are willing to do and drag to downtown NYC in the fall.
Submission requirements
Scripts
"X full script
"X outline
"X character breakdown
"X biography of playwright
"X artist s statement
Complete shows
"X full script
"X outline
"X bio of primary artists
"X work sample *
"X any press*
"X artist s statement
*if applicable
In your artist s statement, please answer the question: How does your work relate to trans experience?
Also looking for volunteers:
TG/TS/ genderqueer directors, actors, stage managers, set & costume designers,
musicians, crews, staff.
We seek works by and about people of diverse experience, origin, and status.
Make history. Change the world. (No pay.)
Mail to: stages; 151 1st AVE, suite 228; New York, NY 10003