[spectre] INTIMACY: OPEN CALL

[maria x]

*APOLOGIES FOR CROSS-POSTING*

  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
illicit 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,
Kelli Dipple, 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
Arts), 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 <drp01mc at gold.ac.uk> and Rachel Zerihan
<intimacyrachelz at yahoo.co.uk> 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)
  ·         Daisy Abbot, AHDS Performing Arts Glasgow
  ·         Gavin Barlow, CEO The Albany
  ·         Alice Bayliss, School of Performance and Cultural Industries,
University of Leeds
  ·         Brian Brady, Head of Programming, LABAN
  ·         Anna Furse, Drama Department, Goldsmiths University of London;
Director
  ·         Marc Garrett, Artist, Co-director Furtherfield
  ·         Gabriella Giannachi, Co-director Centre for Intermedia,
University of Exeter
  ·         Joe Kelleher, School of Arts, Roehampton University
  ·         Roberta Mock, Faculty of Arts, University of Plymouth
  ·         Molly Mullen, Re-Write Co-ordinator
  ·         Chris Salter, Artist; Researcher Hexagram; Department of
Design and Computational Arts, Concordia University (Canada)
  ·         Jennifer Sheridan, Director BigDog Interactive
  ·         Igor Stromajer, Artist (Slovenia)
  ·         Bojana Kunst, University of Ljubljana (Slovenia)
  ·         Tony Thatcher, Choreographer; Programme Leader LABAN
  ·         Helen Varley-Jamieson, Performer (New Zealand)


  For more information on INTIMACY please visit
http://www.cybertheater.org  If you have further queries, please contact
intimacyrachelz at yahoo.co.uk or
drp01mc at gold.ac.uk



-- 
Maria Chatzichristodoulou
[aka maria x]
PhD Art & Computational Technologies
15 Rodmell
Regent Square
London
WC1H 8HX