Final Reminder
Call for Participation – TaPRA
Performance and New Technologies Working Group
3- 5 September 2014, Royal Holloway, London
Re-envisaging Performance and ‘New’ Technologies: Evolving contexts, Emerging
Practices, Current Challenges, New Directions
10th Annual TaPRA Conference, hosted by Royal Holloway
Call deadline: 30 April 2014
The Performance and New Technologies Working Group invites contributors to
reconsider performance and ‘new’ technologies by reflecting on current
contexts, practices, and theories. The aim of the 2014 call is to examine how
this area of practice and research has evolved, to appraise its current
significance and envisage future directions. This investigation and
self-reflection is framed by rapid, latter-day socio-technical developments
such as social networking, internet of things, cloud computing, and augmented
reality, and their transformative impact on the cultural landscapes of today.
Interplays between performance/theatre and technology date back to the origins
of theatre history (Reilly 2013). Nevertheless, their recent negotiations and
‘entanglements’ (Salter 2010) are marked by an era where humanist notions of
materiality, embodiment and alterity are being reconfigured giving rise to
major socio-cultural shifts as well as ontologically novel performance
paradigms (Giannachi 2004, Broadhurst 2011, Dixon 2007, Causey 2006,
Chatzichristodoulou, Jefferies and Zerihan 2009, among others). These
developments reshape the ways we make and experience theatre and performance
and pose questions that problematise the particular research area, specifically:
What is new about ‘new’ technologies in theatre and performance? Which are the
new performance practices, methodological approaches, and theoretical
paradigms? How does the terrain of performance and technology cross over,
inform, and challenge other areas of enquiry in theatre and performance
studies? What is at stake for theatre and performance once it becomes
repositioned as less of a “human-centered affair” (Salter, 2010: xxvii)? How
does it engage with machines, objects, matter and ‘actors’ (Latour 1987) rather
than ‘props’ subservient to human creativity? Finally, self-reflexively for the
Working Group itself – does performance and ‘new’ technologies continue to
constitute a distinct field of practice and research?
Proposals might consider the following issues, though these are not exclusive:
• Re-envisaging the field and remapping terrains: performance and
technology, digital and networked performance, and intermedial performance
practices;
• Performance and (anti-)social networking;
• Non-human theatre: machinic agency and affect;
• Live algorithms: new interpretations of liveness in performance and
theatre practice;
• Geopolitical shifts: technologies of colonialism in the service of
performance;
• Connectivity, access, participation: the democratisation of performance;
• Outsourcing labour and user engagement: the ethics of virtual and
networked theatre and performance practice
• Expanding/limiting audience communities: digital and mixed-reality
negotiations between the individual and the group, the user and the theatre
crowd
• The role of performance and theatre within Digital Humanities;
Proposals
Please send a 300 word proposal, a short biographical statement, and an outline
of technical requirements by 30th April to both Maria
Chatzichristodoulou,[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>
and Eirini
Nedelkopoulou,[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>
.
Proposals, if accepted, may be directed into a range of presentational formats:
traditional panels (with 20 minute papers); pre-circulated papers that form the
basis for a short presentation and discussion; or, where appropriate,
performance-based panels. While we welcome statements of preference, final
decisions will be made by the working group convenors and will be indicated at
the time of acceptance. We welcome alternative, practice-as-research or
performative proposals that engage rigorously with the theme, but these must be
achievable with limited resources and within a 20-30 minute time period.
Working Group Management
The Working Group also warmly welcomes participants who do not wish to present
a paper this year.
Please note: Only one proposal may be submitted for the TaPRA 2014 Conference
at Royal Holloway University of London. It is not permitted to submit multiple
proposals or submit the same proposal to several Calls for Papers. All
presenters must be TaPRA members, i.e. registered for the conference; this
includes presentations given by Skype or other media broadcast even where the
presenter may not physically attend the conference venue. If your paper has
been accepted, yet you have not registered for the Conference by the final
registration deadline of 8 August 2014, we will deem you no longer intend to
participate and present at TaPRA 2014.
The convenors of the Performance and New Technologies Working Group, Martin
Blain, Maria Chatzichristodoulou and Eirini Nedelkopoulou.
Dr Maria Chatzichristodoulou
Lecturer in Performance and New Media
School of Drama, Music and Screen
University of Hull
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