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Call for proposals:

4^th Colloquium on Artistic Research in Performing Arts 2015 at the University of the Arts Helsinki, Theatre Academy

                                  11^th - 13^th of June 2015 

NON-HUMAN COLLABORATION IN PERFORMING ARTS
- BODIES, ORGANISMS AND OBJECTS AT PLAY

Call for proposals is open until 31^st January 2015

Pre-colloquium will be arranged 10^th June 2015.

The Performing Arts Research Centre (Tutke) at the Theatre Academy, University of the Arts Helsinki welcomes artistic researchers at doctoral and post-doctoral levels to take part in the fourth biannual colloquium on artistic research in performing arts.

CARPA4 reflects on performing practices from the point of view of their non-human factors. What if performance is not considered a typically human behavior anymore, expressing and reflecting the intentions and needs of human beings, but a point of encounter and a collaborative relation between heterogeneous elements, components or materials, like bodies, organisms and objects?

For this purpose we kindly encourage you to submit a proposal for presentation addressing one or more of the topics below:

1.      How can a human performer find its place within performative arrangements, where the logic does not serve human purposes anymore? What to do with a body or bodies that are not anymore “mine” or “living”?

2.      In which ways can different life forms in their wide diversity enter the scene and deconstruct it?

3.      Beyond “object theatre”: What kind of objects does a performance consist of? How can performance create, liberate or reunite objects?

4.      What have “they” in common? What kind of ethical or political thinking is born out of non-human encounters in performing arts?

The colloquium approaches its topic area collaboratively and performatively trying to make the different viewpoints encounter. It seeks common points of contact, resonating surfaces, and rhythmic interference between its heterogeneous but constituent parts.

The theme of the colloquium is born out of a need and a dream. The need concerns our attempts to make performing arts capable to respond to ongoing planetary crises and changes. The dream concerns the way performing arts might one day serve us a means for reflecting on cosmic processes, and taking part in them.

Invited Keynotes:

Professor Peta Tait FAHA
La Trobe University, Australia

Peta Tait is Professor of Theatre and Drama at La Trobe University, Australia, and was elected a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities in 2013. She publishes on the practice and theory of body based arts and performance and phenomenology, and cultural languages of emotion and affect most recently in relation to species. Her recent books are: Wild and Dangerous Performances: Animals, Emotions, Circus (Palgrave Macmillan 2012); Circus Bodies (Routledge 2005); Performing Emotions (Ashgate 2002). She is also a playwright and recent performances include: Eleanor and Mary Alice at the Heide Museum of Modern Art in 2014, and co-written translated play, ‘Portrait of Augustine’, produced in Brazil, 2010-12. She was a Visiting Professor at the University of Helsinki in 2010 with the Erasmus Mundas masters in International Performance Research and was a panel member on the ARC ERA HCA 2010 and 2012. Her forthcoming book is Fighting Nature
http://www.latrobe.edu.au/humanities/about/staff/profile?uname=PLTait

Professor Timothy Morton
Magdalen College, Oxford

Timothy Morton is the Rita Shea Guffey Chair in English at Rice University. He is the author of Nothing: Three Inquiries in Buddhism and Critical Theory (Chicago, forthcoming),Hyperobjects: Philosophy and Ecology after the End of the World (Minnesota, 2013), Realist Magic: Objects, Ontology, Causality (Open Humanities, 2013), The Ecological Thought (Harvard UP, 2010), Ecology without Nature (Harvard, 2007), seven other books and one hundred and twenty essays on philosophy, ecology, literature, food and music. He blogs regularly at http://www.ecologywithoutnature.blogspot.com. 

http://english.rice.edu/morton.aspx

Professor Yvonne Hardt
Hochschule für Musik und Theater, Germany

Yvonne Hardt is a professor for dance studies and choreography at the Center for Contemporary Dance at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater in Cologne, where she directs the MA program of dance studies and develops teaching formats combining the practics and theory of dance.

After studying theatre and history in Berlin and Montreal, she did her Ph.D. with the DFG-research group for the political dimensons of Ausdruckstanz. Before coming to Cologne she was an assistant professor at the Department for Theater, Dance and Performance Studies of the University of California Berkeley. Besides her research, she has constantly been working as dancer and choreographer and created various pieces with her company BodyAttacksWord (Jellyfisch and Exuberant Love, 2006, TR_C_NG, 2007). Her research focusses on the methodological development of dance studies as an interdisciplinary science, especially historical methods at the interface of theory and practics as well as body- and gender therory, dance and media and postcolonial theory.

Among other things she is co-editor of Choreographie und Institution – Zeitgenössischer Tanz zwischen Ästhetik, Produktion und Vermittlung (2011) und Choreographie, Medien, Gender (2013).

http://the-live-legacy-project.com/guests/yvonne-hardt/

Professor Boyan Manchev
New Bulgarian University

Boyan Manchev is a philosopher, Professor at the New Bulgarian University and Guest Professor at the Sofia University and at the HZT – UdK Berlin. He is also former Director of Program and Vice-President of the International College of Philosophy in Paris. His actual research, which advances the perspective of a radical mobilism and materialism, is focused on the fields of ontology, philosophy of art and political philosophy. The ontological concept of metamorphosis, the practical concept of disorganisation and the aesthetic concept of alteration are central for his transformationist approach.

Manchev is the author of six books and numerous articles, including Logic of the Political, 2012, Miracolo, 2011, L’altération du monde: Pour une esthétique radicale, 2009,  La Métamorphose et l’Instant – Désorganisation de la vie, 2009. He has edited  Rue Descartes 64: La métamorphose in 2009. His book The Body-Metamorphosis (Sofia: Altera, 2007) deals extensively with contemporary art, performance and dance.

He has participated as theorist, dramaturge and performer in theater and contemporary dance projects, including Tim Etchells and Adrian Heathfield’s The Frequently Asked, Boris Charmatz’s expo zero and Poster session “Mouvement” for the Festival d’Avignon and Ani Vaseva’s Frankenstein, A Dying Play and S.
http://www.weavingpolitics.se/participants/boyan-manchev/

Call for proposals is open until 31^st January 2015. All proposals in the form of abstracts (no more than 250 words) should include:

1.      name(s), title(s), position(s), email address(es), short bio (max. length 100 words)

2.      purpose statement

3.      research topic or research questions

4.      any practical requirements (space, equipment and so on)

5.      form of the presentation:

-        lecture

-        lecture-demonstration

-        video

-        poster

-        performance

-        installation

-        discussion

-        experiment

-        other

The spaces available are auditoriums of different sizes, studios with concrete floor and rehearsal spaces with wooden floor. Also, available for use is the large lobby area of the Theatre Academy, which is a public space. We will take into account the type of presentation you have proposed and allocate the limited spaces accordingly, but if you have specific needs please let us know.

We will be able to provide you with necessary technical equipment and help, and while there's a lot we can accommodate, please keep in mind that we cannot provide resources for large, full-blown performances. But feel free to propose and ask! Regarding equipment you need, please let us know also this in advance, even if you just need a video projector for your computer.

The length of any form of presentation is a maximum of 30-45 minutes including discussion.

Submit your proposals no later than 31^st January 2015 here  

Applicants will be informed of their acceptance by 20^th February 2015. Presenters are asked to confirm their participation and send in the completed paper by 6^th March 2015.

Registration for the Conference opens 15^th April 2015.  

Conference Fee:
1^st April-31^th May: 90 € (no lunches) / 120 € (includes lunch on Thursday, Friday and Saturday) 
From 1^st June 2015:105 € (no lunches)/ 135 € (lunches included)
Doctoral students at TeaK: 40 € (no lunches) / 52 € (lunch in Suomenlinna)

Further information on the proposals and the conference, please contact:

teak.carpa@uniarts.fi
www.uniarts.fi/en/carpa 

The umbrella for the Colloquium is: Peace, Love and Artistic Research.