{"id":966,"date":"2020-09-20T09:24:20","date_gmt":"2020-09-20T09:24:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.critical-stages.org\/21\/?page_id=966"},"modified":"2020-10-10T06:50:06","modified_gmt":"2020-10-10T06:50:06","slug":"unstable-grounds","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.critical-stages.org\/21\/unstable-grounds\/","title":{"rendered":"Unstable Grounds: Reconfigurations of Performance and Politics"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h4 class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-heading\"><strong>Call for Papers &amp; Essays<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.critical-stages.org\/21\/un-terrain-instable-nouveaux-rapports-entre-spectacle-et-politique\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"30\" height=\"30\" src=\"https:\/\/www.critical-stages.org\/21\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2020\/10\/FR.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-981\"\/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Special Issue, June 2021<br>Guest Editors: <strong>Gigi Argyropoulou <\/strong>and <strong>Stefanie Sachsenmaier<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This issue explores operations of performance during unstable conditions marked by socio-political, environmental, economic and further challenges. It is particularly interested in histories, reconfigurations and mutations of performance practice as it seeks to respond and \u2018stay with the trouble\u2019 (Haraway, 2016) of the present. Thinking through and beyond the political and \u2018social turn\u2019 (Jackson, 2011; Bishop, 2006; Kester, 2011) of recent years, this issue examines instances that rethink the relationship between performance and politics, giving rise to performative reconfigurations that challenge sedimented practices. Focusing on specific examples of performance practice in view of its emerging forms, aesthetics, processes of making, methods and pedagogies, the issue aims to trace how performance might critically question social imaginaries and offer structures of being and living otherwise.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the face of the current Covid-19 pandemic, the wider performance sector has effectively been rendered inoperable. The current convergence of complex issues in the sector and beyond, triggered by the pandemic as well as the Black Lives Matter movement, in conjunction with the environmental crisis, calls for a radical undoing and reorganising of the political, the social, the cultural and the existential. In connection to current as well as related historical conditions, this issue addresses the following questions: <\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>How might cultural workers embrace conditions of instability and engage in processes of \u2018shared brokenness\u2019 (Harney and Moten, 2018)? <\/li><li>In what ways might performance contribute to a shaking up of the \u2018terrain of the sensible\u2019 (Ranci\u00e8re, 2007)? <\/li><li>What methods and tools are developed through performance-making that might function as models of \u2018affirmative praxis\u2019 (Braidotti, 2016)? <\/li><li>How does performance processes participate in the building of an \u2018emergent strategy\u2019 (brown, 2017)?<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>We envisage this mixed-modal online peer-reviewed journal issue to include essays, manifestos, critical reflections, including images, videos and further forms of creative works. Indicative topics and questions to be addressed might include, but are not limited to:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>New ecologies and performance futures<\/li><li>Performance during\/after the pandemic (digital and alternative spaces)<\/li><li>Performance as intervention\/protests<\/li><li>Collective modes of organising in performance<\/li><li>Performance of\/in brokenness<\/li><li>Racism and social inequalities<\/li><li>Indigenous knowledges<\/li><li>Queer and counter publics<\/li><li>Radical feminist traditions<\/li><li>Performance and the environment<\/li><li>Performance and posthuman thought<\/li><li>Performance as\/and exit\/escape\/withdrawal\/stasis<\/li><li>Radical histories of performance during periods of instability<\/li><li>Neomaterialist approaches to performance-making and the undoing of structures<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Full length essays as well as short provocations will be considered, alongside artists pages and other creative, multimedia material. We especially invite submissions from artists, academics and practitioner researchers from Global Majority backgrounds. For information about submission, <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.critical-stages.org\/submission-guidelines\/\" target=\"_blank\">click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Timeline<\/strong><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Proposals (abstracts 300 words plus short biography): <strong>30 October 2020<\/strong><br>First drafts: <strong>20 January 2021<\/strong><br>Final drafts: <strong>10 April 2021<\/strong><br>Publication: <strong>June 2021<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><strong>For proposals, submissions and general enquiries<\/strong>:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dr <strong>Gigi Argyropoulou<\/strong> (<a href=\"mailto:argyropoulougigi@gmail.com\">argyropoulougigi@gmail.com<\/a>) and Dr <strong>Stefanie Sachsenmaier<\/strong> (<a href=\"mailto:s.sachsenmaier@mdx.ac.uk\">s.sachsenmaier@mdx.ac.uk<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>BIOS<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Gigi Argyropoulou (<\/strong>PhD Roehampton University, MA Dartington) is a researcher, dramaturg, theorist and curator working in the fields of performance and cultural practice. She has initiated public programs, interventions, performances, conferences, festivals and cultural projects inside and outside of institutions. She has taught at undergraduate and postgraduate programmes in UK and Europe. Gigi received the Routledge Prize in 2012 and Dwight Conquergood Award in 2017. Gigi is co-editor of the special issue of Performance Research &#8220;On Institutions\u201d and publishes regularly in journals, books and magazines. <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/gigiargyropoulou.wordpress.com\/bio\/\" target=\"_blank\">More here<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Stefanie Sachsenmaier<\/strong> (PhD Middlesex University, DEA Sorbonne Nlle, MA Goldsmiths, SFHEA) is Senior Lecturer in Theatre Arts at Middlesex University and Programme Leader of BA Theatre Performance and Production as well as Senior HEA Fellow. Her research centres on the processual in creative practice, with a particular interest in the ways that performance practices extend into the socio-political context. She co-edited Collaboration in <em>Performance Practice: Premises, Workings and Failures<\/em>, Palgrave Macmillan, 2016, and published a series of writings related to her long-term research with British choreographer Rosemary Butcher.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-966","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":979,"url":"https:\/\/www.critical-stages.org\/21\/un-terrain-instable-nouveaux-rapports-entre-spectacle-et-politique\/","url_meta":{"origin":966,"position":0},"title":"Un terrain instable : nouveaux rapports entre spectacle et politique","author":"cs2-admin","date":"October 10, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"\u00a0 Responsables invit\u00e9s\u00a0: Gigi Argyropoulou et Stefanie Sachsenmaier Dans ce dossier, nous \u00e9tudierons le travail de production de spectacles dans des conditions instables, marqu\u00e9es par le contexte sociopolitique, environnemental, \u00e9conomique et d\u2019autres d\u00e9fis. 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