[spectre] Reminder: Open Call INTIMACY Across Visceral & Digital Performance, Deadline: 19 August!

[Maria Chatzichristodoulou [aka maria x]]

Dear friends & colleagues,

Last reminder for the INTIMACY Open Call for Projects. I apologize for 
cross-postings and would be grateful if you could circulate to your 
networks.

Regards
maria x
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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, Goldsmiths Department of Visual 
Cultures and LABAN.


ABOUT
INTIMACY is a three-day interdisciplinary programme of events made to 
elicit 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, Kelli Dipple, 
Dominic Johnson, 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
Maria Chatzichristodoulou [aka maria x] and Rachel Zerihan


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.
Prof. Adrian Heathfield, School of Arts, Roehampton 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

Daisy Abbot, AHDS Performing Arts Glasgow
Sylvette Babin, Artist, Editor, Canada
Gavin Barlow, The Albany
Alice Bayliss, School of Performance and Cultural Industries, University 
of Leeds
Lauren Berlant, Department of English, University of Chicago, USA
Ghislaine Boddington, Performer, Body>Data>Space
Susan Broadhurst, School of Arts, Brunel University of West London
Brian Brady, LABAN
Teresa Dillon, Polar Produce
Simon Donger, Central School of Speech and Drama
Anna Furse, Drama Department, Goldsmiths University of London
Marc Garrett, Artist, Furtherfield
Gabriella Giannachi, Centre for Intermedia, University of Exeter
Joe Kelleher, School of Arts, Roehampton University
Roberta Mock, Faculty of Arts, University of Plymouth
Morrigan Mullen, Re-Write
Chris Salter, Artist, Hexagram; Department of Design and Computational 
Arts, Concordia University, Canada
Jennifer Sheridan, BigDog Interactive
Igor Stromajer, Artist, Slovenia
Bojana Kunst, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
Tony Thatcher, Choreographer, LABAN
Helen Varley Jamieson, Performer, New Zealand

For more information on INTIMACY please visit 
http://www.intimateperformance.org or contact 
intimacyrachelz at yahoo.co.uk or drp01mc at gold.ac.uk for full details of 
the call

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Maria Chatzichristodoulou [aka maria x] PhD Art and Computational Technologies  Goldsmiths Digital Studios skype: mariax_gr www.cybertheater.org