[eccr] CFP: Transversality conference

>CALL FOR PAPERS
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>Transversalities:
>crossing disciplines, cultures and identities
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>Departments of Film, Theatre & Television and Fine Art, University of
>Reading.
>
>Keynote speaker Phillip Auslander (author of Liveness)
>
>rather than the diagonal, one should have to speak of the transversal:
>everything that takes the subject ­ in all the sense of the word ­ from
>an odd angle, and traverses it. Instead of interdisciplinarity, I would
>speak of transdisciplinarity, placing the accent on the trans- - or better
>yet, on transit, on translation, or even on trance, but not on
>transcendence (Hubert Damisch)
>
>Transversality describes the key impulse in recent artistic practice in
>which dance, film, music, theatre, painting, sculpture, performance,
>television, text, theatre, video have all contested the boundaries of
>their disciplines and their relations with each other in playful and
>controversial ways. Transversality across cultural and academic
>contexts enables creative and productive dynamic exchanges.  Fine
>Art and Film, Theatre & Television at Reading are co-hosting a three-
>day conference and inviting contributions from across the humanities
>to ask four  key questions:
>
>What are the histories of transversality in the arts?
>How does political agency figure in transversal work?
>How might identity formations be deconstructed by transversing
>disciplines, cultures and artistic practices?
>What are the effects of transversing the actual and the virtual?
>
>We welcome 300 word abstracts for papers and performances in one
>of the following formats:
>20 minute plenary papers to be presented in chaired panel sessions
>Demonstrations, performances, screenings or installations which can
>be presented as part of the conference proceedings.
>2 hour workshops in which a limited number of participants
>(maximum 15) will work with the practitioner proposing the workshop.
>
>Seminar sessions where pre-circulated academic papers will be
>debated.  Proposals for seminars should address one of the
>following topics:
>camp as cultural strategy;
>action and image, image and text;
>cross cultural performativity.
>
>Conference date: 16-18 September 2005.
>Venue: Bulmershe Court, University of Reading.
>Submission Deadline: Friday 29 April, 2005.
>Email abstracts and queries to: Lib Taylor, (l.j.taylor /at/ reading.ac.uk)
>(Film, Theatre & Television) or Roger Cook, (r.j.r.cook /at/ reading.ac.uk)
>(Fine Art).

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