[ecrea] CFP: Spaces of Memory & Performance: Trauma, Affect, Displacement

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> Call for Papers
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> International Colloquium
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> Spaces of Memory & Performance: Trauma, Affect, Displacement
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> University of East London, Centre of Performing Arts Development (CPAD)
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> Date: 20-21 June 2014
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> Venue: University of East London, University Square.
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> Confirmed speakers: Claudia Fontes (visual artist), Lola Arias 
(theatre director), Vikki Bell (Goldsmiths), Anne Huffschmidt (Freie 
Universitat Berlin), Ananda Breed (UEL), Carl Lavery (University of 
Glasgow), Valentina Salvi (UNTREF), Patricia Violi (University of 
Bologna), Eve Katsouraki (UEL).
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> ‘Places are lost – destroyed, vacated, barred – but then there is 
some new place, and it is not the first, never can be the first.’ – 
Judith Butler
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> The aftermath of episodes of trauma and loss have traditionally given 
way to urban rituals and encounters with sites of public grieving. Even 
so, the emergence of disparate sites of trauma has not been enough 
addressed from a performative perspective. The very existence of the 
so-called ‘spaces of memory’ requests the reconfiguration of modes of 
engagement with the public space in the face of trauma and its 
performance. With this in mind, this two-day symposiumwill explore 
unconventional forms of intervention in performance and visual arts in a 
wide spectrum of geographical scenarios. The question that underlines 
the event is how to propitiate public pathways to engage with loss and 
trauma among expanded publics. While contesting processes of 
normalization of memory, the symposium seeks to discover embodied, 
ephemeral and unmarked spaces as sites of enchantment and public 
gathering. It also explores transitional and diasporic interventions 
that might envisage news forms of being together. The symposium is also 
an invitation to imagine the futurity of sites of memory and explore 
fictions that may transform the politics of spectatorship in the present.
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> Some of the key themes to be explored include:
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> - What is a ‘space of memory’?
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> - How innovative practices of intervention may awake a shared sense 
of ownership towards disparate traumatic pasts?
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> - How to investigate the affectivity of space in relation to memory 
and spectatorship?
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> - How sites of trauma become marked, unmarked, and displaced?
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> - Is it possible to encourage ways of ‘performing life’ within 
landscapes marked by loss?
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> - How disparate forms of theatre, performance and visual arts may 
contribute to 'work through' collective processes of suffering?
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> - Might bodies emerge as sites of public grieving?
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> - Might different forms of fiction help us to re-inhabit trauma in 
the present?
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> By rethinking the performativity of space and trauma, the symposium 
aims to generate a new and interdisciplinary dialogue among social 
sciences, visual arts, literature, theatre and performance.
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> We invite proposals (300 words) for 20 minutes papers & practical 
presentations, showings or shorter 10minprovocations/interventions from 
artists and curators, practitioners and scholars working at the 
crossroads of memory studies, performance, cultural studies, affect and 
trauma theory. Some thematic explorations may include:
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> - Urban space, memorialisation and landscapes
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> - The affectivity of the space and unconventional ways of relating to 
trauma
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> - Topographies and architectures of affect
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> - Post-traumatic spaces & performatives
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> - Sounds of trauma & haunted spaces
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> - Monuments, living memorials & bones
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> - Curation, empathy & care
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> - Ruins, future & potentiality
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> - Practises of reoccupation and ‘rehabilitation’ of space
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> - Abject spaces & body as site of trauma
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> - New museums, dark tourism
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> - The place of the perpetrators
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> - Transmission of trauma, vicarious and prosthetic memories
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> - Politics of reparation & spectatorship
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> Please send proposals to Cecilia Sosa (c.sosa /at/ uel.ac.uk) and Eve 
Katsouraki (e.katsouraki /at/ uel.ac.uk) by March 31st2014.
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> This research event has the support of the British Academy 
International Partnership and Mobility (IPM) SchemeProgramme 
‘Commemoration, New Audiences and Spaces of Memory in Latin America’s 
Southern Cone: Trans-cultural Dialogues in the Wake of Loss’. (PI: Dr. 
Cecilia Sosa, Postdoctoral researcher, School of Arts and Digital 
Industries, University of East London).










Eve Katsouraki

Acting Programme Leader BA Theatre Studies

Senior Lecturer, Theatre

School of Arts and Digital Industries

University of East London

University Square Stratford

1 Salway Road, London E15 1NF

(e.katsouraki /at/ uel.ac.uk)

http://performancephilosophy.ning.com/page/about

http://tapra.org/groups/theatre-performance-and-philosophy/


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