[ecrea] CfP: Bodily Extensions and Performance

/International Journal of Performance Arts and Digital Media/


*Special Issue Call for Papers:
Bodily Extensions and Performance (Avatars, Prosthetics, Cyborgs, 
Posthumans)*

Guest editors: Sita Popat and Sarah Whatley

*EXTENDED DEADLINE: 31st January 2017*
Full manuscripts should be submitted by email to (s.popat /at/ leeds.ac.uk) 
<mailto:(s.popat /at/ leeds.ac.uk)>
Publication: Autumn 2017 in Volume 13, Issue 2

The /International Journal of Performance Arts and Digital Media/ is 
seeking contributions for a special issue on Bodily Extensions and 
Performance.

Bodily extensions are becoming everyday occurrences for many people, 
e.g. contact lenses, digital avatars, prosthetic limbs. Bodily 
extensions attach to or connect with bodies to adjust, change, or 
augment them in physical or virtual spaces. We may use them ourselves, 
or see them in work-places, in social environments, at home, or in the 
media. They may be perceived as enabling tools or disabling features, 
and they may be incorporated into body image and implicated in social 
identity. They may be used by choice or by necessity, based on personal, 
social, or cultural expectations. They can be as hi-tech as a surgeon 
manipulating a device to operate remotely on a patient in another 
country, as media-hyped as a Paralympian athlete with running blades, or 
as low tech as a blind person using a stick. These technical practices 
may appear diverse at first glance, but they raise critical questions 
about the body that performance is well placed to investigate.

We are particularly interested in essays that examine cultural and 
political impacts of bodily extension in performance; experiences and 
perceptions of extended bodies for artists, performers and audiences; 
and ways in which performance theories and practices are questioning the 
boundaries of what it means to be a body.  What constitutes an extended 
body, and how are bodily extensions portrayed in performance?  Can 
extended bodies be considered as part-human, super-human, non-human, or 
post-human, and how does performance comment upon or interact with such 
categorisations?

We invite full essays of between 5,000 and 8,000 words that might 
consider (but are not limited to) the following topics:
- The politics of bodily extension in performance
- Cultural representations of extended bodies
- Ethics and bodily extensions in performance
- Bodies in cyborg performance
- Performing avatars as extended bodies
- Posthuman performance
- Designing the extended body for performance
- Prosthetics, disability, and performance
- Bodily extension and the performance of social identity
- Augmented bodies and superhumans in performance
- Choreographing for extended bodies
- Performing with bodily extensions
- Spectating extended bodies in performance

Essays should be formatted according to the Routledge journal style.

Please contact Sita Popat at (s.popat /at/ leeds.ac.uk) 
<mailto:(s.popat /at/ leeds.ac.uk)> if you have any queries.**



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