[ecrea] CfP: No Way Out - Theatre as Mediatised Practice

Call for Papers / Presentations

*/No Way Out: Theatre as a Mediatised Practice/*

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*TaPRA Performance & New Technologies Working Group Interim Event*

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20^th  April, Birkbeck College, University of London

21^st  April, London South Bank University (LSBU)

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*Call deadline: 24 February*

*Confirmed Keynote Speakers*

Prof. Matthew Causey (Trinity College) (20^th  April @ Birkbeck College) 
& Prof. Andy Lavender (Surrey) (21^st  April @ LSBU)

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*Book Launch & Wine Reception*

Launch of /Intermediality and Spectatorship in the Theatre Work of 
Robert Lepage: The Solo Shows /(Aristita I. Albacan, 2016). Wine 
reception and conversation with Professor Christopher Balme 
(Ludwig-Maximilians University Munich) (21^st  April, LSBU)

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Mediatisation – the increasingly pervasive influence of new media 
technologies in the form of social institutions and ideological 
apparatuses on society, culture and consciousness since the late 
twentieth century – has radically shaped our everyday lives and 
relationships. Mediatisation as a social and cognitive phenomenon has 
changed the way theatre and performance are produced, shaped, performed 
and perceived. This shift has led to a state where there is nothing left 
outside of mediatisation. Hence, we argue, all contemporary theatre and 
performance today is mediatised.//

The mediatised theatre and performance of the 21^st  century propose a 
practice, and offer ground for the development of a scholarship, in 
which ontological boundaries between media and performance, live and 
mediatised, analogue and digital, are no longer useful or even possible 
to consider. Mediatisation lies within the aesthetic and political 
[un]consciousness of the works, whichever form or manifestation those 
choose to take. It is, directly or implicitly, embedded within their 
architectures, dynamics, and processes; we might even argue that, in 
some ways, mediatisation /is/ the works.

This two-day event seeks to investigate the processes and practices of 
mediatised theatre and performance in the 21^st  century with a 
particular interest in such questions as: How does the mediatised 
theatre and performance of the 21^st  century engage with digital 
culture and labour as, partly, products of capitalist ideology and 
economy? Is there potential for resistance (in the wider understanding 
of the term) within theatre as a mediatised practice? Or, to use 
Stiegler’s analogy, can theatre and performance approach the digital as 
a /pharmakon/ in order to engender social ‘remedy’, opening up critical 
spaces for resistance and dissensus in contemporary neoliberal culture?

We invite submissions for research papers and presentations that explore 
theatre/performance as a mediatised practice. Submission can respond 
–but are not limited to – to the following areas of investigation:

-Aesthetics and politics of mediatisation in contemporary performance

-Forms and practices of resistance in contemporary performance

-Postdigital performance

-Alternative modes of writing for mediatised theatre

-Text and immateriality in mediatised theatre and performance

-Emerging critical mediaturgies

-New methodological approaches, and practice-as-research methodologies

-Mediatised performance as a response to ‘postpolitical’ times

-Spectatorship and structures of power in mediatised performance

-Digital (cheap) labour and performance

-Embodiment and materiality in mediatised performance

Submissions can include papers, practice-as-research presentations 
and/or demonstrations, sharing of work in progress, provocations and 
other scholarly interventions.

Please send 250 word abstracts along with a short biography (50 words 
max) to (m.chatzi /at/ lsbu.ac.uk) <mailto:(m.chatzi /at/ lsbu.ac.uk)> and 
(s.ilter /at/ bbk.ac.uk) <mailto:(s.ilter /at/ bbk.ac.uk)> by February 24, 2017. 
Please include full details of any technical and other requirements for 
presentations with your submission. The exact format and duration of the 
presentations will be decided as appropriate to the work in agreement 
with the event conveners.

The Interim Event is Organised and Convened by

Dr Maria Chatzichristodoulou (LSBU) & Dr Seda Ilter (Birkbeck)

The TaPRA Performance and New Technologies WG Conveners are:

Dr Jem Kelly, Dr Christina Papagiannouli, Dr Jo Scott

This TaPRA Interim event is supported by the School of Arts and Creative 
Industries and the Centre for Research in Digital Storymaking at London 
South Bank University; the Birkbeck Centre for Contemporary Theatre, 
Birkbeck Centre forTechnology and Publishing; Vasari Research Centre for 
Art and Technology (Birkbeck College, University of London); Birkbeck 
Interdisciplinary Research in Media and Culture (BIRMAC), and Department 
of English and Humanities (Birkbeck College, University of London).


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