[ecrea] Cfp "Attention, Agency, Affect: In the Flow of Performing Audiences"

The Interdisciplinary Journal Anglistica Aion (Web Site: 
http://www.anglistica.unior.it/) is seeking contributions to a special 
issue on Attention, Agency, Affect: In the Flow of Performing Audiences



Since their controversial inception on the academic cultural stage of 
the last five decades, Performance Studies have always vindicated an 
inter-disciplinary or anti-disciplinary engagement with the liminal, 
interstitial and translational aspects of any politics of identity and 
culture, and thus marked a major shift from given products to 
provisional processes, from theoretic abstractions to living practices, 
stressing the centrality of the body, the everyday, and affect in every 
aspect of human activity. At the same time, as Marvin Carlson argues, 
performance as a central, even if contentious, metaphor for almost any 
form of contemporary critical discourse “implies not just doing or even 
re-doing, but a self-consciousness about doing and re-doing on the part 
of both performers and spectators” (2004) calling into question 
traditional interpretations of the ways in which ‘texts do things with 
words.’

Starting from these premises we welcome contributions that discuss the 
contested concept of ‘participation’ from an inter-disciplinary 
perspective, investigating how a critical focus on performance and 
performativity can help to reframe, revise and challenge existing 
notions of publics and audiences (both as spectators and as readers). 
Suggested topics include but are not limited to:

-  the impact of performing arts and relational models of spectatorship 
upon literary studies (how the notion of performance may help to reframe 
the analysis of self-conscious narrative as performing texts) with 
particular attention to digital literature;

      - the interstitial interplay – both creative and critical – 
between authorial textuality and performative event;

      - the relations between recently emerging participatory modes of 
spectatorship and other models of social and communal interaction in the 
dramatic context of glocalization;

      - the importance of orality, physicality and affect in the 
ongoing debate on participation;

      - the influences of audience reception theory, feminist and queer 
theory, cultural and postcolonial studies.



Please send abstract (300 words) to the Editors: C. Maria Laudando 
((cmlaudando /at/ unior.it)) and Anna Notaro ((a.z.notaro /at/ dundee.ac.uk))



Deadline for abstracts:  31 July 2013

Deadline for completed articles: 30 November 2013





Dr Anna Notaro

Programme Leader

Contemporary Media Theory
Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design. 13 Perth Rd.
University of Dundee

Dundee DD1 4HT (UK)

tel. +441382385654

fax ++441382226136

personal homepage: www.notarofam.com/annawork



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