[ecrea] Call for Papers: Analogue-Digital-Postdigital Performance Practices

*Call for Papers:/ Analogue-Digital-Postdigital Performance Practices/*
*Performance and New Technologies Working Group at TaPRA *
University of Salford, 30th August to 1st September 2017

Drawing on notions such as the ‘off-internet’, ‘neo-analogue’, 
post-internet and postdigital, David Berry and Michael Dieter argue that 
we are shifting from ‘an earlier moment driven by an almost obsessive 
fascination and enthusiasm with new media to a broader set of 
affectations that now includes unease, fatigue, boredom and 
disillusionment’ (2015: 5). Matthew Causey uses the term ‘postdigital 
performance’ to discuss a shift to ‘a social system fully familiarized 
and embedded in electronic communications and virtual representations’, 
where the prefix, ‘post’ reflects ‘the overdetermined relations, 
circulations, and exchanges of those phenomena within the current 
condition’ (2016: 432). In this context, what does it mean to make 
performance, which deliberately engages with ‘new media’, in its 
creation and presentation? What is postdigital performance and is the 
idea of the postdigital a useful way of understanding shifts in current 
culture and practice?

Following on from the interim event ‘No Way Out: Theatre as a Mediatised 
Practice’, the aim of the 2017 call is to engage with the forms and 
intentions of current mediatised performance practices and how they 
might productively reflect and refract the norms of embedded digital 
practices. The Performance and New Technologies Working Group welcomes 
practice-based responses, provocations, lecture-demonstrations and 
papers, exploring and reflecting on the making of live performance in an 
era which could be termed ‘postdigital’. Proposals may respond to, but 
are not limited by, the following prompts:

‘Thinking digitally’ in performance through practice
The analogue and digital in performance
Asynchronicity and multidimensionality
The transmedial and trans-identities
Bugs and glitches, malware and hacking, copy and paste
The reality of the virtual in performance
Digital and postdigital performance practices
‘New media’ cultural approaches to ‘old media’
Current practice as research in digital and other mediatised 
performance-making
(drawn from Cramer 2015 and Causey 2016)
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Please email all abstracts (no more than 300 words in length), an 
additional few sentences of biographical information and precise details 
of the audio-visual technology you will need to make your presentation 
to Jem Kelly – (Jem.Kelly /at/ Bucks.ac.uk) <mailto:(Jem.Kelly /at/ Bucks.ac.uk)>, 
Christina Papagiannouli – (christina.papagiannouli /at/ southwales.ac.uk) 
<mailto:(christina.papagiannouli /at/ southwales.ac.uk)> and Jo Scott – 
(j.e.scott /at/ salford.ac.uk) <mailto:(j.e.scott /at/ salford.ac.uk)>.The deadline 
for the submission of proposals is *Thursday 13 April 2017*.

Proposals, if accepted, may be directed into a range of presentational 
formats, including traditional panels (with 20 minute papers), short 
provocations that can form the basis for wider discussion or 
performance-based panels. While we welcome statements of preference, 
final decisions will be made by the working group conveners and will be 
indicated at the time of acceptance. We welcome alternative, 
practice-as-research or performance-based proposals that engage with the 
theme, but these must be achievable with limited resources and within a 
20-30 minute time period. The Working Group also warmly welcomes 
participants who do not wish to present a paper this year.

*Please note:* only one proposal may be submitted for the TaPRA 2017 
Conference. It is not permitted to submit multiple proposals or submit 
the same proposal to several Calls for Papers. All presenters must be 
TaPRA members, i.e. registered for the conference; this includes 
presentations given by Skype or other media broadcast where the 
presenter may not physically attend the conference venue.


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