CALL FOR PROPOSALS
Performance Studies
international #23 / Hamburg, Germany / 8 – 11 June 2017
Excess and Abundance of Artistic Research
A project of the Artistic Research Working Group of PSi
Inspired by the announced theme for PSi #23 – “OverFlow” – the Artistic
Research Working Group proposes to build upon but also exceed the ambitious but
contained model of the “Porous Studio,” its established practice over the past
several conferences. An open invitation to PSi member artists and local
practitioners from the shifting conference locations, the Porous Studio has
always been seen as a space of intermixing, contamination, and multiplicity. For
2017 we propose overflowing the fixed spatial and temporal zones of PSi #23
through extended sessions in Hamburg and pre- and post-conference online (and,
potentially, actual) exchange and collaboration via the international Research
Catalogue database (https://www.researchcatalogue.net/portal).
Artistic Research is meant as an umbrella concept
that includes a range of approaches that use art, creative practice or
performance as a primary means and method of inquiry. These include the
distinct approaches 'performance as research' (PaR), 'practice-based research'
(PBR), ‘practice-led research, ‘creative arts research’, 'research-creation',
'arts-based research', and numerous other associated practices. In many cases,
the subject of study is artistic practice itself, as in 'artistic inquiry’. In
others, creative practice is used as a way of investigating non-artistic (or
not exclusively artistic) subjects. Our aim is to invite a broad spectrum of
these approaches, drawn from within and beyond academic and institutional
contexts, to reflect the diverse and vital overflow of orientations, perspectives,
and approaches to research in contemporary art. Through presentations,
performances, articulations and conversation, we aim to showcase vital examples
of this activity internationally, and to expand our collective horizons through
the sharing of knowledge(s) and experience(s).
The Artistic Research Working Group invites
proposals from past, current, and prospective members. Participation can take one of two forms:
- Ten-minute reports of on-going artistic investigations or artistic research projects, presented onsite in Hamburg and augmented by material shared online in advance of the presentation.
- Thirty-minute project presentations or participatory workshops, performances or events, conducted onsite in Hamburg and augmented by material shared online in advance of the event.
All contributors will be invited to register on the Research Catalogue
and establish an individual page on the Artistic Research Working Group site
within the database. This will be a closed forum for exchange prior to and
following the conference, and we can explore the option of publishing some
materials after the gathering as a form of public conference proceedings. Members
who will not be able to attend in Hamburg can also submit online presentations
or contributions that will be uploaded on the Research Catalogue and shared
with the other WG members on an on-going basis.
The theme of “OverFlow” will be served by the very diversity of our collected
approaches, but members may also choose to address it directly through some
aspect of their conference participation.
All proposals should contain the following:
- participant’s name;
- title of contribution;
- type of contribution (i.e., which of the three above categories);
- institutional affiliation (if applicable);
- a 150 word description of the project/activity being showcased;
- any technical or production requirements.
Please send proposals by 15 October
2016 to
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