CALL FOR PROPOSALS

Performance Studies international (PSi) Artistic Research Working Group 2024

 

Online: 19 April and 3 May 2024

In-Person: 20 – 23 June 2024 (as part of PSi #29: Assemble)

 

The Performance Studies international (PSi) Artistic Research Working Group (ARWG) welcomes proposals for its 2024 gatherings as part of PSi #29: Assemble. The annual conference takes place 20 – 23 June 2024 at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, London, UK. The Artistic Research Working Group will hold two online sessions prior to the conference (19 April and 3 May) in addition to two in-person sessions in London at the time of the conference. We invite old and new members of PSi and the working group to join either or both of these assemblies.

 

As noted in the conference general CFP, “To assemble has multiple meanings: to gather in one place for a common purpose or to put together the parts of something … In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the climate crisis and global struggles for justice and recognition, we have to reconsider how to assemble, how to come together, to build, to imagine, to co-create in hostile conditions, and, conversely, what we need to disassemble, to take apart, to dismantle, to decenter, to unlearn.”

 

The ARWG invites artist-researchers from all corners of the globe to embrace this complex theme and join us for sessions that foreground interaction, participation and collaboration.

 

In-Person sessions will take advantage of the rich local artistic ecosystem and focus on opportunities for sharing with artists and artist-researchers from London and the surrounding area in the ARWG’s established format of the “Porous Studio.” (Details of these gatherings are still being put in place.)

 

Online sessions will follow the ARWG’s established “Perform/Respond” format, in which participants present/perform a current or recent artistic research project on the first day and then respond to another participant’s offering through their own practiceon the second day. The emphasis in this year’s iteration for both the initial presentations and the subsequent responses will be on opportunities for participation (including active physical participation) afforded by the offerings.

 

We invite proposals related to a current, recent or envisioned artistic research project, to be submitted by the deadline identified below. Selected participants will be invited to submit a more detailed project description accompanied by links to online support materials (video, audio, photos, text, etc.).

 

250 – 300 word proposals—as well as any questions about the process—should be sent to arwgPSi@gmail.com no later than 15 February 2024. 

 

Full submissions will be due 15 March 2024.

 

Annette Arlander / Bruce Barton / Joanna Householder

PSi Artistic Working Group Convenors