CFP: Transversalities: Crossing Disciplines, Cultures and Identities (UK) (4/29/05; 9/16/05-9/18/05)

CALL FOR PAPERS

TRANSVERSALITIES:
CROSSING DISCIPLINES, CULTURES AND IDENTITIES

Departments of Film, Theatre & Television and Fine Art, University of
Reading.

Keynote speaker Phillip Auslander (author of Liveness)

"rather than the diagonal, one should have to speak of the transversal:
everything that takes the subject in all the sense of the word from an odd
angle, and traverses it. Instead of interdisciplinarity, I would speak of
transdisciplinarity, placing the accent on the trans- - or better yet, on
transit, on translation, or even on trance, but not on transcendence"(Hubert
Damisch)

Transversality describes the key impulse in recent artistic practice in
which dance, film, music, theatre, painting, sculpture, performance,
television, text, theatre, video have all contested the boundaries of their
disciplines and their relations with each other in playful and controversial
ways. Transversality across cultural and academic contexts enables creative
and productive dynamic exchanges. Fine Art and Film, Theatre & Television
at Reading are co-hosting a three-day conference and inviting contributions
from across the humanities to ask four key questions:

 What are the histories of transversality in the arts?
 How does political agency figure in transversal work?
 How might identity formations be deconstructed by transversing
disciplines, cultures and artistic practices?
 What are the effects of transversing the actual and the virtual?

We welcome 300 word abstracts for papers and performances in one of the
following formats:
 20 minute plenary papers to be presented in chaired panel sessions
 Demonstrations, performances, screenings or installations which can be
presented as part of the conference proceedings.
 2 hour workshops in which a limited number of participants (maximum 15)
will work with the practitioner proposing the workshop.
 Seminar sessions where pre-circulated academic papers will be debated.
Proposals for seminars should address one of the following topics:
o camp as cultural strategy;
o action and image, image and text;
o cross cultural performativity.

Conference date: 16-18 September 2005.
Venue: Bulmershe Court, University of Reading.
Submission Deadline: Friday 29 April, 2005.
Email abstracts and queries to: Lib Taylor l.j.taylor_at_reading.ac.uk (Film,
Theatre & Television) or Roger Cook r.j.r.cook_at_reading.ac.uk (Fine Art)

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