CFP: Collision: A Symposium on Interarts and Interdisciplinary Practices (5/27/05; 9/8/05-9/11/05)

COLLISION:
A SYMPOSIUM ON INTERARTS AND INTERDISCIPLINARY PRACTICES

Call for Papers, Performances and Creative Works

University of Victoria, BC, Canada
September 8th-11th, 2005

Submissions for papers and proposals for performances, installations and
other creative works are now being accepted for the COLLISION Symposium
to be held at the University of Victoria, BC, Canada from September
8-11, 2005.

It is often assumed that Interarts and Interdisciplinary creation
involves a seamless integration of two or more distinct artistic
practices, and ideally that these practices will easily fuse into a work
that can be viewed as an integrated whole. However, as artists who
attempt this fusion find, it is often far from easy to integrate
disparate media. For the Collisions Symposium we seek presentations and
artistic works that examine these difficulties, conflicts, rough seams,
uneven mixtures, and the debris and detritus resulting from artistic
collisions, as well as presentations that question how artists approach
these acts of integration/disintegration.

We are seeking proposals for conference-length papers and performances
that address the issues of Interarts creation/collaboration as a
collision between artistic elements and forms. For this symposium we
seek to create an atmosphere of interaction between academic discussion
and artistic presentation. Consequently, we also encourage presentations
that fall between the standard academic paper format, including
discussions your interarts/interdisciplinary practice,
lecture-performances, and creative works that engage critical
interaction. We welcome papers that examine theoretical concepts and/or
the development of artistic processes, as well as performances and
creative works from within the following areas:

Sound Art
Instrumental Theatre
Immersive Environments
New Music Theatre
Interactive Works
Visual Theatre
Live Art
Video/Visual Poetry
Dance Theatre
Performance Art
Intermedia
Experimental Theatre

We also welcome presentations that examine the following topics or
artists:

Fluxus
Dada
Happenings
Gesamtkunstwerk
Total Theatre
Sound Walks
Dramaturgy for Interarts/Interdisciplinary Creation
Collaborative Processes for Interarts/Interdisciplinary Creation
Directing Interarts/Interdisciplinary Creation
Pedagogy of Interarts/Interdisciplinary Creation
Heiner Goebbels
George Aperghis
John Cage
Robert Wilson
Pina Bausch
R. Murray Schaffer
Meredith Monk
Dieter Schnebel
Mauricio Kagel

For Paper Submissions (20-30 minute presentations), please forward an
abstract (.doc, .rtf format) of no more than 300 words to Dylan Robinson
at dylanr_at_uvic.ca

For Performances and Creative works please mail submissions to:

Dylan Robinson
Department of Visual Arts
University of Victoria
PO Box 1700 STN CSC
Victoria BC V8W 2Y2
CANADA

For Artistic works and Performances Please Include:

1. Documentation of the work including slides, video, DVD, or recordings

2. A short description of the work including requirements for the type
presentation space and length of the performance

Please note that we are only able to provide minimal technical support,
and no financial compensation for travel or transportation of materials.

DEADLINE FOR ALL SUBMISSIONS: May 27, 2005

Successful applicants will be notified of their acceptance in early June.

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