[csaa-forum] ADSA 09 call for papers: Boom & Bust!

[Jonathan MARSHALL]

CALL FOR PAPERS

 

Perth 30th June - 3rd July 2009

BOOM OR BUST!

ADSA annual conference

 

Throughout Western Australia, iron ore, bauxite and other minerals are
being mined and transported via ports, roads and railways to China,
India and other booming economies. As the Canadian environmental
photographer Edward Burtynsky recently observed, whenever one sees a
skyscraper, one can imagine somewhere a hole at least as big which has
furnished the raw materials for the building. The super-pit outside
Kalgoorlie is one such reciprocal cavity whose contents facilitate
constructions in distant lands and in Perth itself.

 

The Australasian Association for Theatre, Drama and Performance Studies
(ADSA) invites participants to metaphorically re-imagine the boom and
bust phenomena in cultural and aesthetic terms.

 

The interpretation of themes might include (but is not confined to) the
following issues: Economic exchange & power. Boom times. Bust times.
Cycles of growth & contraction. Form & flux. Scale. Time. Unrepeatable
performance. Distance & inversion. Acoustics.

 

Applicants should respond to the theme by March 31st 2009 in one of the
following ways:

 

a) submit an abstract of 300 words for an individual paper

b) submit a proposal for a themed panel

c) submit a proposal for a performance, performative presentation or
workshop

 

Further information &/or expressions of interest:

adsa09 at ecu.edu.au

www.adsa.edu.au

 

 




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