[csaa-forum] CFP "Attention, Agency, Affect: In the Flow of Performing Audiences"

[Sarah Cefai]

Apologies for cross-posting.

Sarah

From:  Anna Notaro <A.Z.Notaro at DUNDEE.AC.UK>
Reply-To:  Anna Notaro <A.Z.Notaro at DUNDEE.AC.UK>
Date:  Saturday, 1 June 2013 10:37 PM
To:  <MECCSA at JISCMAIL.AC.UK>
Subject:  Cfp "Attention, Agency, Affect: In the Flow of Performing
Audiences"

The Interdisciplinary Journal Anglistica Aion (Web Site:
http://www.anglistica.unior.it/) is seeking contributions to a special issue
on Attention, Agency, Affect: In the Flow of Performing Audiences
 
Since their controversial inception on the academic cultural stage of the
last five decades, Performance Studies have always vindicated an
inter-disciplinary or anti-disciplinary engagement with the liminal,
interstitial and translational aspects of any politics of identity and
culture, and thus marked a major shift from given products to provisional
processes, from theoretic abstractions to living practices, stressing the
centrality of the body, the everyday, and affect in every aspect of human
activity. At the same time, as Marvin Carlson argues, performance as a
central, even if contentious, metaphor for almost any form of contemporary
critical discourse ³implies not just doing or even re-doing, but a
self-consciousness about doing and re-doing on the part of both performers
and spectators² (2004) calling into question traditional interpretations of
the ways in which Œtexts do things with words.¹
Starting from these premises we welcome contributions that discuss the
contested concept of Œparticipation¹ from an inter-disciplinary perspective,
investigating how a critical focus on performance and performativity can
help to reframe, revise and challenge existing notions of publics and
audiences (both as spectators and as readers). Suggested topics include but
are not limited to:
-  the impact of performing arts and relational models of spectatorship upon
literary studies (how the notion of performance may help to reframe the
analysis of self-conscious narrative as performing texts) with particular
attention to digital literature;
     -the interstitial interplay ­ both creative and critical ­ between
authorial textuality and performative event;
     -the relations between recently emerging participatory modes of
spectatorship and other models of social and communal interaction in the
dramatic context of glocalization;
     -the importance of orality, physicality and affect in the ongoing
debate on participation;
     -the influences of audience reception theory, feminist and queer
theory, cultural and postcolonial studies.
 
Please send abstract (300 words) to the Editors: C. Maria Laudando
(cmlaudando at unior.it) and Anna Notaro (a.z.notaro at dundee.ac.uk)
 
Deadline for abstracts: 31 July 2013
Deadline for completed articles: 30 November 2013
 
 

Dr Anna Notaro

Programme Leader

Contemporary Media Theory
Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design. 13 Perth Rd.
University of Dundee

Dundee DD1 4HT (UK)

tel. +441382385654

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personal homepage: www.notarofam.com/annawork
<http://www.notarofam.com/annawork>

 Twitter: @Notanna1

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