*Call for Proposals *
*Performance Studies international Annual Conference*
*PSi2020 Crises of Care: Act, Respond, Engage*
*Stream: Ends*
*July 7-11, 2020 – Rijeka, Croatia*
*Deadline for proposals: December 31, 2019*
The curators of the *Ends* stream at PSi2020 are pleased to announce that
the calls for proposals for PSi’s annual conference is now open. The theme
for the conference this year is *Crisis of Care: Act, Respond, Engage*.
*Ends* is one of the six interweaving streams of research (sort of
conferences-within-conference) that responds to contemporary issues. The
other five streams are: *Listening*; *Materiality and Corporeality*;
*Neighborhoods; **Editing, Curating, Publishing*; and, *Times of Power,
Historical Paradigms*.
You can read more about our stream on the website:
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The international curators of the *Ends* stream, Kristof van Baarle
(University of Antwerp, Belgium), Felipe Cervera (LASALLE College of the
Arts, Singapore), Rayya El Zein (Wesleyan University, USA), Kyoko Iwaki
(Waseda University, Japan) and Eero Laine (University at Buffalo State
University of New York, USA), are looking forward to receiving your
proposals.
Call for Proposals
Eventually, *all ends*. Ends are biological as much as they are political;
phenomenological as much as metaphysical; embodied as much as intangible.
Yet, in contrast to the omnipresence of narratives reflecting the ends of
the human, the planet, and democracy (among others), we find the ends
declared in dystopic, utopic, and other visions in between do not arrive.
Like Beckett’s Didi and Gogo, we are perpetually waiting, ending, but never
quite so. The ends have been unmoored from a chronological timeline and
have transformed into a chronic condition of mourning.
In performance studies and in contemporary performance practices,
theorists, and practitioners have explored the affective, aesthetic, and
political resonances of these ends in different ways. These approaches to
impending ends show a certain cyclicality and intellectual inclination
towards the hopes for a “post-” that is, in consequence, never quite *it*.
Although the ends are upon us together, they are always delayed, in the
durational now—both in the world and in the theory we produce. *Ends* proposes
to take the ends as multiple, as an ontological overlap of finitudes and to
develop collective epistemes of the end. This conference stream will
therefore experiment with distributed authorship and research as the
methodology for the ends. What is the performance theory of our ends? And
beyond, how might we push performance theories to consider the ends of
performance beyond the potency of the ephemeral and the production of
alternatives? What is performance (theory) as a means without ends?
*Ends* will be a stream committed to collective writing, shared knowledge,
and an intellectual commons. It is an attempt to reshape and overwrite
notions of singular authorship and creation that remain pervasive in
performance studies and affiliated disciplines, even as such ways of making
often sit in opposition to the political and artistic work to which we
aspire.
Rationale and Structure
The collaboration of *Ends* will extend beyond the local time of the PSi
conference. The curators of this stream plan to devise practices of
transindividual writing that work across either physical or digital
platforms to explore the processes of collective research and creation. In
their submissions, participants are asked to articulate a vision of ends
and express a willingness to work between the individual and the collective
author. Beginning in early 2020, stream curators will facilitate a process
that will culminate in shared writing, exchanges, and performance
installations during the PSi Conference in Rijeka.
During the conference, the stream will convene at the University of Rijeka
in the morning for panels, roundtables, workshops, and in person meetings
that stem from the work prior to the conference. Additional workshops and
discussions will take place during the early afternoon as part of the
conference-wide Intensive Care and Institutional Critique programs. In the
late afternoon, the stream will convene and use the stage, auditorium, and
boxes of the National Theatre of Croatia in Rijeka to put the ideas,
thoughts, and performances discussed into praxis. Members of the stream
will create and take part in the interactive performance installation,
which will evolve from the collective work leading up to the conference and
that will be open to all conference attendees. At the moment, the afternoon
session is still open to new ideas, and the members of the stream are
willing to collectively develop the precise format of the event in the
upcoming months.
Presentation Guidelines
We invite interested parties (individuals or collectives) to submit
proposals via the application form. Feel free to indicate a type of
presentation with the understanding that it may change through the
collaborative process.
In the brief biographical statement, please describe your (in)experience
with collaborative writing.
How to Apply
To submit a proposal for the stream *Ends, *please fill out the online
application form, which can be found here
<https://eur02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdocs.google.com%2Fforms%2Fd%2Fe%2F1FAIpQLSfZByKhAaxtRerzoyhEI6MznWU-QN4UeAbSa5GxSasOE48Y8Q%2Fviewform&data=02%7C01%7CGlenn.Odom%40ROEHAMPTON.AC.UK%7C6432def510264dfed42108d785a9546e%7C5fe650635c3747fbb4cce42659e607ed%7C0%7C1%7C637124834633862290&sdata=2%2B%2Bz0FXPVpaa6NaUgZSIj4ZLiF0SadL2dFzujeXXiS8%3D&reserved=0>
: https://eur02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fpsi2020rijeka.com%2Fconference%2Fapplication-form%2F&data=02%7C01%7CGlenn.Odom%40ROEHAMPTON.AC.UK%7C6432def510264dfed42108d785a9546e%7C5fe650635c3747fbb4cce42659e607ed%7C0%7C1%7C637124834633862290&sdata=AkPitemZjMO2y3M0usnruPm6y%2B%2Fg3EU4uazXhx5skYY%3D&reserved=0
Also provide an image or audio that complements or interacts with your
abstract—this might be of your own work as an artist or other material.
(This is a special requirement for this stream and should be sent directly
to the stream contact: endspsi2020@gmail.com)
*The deadline to submit a proposal is December 31, 2019.*
All other conference dates and deadlines can be found on the conference
timeline <https://eur02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fpsi2020rijeka.com%2Fconference%2Ftimeline%2F&data=02%7C01%7CGlenn.Odom%40ROEHAMPTON.AC.UK%7C6432def510264dfed42108d785a9546e%7C5fe650635c3747fbb4cce42659e607ed%7C0%7C1%7C637124834633862290&sdata=bIQEu1yvLTU7pcT1UtC6kd7mW3IgjfbtL4VNaKO3FI4%3D&reserved=0>.
Please direct any questions regarding your application to
endspsi2020@gmail.com
*Dr Felipe Cervera*
Lecturer
School of Dance and Theatre
Faculty of Performing Arts
1 McNally Street Singapore 187940
DID: 64965240