*CALL FOR PROPOSALS* *OCEANIC PERFORMANCE BIENNIAL * *2013 ISLE&: PERFORMANCE & ECOLOGICAL RELATIONALITY IN THE PACIFIC* November 22-24 2013, Wynyard Quarter, Auckland, New Zealand. We are now calling for proposals for the 2013 Oceanic Performance Biennial ISLE& that explores a range of live performances and installations, performative architectures and designs. All submissions should address the theme of /Isle&/. Submission of abstracts and performance proposals: Thursday 1 August 2013. Notification of acceptance: Monday 19 August 2013 Any queries please email us at [email protected] See our website emergentecologies.net/biennial/ * * /Oceania refers to a world of people connected to each other… anyone who has lived in our region and is committed to Oceania is an Oceanian… for us in Oceania, the sea defines us, what we are and have always been…. All of us in Oceania today, whether indigenous or otherwise, can truly assert that the sea is our single common heritage…. Contemplation of its vastness and majesty, its allurement and fickleness, its regularities and unpredictability, its shoals and depths, and its isolating and linking role in our histories, excites the imagination and kindles a sense of wonder, curiosity, and hope that could set us on journeys to explore new regions of creative enterprise that we have not dreamt of before… the sea is our pathway to each other and to everyone else, the sea is our endless saga, the sea is our most powerful metaphor, the ocean is in us./ Epeli Hau’ofa: /The Ocean in Us/ /In their individual journeys into the Void… artists… are explaining us to ourselves and creating a new Oceania. /Albert Wendt: / Towards A New Oceania/ The Oceanic Performance Biennial is a newly established platform to explore, express and extend contemporary Pacific performance practice and thought. Combining visual, spatial, live and theatrical arts, the event also links performance and ecological themes and practices. Performance is engaged as a fluid multi-modal tool to critique and re-imagine cultural, social, political or ontological ecologies of this region. The Biennial is a Performance Studies international Oceanic regional cluster event. As an expanded field of flows, Oceania includes those countries and cultures on the ‘edge’ as well as the Pacific Islands at its liquid ‘centre.’ Hosted by different island nations, the Biennale aims to build local capacity and develop Pacific performance and environmental networks. The inaugural event is planned for November 2013, to be held in Auckland, New Zealand: /Isle&/ will focus on islands as sites of exchange and connection. The subsequent 2015 Biennial will be held in the Pacific, and will be linked with Performance Studies international’s dispersed global conference Fluid States. * * *2013 ISLE&: PERFORMANCE & ECOLOGICAL RELATIONALITY IN THE PACIFIC* * * /So vast, so fabulously varied a scatter of islands, nations, cultures, mythologies and myths, so dazzling a creature, Oceania deserves more than an attempt at mundane fact; only the imagination in free flight can hope—if not to contain her—to grasp some of her shape, plumage, and pain./ Albert Wendt: /Toward a New Oceania/ The Oceanic Pacific is a fluid continent assembled as a constellation of islands. This Oceanic is constantly in flux, as diverse and differentiated as its 25,000 islands, and as extensive and cohesive as Te Moana Nui a Kiwa: the vast connecting ocean. The structuring binaries of Western thought—represented by /or/, this /or /that, islands /or/ sea—often establish islands as isolates: sites of exile that are /dis-/connected by the ocean. Pacific thought however may be characterized in relation to /and/, where islands /and/ sea are interrelated entities that form a nodal network and space of interstitial flows. Islands are understood here as additive, connective and relational conditions and sites of exchange: an agential relationality signaled through the doubled “and” of the ampersand “&” (indicating intimacy, cooperation and alliance). Thus /Isle&/ explores the ecologies—cultural, political, economic, biotic/abiotic—of Oceania and asks, through contemporary performance practices, how do you relate to your Oceanic world? In this inaugural Oceanic Performance Biennial we explore: /Isle&s /of practice (customary and contemporary); /Isle&s/ of thought (Oceanic and Western); /Isle&s/ of cultures (Oceanic, European and Asian); /Isle&s/ of disciplines (performance studies and design, architecture, performing and visual arts); /Isle&s/ of modalities (performances, installations, panels and papers] and /Isle&/ topographies or analogies. *PERFORMANCE PROGRAMME:* Submit an abstract for performance, installation, &/or event proposals: Where it applies, please advise in an attachment on: site, duration, timeline, technical requirements, installation & de-installation, and how the performance event or installation will be ‘staged’ and funded. The Biennale organisers will work with artists/designers to attain any necessary Wynyard Quarter site permissions. Registration – all should register for the Biennale. *2-DAY SYMPOSIUM:* *Submit an abstract *for double-blind peer review [papers/panels & round tables/korero/virtual. *All submissions should be by the Easychair conference system: * Please use our Abstract template at emergentecologies.net/biennial/ . Abstracts should be in Word doc format (.doc). Any extra material can be uploaded as an attachment in Easychair (formats: .pdf /.doc /.zip /.mpeg /.avi /.mp4 /.mov /.wav /.mp3 etc). Please note Easychair submissions are limited to 20MB. If your files exceed this please include a URL to your creative work in the attachment. *Full papers:* these may also be submitted along with an abstract or subsequent to acceptance of abstract—both will be peer-reviewed. Papers will have 20-minute presentation slots within the symposium event with round-table discussion thereafter. More informal methods of presentation are encouraged. * * *Short Talks:* short presentations (20 slides, 20 seconds each) may be proposed. Include a description of around 200-300 words and a short bio of 50-100 words with contact information and affiliation. *Panels / round tables*: round table discussions may be proposed. Include an abstract of around 500-1000 words that outlines the Isle& theme, and the individual papers for panels; a short bio of 50-100 words with affiliations of each of the participants and chair/moderator; and contact information for the organizer/s. Panels and round table discussions will have 90 or 120 minute time slots within the symposium event. *Virtual:* online presentations or digital installations will be considered for inclusion in the event program. *Publication:* after the event selected full papers and short papers on performances, panels or round tables will be invited to submit for inclusion in a Journal special issue. These will be subject to double-blind peer review.
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