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Call for Papers, Panels, Posters, Artists Talks, Lecture Demonstrations,
Performances, Artworks, and Participation in the 2018 annual symposium of the
Gesellschaft für Tanzforschung,
October 5-7, 2018, in Karlsruhe, Germany.
Tanz der Dinge / Things that dance
The current wave of new materialisms has brought attention to things that move
or are moved, “vibrant matter,” objects, physical phenomena, machinic or
animated agents and assemblages, the labor of apparatuses and intra-actions
between human and nonhuman forces – passages in the “political ecology of
experience” that link new dance philosophies (Erin Manning/Brian Massumi’s
Thought in the Act) with choreographic, theatrical, sonic and media
installation practices, and recurrent interests in hybrid material performance
and puppetry with political theories (Jane Bennett’s Vibrant Matter: A
Political Ecology of Things), ethnographic and social science studies, as well
as postcolonial and critical race theories (on the materiality of liquid
blackness, for example, and historically specific and located sensorial
experience and affect).
Materiality and myth in dance are subject to a shift in meaning which
privileges "epistemic things" (Hans-Jörg Rheinberger, Experimentalsysteme und
epistemische Dinge, 2006): before the object is charged with meaning, the inner
dynamics of matter defines a new focal point for performance aesthetics. Object
oriented, immanent philosophies of art and performance are part of this
pressing concern with materials, plasticities, the lives and deaths of entities
formerly known as passive objects, inanimate things, inert matter. The
synthesis of sound, rhythm, movement and materiality returns us to a
conception of choreography that recover collective, symbiotic creativity of
ritual dances.
Along with the traditional morphology of objects to dance and musical
instruments
the examination of danced things and choreographic / musical repurposed objects
moves on to factors of artificial intelligence and sensor technologies in
current dance aesthetics. Contemporary questions about the agency of objects
and the forces of materialization have increasingly blurred the borders
modernity had erected between the animate and the inanimate.
Reviewing current dance research and publications intensifies the impression of
a vibrant neomaterial / epistemic turn, a “call of things” in dance which in
turn calls for critical reflection. The symposium addresses vibrant matter and
lively materials, reconfigurations of human and inhuman forces, social
choreographies and choreographjc objects, animatedness and the agencies of
assemblages as a means of thinking about performance experiences and movement
potentials across a range of interdisciplinary practices and theoretical
discourses.
Deadline of submission: 15 March 2018. Please send original proposals
(abstracts, 500 words max, please include a short CV) to the curators:
Prof. Johannes Birringer &
Dr. Josephine Fenger.
Contact: johannes.birringer@xxxxxxxxxxxx /
josephinefenger@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx.