CFP: Body Politics in the Americas
The Hemispheric Institute and the Centro Cultural Recoleta are pleased to announce the upcoming
6th Encuentro
Corpolíticas / Body Politics in the Americas:
Formations of Race, Class and Gender
at the Centro Cultural Recoleta and the Teatro Empire
with the collaboration of Instituto Torcuato Di Tella
June 8-17, 2007
in Buenos Aires, Argentina
Encuentro 2007 Online Call and Application Form:
http://hemisphericinstitute.org/eng/seminar/2007/
Application Deadline: 15 December 2006
Our upcoming Encuentro in Buenos Aires will focus on body politics: the politics of the body, political bodies, bodies politic, and the relations between them. We are particularly interested in the formations of race, class, sexuality, ethnicity, and gender articulated through body politics in different eras, geographies and imaginaries in the Americas. We understand the body as a site of negotiation, discipline, and a means of expression and meaning. These issues will be clustered under four large umbrella topics that will be the point of departure for a range of performances, installations, exhibitions, roundtable discussions, workshops, lectures, and work groups: 1) Corpografías: bodies and the making of place (how have the politics of the body been enlisted in the production of political bodies?), 2) Corpodinamias: bodies and movement(s) (how does attention to the performing body help us understand political movements, the staging of power, the body politics of migration?), 3) Corpusterrorificus: bodies and terror (how can we understand the production of terror and the ways in which it produces terrifying/terrified, fearful/fearless bodies?), and 4) Corpoéticas: poetics and politics (what is the relation between aesthetic and ethical performance; what practices, theories, or models allow us to explore the politics and poetics of the body?). We invite a range of proposals, both individual and collective, that focus on issues that are contemporary and historical, local and translocal.
We invite artists, performers, academics and activists to propose performances, papers, performance-based scholarship (scholarship that attempts to enact what it describes), videos, installations, visual art exhibits, work group topics, activist projects, hacktivist or virtual actions, and other forms that bring together performance and politics in the Americas to participate in our upcoming Encuentro.
We are seeking groups or solo artists (theater / music / dance / installation / performance art / etc.) for all areas of our performance program, for both indoor and outdoor spaces: Feature-length (2 hours or less), Short (30 minutes or less), and Cabaret/Bar interventions ("after-hours"). We're calling for a wide range of performances, from traditional representations to hybrid and contestatory practices.
In terms of visual arts, this year we have wonderful spaces for exhibits and installations at the Centro Cultural Recoleta, which is a prime venue for modern arts in Buenos Aires. The Centro also has a small movie theater, which will give us the opportunity to screen films and videos by filmmakers throughout the event. These film and exhibit spaces will be open to the public, so we encourage artists to submit proposals to present their work during the Encuentro.
We are also calling for Work Group papers/projects related to the theme of Corpolíticas/Body Politics in the Americas: Performing Race, Class and Gender. Papers/Projects should be a maximum of 8-10 pages in length and must relate to the Encuentro's Work Group topics. Projects may include descriptions of artists'/activists' work. Successful applicants will receive acceptance letters by the end of January, and will appear in the official Encuentro program.
Participants will be chosen by application . Please go to the Online Encuentro Call to find out more details and to apply through our web form.
Application Deadline: 15 December 2006
6th Encuentro
Corpolíticas / Body Politics in the Americas:
Formations of Race, Class and Gender
at the Centro Cultural Recoleta and the Teatro Empire
with the collaboration of Instituto Torcuato Di Tella
June 8-17, 2007
in Buenos Aires, Argentina
Encuentro 2007 Online Call and Application Form:
http://hemisphericinstitute.org/eng/seminar/2007/
Application Deadline: 15 December 2006
Our upcoming Encuentro in Buenos Aires will focus on body politics: the politics of the body, political bodies, bodies politic, and the relations between them. We are particularly interested in the formations of race, class, sexuality, ethnicity, and gender articulated through body politics in different eras, geographies and imaginaries in the Americas. We understand the body as a site of negotiation, discipline, and a means of expression and meaning. These issues will be clustered under four large umbrella topics that will be the point of departure for a range of performances, installations, exhibitions, roundtable discussions, workshops, lectures, and work groups: 1) Corpografías: bodies and the making of place (how have the politics of the body been enlisted in the production of political bodies?), 2) Corpodinamias: bodies and movement(s) (how does attention to the performing body help us understand political movements, the staging of power, the body politics of migration?), 3) Corpusterrorificus: bodies and terror (how can we understand the production of terror and the ways in which it produces terrifying/terrified, fearful/fearless bodies?), and 4) Corpoéticas: poetics and politics (what is the relation between aesthetic and ethical performance; what practices, theories, or models allow us to explore the politics and poetics of the body?). We invite a range of proposals, both individual and collective, that focus on issues that are contemporary and historical, local and translocal.
We invite artists, performers, academics and activists to propose performances, papers, performance-based scholarship (scholarship that attempts to enact what it describes), videos, installations, visual art exhibits, work group topics, activist projects, hacktivist or virtual actions, and other forms that bring together performance and politics in the Americas to participate in our upcoming Encuentro.
We are seeking groups or solo artists (theater / music / dance / installation / performance art / etc.) for all areas of our performance program, for both indoor and outdoor spaces: Feature-length (2 hours or less), Short (30 minutes or less), and Cabaret/Bar interventions ("after-hours"). We're calling for a wide range of performances, from traditional representations to hybrid and contestatory practices.
In terms of visual arts, this year we have wonderful spaces for exhibits and installations at the Centro Cultural Recoleta, which is a prime venue for modern arts in Buenos Aires. The Centro also has a small movie theater, which will give us the opportunity to screen films and videos by filmmakers throughout the event. These film and exhibit spaces will be open to the public, so we encourage artists to submit proposals to present their work during the Encuentro.
We are also calling for Work Group papers/projects related to the theme of Corpolíticas/Body Politics in the Americas: Performing Race, Class and Gender. Papers/Projects should be a maximum of 8-10 pages in length and must relate to the Encuentro's Work Group topics. Projects may include descriptions of artists'/activists' work. Successful applicants will receive acceptance letters by the end of January, and will appear in the official Encuentro program.
Participants will be chosen by application . Please go to the Online Encuentro Call to find out more details and to apply through our web form.
Application Deadline: 15 December 2006
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