Call For Papers

Australasian Association for Theatre, Drama and Performance Studies (ADSA) 2007 Annual Conference

hosted by -
The University of Melbourne, School of Creative Arts and La Trobe University,School of Communications, Arts and Critical Enquiry.

Melbourne 3-6 July 2007

EXTREME STATES: Issues of Scale—political, performative, emotional

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The 2007 ADSA conference calls for papers, panels, presentations and other relevant contributions on the theme of Extreme States: Issues of Scale—political, performative, emotional

While the conditions of fundamentalism and various other ideological essentialisms are intrinsic to our present condition, resistances through arts communities and social spaces take various forms of extremity. Actions range from the apocalyptic, gigantic, and presentational to a more intimate sense of sharing evident in the recent hybrid theatre of bodies, text and little stories.

This conference seeks to address the creative and political possibilities and problematics of extreme states, large and small. We invite proposals for contributions on the following topics and/or related themes:
• Fundamentalist acts
• Performance and/as ideology
• The politics of presentation and the presentation of politics
• The performance of consensus
• The multitude in extremis

• Torture

• Aesthetic extremities – “big and little”
• Disciplining the actor: methods of training
• The topology of emotions
• Uses and abuses of emotions
• Social worker as artist and vice versa

• The art of lying

• The rise of “small” theatre
• The small as a political gesture
• The ‘personal is the political’ made strange
• The return of Theatre

• Faith

• The significance of the incidental gesture
• The possibilities of extension
• The reaching body – extension/hyper-extension

• Theatre and revolution

Contributors are encouraged to propose working groups, curated panels or individual papers.

Please submit proposals and abstracts up to 300 words by email:

adsa2007-conference@unimelb.edu.au

by 31st March 2007

Presenters will be notified by 11th May 2007. The program will be published by end of May 2007.

Conference Convenors:

Dr. Peter Eckersall, School of Creative Arts, University of Melbourne (eckersal@unimelb.edu.au)
Ms. Meredith Rogers, School of Communications, Arts and Critical Enquiry, La Trobe University (m.rogers@latrobe.edu.au)

Keynote Speakers:

Una Chaudhuri, Professor of English and Drama at New York University.  

Michael Eigtved, Associate Professor at Department of Theatre at University of Copenhagen, Denmark.

Marianne Van Kerkhoven, Dance and theatre dramaturge in Belgium, Kaaitheater, Brussels.

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