journeys - performances - exhibitions - symposium
17 September to 31 October 2015, Melbourne
www.performingmobilities.net
CALL FOR PROPOSALS
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P-E-R-F-O-R-M-I-N-G M-O-B-I-L-I-T-I-E-S is the Australian regional cluster contribution to Fluid States (www.fluidstates.org), a networked, year-long program initiated by Performance Studies international (PSi). Over 2015, fourteen regional performance gatherings will be staged in diverse global locations in order to rethink performance ideas and practices in terms of shifting geopolitical and socio-political realities.
P-E-R-F-O-R-M-I-N-G M-O-B-I-L-I-T-I-E-S explores how contemporary life in Australia, the world’s largest island continent, is framed by borders whilst constantly being reconstructed through dynamic processes of mobility. The project seeks to creatively and critically explore forms, forces, dynamics, meanings and consequences of performing mobility through a program of new experimental work. It proceeds from a series of journey-based projects throughout Australia over 2015, via a mobile performance program and gallery exhibitions, towards a symposium in Melbourne in October 2015. Proposals are invited from artists, makers, writers and researchers for journeying projects and creative works for the performance and exhibition program, and contributions to a 3-day symposium. Cross-form and interdisciplinary creative projects and performances, temporary interventions, performative presentations and academic papers are sought which combine artistic research and critical reflection to investigate intersections of mobility and performance that are of specific relevance in Australia whilst being globally resonant.
mobile performance and gallery exhibition program
17 September to 31 October 2015
RMIT Gallery + Margaret Lawrence VCA Gallery + Melbourne environs
symposium: passages and traces performing mobilities
9-11 October 2015 / RMIT University + venues of Melbourne
CALL FOR CREATIVE PROJECTS Proposals for journey projects, mobile performances, creative works and research presentations are invited that will make a compelling contribution to one or more of the Performing Mobilities programs: a six-week gallery exposition program tracing journey-based projects performing mobility in Australia over 2015; a coinciding mobile performance program in and around the gallery expositions and Melbourne’s environs; a three-day symposium presentation and performance event in Melbourne. Proposals selected by the curatorial team will be offered an artist’s fee.
Project Proposals closing date: 31 October 2014.
Accepted proposals announced: December 2014.
CALL FOR SYMPOSIUM PRESENTATIONS AND PERFORMANCES Academic papers, performative presentations and performances are invited. Abstracts of proposals will be peer reviewed. Selected papers will be invited to be developed for publication in a special edition of the Australasian Drama Studies journal in 2016 and/or an edited volume reflecting upon the Performing Mobilities project.
Symposium Proposals closing date: 19 December 2014.
Accepted proposals announced: March 2015.
RESIDENCE IN MOBILITY with a journey project: A number of journey-based projects throughout 2015 will invite artists, writers, makers and academics to undertake a participatory role. Details of mobile residency opportunities will be announced on the project website in December 2014.
VISITING CORRESPONDENT: Each Fluid States cluster invites members of the PSi international community to act as visiting correspondents to ‘log’ online posts and publications to the Fluid States website. Go to www.fluidstates.org to express interest in corresponding from the Performing Mobilities Australian cluster.
PERFORMANCE STUDIES INTERNATIONAL (PSi) is a professional association founded in 1997 to promote communication and exchange among artists, thinkers, activists and academics working in the field of performance. This is a dynamic field of encounters rather than a discipline grounded in one particular methodology or tradition: http://www.psi-web.org
PERFORMING MOBILITIES NETWORK is an unincorporated association producing the project. The network aims to further creative practice and research exploring intersections of performance and mobility by generating projects, events and forums.
Enquiries: info@performingmobilities.net
