April 27 – May 10, 2015
Long Island, The Bahamas
a regional cluster for the FLUID STATES globally dispersed conference Performance Studies International (PSi) #21
The PlayGround NZ in partnership with Suunto Vertical Blue 2015
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Applications are now open for participation in the Deep Anatomy cluster in the Fluid States globally dispersed conference for Performance Studies International #21/2015.
SUMMARY
This cluster uses the unique geography of Long Island (The Bahamas) and the Vertical Blue freediving championship ('the Wimbledon of Free-diving', NY Times) as a site for provocative intersections between the local community, freedivers, and performance studies academics. The programme and curation of the event examines performance and freediving as integrated processes: where action and intellect combine, and a 'deep anatomy' occurs. This key theme applies Richard Sennet’s discussions on craft to the work of the athlete and the artist, where a physical act or process is invested with deep ethical values through material consciousness and care-full action.
PROPOSALS
Applications are welcomed that respond to the concepts, and structure of the event: a format that reconsiders academic modes of presentation in order to embrace the specifics of place, cultures, and disciplines involved. In this way the ‘Incursion’ is proposed as a model of interaction and presentation for all proposals, defined as “a research process located within the given terrain that resists touristic/aesthetic preoccupations to dialogue with the space and its cultures through conversation, action, inter-action, presentation, construction, demonstration, exploration, and performance”. Proposals can be for 14 days, 8 days, or 5 days, (see Phases outlined below) engaging with either the local community, the ecology and landscape of the island, or the freediving sport. In the final 'Deep Anatomy Symposium' dialogues and findings from the various incursions will be shared amongst all participants. A peer-reviewed publication of the Performance Research journal (provisionally titled 'On Sea, At Sea', Issue 21.2) will aim to publish some of these dialogues, processes, and outcomes developed in Deep Anatomy.
SUBMITTING YOUR PROPOSAL
1. Name / Proposal Title / Duration of participation (14 days, 8 days, or 5 days) / Affiliations
2. Proposal 500 words, introducing and describing the contribution you would like to make to
the Deep Anatomy project, as described above and on Page 4.
3. Biography 200 words, outlining relevant research interests and outputs.
4. 4 images at 1MB maximum each, for the proposed work, previous works/projects, and/or
relevant precedents and reference material.
5. Multimedia (optional) links to Youtube, Vimeo, or WeTransfer files.
Where: theplaygroundnz@gmail.com
When: applications close September 12, 2014
Notification of selection will be sent out by: October 3 2014
Registration will open from February 2015 on www.theplaygroundnz.com
