The Oceanic Performance Biennial is a newly established platform to explore, express and extend contemporary Pacific performance practice and thought. Combining visual, spatial, live and theatrical arts the event is unique in its linking of performance and ecology. Performance is engaged as a fluid trans-disciplinary tool to critique and reimagine cultural, social, political or geo-ontological ecologies of this region. The Biennial is a Performance Studies international Oceanic regional cluster event.
As an expanded field of flows, Oceania includes those countries and cultures on the ‘edge’ with Pacific Islands at its liquid ‘centre.’ Hosted by different island nations, the Biennial aims to build local capacity and develop Pacific performance and environmental networks. The inaugural event is planned for November 2013, to be held in Auckland, New Zealand: Isle& will focus on islands as sites of exchange and connection. The 2015 Biennial will be held in the Pacific, and will be linked with Performance Studies International’s dispersed global conference Fluid States.
The Oceanic Performance Biennial
LINK TO THE EASYCHAIR CONFERENCE SITE: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=opb13
Call for proposals [doc download]
Oceanic Performance Biennial: Isle& CALL for participants 2013 [pdf download]
OPB13 abstract_template [doc download]
OPB13-paper_template [doc download]
Status: Upcoming
Theme: indigenous ecologies
Type: Biennial
Year: 2013
