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Archaeology&Performance 2002 |Changes [Sep 08, 2008]
About Alessandra Lo...Performance Studies international's eleventh annual conference
Hosted by Brown University, Providence, RI March 30 through April 3, 2005.
A conference toward performance/studies: modes of thinking, physical methodologies, spatial thoughts, sound disturbances, and knowing bodies.
Curator: Yann-Pierre Montelle, Ph.D. Christchurch, New Zealand
Hidden behind the orthodoxy of the title is a symposium that will step out of performance studies’ recent trends and fads and provide fresh paradigms and uncharted directions. The primary objective for this symposium is to assemble scholars from a variety of disciplines who have all shown interest in the conjunction of archaeology and performance. The main concerns will be to define the field; to discuss the relevance of archaeological methodologies (e.g., fieldwork, excavation, contextualization, etc.) in the context of performance studies; and to question material culture as it is processed through the transformative mechanisms of performance.
The symposium will consist of a series of open sessions. The proceedings of these sessions will be assembled post-conference into an article that will be suggested/submitted to TDR (NYU). The basic format for this symposium will be as follow: For each session participants will gather in a multimedia room, and papers will be presented/discussed/critiqued/assessed. All the proceedings will be archived digitally and will be made available by the curator to all the conference participants post-conference on the web (following their publications). Each participant would be allocated 30 minutes to present his/her contribution—followed by discussions and brainstorming.
If interested, please contact the curator.
Thinkpiece for PSi 11.pdf