[ANPPOM-L] Call: Extensions Journal: TempoRealities of Performance

[carlos palombini]

Extensions Journal Volume 4: TempoRealities of Performance
Call For Submissions

Extensions invites submissions for its forthcoming issue:  
TempoRealities of Performance. We welcome scholarly essays,  
experimental writing, interviews, reviews, media/Web-based art works/ 
projects, and documentation of music, dance, visual, sound, and  
performance art that interrogate the relationship of temporality to  
performance.

Time, particularly  "the present," has been configured as the  
ontological force field that grounds performance. Yet, the present as   
a temporal category, and presence as material proof of that time, is  
being challenged on many fronts. For example, how have the virtual  
stages of new media shifted definitional assumptions about presence  
and performance, and of what constitutes a performance event? How  
have the space-time compressions of globalized capital and travel  
suggested simultaneous and sometimes competing geo-temporalities? Do  
performance sites create/condition/presuppose their own temporality?  
How do archival technologies figuratively and literally mediate  
performance?

Submission topics might include but are not limited to:
Intersections of spatiality and temporality
Technology and the archive
Ephemerality and endurance of performance
Lingering presents/presence
Futurity and/or historicity
Memory
Recyclings and (re)imaginings of pasts, presents, and futures
Foucauldian technologies of performance
Tempo, rhythm and other measurements of time
Performativity of time: spectacular, messianic, queer, etc.


Extensions: The Online Journal of Embodiment and Technology is an  
annual Web journal produced by the graduate students of the UCLA  
Center for Performance Studies (www.performancestudies.ucla.edu).  
Extensions follows the Center's mission to  93engage performance at  
every front, to open and broaden the definition of performance and  
the texts that prompt them, to explore performance practices and test   
the ground on which they rest. 

Extensions is further dedicated to interrogating performance according to new logics of embodiment and technology, opening those terms to methods and objects of contemporary scholarly and artistic inquiry.

Submissions should be received/postmarked by August 1, 2007.
Essays should be sent to extensionsjournal em yahoo.com. Other files  
should be sent on CD or DVD to:

Extensions Journal c/o Harmony Bench
Glorya Kaufman Hall
120 Westwood Plaza, Suite 50 Box 951608
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1608 USA

Articles must be sent in full as MS Word documents and should follow  
MLA style. Images should be sent as .jpg files and video submitted in   
QuickTime. We are also happy to accept Flash (.swf) files. If  
applicable, please include a thumbnail image to accompany your  
submission. Inquiries regarding supportable file formats and other  
questions should be directed to extensionsjournal_at_yahoo.com.  
Extensions requires hardcopy media files and 50-word bios from all  
accepted contributors. Artistic submissions should include an  
original statement that elucidates, expands or reflects on a  
conceptual or technological aspect of the work.

Contributors will be notified of acceptance by October 15, 2007. Our  
anticipated launch date is May 1, 2008.

Extensions Volume 3: Interactivity and Kinesthetic Sense can be  
viewed at www.performancestudies.ucla.edu/extensionsjournal/ 


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