PSi Digest 34 (July 2008)

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URGENT PSi #14 and PSi #15 Announcements (1-2)

1. From PSi #14 in Copenhagen 2. From PSi #15 in Zagreb

1. From PSi #14 in Copenhagen

Interregnum: In Between States
News from the organising team, late June 2008

REGISTRATION
Please note that all speakers and performers need to register and pay for the conference before August 15, 2008. You can pay on-line or through bank transfer at the website www.interregnum.dk, under the menu “Registration”. It is NOT possible to register and pay at the conference site.

PROGRAMME
The Interregnum organising team has been working on the programme, which is now available in different formats on the conference website www.interregnum.dk. Details and revisions will appear continuously until the conference begins, so keep yourself updated by checking the site regularly.

So far, more than 350 persons from more than 25 countries are scheduled to speak or perform at the conference. Most abstracts and performance descriptions are available on the website – just click on the individual names or titles, and a pdf file will open with detailed text.

If your own is missing, please send us material for upload to info@interregnum.dk
Note that the organising team will be on summer vacation during parts of July, so be prepared for some delay in our response.

CHILDCARE AT THE CONFERENCE
We are working on setting up a kind of childcare facility at the conference where children can be looked after for a couple of hours while their parents join a panel. If you think this could be of interest for you, please send a mail to info@interregnum.dk.

EVENTS
Apart from the presentations and performances in the regular programme, a number of special events will take place:

The highly acclaimed performance duo SIGNA will present their performance installation entitled “The 11th Knife” on the grounds of the conference site; this installation will be open 24 hours from Wednesday August 20 afternoon until Saturday August 23, midnight. Conference participants can visit the site anytime and be part of a ongoing performance. Sunday morning SIGNA will be present for an Artist Talk and talk about past and present works.

The Pioneer Panels Program presents a series of talks with seminal artists and curators from the early Danish scene of Performance Art, Experimental Theatre, Body Art, Actions, Happenings and Events. All of the ‘pioneers’ presented in the program are still active but produced groundbreaking works in the late 1960s, the 1970s and the 1980s. The Pioneer Panels presents and discusses such early events and works, addressing questions concerning art historical context, public reception and institutional support of these works and contributions. Among the Pioneers attending are Kirsten Dehlholm (Hotel Pro Forma), Kirsten Justesen, Trevor Davis, Eric Andersen, and Bjoern Noergaard.

A bus excursion right after the lunch break Friday August 22 will take a limited number of conference participants to Roskilde, about 40 minutes bus ride from the conference site. The bus will first stop at Roskilde University, where the  panel “Poetry – Music - Score” will take place, followed by a reception including a light meal. The bus will then visit Museum of Contemporary Art, Roskilde, to get a special introduction to the exhibition “Fluxus Scores and Instructions. The Transformative Years. ’Make a salad.’ Selections from the Gilbert and Lila Silverman Fluxus Collection, Detroit”. The bus will return to Copenhagen around 23:00, as close to participants’ hotels as possible. A limited amount of tickets for the excursion will be available at the conference Intersection at a first-come-first-serve basis.

These and many more events will be announced on the website www.interregnum.dk

INTERREGNUM BULLETIN BOARD
NOTICE 1:

All Dear,

My name is Kinga Araya. I am a Canadian artist and scholar, currently based in Berlin, Germany. I will be one of the speakers at the upcoming psi#14 Conference. I would greatly appreciate if anyone in Copenhagen, or on this list, could help me with the following:

1.To find an affordable accommodation in Copenhagen (how does university guest services work on campus?) 2.Will be willing to share a room with me in a hotel nearby the University – I arrive to Copenhagen in the evening of August 19 and leave on 24th

I will be very grateful and will certainly return your favour!

Thanks for your help,
Kinga Araya
www.kingaaraya.com
ka@kingaaraya.com

If you have a notice or a request concerning the forthcoming Interregnum conference in Copenhagen that you wish to share with others conference participants, please send an e-mail with a short text and your contact information to info@interregnum.dk . We will publish your notice in the next newsletter, which will come out end of July/beginning of August.

hyPERFORM

hyPerform.dk featuring PassingByTheatre
Random Reality
June 4th – July 2nd 2008
Curator Karen Toftegaard/AirPlay

hyPerform.dk is pleased to launch Random Reality an exhibition curated by the art association AirPlay presenting the Danish performance group PassingByTheatre with two video documentations.

PassingbyTheatre actions challenge the framings for how and where theatre can be experienced. It could be seen as theatres version of Street Art. The works are conceptual living pictures and are to be experienced as a free theatre- and art event in public realm.

AirPlay was founded in 2006 as a Copenhagen based outdoor gallery, which presents digital and performative art in the urban public realm. AirPlay will present an event at the conference Thursday evening after the dinner, and there will be events in the city of Copenhagen related to the Interregnum conference.

hyPerform is an online Internet gallery associated the Performance Studies international conference PSi # 14 INTERREGNUM: In Between States.
Be sure to visit hyPerform, the Interregnum web gallery, at www.hyperform.dk

On behalf of the organising committee
Gunhild Borggreen

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2. From PSi #15 in Zagreb

Dear friends and colleagues,

The web site of the 2009 Performance Studies international
conference # 15 in Zagreb is now up and running. Calls for papers, panels and shift proposals have also been released.

Visit us at:
www.psi15.com

The fifteenth PSi conference MISPERFORMANCE: Misfiring, Misfitting, Misreading will take place in Zagreb, Croatia, June 24 – 28 2009. It is being hosted by the Centre for Drama Art as principal organizer, in collaboration with several other research and cultural institutions: the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences and the Academy of Drama Arts of the University of Zagreb, Teatar &TD and the Zagreb University Student Centre, alongside the Institute of Ethnology and Folklore Research.
The aim of the fifteenth PSi conference is to study a broad spectrum of cultural, organizational, technological and political performances by focusing on the causes and the problems of performance mistakes, misreadings, misunderstandings and misfittings – i. e., those outcomes of performance that are susceptible to provoking disturbances – even deep alterations – within diverse spheres of life: from the private to the social and political, ranging from slips of tongue, via artistic avant-garde and aborted revolutions, to environmental disasters; from ideological distortions and abuses of power to new perspectives and resistance to authorities of any kind.
The Organizing Committee of PSi # 15 has decided to propose a new conference format, combining both the traditional and various non-conventional, open and flexible models of presenting, discussing and performing. While in the morning and the early afternoon conference participants present their papers in panel discussions, in the evening and late night slots they will be invited to participate in a program of shifts. Shifts are designed to accomplish a higher level of interaction between the participants in the conference, and, more specifically, between artistic and theoretical work.

KEY DATES:
- deadline for sending in paper, panel and shift proposals: November 1, 2008
- all proposals will be evaluated by December 31, 2008.

Looking forward to seeing you in Zagreb,

The Organizing Committee of PSi # 15

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