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size=3><STRONG>Call for Papers: Fallout. Performance, Politics and War
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size=3>FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE </FONT></SPAN></P>
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size=3>For full-day symposium of politics and performance to be held on: 22
November 2006 (from 10.00am-5.00pm)<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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size=3>Location is Room 327 Webster Building, the <?xml:namespace prefix = st1
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w:st="on"><st1:PlaceType w:st="on">University</st1:PlaceType> of <st1:PlaceName
w:st="on">NSW Kensington Campus</st1:PlaceName></st1:place>, Sydney.
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size=3><o:p><SPAN class=925480003-15082006>For more information: <A
title=http://fallout-symposium.blogspot.com/
href="http://fallout-symposium.blogspot.com/"><U
title=http://fallout-symposium.blogspot.com/><FONT
title=http://fallout-symposium.blogspot.com/ color=#0000ff
size=2>http://fallout-symposium.blogspot.com/</U></FONT></A></P></SPAN></o:p></FONT></SPAN>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN
style="COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><FONT
size=3>This year marks the 50<SUP>th</SUP> anniversary of the first nuclear test
at Maralinga in <st1:State w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">South
Australia</st1:place></st1:State>. To acknowledge this important occasion in
<st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region
w:st="on">Australia</st1:country-region></st1:place>’s history the premiere
season of <I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">Maralinga</I> is being
launched. This is a ‘verbatim’ theatre production which is part of a longer-term
international collaboration between theatre workers and nuclear veterans in both
<st1:country-region w:st="on">Australia</st1:country-region> and
<st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">Britain</st1:place></st1:country-region>.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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style="COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><FONT
size=3>Such events remind us of the important nexus between performance,
politics, war and fallout. This symposium aims to discuss a number of these
crucial issues.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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style="COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><o:p><FONT
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style="COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><o:p><FONT
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN
style="COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><FONT
size=3>Fallout<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></B></P>
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style="COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><FONT
size=3>This symposium aims to interrogate the fallout of war through an analysis
of aesthetic practices developed in response to conflict. In a global context of
renewed political violence and the rise of neo conservative politics, artists in
<st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region
w:st="on">Australia</st1:country-region></st1:place> and elsewhere have been
forced to refocus their energies to consider the impacts and ethics of art made
in an international context of war. <o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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style="COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><FONT
size=3>The discussion in the symposium is intended to produce an analysis of a
diverse range of performance works in which the response to political events is
directly broached or even structurally implicated in the work itself. We ask
whether this is efficacious or what if any ethical functions can performance
play in the contemporary political moment?<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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style="COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><o:p><FONT
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style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN
style="COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><FONT
size=3>War<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></B></P>
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style="COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><FONT
size=3>The announcement of the ‘End of History’ has not produced an end to
conflict. Instead it has unleashed an intensification of conflicts which are
global in scope however local in origin: civilization wars, culture wars, wars
on terror and drugs, perhaps a re-emergent cold war? How can aesthetic activity
offer a useful perspective on these dynamics of state power and the production
of a 'mass mediated machining synonymous with distress and despair'? (Guattari)
How have art works historically responded to war and state violence and with
what effects?<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN
style="COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><FONT
size=3>Politics<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></B></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><FONT
size=3>Does the discussion of political artworks as forms of political protest
miss a vital aspect of their role and significance as aesthetic forms? <SPAN
style="COLOR: black">How pertinent or relevant is the category 'political
performance' in the current social and political climate? How (successfully) is
performance currently acting as an agent for social critique and change? What
forms might a political art of the future
adopt?<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></SPAN></P>
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style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN
style="COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><FONT
size=3>Performance<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></B></P>
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style="COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><FONT
size=3>Case studies include recent political performance in Asia and Australia
by artists such as Ong Keng Sen’s TheatreWorks in Singapore, Mike Parr, NYID and
in particular The Maralinga Project. September 2006 is the 50th anniversary of
the first test of British atomic bombs on Australian soil at Maralinga. The
project tracks the ongoing environmental and cultural fallout from that event
and allows those involved especially the diggers and the kooris themselves a
chance to speak about what the experience meant to
them.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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style="COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><FONT
size=3>Please note that a selection of papers will be chosen to be published in
<I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">Performance Paradigm</I> (</FONT><A
title=http://www.performanceparadigm.net/
href="http://www.performanceparadigm.net/"><FONT
title=http://www.performanceparadigm.net/
size=3>http://www.performanceparadigm.net</FONT></A><FONT size=3>) – a journal
of performance and contemporary culture.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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style="COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><FONT
size=3>Abstracts of 300 words should be sent to </FONT><A
title=mailto:j.arvanitakis@uws.edu.au
href="mailto:j.arvanitakis@uws.edu.au"><FONT
title=mailto:j.arvanitakis@uws.edu.au
size=3>j.arvanitakis@uws.edu.au</FONT></A><FONT size=3> by Monday, 9 October
2006. These will be subject to a refereeing process. We also invite proposals
for panels of three papers organized around a particular theme. Papers delivered
at the conference should be 20 minutes in length.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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style="COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><FONT
size=3>For more information, please contact Dr James Arvanitakis on </FONT><A
title=mailto:j.arvanitakis@uws.edu.au
href="mailto:j.arvanitakis@uws.edu.au"><FONT
title=mailto:j.arvanitakis@uws.edu.au
size=3>j.arvanitakis@uws.edu.au</FONT></A><FONT size=3> or (<A
title=http://fallout-symposium.blogspot.com/
href="http://fallout-symposium.blogspot.com/"><U
title=http://fallout-symposium.blogspot.com/><FONT
title=http://fallout-symposium.blogspot.com/ color=#0000ff
size=2>http://fallout-symposium.blogspot.com/</U></FONT></A>)<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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class=925480003-15082006>Regards</SPAN></o:p></SPAN></P></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV align=left><FONT face=Arial size=2>James Arvanitakis, PhD</FONT></DIV>
<DIV align=left><FONT face=Arial size=2>Associate Lecturer, Humanities and
Languages</FONT></DIV>
<DIV align=left><FONT face=Arial size=2>University of Western
Sydney</FONT></DIV>
<DIV align=left><FONT face=Arial size=2>Rm UG05, Building U</FONT></DIV>
<DIV align=left><FONT face=Arial size=2>Kingswood Campus</FONT></DIV>
<DIV align=left><FONT face=Arial size=2>Ph: 02 - 47360391</FONT></DIV>
<DIV align=left><FONT face=Arial size=2>Mob: 0438-454-127</FONT></DIV>
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