CFP: Symposium, International Vocal Arts Workshop, Jeunesses Musicales Croatia, Groznjan, 18 June 2013

Call for Papers
International Vocal Arts Workshop, Jeunesses Musicales Croatia
Symposium

Playing in Time: Temporality in Performance and Performing Arts

Papers: submit abstracts of up to 300 words to ivaw.groznjan at gmail.com by 20 May 2013.
Reflections: submit discussion topics to ivaw.groznjan at gmail.com by 10 June 2013. (Including Workshop participants)
Croatia, 18 June 2013

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Jeunesses Musicales Croatia Cultural Centre, Gro njan, Croatia

Performance takes place in time and space. This symposium seeks to focus on the intricacy of temporality in performance by inviting submissions that address this theme in its many manifestations. At the International Vocal Arts Workshop, artists grapple concretely with issues of music and time­experimenting with tempo and pacing, bringing times past and future into the present, and interacting time with the performance narrative as well as the performance venues in the village of Gro njan. We invite you to explore the corroborations and tensions between temporality and these and other aspects of the performing arts. We welcome papers and reflections from a variety of disciplines including theatre, performance studies, aesthetics, musicology, ethnomusicology, anthropology, literature, history, sociology, psychology, cognitive sciences, and physics. Possible topics may include:

Immediacy and affect in performance
Time perception: subject time and objective time
Performing history in communities
Musical temporality in literature
Relationships between materiality and temporality
Sound, music, tempo
Synchronicity, simultaneity
Ephemerality and documentation of performance
Extemporization and improvisation in performance
Music composition and choreography practices, structure and form, architecture
Physics of sound, acoustics
Processuality, instantaneity, movement, and immobility

Decisions regarding the status of submitted proposals will be made and communicated via email as quickly as possible following the submission deadline, and certainly no later than 1 June for papers and 15 June for reflections.

Program Director: Jane McMahan (Barnard College, Columbia University)
International Vocal Arts Workshop
Jeunesses Musicales, Croatia
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