Call for Papers
Improvisation
and Mobility
Interdisciplinary
Conference and Festival
May 10-15, 2017
The International Institute for Critical
Studies in Improvisation (IICSI) invites interdisciplinary contributions to the
2017 IICSI conference and festival at the University of Regina, Regina,
Saskatchewan, Canada, on the theme of “Improvisation and Mobility”. The program
will take place from May 10-15, 2017, with most events occurring from May 10-14,
2017. We are interested in the
connections between critical studies in improvisation, contemporary
improvisatory practice, and concepts of artistic, physical, technological and
cultural mobility. We invite proposals
for conference papers, panels, artistic contributions and other research
formats. Presenters will be drawn from the fields of dance and performance
studies, theatre, community-engaged art and music, ethnomusicology, creative technologies/new media art, intermedial
studies, and critical studies in improvisation. Keynote speakers include George
Lipsitz, Ajay Heble, Vida Midgelow, Isabella Stefanescu, and Frederique
Arroyas.
We are particularly interested in
presentations that address questions such as:
·
How (and why) do improvising
artists and scholars of improvisation engage with mobility in and through their
practice?
·
How can notions of real-time decision-making,
risk, collaboration, active listening and the reconfiguration of mistakes into
productive material model new types of
engagement with difference and culture,
through new kinds of mobility?
·
What are the new possibilities
for improvisation opened by the ubiquity of hand-held mobile devices and new
types of mobile interfaces for creative expression?
·
What are the possibilities for
intersections between literatures and practices in somatic work, disability
cultures, and improvised movement and performances?
·
Who is brought in, and who is
left out, when improvisation mobilizes?
·
What are the possibilities and
issues with improvisatory mobilization across disciplines?
NOTE: Graduate students from IICSI sites may be eligible for some limited support/reduced costs: please indicate on your proposal if you require this.
