Revue Journal of Performance Studies, On Resistance and Stillness

Deadline: 21 janvier 2014
Publication:  août 2014
http://liminalities.net

Liminalities: a Journal of Performance Studies
In memory of José Esteban Muñoz 

This issue seeks submissions of performance projects of peaceful protests and silent resistance. Video, audio, and multimedia digital works are welcome, as are essays, documentaries, photo essays, artists’ statements, and reviews that consider such performances. Nonviolent action and civil disobedience performances often use stillness and silence rather than spoken words to achieve their goals. As André Lepecki wrote, "The symbolic and expressive qualities of stillness clarify the phenomenological nature of this (resistant) act of arrest. It is not synonym with freezing. Rather, what stillness does is to initiate the subject in a different relationship with temporality.” Submissions should consider stillness, silence, and resistance in terms of performance (broadly construed), performativity, and the performative. Of special interest are pieces that explore the significance of stillness and silence in non-western and transnational activist and artistic acts. Possible sites of considering silent resistance include (but are not limited to) global justice movements, online communities, street protests, and works of art performed in public spaces, museums, or in private.

Please email proposals to Serap Erincin at:
seraperincin@usf.edu
and
se556@nyu.edu
with "Liminalities--Stillness--Name" on the subject line by January 21st, 2014 (please get in touch to make arrangements for sending very large files.) Full projects will be due in April. Peer review and editorial changes will take place over the spring. Anticipated publication date is August, 2014.
This issue will be dedicated to the memory of writer and NYU professor José Esteban Muñoz (1967-2013) whose loss was devastating to the Performance Studies community at NYU and at large. His thoughts on various forms of resistance will continue to inspire beyond the here and now.

Liminalities is an open-access peer-reviewed journal for performance studies, theory and praxis. Our goal is to embrace the possibilities for presenting work in performance studies (broadly construed) by exploring and exploiting the "staging" potential of digital media. We publish essays, aesthetic works, digital media projects, artist pages, performance scripts, themed forums, documentaries, reviews, interviews, works about performance in urban environments, and works about pedagogy & performance.
http://liminalities.net