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CREATION seeks contemporary collaborations

Research group CREATIE (Royal Conservatoire Antwerp, BEL) and Mixed Currents (CeReNeM, University of Huddersfield, UK) join forces in organizing Collaborations are More Refreshing than New Socks, a 3-day conference-festival about collaborations in contemporary performance (December 3-5 2019 in Antwerp). They will explore challenges and consequences of close collaborations in new music, innovative collaborations and new performance formats and inclusive collaboration models within the performative scene of today. During this conference-festival, CREATIE and Mixed Currents will offer a wide variety of concerts, lecture- performances, panel discussions, papers and lunch concerts with students of the Royal Conservatoire Antwerp.

In this context they have launched this call for contributions: 

CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS:
We invite to send proposals that critically deal with collaborations in contemporary performance. We especially encourage proposals by women, non-cis identifying people (M/F/X), people of color and people with disabilities, who are active in the present-day performance scene.

FORMAT
For the presentations in the form of a paper, please submit an abstract (200 words) containing:
- Purpose of the research and its importance to the field
- Description of the proposed approach
Duration of the presentation should be within 20 minutes
For the presentations in the form of performance-lecture, please submit an abstract (200 words) including:
- Description of the performance-lecture and connection to the research
- List of technical requirements
- A link to video (ideally) or (at least) audio documentation
Duration of the performance-lecture should be within 30 minutes

DEADLINE FOR PROPOSALS:
15th of June 2019, to be submitted at ine.vanoeveren@ap.be

Abstracts should be submitted as PDF attachments. Include the name of the presenter(s), institutional affiliations, a biography and contact information.
Notification of acceptance will arrive by July 15, 2019.

 

Read this document for more information on the festival and the organisers