Performance Research Journal

The Dynamic Interchange between Scholarship and Practice

AIMS AND SCOPE

Performance Research is a specialist journal published four times a year which aims to promote a dynamic interchange between scholarship and practice in the expanding field of performance.

Interdisciplinary in vision and international in scope its emphasis is on contemporary performance within changing world cultures. Although Performance Research is published in English we welcome submissions in the contributor's preferred language and encourage submissions which challenge the boundaries between disciplines and genres.

The journal has received a great deal of praise for its subject matter and the visual and textual layout of the material. Institutional and Individual subscriptions continue to rise.

The most cost-effective way to subscribe is through membership of CPR.

Mae deuddegfed gyfrol Performance Research wrthi’n cael ei chyhoeddi ar hyn o bryd (2007) a, hyd yn hyn cyhoeddwyd deunaw rhifyn ar hugain, bob un â’i thema benodol sy’n ymwneud ag ymarfer ac ymchwil yn y celfyddydau perfformiadol cyfoes. Mae pob rhifyn yn cynnwys erthyglau beirniadol ac ysgolheigaidd, tudalennau i’r artist, adolygiadau, dogfennaeth a chyfweliadau.

SUBMISSIONS AND SUBSCRIPTIONS

Performance Research mainly publishes material relating to the theme of each issue. However, a section of each issue is dedicated to 'off theme' material. For details of our upcoming themes, please contact our Administrator.

We are currently seeking submissions on all areas of performance research, practice and scholarship from artists, scholars, curators and critics and invite submissions and proposals for forthcoming issues.

As well as substantial essays, interviews, reviews and documentation we welcome proposals using visual, graphic and photographic forms, including photo essays and original artwork which extends the possibilities for the visual page. We are also interested in proposals for collaborations between artists and critics.
Proposals may be submitted to the Administrator at the address below on one sheet of A4 or by e-mail attachment containing an abstract, proposed word count and description.

Editors:
Richard Gough , Artistic Director, Centre for Performance Research and Senior Research Fellow, University of Wales, Aberystwyth, UK
Ric Allsopp , Founder of Writing Research Associates and Research Fellow, Dartington College of Arts, Totnes, Devon, UK

Full details of current issues are available on the dedicated Performance Research Journal web site at: ww.performance-research.net

Detailed Guidelines for Contributors are available on request.
Proposals, suggestions, contributions and enquiries about submission to the journal should be sent to:

Sandra Laureri
Performance Research
Penglais Campus, Aberystwyth, Ceredigion,
Wales, SY23 3AJ, UK
telephone: +44 (0) 1970 628716
fax: +44 (0) 1970 622132
e-mail:performance-research@aber.ac.uk
Web site: ww.performance-research.net

PLEASE NOTE: The Administrator is unable to deal with subscription enquiries.

If you would like to subscribe to ‘Performance Research’, have any enquiries regarding your current CPR subscription or would like to purchase back issues, please contact Siu-lin Rawlinson at CPR.

For contents lists of available back issues and to order these past issues please contact Siu-lin Rawlinson at CPR or order directly from the bookshop section of this website: www.performancebooks.co.uk

The usual price for journal subscription is £75 however CPR Members can pay the discounted price of £40. To become a CPR member or to subscribe to the journal please contact CPR.


PR 12.3 On Blackness/Diaspora

Edited by Myron Beasley

On Blackness contemplates, what does it mean to 'perform' blackness? How might performance be the link (conceptually, theoretically, and even perhaps literally) in the African Diaspora? Situating the concept of Diaspora as it pertains to the grammar of lineage, fragmented histories, ontological movement, dispersion of bodies, and cultural/ geo-politics --this issue will highlight the vastness of blackness. Locating the African Diaspora as the site of discourse, we explore race through modalities of performance. Appreciating the transnational and the deterritorializing nature of the African Diaspora, we critically engage in the multiplicity of thought, the fluidity of identity, language, representation, space, and gender, as derived in narrative, memory, popular culture and intellectual histories. This issue is a pastiche of what or how we conceive the performance of Blackness/ Diaspora.


12.4 On Objects

Edited by Laurie Beth Clark, Richard Gough & Daniel Watt

On Objects explores the various transformations of the object in theatre and performance, from sacred to sacrilegious, fetishised to worthless, functional to aesthetic, craft to commodity, unstable yet enduring. The issue examines the presence of objects in a variety of theatrical and performance media from Futurism and Surrealism to forms of puppet theatre, the Bio-objects of Tadeusz Kantor, the collections of Sigmund Freud, surfaces and identities of virtual objects, and the museum as object and artefact refuge. Things as diverse as popcorn, biomechanics and eyes are considered alongside the designation of objects and their relation to the stage, from Heidegger's things to the ghostly trace of Derrida, from the body without organs of Deleuze and Guattari to Bachelard's dreamy geometry of shells. On Objects questions how the study and deployment of objects is differently inflected across established disciplines (art, theatre, history, archaeology, anthropology, sociology) and emerging interdisciplines (performance studies, food studies, tourism studies), evoking shadowy performance spaces crammed with forgotten memories, props and ephemera, from the cultural margins.


Forthcoming Issue...

13.1 On Performatics

Edited by Richard Gough & Grzegorz Ziólkowski

On Performatics is a special edition of PR inspired by, arising from, and responding to the conference Performance Studies: and Beyond hosted by the Grotowski Centre, Wroclaw, Poland. The Polish title of the conference was Performatyka: perspektywy rozwojowe, which can be translated as Performance Studies: the perspectives for development.

Performance Research has currently published its twelfth volume (2007) and to date thirty-eight thematically-based issues on contemporary performance arts practice and research. Each issue contains critical and scholarly articles, artist's pages, reviews, documentation and interviews.

Performance Research is published quarterly by Routledge Journals, Taylor and Francis Ltd. To find out how you can subscribe at a discounted rate please contact the Centre for Performance Research.