Fwd: Frakcija Call for Proposals

[claudia westermann]

>
>Apologies for any cross-postings:
>
>Following our recent collaborative issue with Frakcija and Maska 
>(Performance Research Vol.10:2 'On Form / Yet to Come', June 2005) 
>we would like to circulate this Call for Proposals from the Croatian 
>performing arts magazine Frakcija:
>
>Call for Proposals
>
>FRAKCIJA
>Magazine for Performing Arts /  Zagreb: CDU
>No. 39, Volume 10, Issue 2
>Publication Date: July 2006
>
>1980s: ever so much more so
>How to define 80s by 80s and 80s by the new millennium
>
>FRAKCIJA issue No. 39 sets out to reconstruct 1980s performing arts 
>- dance, theatre, performance art  - through a problem oriented 
>historiographic approach.
>It is an attempt to navigate through already known key terms, 
>problems, paradigms, authors and author's poetics, and an attempt to 
>rewrite history in search of those authors and concepts which 
>existed on the margins in the 1980s and whose works have anticipated 
>contemporary artistic movements whilst remaining outside dominant 
>artistic streams, and outside of the field of general international 
>visibility.
>
>We ask if such a distinction is conceptually constructed and if so 
>how? We are interested to know what is happening with those authors 
>that have maybe (again) fallen through the net of history, but whose 
>poetics remained relevant and interesting. Why were certain authors 
>launched into the orbit of international visibility and how has 
>their position been legitimised? What have been the conditions of 
>construction of producers against artistic or academic 
>classifications and valorisations? What is the language that is 
>being created about the authors?  What is the rationale behind their 
>promotion (if any)? Are some of them still active and how is their 
>poetics and it's reception being transformed?
>
>
>This issue of FRAKCIJA will be built around the tension between 
>enumerating the known problems, concepts, author's poetics, and 
>discourses of that decade and an attempt to find another way through 
>the 80s, those 80s that have set up the foundations for 
>international theatre and performance arts through the development 
>of the network of producers, programmers which forms the basis of 
>the current international theatre and performance community.
>
>Issue editor: Una Bauer
>Languages in which to submit the proposals: English or Croatian
>
>Deadlines:
>Proposals: 5th March 2006
>Finalised material: 30th April 2006
>Publication date: July 2006
>
>Please direct your proposals or enquires by e-mail to:
>una at cdu.hr  or  una.bauer at mac.com
>
>Una Bauer
>CDU Centre for drama art / Centar za dramsku umjetnost
>Prilaz Gjure Dezelica 26
>HR-10000 Zagreb
>P: +385 1 48 46 176
>F: +385 1 48 46 180
>www.cdu.hr
>
>
>FRAKCIJA www.cdu.hr/frakcija Performing Arts Magazine was 
>established nine years ago by a group of dramaturgs, theatre 
>theoreticians, critics and artists based in Zagreb. From its first 
>issue FRAKCIJA has been providing a theoretical and critical support 
>for projects that were of marginal interest to the (not only 
>Croatian) mainstream media, theatre criticism and official drama and 
>theatre studies. As a magazine that continuously questions its 
>editorial policy and consciously and untiringly works on its 
>constant re-conceptualisation, last year FRAKCIJA turned over a new 
>leaf, this time freeing even more space for those authors, scholars 
>and artists, who combine academic approach with the influences of 
>the new theoretical perspectives as well as with (still) 
>"insufficiently-academic" themes such as radicalisms, affective 
>work, energy of performance, vague/volatile/incomprehensible... 
>FRAKCIJA involves itself with an innovative creation of performing 
>arts and in the deliberation of new theoretic fractions on the 
>international scene.
>
>*******
>
>--
>Linden Elmhirst 
>Administrator
>Performance Research
>Dartington College of Arts
>Totnes, Devon  TQ9 6EJ  UK
>Tel :  +44 (0)1803 861683
>Fax : +44 (0)1803 861685
>e-mail : performance-research at dartington.ac.uk
>http://www.performance-research.net