5TH ENCUENTRO, Applications for Performers and Work Groups
Since 2000, Encuentros have been a meeting place for artists, scholars, students, and activists investigating the relation between performance and politics in the Americas. Gathering roughly 300 participants, each Encuentro is part academic conference, part performance festival, part workshop series, and wholly interdisciplinary: it is a concentrated space of experimentation, dialogue, and collaboration, featuring lectures, performances, installations, roundtable discussions, exhibits, video screenings, work groups, and hands-on performance workshops. This next Encuentro on Performing Heritage will explore the production and circulation of notions of identity, traditions, authenticity, rights, cultural access and ownership in the age of globalization. These issues will be clustered under three large umbrella topics that will conceptually frame the keynotes, roundtables, performances, and work groups: 1) Intangible Heritage (the many embodied practices that define a sense of communal or national identity); 2) Cultural Agency (the many ways in which the arts make an intervention in social/political life), and 3) Arts and Markets (the circulation of arts through mass media, scholarship, government venues, etc).
Performer's Application Requirements
Since 2000, Encuentros have been a meeting place for artists, scholars, students, and activists investigating the relation between performance and politics in the Americas. Gathering roughly 300 participants, each Encuentro is part academic conference, part performance festival, part workshop series, and wholly interdisciplinary: it is a concentrated space of experimentation, dialogue, and collaboration, featuring lectures, performances, installations, roundtable discussions, exhibits, video screenings, work groups, and hands-on performance workshops. This next Encuentro on Performing Heritage will explore the production and circulation of notions of identity, traditions, authenticity, rights, cultural access and ownership in the age of globalization. These issues will be clustered under three large umbrella topics that will conceptually frame the keynotes, roundtables, performances, and work groups: 1) Intangible Heritage (the many embodied practices that define a sense of communal or national identity); 2) Cultural Agency (the many ways in which the arts make an intervention in social/political life), and 3) Arts and Markets (the circulation of arts through mass media, scholarship, government venues, etc…).
Call for Performance/Installations/Visual Arts/Video: The organizers want this Encuentro to be as intellectually challenging, artistically exciting, and politically engaging as possible, and therefore encourage all contemporary artists (especially Indigenous/Native American/First Peoples, as well as artists working with community groups) to send in proposals related to this year's theme of Performing Heritage: Contemporary Indigenous and Community-Based Practices. They seek groups or solo artists (theater/music/dance/performance art, etc.) for all areas of their program: Feature-length (2 hours or less), Short (30 minutes or less), and Cabaret/Bar interventions (could be improvised), for both indoor and outdoor spaces. They seek a wide range of performances, from traditional representations to hybrid and contestatory practices. They will also select several installations and visual arts exhibits to present during the Encuentro and screen videos by indigenous filmmakers throughout the event. Those interested should submit proposals as indicated below no later than November 15, 2004. **Please note that these materials cannot be returned to you**.
Instructions for Submitting Performance Proposals:
1) Completed http://hemi.nyu.edu/eng/seminar/brazil2005/application_form.html application form.
2) A one page written abstract/description of performance (in Spanish, English, or Portuguese).
3) VHS video (NTSC), DVD or CD of the performance.
You may also direct us to a website for additional viewing. (Please cue videos for a 5 minute clip).
4) Photos of the performance (please, no more than 15 image and make sure submissions are clearly labeled.
5) C.V. of performer(s), reviews, press releases and other relevant materials.
6) Full technical description and staging plan, including any lighting requirements. Please indicate the optimal kind of space for your performance and whether an outdoor space is feasible or desired.Work Group Paper Submissions
Call for Work Group Papers: The organizers are calling for Work Group papers related to the theme of Performing Heritage: Contemporary Indigenous and Community-Based Practices . Papers should be a maximum of 8-10 pages in length and must relate to the Encuentro's Work Group topics (please see topics below). Additional work group topics may be added as long as space allows. For instructions on how to propose an additional Work Group, please see the application form. Please note that papers will not be read aloud during the work group meetings, and you don't have to submit a paper in order to join a Work Group. All are welcome to participate in their Group of choice!
Preliminary Work Group Topics (others to be added):
- Intangible Heritage
- Cultural Agency
- Arts & Markets
- Indigenous Identities & Communication
- Representation & Self-Representation
- Transnational/translocal gender politics in performance
- Inter-ethnic coalitions
- Queer grassroots performance
- Afro-American performance
- Performing social class
- Grass-roots appropiations of new media technologies
- Is Latin American Popular Theatre dead?
- Performance, pedagogy and community buildingWork Group Paper Submission Instructions:
Those interested should submit a one-page work group paper abstract, along with a completed application form, a CV or resume, and a brief letter of interest by November 15, 2004. Papers may be submitted in English, Spanish, or Portuguese. If accepted, the paper and a translated abstract (translated into one of the other two official encuentro languages) must be submitted by no later than January 15, 2005.
Send Papers and Abstracts in Translation to: hemi.encuentro@nyu.edu
Late papers and abstracts will not be accepted.