Submissions
Extensions Journal Volume 5: Performing Space and Place
Call For Submissions
Extensions invites submissions for its forthcoming issue: Performing Space and Place. We welcome scholarly essays, experimental writing, interviews, reviews, media/Web-based art works/projects, and documentation of music, dance, visual, sound, and performance art that explore the construction of space and place to/through performance.
Since Henri Lefebvre’s groundbreaking analysis in The Production of Space scholars and artists from an array of disciplines have continued interrogating the construction of space and place. This volume of Extensions will continue this exploration in terms of performance, which we broadly conceive to include space and place in performance as well the performance and performativities of space and place. We are interested in scholarly articles and digital media artworks that interrupt traditional narratives of space and place. We hope to continue the investigation began in our previous volume, Temporalities, regarding issues of presence in performance and new media, along with notions of space-time compression in this era of globalization. How does a postmodern understanding of space and place, which introduces notions of simultaneities, emerge from performance practices and everyday performativities?
Submission topics might include but are not limited to:
Intersections of spatiality and temporality
Technology and performance
Simultaneities
Surveillance
Public vs. Private places
Geopathology in performance
Phenomenological approaches to space and place
Home/land
Borders
Nation-making
Performances/Performativities of space and place online
Performances/Performativities of space and place in the material world
Rootedness vs. sense of place
Submissions should be received/postmarked by August 31, 2008. Files and essays should be sent to extensionsjournal@yahoo.com. Large files should be sent on CD or DVD to
Extensions Journal c/o Heidi R. Miller
UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television
102 East Melnitz Hall
Box 951622
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1622
Articles must be sent in full as MS Word documents and should follow MLA style. Images should be sent as .jpg files and video submitted in QuickTime. We are also happy to accept Flash (.swf) files. If applicable, please include a thumbnail image to accompany your submission. Inquiries regarding supportable file formats and other questions should be directed to extensionsjournal_at_yahoo.com. Extensions requires hardcopy media files and 50-word bios from all accepted contributors. Artistic submissions should include an original statement that elucidates, expands or reflects on a conceptual or technological aspect of the work.
Contributors will be notified of acceptance by October 31, 2008. Our anticipated launch date is May 15, 2009.
Extensions Volume 4: TempoRealities of Performance can be viewed at www.extensionsjournal.org
Extensions is produced by the graduate students of the UCLA Center for Performance Studies. www.performancestudies.ucla.edu