[Comedias] Fwd: Reminder - Submit Your Proposals by June 1

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Call for Working Sessions and Performances - *June 1 Deadline Approaching*

This is a reminder that the call for Working Sessions and Performances for
the 2016 ASTR Annual Conference in Minneapolis are due by June 1, 2016.
Call for Working Sessions

This link
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will direct you to the website, where you can view all the calls for
individual working sessions on this year’s theme, "Trans-."

Please note, that you must apply online through the ASTR website here
<http://www.astr.org/link.asp?e=garcia@denison.edu&job=2441782&ymlink=12449226&finalurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Eastr%2Eorg%2Fpage%2F16%5FWGSubmissions>.
The form allows you to select up to three working groups, in order of your
preference, and provides space to allow you to comment how your proposal
might fit with each of those working groups.

*The deadline for receipt of proposals is June 1.*
We are very excited by a fabulous list of Working Groups this year. View
the list here
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Call for Performances

For ASTR 2016 we invite performances that resonate with, respond to and
playfully provoke the conference’s theme TRANS. Performances might, for
example explore ideas of transgender, transfiguration, transgression,
transition, transportation, translation, transformation or transplant. We
invite you to think formally in terms of the *transitory* nature of
conferences and hotel spaces with performances that move across, through,
beyond, between people, places and states. These performances might be
works in progress or finished works. They might be durational, one-to-one,
flash, pop up, installation, lec-dem or invisible. Site specific proposals
for the city of Minneapolis are also welcome.

As well as live performance we also invite short (30 min max) video
submissions that could be part of a TRANS screening program.

*Abstracts:*

Abstracts should be 500 words in length, and should speak to how your
performance proposals relates to the conference theme TRANS. Feel free to
submit a performance cluster of a few small works by one or more artists in
dialogue with each other as well as individual proposals.

Details: Please give us a sense of duration as well as a sense of audience
number. When proposing your project please keep in mind that the conference
has very limited technical resources. Please indicate what kind of space
you ideally require but if you can be flexible also include your minimal
requirements. We may have some access to black box studios, theatre spaces,
screening rooms and gallery type spaces, though with the usual conference
constraints (so low tech works that can load in/out fairly quickly will be
easier for us to present).

At the top of your submission please state your name, contact information,
and affiliation. Include your proposal as a PDF and include your last name
in the file name.

Send your proposals to Leslie Hill: lkhill at stanford.edu Deadline: June 1

The ASTR 2016 artistic program will be curated by Leslie Hill and Helen
Paris, directors of the theatre company Curious (www.placelessness.com
<http://www.astr.org/link.asp?e=garcia@denison.edu&job=2441782&ymlink=12449226&finalurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Eplacelessness%2Ecom>).
Since Curious was formed in 1997 the company has developed a reputation for
edgy, humorous interrogations of contemporary culture and politics. Curious
have produced over 50 projects in a range of media including live
performance, installation, publication and film. Curious’s work, produced
by Artsadmin in London (www.artsadmin.co.uk
<http://www.astr.org/link.asp?e=garcia@denison.edu&job=2441782&ymlink=12449226&finalurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Eartsadmin%2Eco%2Euk>),
has been shown in 18 countries, commissioned and produced by organizations
such as PS122, New York, the Wellcome Trust, Sydney Opera House, the Royal
Shakespeare Company, Tanzquartier Vienna, Centre Pompidou, Paris and the
National Review of Live Art, Glasgow. Leslie and Helen are both Associate
Professors of Performance Making at Stanford University.

Thanks,
Josh Abrams, Jen Parker-Starbuck, and the ASTR Conference Committee

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