Call for proposals and ideas
Performance Studies International #12
Queen Mary, University of London, in collaboration with East End Collaborations and the Live Art Development Agency (UK).
15-18 June 2006
PSi #12: Performing Rights
What can performance do for human rights, and human rights for performance?
PSi #12: Performing Rights will be a gathering of artists, activists and academics who are making and researching performance that declares its interest and intent within the field of Human Rights. PSi #12 is being approached as a festival of creative dialogues investigating the boundaries and relationships between Human Rights and performance and will present an integrated schedule of conference and contextualising events.
The PSi #12: Performing Rights contextualising programme will include research and resource materials, performances, interventions, new media presentations, installations, screenings, displays, artists led laboratories and spontaneous interactions. These will attempt to create a context for exploring the role of performance and the responsibilities of artists in effecting political, social and cultural change. We aim to illuminate the creative strategies that artists and activists use to communicate issues of human rights and to empower artists, activists and audiences to be able to make a difference.