27th Jan 2017 10:00am-5:00pm 

Proposals from TECHNE PhD students are invited for the one day symposium:

Beyond Application? Immanent Encounters between Philosophy & the Arts 

University of Surrey, Guildford 

Friday 27th January 2017

10am-5pm

Invited contributors:
Bojana Cvejić
Andrew Bowie
William Brown
John Ó Maoilearca
Efrosini Protopapa

This interdisciplinary symposium seeks to explore the question of how philosophy and the arts might encounter one another in ways that challenge the tendency towards application - for instance, when the arts are treated as illustrative of extant, transcendent philosophical ideas rather than as generating their own, new philosophy immanently. We want to examine the relationship between these ideas - as explored in Film-Philosophy, Performance Philosophy, Dance and Music scholarship - and the notion of 'practice as research', alongside contemporary concerns with the form and methods of philosophy insofar as it might seek to be a philosophy of immanence. At the same time, the event aims to consider to what extent it is possible or even desirable to 'escape' application in this sense and to provide a platform for both scholarship and practical research confronting the value and challenge of bringing philosophy and the arts together.

The organizers invite proposals from TECHNE PhD students of any discipline concerned with:

• The relationship between philosophy or "theory" and the arts (particularly artistic practice)
• Critiques and defences of the application / illustration paradigm
• The debates surrounding the notion of 'film as philosophy', 'music as philosophy', 'performance as philosophy' and related ideas of 'practice as research', art as a way of thinking, etc.
• The concepts of immanence and transcendence in philosophy

Proposals can be for presentation in a range of forms and durations, including but not limited to:

• 20 minute presentations including papers, short performances, presentations including demonstration/performance/screening etc., followed by 10 minutes of questions;
• 30 minute practical, participatory workshops

However, please note that organizers are also open to accommodating proposals to present research in other forms and durations - such as installation, intervention etc. 

Please submit a max. 200 word abstract outlining your proposed contribution along with a max. 100 word bio, any space or technical requests and details re. numbers of participants if you are proposing a workshop - to l.cull@gsa.surrey.ac.uk by the 30th October.
In terms of space and technical requirements, specialist resources (eg. sprung floor, pianos) are available but please keep requests to a minimum and be prepared to be as self-sufficient as possible. 

Deadline for proposals: 30th Oct 2016
Decisions by: 15th November 2016

 

Dr. Laura Cull Ó Maoilearca

Reader in Theatre & Performance

Director, Centre for Performance Philosophy

Department of Acting and Performance, GSA

University of Surrey

Guildford, UK

l.cull@surrey.ac.uk

http://www.performancephilosophy.org/