Eavesdropping Symposium
The sounding body: site of trouble and transcendence
Eavesdropping is a performance series and a symposium dedicated to new music, curated by soprano Juliet Fraser.
The third season runs as a week-long, online festival and culminates in a two-day symposium, which will be an opportunity to reflect together on the sounding body: site of trouble and transcendence. The symposium is designed to be open, inclusive and positive in its approach to this theme: the programme will feature a variety of papers, presentations, performances and discussions.
In normal times, the symposium is held in the wooden chapel at Oxford House in East London; this season, we will assemble online (via Zoom and YouTube) and follow a reduced programme.
Keynote speakers;
- Laura Bowler (composer/vocalist)
- Winnie Huang (violinist/violist/gestural performance artist)
The programme will also include a selection of shorter contributions, gathered through this Call for Papers, several Q&As and a round-table discussion exploring ‘matters arising’.
This Call for Papers is an invitation to writers, thinkers, researchers, performers and composers to join the conversation. A ‘paper’ might be a talk, a presentation of another kind, a lecture-recital, a performance, or something else entirely: what it should be is no longer than 20 minutes in length. Papers might, for example, explore such topics as:
- Embodied practices
- Diverse physicalities
- Consent in collaboration
- Technology and the body
- The future of live performance.
All papers will need to be pre-recorded (whether as an audio file or a video) and will then be uploaded to YouTube.
Applicants are encouraged to explore the eavesdropping website. Please note that the general atmosphere is intimate and low-key — this is a venture run by artists for artists, not an academic colloquium. The main objective of the symposium is to foster community and fruitful debate.
SUBMISSIONS
Submissions should be addressed to Juliet Fraser and sent by attachment to [email protected] They should detail:
- applicant’s full name
- applicant’s email address
- title and proposal (300 words max.)
- biography (200 words max.)
- links to relevant websites (3 max.)
and be submitted in word/pdf format, not exceeding 2 sides of A4.
SUBMISSION DEADLINE:
6pm, Friday 26 March 2021
The selection will be announced on Monday 29 March 2021.
