TaPRA 2025 Bodies and Performance CFP
Deadline: March 10, 2025
27-29 August 2025, University of Warwick
Theme: Fleshy futurities: Embodied yearning, resistance and grief
Given that the destructive futurities of the broligarchy hinge on transcendence, whether bodily or planetary, we suggest that there is an urgent need to ground questions of futurity, yearning and beyondness in a commitment to a fleshy embodiment and placehood. Recognising that New Materialist and post-human thought parallel millennia of often-uncited indigenous epistemology (Zoe Todd,...
TaPRA 2024 Bodies and Performance working group
Deadline: April 10, 2024
Dynamics of desire: A politicised methodology towards pleasure-fuelled research
In the woozy afterglow of our investigations last year into the ways in which Critical Hunk and Babe Studies might be mobilised to critique oppressive structures and aesthetic regimes of whiteness, ableism and cisgenderism, we have lingered in the possibilities of centring the pleasures and desires of the researcher of performance. Last year’s presentations were pervaded by a spectrum of desires – from...
