Stedelijk Studies Fall 2015 – Call for Papers
Theme: Performance

Since the early 2000s, artistic and institutional practices pertaining
to performance and live events have undergone sweeping changes: the
disciplinary traditions of theater, choreography and film/television are
converging in contemporary visual performance, museums are presenting
performance on a large and often monumental scale, the ephemeral nature
of performance is challenged now that artists and museums alike are
presenting their live work as objects of acquisition – arguably against
the grain of the anti-market premise of historical performance practice.
Moreover, the (etymological) relationship between the script (or score)
of a performance, the performance as a live event and its documentation
are increasingly and continuously questioned and undergo transformation.
Through a set of essays addressing specific questions, the third issue
of the Stedelijk Studies journal aims to map the changing conditions and
continuous reconfiguration of performance and live art today.

Research topics include but are not limited to:

- The ongoing historicization of early 20th century, and 1960s-1980s
performance practices.
- Changes in artistic practice and intergenerational conversations
between artists working in performance in the 1960s throughout the
1990s, and contemporary artists.
- Interdisciplinarity and performance: traditions, vocabularies and
practices of choreography, theater, film and television and their
relation to contemporary visual art performance.
- Performance as museum object, and the role that modern and
contemporary art museums play in the canonization of performance
practices.
- Performance and documentation

The theme issue Performance will be edited and curated by dr. Sophie
Berrebi from the University of Amsterdam and Hendrik Folkerts, MA,
curator at documenta 14.

Stedelijk Studies is a new high quality peer-reviewed academic journal,
which publishes research related to the Stedelijk Museum collection and
on institutional history, museum studies (such as education and
conservation practice) and current topics in the field of visual arts
and design.


SUBMISSION

Please submit your abstract before May 1, 2015.

Deadline for the essay will be September 15, 2015.

Stedelijk Studies accepts both solicited and unsolicited texts for
consideration on a rolling basis throughout the year. Prior to
developing a complete manuscript authors are asked to submit an abstract
(300 words max.) with short bio (150 words max.) and 3-5 key
bibliographic sources to the editors who will make a preliminary
decision regarding the topic’s relevance to the journal’s aims and scope
and will provide suggestions for developing the manuscript.

Manuscripts and manuscript proposals as well as abstracts and other
editorial correspondence should be sent to:

Jeroen Sondervan

Managing editor Stedelijk Studies
j.sondervanstedelijk.nl

Van Baerlestraat 31
1071 AN Amsterdam
Postal address:
Postbus / P.O. Box 75082
1070 AB Amsterdam