#liminalities

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Thinking about borders and binaries and transgression and liminalities 2nite. Death to categorization! Long Live queerness in every sense of the word.

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The journal of performance studies, Liminalities issue 10.1, a special issue guest edited by Garrett Lynch (University of South Wales) and Rea Dennis (Deakin University), is now online. The contributions to this issue have been compiled from the outcomes of the international conference Remote Encounters: Connecting Bodies, Collapsing Spaces and Temporal Ubiquity in Networked Performance held at the University of South Wales on the 11th and 12th of April 2013. The conference brought together artists and scholars with a joint interest in using networks as a means to enhance or create a wide variety of performance arts. The direct url to the issue is below, please do forward to your networks/colleagues etc. Liminalities issue 10.1 - http://liminalities.net/10-1/

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Liminalities: A Journal of Performance Studies

Call for Papers and Projects

Special Issue/Forum on Performance, Digital Media and Sexuality

edited by Amber Johnson

 Liminalities seeks submissions of performance projects, video and audio pieces, essays, position papers, artist pages, and other works that explore sexuality, sex, and new media in terms of performance and performativity. Please think broadly about the idea of performative possibility and sexuality. Submissions can speak to the ways in which people create new worlds, new ways of being, and/or new understandings of sex and sexuality through new media, or how online identity challenges, manufactures, or mutates the ways we perform sexual identity.

Performances of sexual identity shift drastically as access to digital media and technology increase and change. New technologies bring new, innovative ways to perform sexual identity online. People avow sexual scripts of the past, perform them in new ways, and create new scripts. Intersections of race, class, gender, and sexuality chaperon those performances and, in turn, dictate the ways in which we perceive, mark, and perform sexual identities. We are interested in presenting the dynamic intersections and performances of race, class, gender, and sexuality within digital media contexts.

Liminalities publishes on a digital platform. We welcome both traditional submissions and those that utilize digital media in creative and imaginative ways.

Submitting Your Contribution

Authors and contributors should consult http://liminalities.net/edpolicy.htm for general submissions guidelines. Essays of approximately 2,500-5,000 words and shorter position papers should be prepared according to the 16th edition of the Chicago Manual of Style. For media projects, please first submit proposals describing the project. All essays and proposals are due December 15, 2012. Submit proposals and complete essays over email to [email protected] with subject heading “Digital Media, Sexuality, and Performance” plus the contributors name in the subject heading. Regular mail submissions can be addressed to Amber Johnson, Special Issue Editor, Liminalities, Department of Languages and Communication, Prairie View A&M University, PO BOX 519, MS 2220, Prairie View, TX  77446. Shortlisted proposal contributors and authors must commit to a timeline of creation/revision, and resubmission with a final deadline of April 1, 2013. Please direct questions to Amber L. Johnson at [email protected].