A Special Call for Papers

Writing Encounters within
Performance & Pedagogy

This will be co-edited by Dr. Susan Orr and Claire Hind from the Faculty of Arts at York St. John University.
It will explore writing and performance for artists, writers, critics and academics
It will also be informed by the Writing Encounters Symposium at York St John University 11th â€“ 14th September 2008
For information on this symposium email: or

We are especially keen to invite lecturers, researchers and practitioners in the field of performance who encounter writing within their work.
We also hope to include submissions from other practitioners, lecturers and theorists whose processes of creativity do not necessarily begin with text.

1. When and where does writing take place within your work?
2. Does it take place in a collaborative, 'making' context (devised performance)
3. Does it take place in a live art, performance art or in a visual performance context?
4. What is the role of writing across these contexts?
5. Is writing part of the performance itself (writing live)?
6. If this is the case, what function does it serve?
7. What epistemological assumptions are made about the role of writing in/about/for performance?
8. In what ways do performers borrow, reference, steal or recycle writing forms from other disciplinary contexts?
9. In what ways do we teach performance students about the role of writing in performance?
10. When does the body â€˜writeâ€™ the space and how does the language of making become an act of writing?
11. What pedagogies might we adopt to explore the role of text in the performance space?
12. What genres of writing are suited to the study of performance?

To submit a paper please email the editors