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Graduate Student Conference: (Re)making (Re)presentation
The Theatre Students of the Graduate Center of the City University of New York announce their second graduate student conference, in conjunction with the conferral of the 2010 Edwin Booth Award by the Doctoral Theatre Students Association.*
According to New York based playwright Charles Mee, “there is no such thing as an original[.]”** His (re)making project, an endeavor that highlights his own method of creative production while encouraging borrowing and overlap by other playwrights and performers, resists the notion of an “original” in artistic creation. Mee suggests that the (re)makings of classics and (re)presentations of “originals” become the vehicles “through [which] the culture speaks, often without the speakers knowing it.”* Practiced citationality, intertextuality, and ideas of “twice-behaved” properties have come to the fore in analysis of postmodern theatre, dance, and performance as well as in recent investigations of canonical literature and poetry. How might an analysis of how art (re)creates itself (re)make discussions of the author, the creative process, and the effect on audiences, readers, and participants?
We invite proposals for papers and panels exploring these and related questions. The one-day graduate student conference will take place at CUNY’s Graduate Center and the Martin E. Segal Theatre Center on May 3rd, 2010. The conference will be followed by the 2010 Edwin Booth Award, which is being awarded by CUNY’s Doctoral Theatre Students Association to Charles Mee. Papers and panels do not need to directly address Mee’s work.
-The (re)making nature of the avant-garde
-Performing history