CALL FOR PAPERS: Theatre Journal on Theatre, Performance and Visual Images, Special Issue for December 2017, deadline 28.02.2017

[ENCATC Performing Arts Management]

How do images communicate in contemporary performance? How do we evaluate visual evidence, particularly when that evidence is often fragmentary or partial? How do we investigate attempts to evade representation? How does the iconography of theatre imagery affect the discipline? How does the dominance of the tablet/screen world intersect with performance? How does visualisation and/or digitisation affect the visual experience of performance?
This special issue is an opportunity to further explore the use of images in contemporary theatre practice and in historiographic analysis, which performance is nowadays challenged by other forms of visual literacy like cinema, art or pop culture. The topic was already investigated by David Roman in a special issue about Theatre and Visual Culture in 2001. Since then, the prevalence of digitisation has further broadened the visual spectrum underpinning performance. This special number (6000-9000 words) will be edited by Theatre Journal editor Joanne Tompinks next year and it must focus on concentrates on how visual images communicate in contemporary performance.

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