[silence] Fw: Conference on Silence - Call for Papers

[matthieu saladin]

for information.
all the best,
Matthieu Saladin

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Silence.

A one day interdiciplinary symposium, University of Chester, 23rd June
2009.

We would like to invite submissions for a one-day interdisciplinary
conference
on silence.

The speaker in Samuel Beckett’s The Unnameable sets as its goal the
attainment
of a ‘real silence’; a silence which escapes representation altogether.
However,
it could be said that this quest is doomed from the beginning, because
silence
is an integral part of the process of representation in a number of art
forms;
in other words, it could be said that, in a number of disciplines and in
a
number of ways, silence speaks as expressively as any other means of
representation.

Keynote Speakers:

Andrew Quick (University of Lancaster)
David Torevell (Liverpool Hope University)

We are looking for submissions on the following general areas:

1) Silence and Censorship.

This might include: censorship as a political act: self-censorship as a
political or artistic strategy; dealing with the unsaid or the unshown
in
performance, art and culture: and silence as political intervention.

2) Silence and Exile.

This might include: silence as an artistic response to cultural
displacement:
Silence as a response to particular sites/locations: silence and the
representation of war and conflict.

3) Silence and the Sublime.

This might include: the relation between silence and philosophies of art
and
culture; the role of silence in the representation of transcendence; the
relation between silence and the mystic.

4) Performing Silence.

This might include: the textual and performative representation of
silence;
silence and gesture; silence and the audience.

5) Music and Silence.

This might include: silence as a compositional tool; the role of silence
in the
performance of music; theorisations of silence in music.


Proposals for 20 minute papers or performance pieces/artworks should be
forwarded to:

David Pattie d.pattie@chester.ac.uk
Maxine Bristow m.bristow@chester.ac.uk
Kate Malone Smith kmsmith@chester.ac.uk

-by Friday the 30th of January.