CALL DOSSIER “WORLDS IN PERFORMANCE: NAPEDRA 20 YEARS”
Deadline for submission of works: August 30, 2022 via the website: https://www.revistas.usp.br/gis
This dossier is one of the offshoots of the Seismology of Performance: Napedra 20 Years event, held between November 22 and December 10, 2021. Created in 2001, Napedra – USP's Anthropology, Performance and Drama Center – arises from the meeting of anthropologists in search of knowledge produced in art workshops, with artists in search of knowledge associated with the craft of anthropologists. It resonates with the sounds and noises of a “performative turn” in anthropology, which began in the 1970s, and is updated in surprising ways here and now. Between the arts and sciences, the concept of performance takes on varied, changing and hybrid forms. There is something unresolved in this concept that resists definitive formulations and disciplinary boundaries. In 1977, one of the gravitational centers of an emerging field emerged in the universe of anthropology. Victor Turner, an anthropologist in search of knowledge of the performing arts, meets Richard Schechner, a theater director who, in his relationship with Turner, deepens his knowledge of anthropology. It is, in Napedra's experience, a luminous point that serves as a reference for one of the constellations of performance studies, in an expanding and decentered universe. Horizons widen, subverting notions of field and space, and imploding conceptions of time. Attention turns to the body. From the senses of the body, the senses of worlds are created and f(r)icated. In performance, worlds are formed and transformed. In noise, residues and structurally remote elements, seismic movements, irruption and formation of emerging worlds are detected. In the whirlpools of your creation are worlds that have not yet come to be. Above all, what drives Napedra participants, in partnerships with researchers from other research groups in Brazil and overseas, are the prospects of exploring some of the whirlpools of worlds in performance.
For instructions and guidelines on submissions, consult the GIS website - Gesto, Imagem e Som - Revista de Antropologia.