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Comment by Sarah Hoover on June 14, 2018 at 12:31

Hello, all! I should explain my interest in this forum. Though I'm now a Theatre PhD in Ireland, I spent a fair few years in Madison working to make its community theatre a strong exploration of its local flavor and a site of experimentation (I was the ED of the Bartell, taking over just after it lost its primary funder and developing its volunteer and fundraising programs). In 2013 I took the opportunity to further my interest in immersive, agentive interaction in performance with a Master's degree in Europe and continue to pursue theorisation of this style through Deleuze and Merleau-Ponty in my PhD. While I'm grateful for the chance to do so, I am sorry I left before the Mad Theory conferences! Are there plans to develop a third? 

Comment by Katie Schaag on January 23, 2015 at 21:52

Call for Proposals for MAD THEORY 2: A Performance Philosophy Symposium

Madison Performance Philosophy Collective invites individuals and groups to propose lecture performances, experimental talks, live art, interactive installations, roundtable discussions, collaborative praxis-based workshops, site-specific work, durational work, relational aesthetics, and digital media at the intersection of performance and philosophy or theory and practice more generally. We welcome a diversity of approaches, styles, and methods. Some sessions may be more heavily weighted toward either scholarship or live art, while others may attempt to strike a balance or produce a hybridization between performance and philosophy. Regardless of a project’s format, an emphasis on participation – such as audience interaction or response structures – is encouraged.

Proposals Due Monday, February 2nd

Read the full CFP here: https://madtheory2015.files.wordpress.com/2015/01/mad-theory-2-cfp2...

Visit the website for last year's MAD THEORY symposium: https://madtheory2014.wordpress.com/

Comment by Andrew Salyer on April 6, 2014 at 5:06

Comment by Andrew Salyer on April 6, 2014 at 5:06

Comment by Andrew Salyer on April 6, 2014 at 5:05

Check out the fantastic lineup of projects happening at MAD THEORY 2014!

http://madtheory2014.wordpress.com/projects

Comment by aharon on February 12, 2014 at 14:56

Hi,

Hope its ok to post here a few questions re proposals..

* How long workshop sessions might be?  
* Can there be more than a single session?  (ie 3 workshops on 3 different days/occasions..)
* Is there a particular physical environment space/place you prepare for workshops? 
-- If so, do you have image/images? 
-- If not, can you provide some information about possible spaces and times..?

Cheers and many thanks!

Comment by Katie Schaag on February 10, 2014 at 7:15

Consider submitting a proposal to the Madison Performance Philosophy Collective's inaugural event, Mad Theory: A Performance Philosophy Symposium. 

We welcome a diversity of approaches, styles, and methods: lecture performances, experimental talks, live art, interactive installations, roundtable discussions, collaborative praxis-based workshops, site-specific work, durational work, and hybrid theory-practice sessions. 

This event is co-sponsored by Performance Philosophy, an international research network, and the A.W. Mellon Art and Scholarship Workshop at UW-Madison's Center for the Humanities. 

Proposals are due March 7. Read the CFP here:  Mad Theory CFP

Comment by Katie Schaag on November 26, 2013 at 7:22

We're really excited about our grant for our April 2014 interim event! More details coming soon!

And, Julia - and Michael -we'd love to have you join us!

Comment by Julia Lee Barclay-Morton on November 24, 2013 at 19:40

Thanks for invite!  I hope to be joining you there in the Fall.  If possible, would love to get to your April event as well. I applied for a postdoc fellowship to research the relationship & possible symbiosis of the sacred-secular, working with William James' 'Varieties of Religious Experience' and aspects of my own performance practice/research. Would love to know what you all are doing/thinking/researching in this ever-becoming-field of Performance Philosophy.