Call for Proposals: PERFORMANCE+DESIGN Working Group

PSi #30 Conference: XXX Cruzo, Cruising, Crossroads
Fortaleza, Brazil
11-15 December 2025

x PERFORMANCE + DESIGN x CRUISING CROSSROADS

Performance Studies international (PSi), in collaboration with the Graduate Arts Program at Universidade Federal do Ceará in Fortaleza, Brazil, invites responses to the call for proposals for the PSi #30 Conference in 2025.

Conference theme: XXX — CRUZO, CRUISING, CROSSROADS

PERFORMANCE DESIGN has been proposed as a ‘critical spatial practice’, often carried out by neither trained performers nor designers. As a form of dynamic engagement between bodies and spatio-temporal environments

How and what do PERFORMANCE + DESIGN incorporate to create that complex x-thing that is the sum of and/or negation of the two fields? What strange alchemy, powerful forces, etiolation, and annihilation occur at their intersectional meeting?

For PSi XXX, working groups have been invited to curate their own programs within the overall program. We therefore invite proposals for papers, flash-talks and actions to be submitted for team review by 25th July to be sent to psiperformancedesign@gmail.com

Consider the conference thematics: https://www.psi-web.org/psi-30-call-for-proposals/

As the conference curators write: –

The undecidability of the x-thing is … a sign of complexity, not imprecision. It imparts a critical quality of inconclusiveness that bespeaks the diversified and often conflicting modes of reception and mobilization … [T]he vibrating energy produced by the paradox is way more fertile than the attempt to settle for a conclusion.

PRESENTATION FORMATS:
The conference invites proposals in English, Portuguese, or Spanish, for online, in-person, or blended participation in various formats that include:
• Individual papers: in-person: (12 – 15 minutes
• Flash Talk: 6mins
• Performances 3-4 mins in-session or proposed alternative (with minimal technical support)

25 July 2025: Deadline 200-word abstract with title, 50-word bio and keywords
08 August 25: Notice of successful applications

Contact: psiperformancedesign@gmail.com

Organizers

Dorita Hannah
Dorita Hannah is an independent artist and designer-academic working across spatial, performing, and visual arts. She collaborates with communities and organisations to shape cultural environments, while also co-conceiving, curating, and creating events, installations, exhibitions, objects, and public interventions.

With over 25 years of experience teaching architecture, art, and design, Hannah has developed and launched new academic programmes, including Interior Design, Spatial Design, and Performance Design. Her leadership spans several international initiatives, including roles as Research Curator for World Stage Design, Theory Curator for the Prague Quadrennial, Co-Curator for FLUID STATES, and Design Director for PhoneHome in Chile’s Architecture Biennale.

https://doritahannah.academia.edu/

David Shearing
David Shearing is a multi-award-winning artist and placemaking specialist working with immersive multimedia and community-focused art. His installations, often using video, sound, and natural materials, explore how audiences engage with space and experience. He is the founder of Variable Matter and Senior Lecturer in Design-led Experience and Placemaking at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama. Holding a PhD from the University of Leeds, David’s notable works include New Beginning (2023), The Rising Sun (2022), and Black Rock (2017). He also served on cultural strategy projects, including Havering’s London Borough of Culture bid and its 2025–2028 strategy, A Good Life.

www.davidshearing.com
www.variablematter.com
https://www.cssd.ac.uk/staff-profiles/dr-david-shearing

bruce.barton

Quelle: https://www.psi-web.org/2025/06/14/call-for-proposals-psi-performancedesign-working-group/