CFP PROCESS AND PRACTICE: ADAPTATION CONSIDERED AS A COLLABORATIVE ART October 3-4 2014 UCC Cork Ireland

From: "Magshamhrain, Rachel" <[email protected]>

Conference: PROCESS AND PRACTICE: ADAPTATION CONSIDERED AS A =
COLLABORATIVE ART=20
3-4 October 2014, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland

Confirmed Key-Note: Thomas Leitch (Delaware)=20
John Banville will speak in interview about adaptation in the context of =
his work.=20

In a landmark essay of 2003, Thomas Leitch claimed that "several =
fundamental questions in adaptation theory remain unasked, let alone =
unanswered. Everyone knows, for example, that movies are a collaborative =
medium, but is adaptation similarly collaborative, or is it the work of =
a single agent-the screenwriter or director-with the cast and crew =
behaving the same way as if their film were based on an original =
screenplay?" Rather than returning to reductive but seemingly =
never-exhausted debates such as the fidelity issue, this conference =
takes Leitch's question as its starting point, approaching adaptation =
from the point of view of the processes and practices involved. Looking =
at the debate from this perspective makes issues such as authorship, =
originality, genius, even appropriation less important than questions of =
collaboration, ensemble, engagement etc. which now become the critical =
factors in the consideration of an artwork. A focus on the "how?" of =
adaptation dismantles a hierarchical view of adaptation that is caught =
in the gravitational field of originality, fidelity and marked by such =
concepts as primacy and secondarity. Instead the artist is always =
understood to be in relation.=20
This conference invites contributions that focus therefore on the =
creative processes and practices involved in adaptation across the =
entire spectrum of genres and media. Contributions might consider =
adaptive processes and practices in terms of:=20

. The identity of the adapter? The roles of the writer, screenwriter, =
dramaturge, director, actor, translator, composer etc.=20
. Collaborative processes=20
. Audience and Reception=20
. Devising=20
. Re-contextualisation=20
. Re-mediation=20
. Adaptation in the "second degree": adaptations of adaptations=20
. Transfer of knowledge (including adaptation in the context of =
"practice as research")=20
. Brokering between idioms: communication between collaborators in the =
adaptive process=20

Abstracts of no more than 300 words for papers of 20 minutes should be =
submitted to the organizing committee at [email protected] together =
with a short CV by Friday 28 February 2014.=20

Donna Alexander | Bernadette Cronin | Rachel MagShamhr=E1in | Nikolai =
Preuschoff

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