REMINDER CfP DEADLINE: "PROCESS AND PRACTICE: ADAPTATION CONSIDERED AS A COLLABORATIVE ART"

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

Conference: PROCESS AND PRACTICE: ADAPTATION CONSIDERED AS A =
COLLABORATIVE ART

3-4 October 2014, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland

Confirmed Key-Note: Thomas Leitch (Delaware)

John Banville will speak in interview about adaptation in the context of =
his work.

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.

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:

=B7         The identity of the adapter? The roles of the writer, =
screenwriter, dramaturge, director, actor, translator, composer etc.
=B7         Collaborative processes
=B7         Audience and Reception
=B7         Devising
=B7         Re-contextualisation
=B7         Re-mediation
=B7         Adaptation in the "second degree": adaptations of =
adaptations
=B7         Transfer of knowledge (including adaptation in the context =
of "practice as research")
=B7         Brokering between idioms: communication between =
collaborators in the adaptive process

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

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

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