Involving a global network of interdisciplinary scholars and artists, Performing Space is an ongoing research project exploring the relationship between performance and the built environment from the varying perspectives
of those studying and practicing at the intersection of human activity and its space, such as architecture, archaeology, anthropology, sociology, theatre studies, philosophy, economics, media, and visual arts.
The Performing Space Association, in collaboration with the Department of Performing and Digital Arts of the University of the Peloponnese, is organising the 4th Performing Space conference, with scholarly and performative presentations alongside embodied workshops, to be held in Nafplio, Greece, from 4 to 7 July 2025.
Performing Space 2025 invites all researchers and artists who study and experiment with the relationships between space and performance to submit their proposals for the conference presentations and participation in concurrent workshops. As a ‘post-disciplinary event’ it brings together academics, practitioners and artists with their sociocultural perspectives, all working together to advance the understanding of how our environments are and can be constructed, using the body and performance as tools for knowing space, whether physical or virtual.
As with the last edition, the mornings will be dedicated to presentations, the afternoons to workshops and the evenings to various events. This year, we are offering a new option for proposing 'performative presentations', in which any means of expression can be used to communicate the proposals. However, we will only have time for 12 presentations of this type.
As always, the conference is open to any topic related to performance and space, although in this edition we would like to highlight the following threads:
Pedagogies of Performance
Applications of Site-Specific Performances
Performance-Based Spatial Researchers
Performance and Space in the Social Sciences
Call for Papers
If you would like to present your work in the conference, please send a 300 words abstract by 7 April to info@performingspace.org using the template you can download here.
The workshops will take place in the afternoons of 4, 5, 6 and 7 July in Nafplio. They are aimed at conference participants, but also at professionals, artists, MA or PhD students or people interested in spatial embodiment within given environments. If you would like to apply to participate in one or more of the workshops, please send the completed document by 7 April to info@performingspace.org, which can be downloaded here.
(In a few days we will publish the workshops offered in this edition)
