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Performance Studies international #12: Performing Rights
14 – 18 June 2006, London

Performance Studies international in collaboration with Queen Mary,
University of London, East End Collaborations and the Live Art
Development Agency announce the opening of registration for their
major international conference and performance festival Performing
Rights which takes place across the East End campus of Queen Mary,
University of London, from June 14 – 18, 2006.

To register for the conference (and take advantage of early booking
rates) go to: http://www.psi12.qmul.ac.uk

Performance Studies international (PSi) is an international
powerhouse of innovation for academics, artists and activists,
holding annual conferences across the globe. In London for the
first time, PSi 12 will focus on questions of performance and human
rights and will feature plenary addresses, numerous panels and
commissioned performances, a diverse programme of challenging and
innovative live art and theatre, practical workshops, a space for
debate and presentations, and the making of an archive of
performance activism in support of human rights. Bringing together
curators, policy makers and directors of some of London’s key
cultural agencies and institutions, alongside artists, activists
and thinkers from all over the world, this event will be a unique
crossing between the arts, the academy, activism and public policy.
Human rights are too important to leave to the politicians. How
does performance practice and thinking open up new possibilities
for the understanding, enactment and sustenance of human rights?
Queen Mary, University of London will become an open, public
platform where the making and unmaking of human rights can be
debated and performed.

Participating artists, activists and writers include: Irene Khan
(Secretary General of Amnesty International), Guillermo Gomez-Pen~a,
Peggy Phelan, Luiz Eduardo Soares (former Brazilian Minister for
Public Security) John Jordan, Karen Finley, Jon McKenzie, Lois
Weaver, William Pope.L, Goat Island, Coco Fusco, Alan Read, Nao
Bustamante, Amelia Jones, Zai Kuning, Bobby Baker, Baz Kershaw,
Naeem Mohaiemen, Curious, Gustavo Ciriaco, Luiz De Abreu, Leibniz,
Peggy Shaw, Chumpon Apisuk, Paul Heritage, Anjalika Sagar and Kodwo
Eshun of the Otolith Group, Rebecca Schneider, Richard Dedomenici,
Janelle Reinelt, Gavin Butt, Stacy Makishi, Monica Ross, Rabih
Mroue, Adrian Heathfield, Diana Taylor, Franko B, Freddie Rokem,
Carol Becker, Jose Esteban Munoz, Peta Tait, Mike Pearson, Jen
Harvey, Yara El Sherbini, Adrien Sina, Oreet Ashery, Reem Fadda,
Nick Ridout, Una Chaudhuri and Eduardo Bonito.

The conference will present the work of participants from over
thirty different countries including: Brazil, USA, Egypt, Israel,
Bangladesh, Japan, Malaysia, Indonesia, Singapore, Australia,
Austria, Turkey, Denmark, Croatia, Romania, Germany, France, UK,
Ireland, Mexico, Lebanon, Morocco, Greece, India, Pakistan, Taiwan,
China, the Czech Republic, Finland, Argentina, Canada, Nigeria,
Switzerland, Italy, and Zimbabwe.

Over four hundred participants are anticipated for this conference
and hundreds more will come to the galleries, installations,
performances and workshops that will be run throughout the four days.

Register to reserve your place now: http://www.psi12.qmul.ac.uk

Here you will also be able to access on-campus accommodation
details and booking. Full details of the schedule of panels,
presentations, installations and performances will be available
closer to the time. Registration at the conference includes
membership of PSi for 2006.

For more information on PSi go to: http://www.psi-web.org

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Andrew Mitchelson
Live Art Development Agency
Rochelle School
Arnold Circus
London E2 7ES
United Kingdom

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**UPCOMING EVENTS - PSi #12: Performance Rights, London, 14 – 18
June 2006**
As part of this year’s Performance Studies international (PSi)
conference, Queen Mary, University of London, in collaboration with
East End Collaborations and the Live Art Development Agency will be
presenting a festival investigating the boundaries and
relationships between Human Rights and performance. Further info:
www.psi12.qmul.ac.uk

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