Call for Papers

The Journal of Consent-Based Performance invites artists, educators, and scholars engaged with consent-based performance—in theory or in practice—to interrogate our existing practices and propose new ideas in pursuit of increasingly more equitable, ethical, anti-oppressive, and effective consent-based practices within our field. In our endeavor to promote the work of all individuals engaged in improving the intimacy specialization fields, we invite authors to submit any writings centered upon consent-based performance practices. We encourage authors to submit essays that do the work of: 

• Analyzing or interrogating current or past understandings of and approaches to performed intimacy and consent—in theory or in practice
• Questioning or commenting upon the practices that are currently being used to establish consent within performance, modeling continuous adjustment of artistic praxis
• Introducing or investigating theories related to consent and power imbalances in other fields, contextualizing these theories’ potential impact upon the further development of consent-based performance
• Documenting the evolution of consent-based performance and similar intimacy specializations throughout history and our current moment
• Analyzing or responding to artistic productions and writings that engage with simulated intimacy and/or the processes that shape these works.