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On 10/5/08 12:03, "Vanessa Corby (V.Corby)" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Creative Practice/Creative Research
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> Materiality/Process/Performativity
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> Symposium July 10-12 2008
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> York St John University
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> In Artforum in April 1970, sculptor Robert Morris noted with regret that
> creative process held little sway for the meanings imbibed for 'art' by
> contemporary criticism and the histories of art. His insistence on the
> imperatives of what he named 'the submerged side of the iceberg' came on the
> cusp of the 'New Art History.' The advent of post-modern theory and the social
> history of art located the material production of art at an intersection of
> history and the social. Practice was thus liberated from the
> (psycho)biographical expressivity and mastery of the gesture. Hitherto these
> had been the only means by which making had been thought. And yet the object
> of critical and historical discourse has remained profoundly visual. Situated
> in the gallery like so many dead objects 'art's' materiality, the trace of a
> means to an ends, has remained caught between formalism and semiotics. It is
> that to which theory has been applied and by which history is index after the
> fact.
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> Creative Practice/Creative Research seeks to elucidate and participate in the
> generation of a body of scholarship written by both critics and practictioners
> that has begun to transform the theoretical and historical frameworks through
> which art's making can signify.
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> To insist upon the work of art as a 'co-poiësis' (Ettinger, 1997) of 'poiëtic
> revealing' (Bolt, 2007) is to read art production beyond the locus of a
> discrete subject bound solely to the paradigms of 'representation.' Rather
> such a shift foreground the 'dialogical' and 'per formative' means through
> which art's work may lead research. The emergence of this practice led
> intervention thus transforms the territories by which 'work' and materiality
> may be encountered by maker and viewer.
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> This international symposium seeks to creatively draw from emerging and
> established voices in the practice, criticism, history, and curation of the
> creative arts. It seeks to explore the particular logic, diversity and
> implications of the work of art both for its own sake and for the history of
> art and art criticism, cultural theory, curatorial practice and the pedagogies
> of art.
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> Speakers
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> Steve Baker, UCLAN, UK
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> Estelle Barrette, Deakin University, AUS
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> Rosemary Betterton, Lancaster University, UK
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> Barb Bolt, University of Melbourne, AUS
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> Vanessa Corby, York St John University, UK
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> Bracha Ettinger, European Graduate School, Switzerland
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> Pam Longobardi, Georgia State University, USA
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> Roddy Hunter, York St John University, UK
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> Linda Weintraub, Independent Scholar, USA
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> Elizabeth Watkins, Bristol University, UK
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> Proposed Panels
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> Material Thinking: Practice Led Interventions in the History of Art
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> Bodies of Knowledge: Genders, ethnicity, sexuality, class
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> Eco-Logical Practice
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> Unruly Objects: Materiality/Process/Performativity
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> Dance and the Document: Tracking Performativity
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> Processing Memory/Psychic Mechanisms
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> Pedagogy & Practice Led Research
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> Website @ www.yorksj.ac.uk/creativepractice
> <http://www.yorksj.ac.uk/creativepractice>
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> Abstracts for papers may be submitted via email by 6th June 2008
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> James Alexander, Senior Administrative Assistant-Project & Outreach
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> Faculty of Arts
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> York St John University
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> Lord Mayors Walk
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> York
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> YO31 7EX
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Carolyn Bew
ADM Subject Centre
University of Brighton
Faculty of Arts and Architecture
68 Grand Parade
Brighton
Sussex
BN2 9JY
01273 643175
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