FOURTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON THE ARTS IN SOCIETY
28-31 July 2009
Venice, Italy
http://www.Arts-Conference.com
The International Conference on the Arts in Society and the International
Journal of the Arts in Society provide an intellectual platform for the arts
and art practices, and enable an interdisciplinary conversation on the role
of the arts in society. They are intended as a place for critical
engagement, examination and experimentation of ideas that connect the arts
to their contexts in the world - in studios and classrooms, in galleries
and museums, on stage, on the streets and in communities.
The 2009 Arts Conference will coincide with the Venice Biennale, and will be
held in conjunction with featured exhibitions and programs. The occasion of
the Venice Biennale provides an opportunity for the Conference to serve as a
node in the larger phenomenon of fairs, festivals, and their networks. As
such, the Arts Conference aims to discover what values, instincts and common
ground may exist within the arts and their practices and sites of reception
around the world. Your participation shapes the Conference itself.
The theme of this year's Conference is Art and Transnationalism. It focuses
dialogue on the arts and art practices that may be situated within the
context of international art expositions, festivals and biennials which are
engaged with the transnational production of art and its global distribution
networks. The scope is deliberately broad and ambitious. Our times demand
nothing less than interdisciplinary and holistic approaches. The breadth of
the Conference and the Journal, however, are without prejudice to finely
grained discussion of specific, local and grounded practices.
Plenary speakers include:
* Judy Chicago, Artist, Author, Educator. Founder, first feminist art
program in the USA (1971), and co-founder of CalArts Feminist Art Program.
Her groundbreaking work, "The Dinner Party," is now part of the permanent
collections of the Brooklyn Musem and its new Elizabeth Sackler Center for
Feminist Art.
* Dr. Tomasz Wendlund, Artist; Director, MEDIATIONS Biennale, Poland;
Lecturer, Sommer Akademie in Rheinau, Switzerland.
* Barbara Fischer, Faculty, Curatorial Studies, University of Toronto,
Canada; Curator for Mark Lewis at the Canada Pavilion for the 53rd Venice
Biennale in 2009.
* Aaron Levy, Founding Director of Slought Foundation, Philadelphia, USA;
Curator, "Into the Open: Positioning Practice," for the US Pavilion of the
Venice Bienale's 11th Architecture Exhibition, 2009.
* Dr. Nancy Mithlo, Faculty, Art History and American Indian Studies,
University of Wisconsin, Madison; Curator/Co-Founder of numerous Native
American exhibitions and projects to create a presence at the Venice
Bienale, from 1999-2009; Co-Curator of "Requickening" Project with the
University of Venice.
Please continue to visit the Conference website as additional plenary
speakers are added to the Conference program.
In addition, the Arts Conference will also include numerous individual
paper, workshop and colloquium presentations by artists/practitioners,
teachers and researchers. We invite you to respond to the Conference Call
for Papers. Presenters may choose to submit written papers for publication
in the fully refereed International Journal of the Arts in Society. If you
are unable to attend the Conference in person, virtual registration options
are also available which allow you to submit a paper for possible
publication in the Journal.
Whether you are a virtual or in-person presenter at this Conference, we also
encourage you to present on the Conference YouTube Channel. Please select
the Online Sessions link on the Conference website for further details.
The deadline for the next round in the call for papers (a title and short
abstract) is 12 March 2009. Future deadlines will be announced on the
Conference website after this date. Proposals are reviewed within two weeks
of submission. Full details of the Conference, including an online proposal
submission form, are to be found at the Conference website -
http://www.Arts-Conference.com/.
We look forward to receiving your proposal and hope that you will be able to
join us in Venice in July 2009.
Yours sincerely,
Tressa Berman, Ph.D.
For the Advisory Board, International Conference on the Arts in Society and
International Journal of the Arts in Society
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