*PRODUCTION**
3rd Annual PhD Student Conference to be held on 4th – 5th July 2011*
organised by the PhD research community at the Centre for Art, Design,
Research and Experimentation (CADRE)
School of Art and Design, University of Wolverhampton.
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Deadline for Abstracts: Friday 27th May 2011*
This conference will address production across a wide array of research and
practice from art, design and craft to music, dance, philosophy, and
cultural studies. Production as topic encompasses a multiplicity of concerns
and questions, and can be approached in aesthetic, social, cultural,
political and economic terms as well as discussed from technical and
practical viewpoints. Production has been both theme and ethic in artistic,
critical and cultural work in the 20th century. Latterly it has been
reconceived in the light of technological and economic changes: our era has
been described as one of post‐production and post‐industrialism in which
dematerialized, communicative, and ‘niche’ artisanal forms replace or
supplement mass production. Production is at once an enduring, and an
evolving, subject. As such we are seeking to explore questions, methods, and
practices that look with fresh eyes at the relations between art, design and
(other) critical disciplines and production, both in the present and
historically.
The object of this conference will be to explore both practical and
theoretical approaches to production. We would like to encourage papers that
open up discussion across different disciplines and bring theory and
practice into dialogue. The aim is to encourage a broad understanding of
production in art, craft & design and performance, both as subject for
analysis and as process.
*Topics and questions which papers might explore include, but are not
limited to:*
• Production, overproduction, and nonreproduction: the shift to ‘immaterial’
forms of production is bound up with social contraction, and now massive
austerity. How is this reflected and or challenged in cultural and artistic
practices? Is culture now leading development or contraction of productive
forces?
• Technique, mass production and niche production. What has driven the
resurgence in interest in craft and artisanal production? How is user‐driven
content reshaping the cultural landscape? How are digital production
platforms – social and artistic – affecting our behaviour as producers,
consumers; audiences and artists?
• Production and value. How do capitalist social relations affect
production, culturally and more generally? Marxist and post‐Marxist
approaches to cultural production have emphasized the impact of the value
form – principally commodification – on production; how has neoliberalism
and now its crisis impacted cultural form, and what critical or
transformative reactions are possible to artistic and academic producers?
How does artistic production as a form of unalienated labour negate or
critique dominant forms of production? What is the relation between
productive forces in culture and general social technique?
• Performance as Production (and Production as Performance). How and what
does reenactment produce? Do tools shape the hands and bodies manipulating
them more than the objects they produce? How is the subject formed by
process?
• Production and Patronage: How does artistic production respond to economic
precariousness? What is the status of critical artistic practice vis a vis
new forms of institutional and private patronage?
• Production as art in academia. What are the limits and possibilities of
planned practice? How can “delay” and “interim” operate in research
practice? What is the relation between (art) practice based PhDs and
commissioning processes in cultural industries?
*Abstracts are invited from PhD students/researchers and should be no longer
than 250 words.
Abstracts should be emailed to: [log in to unmask] no later than 27th May 2011.
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Notification of acceptance: Friday 3rd June 2011.*
Individual conference presentations will last approximately 20 minutes with
a further 10 minutes for questions.
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