ART AND BOOK SYMPOSIUM
DUNEDIN SCHOOL OF ART, NEW ZEALAND
October 17-18 2014
Call for Papers/Art
Following five highly successful symposia held at the Dunedin School of Art, from ‘Illustrating the Unseeable: Reconnecting Art and Science’ (2009) to ‘Art and Money’ (2013) - the Dunedin School of Art, together with its partners at the University of Otago – the Depts. of Design and English, the University Library, the Hocken Library and Otago University Press, as well as the Dunedin City Council and Dunedin Public Library, PEN New Zealand and the DSA Foundation, are organising a further Symposium ‘Art and Book’, on October 17-18 2014.
This symposium is in support of Dunedin’s campaign to gain the status of a UNESCO City of Literature in 2014.
Books are the foundation of literate societies across the globe. They hold the history and culture of a society over time, formerly the preserve of revered orators and bards. But books are also artworks – from the clay tablets to parchments, from the paper and print, from the linguistic marks to the binding and decoration. Like paintings and sculptures the have the status of cultural treasures. Within books artists have exercised their skills in design and illustration. Artists’ books have become an acknowledged genre of the visual arts. This symposium is an opportunity to celebrate the book in all these various artistic and design contexts.
This is a call for 20-minute papers, or participation in a round-table discussion, from those engaged within the arts - as artists, art historians or theorists, teachers and cultural workers, and others involved in the wide constituency of the artworld, as well as those engaged in the world of books – writers, illustrators, librarians and the many others whose lives are touched by the use of books in all forms – from those clay tablets to e-books, blogs, online hypertexts and any future manifestations of books.
It is also a call for artists interested in taking part in the exhibition at the Dunedin School of Art Gallery to offer artworks, art events or performances as part of this symposium.
These symposia now have a tradition of gaining book contracts: papers from ‘Art and Food’ will be published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing in the UK in 2014 and ‘Art and Money’ in 2015, and the organisers hope to be able to gain a similar contract with the papers and artworks from this symposium.
There will be no charge for registration. Food and drink will be provided.
Expressions of interest and abstracts of potential papers or other contributions, together with brief bios, should be submitted in the first instance to [log in to unmask] by 1 April 2014 to whom all enquiries should be addressed.
all
best
noel
Dr. Noel Waite
Senior Lecturer
Design | Te Toki a Rata
Department of Applied Sciences
University of Otago | Te Whare Wänanga o Otägo
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Dunedin | Ötepoti 9054
NEW ZEALAND | AOTEAROA
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