International Conference « Marguerite Duras and the Arts »
Organised in partnership with Société Internationale Marguerite Duras (International Society Marguerite Duras) by Dr Michelle Royer
Department of French Studies, University of Sydney (Australia),
30 June – 1st July 2016.
2nd CALL FOR PAPERS
By the time this conference takes place in 2016, 20 years will have passed since the death of Marguerite Duras. However this gathering will not be a commemoration. On the contrary, it will aim at opening new research perspectives on Duras’ relationships with the arts and will be an opportunity to explore parallels, influences, cross-fertilisation and exchanges between Duras’ work and the arts of the 20th and 21st century. Duras had always refused a narrow and compartmentalised definition of literature and cinema and although her work has often been associated with other art forms: painting, photography, music, poetry, the relationships between Duras’ work and the arts are still largely unexplored.
This conference will provide the opportunity for researchers to address the questions of the interactions between Duras and the arts of the 20th century, and will welcome comparative and interdisciplinary approaches on Duras, the arts, and other artists of her time.
The second axis of the conference will aim at re-framing Duras’ work in the context of the artistic production of her era. For example how her trajectory as a writer and filmmaker who never ceased to challenge the limits, frontiers and intermediality between the arts has been a productive strategy to address and explore the most important questions of the 20th century.
Much has already been said about the destructive dynamic of her work and its asceticism, but her work is also of a great beauty, transgressive and inspired by poets, writers, musicians, actors, singers, filmmakers and photographers coming from diverse cultures. Duras’ literature and cinema continues to engender new artistic, literary, theatrical and cinematic creations in France and across the world and to inspire young artists.
The exhibition Duras Song (2014) curated by the artist Thu Van Tran with the art critic Jean-Max Colard is symptomatic of this momentum. It turns the life and work of Duras including her writing process, into a work of art which assembles manuscripts, typescripts, newspaper articles, photos, audio-visual material, fiction films and documentaries. This will be the third axis of the conference and a variety of topics can be considered:
• Duras and artists: influences of painters, sculptors, musicians, writers, poets, filmmakers, photographers etc.
• The writing process as work of art
• Duras’ discourse on the arts in paraliterary texts : collection of articles, radio and television interviews, newspaper articles, exhibition catalogs, etc.
• Synesthetic perspectives on Duras’work, what it borrows from other arts : poetry, music, painting, photo, dance and choregraphy, songs etc.
• Duras and oriental arts
• Duras’ legacy : filmmakers, writers, painters, photographers, videoartists have been inspired by Duras’ texts and films. Is it possible to make comparisons, establish links, conscious or not, between Duras’work and the art of contemporary artists, young playwrights, filmmakers and videoartists.
• Duras and foreign artists : intertext and reception.
This list is not restrictive.
Language of the conference: we expect that most papers will be in French, however, papers in English are welcome.
Please send your 200-300 word abstracts for papers of 25 minutes to: Michelle Royer: [log in to unmask] before 1st August 2015.
Acceptances will be sent by 15 September 2015
Note that travel and accommodation expenses will not be covered by the conference.
Website: http://sydney.edu.au/arts/conference/duras/index.shtml
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