Dear colleagues
We welcome proposals for our panel 'Creativity in crisis: arts in the age
of austerity' in this year's ASA18: *Sociality, matter, and the
imagination: re-creating Anthropology* (University of Oxford, 18-21
September 2018)
Please help us to circulate this CFP widely, many thanks!
- Ioannis Tsioulakis (Queen's University, Belfast) [log in to unmask]
- Evropi Chatzipanagiotidou (Queen's University Belfast)
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- Fiona Murphy (Queen's University Belfast ) [log in to unmask]
*Panel -Creativity in crisis: arts in the age of austerity*
We invite proposals for papers which analyse the ways in which creative
artists cope with circumstances of 'crisis', particularly in its economic
and social forms. The panel seeks to explore three interrelated themes:
1. Languages of coping: how do creative artists articulate their responses
to the crisis? We welcome ethnographic work that analyses the vocabulary of
crisis-narratives, interrogating concepts such as: resilience, survival,
sustainability, adaptability, resistance, opportunity, and struggle. We
invite papers that reflect on the following: How does language relates to
individual versus collective conceptualisations of 'crisis'? To what extent
are creative artists unique in those attitudes? Is the concept of
'creativity' one possible discourse to cope with crisis?
2. Creative strategies: what kinds of methods do artists employ in order to
survive financially and safeguard the conditions of their creative work?
Engaging with discourses on precarity and resistance, the panel seeks to
understand the strategies that allow expressive artists to retain access to
audiences, careers, employment, and visibility, within conditions of
economic recession and austerity. We welcome presentations that assess how
collective forms of resistance emerge within domains of creative labour,
such as grassroots artistic collaboration, transnational networking, and
intermediality.
3. Crisis aesthetics: are there particular aesthetic forms (for example
audio/visual styles, performance habitus, or production ethics) that emerge
as a result of, and commentary on, the crisis-scape? Under this theme, the
panel will particularly focus on ways in which 'crisis' shapes novel genres
of expressivity, as well as hinders and excludes dominant aesthetic tropes.
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