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From: "Moritz Neumueller" <[log in to unmask]> To: <[log in to unmask]> Subject: Call for papers (to all members of the SOCIETY FOR CARIBBEAN STUDIES) Date sent: Wed, 4 Dec 2002 02:47:21 +0100 I visited the SOCIETY FOR CARIBBEAN STUDIES Web page and found out that we are working in related fields of study. Therefore, I am pleased to invite all members of the SOCIETY FOR CARIBBEAN STUDIES to participate in the creation of an interactive CD-ROM to be published in conjunction with our exhibition project "el otro lado del alma". Thirteen contemporary Cuban artists with a total of more than 80 works will be shown at La Fototeca de Cuba, Havana<RIGHT SINGLE QUOTATION MARK>s National Museum of Photography, in "el otro lado del alma: Afrocuban Religions in Contemporary Photography", opening to the public on February 11th, 2003. This is the first photo exhibition on the religious theme in Revolutionary Cuba. It was organized by the young Austrian curator and documentary film maker, Moritz Neumueller, together with Fototeca chief curator, Nelson R. de Arellano. The participating artists are: Pedro Abascal, Juan Carlos Alóm, Jorge Luis Álvarez Pupo, Raúl Cañibano, Elio Delgado, Ricardo Elías, Kattia García, Liudmila y Nelson, Humberto Mayol, Ramón Pacheco, René Peña, Marta María Pérez Bravo, and Sandra Ramos, all from Cuba. The interactive, multilingual CD-ROM shall include all the shown works, as well as a rich archive of texts on the role of Afrocuban religions in Cuban politics, society, art and Cuban national identity. The design of the CD-ROM will correspond with our exhibition Web page www.afrocuban.org. So far, we have accepted proposals by Natalia Bolivar, Eugenio Valdés Figueroa, María Iliana Faguaga Iglesias, G. Ugo Nwokeji, Nelson R. de Arellano and Moritz Neumueller. Please send your submission electronically in the formats HTML or MS WORD, images as JPG or GIF. Papers are accepted in any language, but should come with an English summary. We encourage bilingual authors to submit their papers in a full Spanish and a full English version. Authors of accepted papers will receive two free CD-ROMs and a 50% discount on the catalog. Please send your contributions as soon as possible to Moritz Neumueller, PhD. [log in to unmask] Weissgerberlaende 58/2/21 A-1030 Vienna, Austria Phone: +43-1-9660544 Mobile: +43-676-75 11 949 Fax: +43-1-7145673 DEADLINE IS JANUARY 20th, 2003. PLEASE SEND THIS CALL FOR PAPERS TO ANYBODY YOU CONSIDER INTERESTED IN THIS AREA OF RESEARCH! Maferefún and best wishes, Moritz Neumueller, PhD Independent Curator ### Further information: El otro lado del alma, translated as <LEFT DOUBLE QUOTATION MARK>the other side of the soul<RIGHT DOUBLE QUOTATION MARK> will present, for the first time in Cuba, contemporary Cuban photography and video art which reflects the Afrocuban Religions. <LEFT DOUBLE QUOTATION MARK>While Cuban art must not be viewed apart from the international movements it interacts with, its Afro-Cuban heritage, especially the role of Santería Aesthetics has been prominently discussed in theory and practised in installations, performance art, painting and sculpture. In photography and video art, however, this rich pattern of influences is somewhat harder to grasp, as a technical device has to intermediate in the dialogue between the imagery and its creator<RIGHT DOUBLE QUOTATION MARK>, says the curator of the exhibition, Moritz Neumüller from Vienna, Austria. Nelson R. de Arellanos, Chief Curator of the Fototeca de Cuba, explains: <LEFT DOUBLE QUOTATION MARK>For political and historic reasons, that part of Cuban photographic production unrelated to the social reality of the Revolution did not find any interest for many years<RIGHT DOUBLE QUOTATION MARK>. Firstly, documentary religious photography was not promoted by the art institutions, therefore lacking greater public echo. Secondly, the formal aperture of Cuban photography towards more <LEFT DOUBLE QUOTATION MARK>conceptual<RIGHT DOUBLE QUOTATION MARK> tendencies did not happen before the 80s, only then allowing the development new approaches to the religious theme. There is a broad spectrum of how contemporary Cuban photographers work with the religious subject matter. At a quick glance, one might say that the one end of that spectrum is defined by photographic reportage-style works of those artists who document religious ceremonies and processions, while the other is marked by those photographers who inscribe the symbols of a genuinely Afrocuban language into still-lives and on their own bodies in order to produce polysemous sign systems, or those who choose a more conceptual approach to transculturation. However, this simplistic view ignores the individual artists<RIGHT SINGLE QUOTATION MARK> profound interpretation of the collective spiritual memory of a nation that has been called <LEFT DOUBLE QUOTATION MARK>Latin-African<RIGHT DOUBLE QUOTATION MARK> by its supreme leader. Historic references, such as José Agraz Solans<RIGHT SINGLE QUOTATION MARK> famous series that soon became known as <LEFT DOUBLE QUOTATION MARK>Mesajero de Ochún<RIGHT DOUBLE QUOTATION MARK> (Messenger of Oshun), and Ana Mendieta<RIGHT SINGLE QUOTATION MARK>s <LATIN SMALL LIGATURE OE>uvre prove the complex interference between Cuban photography and the religious subject matter. The curator, Moritz Neumueller, concludes that <LEFT DOUBLE QUOTATION MARK>the fantastic iconography of the Afrocuban religions and their relation to the richly facetted Cuban photographic tradition invite a careful look at these young artists from Cuba in order to uncover new insights into el otro lado del alma, the other side of the soul<RIGHT DOUBLE QUOTATION MARK>. This exhibition will also be accompanied by an original 20 min. documentary on Afrocuban spirituality produced by the curator and his team. A multilingual, 40 page printed catalog, including texts by Natalia Bolívar (one of Cuba's most important anthropologists) and an essay by the Cuban art critic Eugenio Valdés Figueroa, will be published for the touring in Europe, Latin America and the US until the end of 2005. Moritz Neumueller, PhD. Weissgerberlaende 58/2/21 A-1030 Vienna, Austria Email: [log in to unmask] Phone: +43-1-9660544 Mobile: +43-676-75 11 949 Fax: +43-1-7145673 Moritz Neumueller, PhD. Weissgerberlaende 58/2/21 A-1030 Vienna, Austria Email: [log in to unmask] Phone: +43-1-9660544 Mobile: +43-676-75 11 949 Fax: +43-1-7145673 --- End Forwarded Message --- Dr S.E.Courtman School of Humanities P.O.Box 661 Staffordshire University College Road Stoke-on-Trent Staffordshire ST4 2XW Tele. +44 (0)1782 294666 Fax. +44 (0)1782 294760 email [log in to unmask]