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Call for Papers: Association of American Geographers (AAG) Annual Conference,
New York, NY, February 24-28, 2012
Title: Contemporary Nomads: Artists and the Deterritorializing of Place
Organizers: René J. Marquez, Department of Art, University of Delaware and Lance Winn, Department of Art, University of Delaware
This session examines contemporary art as a deterritorializing practice with regard to place. Rather than deconstruct accepted ontologies, today’s artists offer new ontologies of place altogether. In his Altermodern, the Tate Triennial (2009), curator Nicholas Bourriaud proclaims the artist as “cultural nomad;” he posits altermodernism as a “positive experience of disorientation through an art form exploring all dimensions of the present, tracing lines in all directions of time and space.” Bourriaud’s nomad as well as that of Deleuze & Guattari exists in time and space free of physical and conceptual boundaries and borders; the artist nomad re-inscribes geographical understanding and re-invents place.
We seek papers that theorize art deterritorializing place and/or discussions of such artistic practices. Possible topics include: the subversion of borders—physical, conceptual, perceptual, intellectual—by art and artists; the term “public” relative to art; approaches to nationhood, citizenship, identity, and migration; sensory input and sensorial location; among others. This panel presumes no given definition of the word “art;” rather, we seek expanded possibilities of art through considerations of place.
Please submit 250 word max. abstracts to René Marquez, [log in to unmask] by October 10, 2011. Additional details on abstract submission and conference participation are available at the AAG website http://www.aag.org/cs/annualmeeting/about_the_meeting