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Thanks! Posted it here come and likeı the page, if you donıt know it already: https://www.facebook.com/FeminismArtTheory?ref=hl Hilary. On 11/29/12 8:18 AM, "carla cruz" <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > Dear Hilary, here goes > x > Carla > http://www.rca.ac.uk/kraus > > > > On 27 November 2012 15:55, Hilary Robinson <[log in to unmask]> wrote: >> Do you have a url or a pdf for this? - so that it can be publicised on FB and >> other websites. >> Thanks. >> Hilary. >> >> On 11/27/12 10:40 AM, "carla cruz" <[log in to unmask] >> <http:[log in to unmask]> > wrote: >> >>> >>> >>> The Critical Writing in Art & Design programme at the Royal College of Art >>> is pleased to announce the first conference on the work of the American >>> writer Chris Kraus, to take place in London on 13-14 March 2013. Alongside >>> presentations of new interpretations of Krausıs work, the conference will >>> include a reading by the author of some of her writings, an on-stage >>> interview and screening of her films. >>> >>> We are interested in receiving proposals for both academic and non-academic >>> papers on any aspect of Chris K >>> rausıs work, or the themes with which it engages, as well as >>> performative/multimedia responses to her work. We are particularly >>> interested in the following areas: >>> >>> Kraus as novelist: Papers that specifically address aspects of Krausıs >>> novels I Love Dick, Aliens & Anorexia, Torpor, and Summer of Hate. >>> >>> Kraus as intellectual historian: Krausıs writing blurs traditional >>> delineations of ³fiction² and ³nonfiction,² eliciting portraits of such >>> seminal figures as Sylvere Lotringer, Félix Guattari, Simone Weil, Nan >>> Goldin, and William Bronk, to name but a few. Alternately, one might suggest >>> that Kraus uses her work to validate gossip as a serious artistic practice, >>> aligning her endeavor with that of a number of queer and feminist >>> practitioners such as Vaginal Davis, Wayne Koestenbaum, and Dodie Bellamy. >>> >>> Kraus as post-feminist philosopher: As Eileen Myles wrote about I Love >>> Dick, "Chris's ultimate achievement is philosophical. She's turned female >>> abjection inside out and aimed it at a man. As if her decades of experience >>> were both a painting and a weapon. As if she, a hag, a kike, a poet, a >>> failed filmmaker, a former go-go danceran intellectual, a wife, as if she >>> had the right to go right up to the end of the book and live having felt all >>> that. I Love Dick boldly suggests that Chris Kraus's unswervingly attempted >>> and felt female life is a total work and it didn't kill her." >>> >>> Kraus as critic: Papers that explore Krausıs engagement with the >>> contemporary art world, including the art-critical aspects embedded in her >>> fiction. We are also interested in papers that contextualize Kraus as one of >>> the chief proponents of the emerging field of critico-fiction (alongside >>> such figures as Lynne Tillman, Brian Dillon, Maria Fusco, Tom McCarthy, and >>> Eileen Myles.) >>> >>> Kraus as editrix: While Semiotext(e) is widely acknowledged for having >>> introduced ³French theory² into American academia in the 1980s, Krausıs >>> ³Native Agents² series, which proposed a parallel trajectory of radical >>> fiction writing, has seldom been considered. We are interested in critical >>> and historical accounts of Semiotext(e) that focus on Krausıs ongoing >>> contribution to the project. >>> >>> Kraus as filmmaker: In Aliens & Anorexia, Kraus presents a somewhat >>> brutal self-assessment of her previous career as a failed filmmaker. If >>> anything, her early film work failed to find a major audience. In recent >>> years, however, as a result of her success as a writer, a revival of >>> interest in her films has been spawned, with major screenings in New York >>> and Los Angeles. Now is the time for a critical reckoning of Krausıs films, >>> which can potentially be posited within the dialectics of failure. >>> >>> Please submit a 300 word proposal and short biographical statement to >>> [log in to unmask] <http:[log in to unmask]> . If you plan to >>> present your work in a performative / multimedia format, please indicate the >>> nature of any equipment required. The deadline for proposals is 15 January. >>> Invitations to participate will be made at the end of January. The >>> organizers of this symposium are not able to support the travel or >>> accommodation costs of participation. >>> -- Hilary Robinson School of Art Carnegie Mellon University http://people.art.cfa.cmu.edu/people/24-HilaryRobinson