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Apologies for cross-posting, Dear all, Please could you circulate as widely as possible the attached Call for Papers for the forthcoming practice research symposium on ‘Liquidity’, organised by the ADRI Middlesex University Postgraduate Forum. Liquidity – Practice Research Symposium Friday 14 June 2013 Middlesex University Hendon Campus Grove G229 Call for Papers This one-day practice research symposium sets out to explore the many articulations, explorations, and manifestations of ‘liquidity’ in contemporary visual and material culture, history and theory. the symposium offers a unique opportunity for practitioners, researchers and scholars working across different fields to engage with any topic related to ‘liquidity’ broadly conceived. ‘Liquid modern life is a daily rehearsal of universal transience. Today’s useful and indispensable objects, with few and possibly no exceptions, are tomorrow’s waste. Everything is disposable, nothing is truly necessary, nothing is irreplaceable. Everything is born engraved with the brand of death. Everything is offered with a use-by date attached. All things, born or made, human or not, are until further notice dispensable. Paraphrasing an old and famous statement, I would say that a spectre hovers over the liquid modern world, over its denizens and all their labours and creations; and that is the spectre of redundancy.’ Zymunt Bauman, ‘Liquid Arts’, in Theory, Culture and Society, 2007, v.24(1): 117-126 We invite 20-minute presentations from artists, curators, academics, research students, and other professionals in relevant fields – including art, design, architecture and social sciences – that focus on critical and socially-engaged examinations of ‘liquidity’. Proposed themes include: liquid anxieties – liquid architectures – liquid archives – liquid arts – liquid cities – liquid cultures – liquid design – liquid economies – liquid histories – liquid identities– liquid languages – liquid love – liquid memories – liquid modernities – liquid places – liquid sites – liquid states – liquid technologies – liquid thinking – liquid values Deadline Please submit abstracts of up to 300 words together with a 100 word biography by Friday 1 February 2013 to <s[dot]lok[at]mdx[dot]ac[dot]uk> with ‘CfP Liquidity Symposium’ in the subject line. This symposium is organised by ADRI, the Art and Design Research Institute’s Postgraduate Forum at Middlesex University. Find us at http://adri.mdx.ac.uk.contentcurator.net/ < http://adri.mdx.ac.uk.contentcurator.net/> Connect to us at https://www.facebook.com/ADRI.Middlesex < https://www.facebook.com/ADRI.Middlesex> -- Marianne Markowski Middlesex University Website: http://www.cea.mdx.ac.uk/?location_id=106#CurrentStudents Blog: http://researchseniorfriendsonline.blogspot.com/ Linked In: http://uk.linkedin.com/pub/marianne-markowski/6/328/596 -------------------------------------------------------- MeCCSA mailing list -------------------------------------------------------- To manage your subscription or unsubscribe from the MECCSA list, please visit: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=MECCSA&A=1 ------------------------------------------------------- MeCCSA is the subject association for the field of media, communication and cultural studies in UK Higher Education. Membership is open to all who teach and research these subjects in HE institutions, via either institutional or individual membership. The field includes film and TV production, journalism, radio, photography, creative writing, publishing, interactive media and the web; and it includes higher education for media practice as well as for media studies. This mailing list is a free service from MeCCSA and is not restricted to members. For further information, please visit: http://www.meccsa.org.uk/ --------------------------------------------------------