Call for Papers:  Techniques of Art and Protest

September 18th, King’s College London

 

Techniques of Art and Protest is an open, interdisciplinary meeting aiming to create a transversal knowledge exchange between artists, activists, curators, independent researchers, students and early career scholars from a range of fields.  The meeting aims to be a place for generating new connections and resources for those exploring the intersections between the aesthetic and the political.  

 

Keynote speakers:

Jeremy Gilbert, Professor of Cultural and Political Theory, University of East London.

Janna Graham, Writer, organiser, educator and curator.

 

Proposals:

We welcome proposals for artwork, performances, paper presentations, provocations, and particularly encourage submissions for interactive workshops and discussion sessions that enable participants to critically engage with each other’s practices. Suggested topics may include, but are not limited to:

 

Aesthetics and politics: We would like to consider how different forms of aesthetic communication contribute to both the social and political sphere, and how institutions engage with and ‘frame’ political art practices.

 

Art, activism, and corporeality: How are gender and race embodied and manifested in confrontations with state power? How can artistic practice provide a space for politicised expressions of gender and race? What issues around affect and ‘care’ must we considered in the context of embodied protest and repression?

 

Art, pedagogy and activism: What are some of the ways in which art, pedagogy and activism intersect to create new platforms for political engagement?

 

Activism, spatiality and materiality: Gentrification and the arts, affirmative social change, reflexive social engagement within communities; we would like to consider how our responses to changes in the urban landscape impact social and cultural movements.

 

Art, politics and labour: Artistic mobilisations can experiment with new organisational models and processes; what are some ways in which we can begin to create a sustainable cultural commons through such practices?

 

Please submit a 300 word proposal by June 5th 2015. Proposals should include the title of the contribution and state whether the proposal is for a paper presentation, artwork, workshop session, or other contribution*. Proposals, along with authors’ contact information should be submitted via e-mail to PLANK at [log in to unmask] with "Techniques of Art and Protest" in the subject line.

 

*Please note paper presentations should not be longer than 10 minutes, in order to allow more time for discussion during sessions. Submissions for workshops/discussion sessions/panel proposals should normally be between 45 minutes and 2 hours.

 

Authors/contributors will be informed of the outcome of their proposal by June 30th.

 

This event is organised by the Politically Led Art & Networked Knowledge (PLANK) research group, and supported by the Graduate School at Goldsmiths College, and the Department of Culture, Media & Creative Industries, King’s College London.

 

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