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* Apologies for cross-posting * Final Call for Papers: RGS-IBG Annual International Conference, London, 30 August - 2 September 2016 Beyond interdisciplinarity: Situating practice in the art-geography nexus Sponsored by the History and Philosophy of Geography Research Group Deadline for abstracts: MONDAY 8 FEBRUARY 2016 Conveners: Jethro Brice [log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]> Dr JD Dewsbury [log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]> Prof Owain Jones [log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]> Dr Merle Patchett [log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]> Abstract: The proposed session explores new ways of activating the productive nexus of art and geography: moving beyond familiar, discursive, models of interdisciplinarity to engage seriously with the immediate material efficacies of contemporary art as a mode of spatial enquiry. Recent geographical work has shown a lively engagement with the possibilities and affordances of artistic practice, to incorporate atmospheric and material affect. Art methods are appreciated for their capacity to elicit multiple concurrent registers - to address the nexus of differing, yet interdependent, systems of meaning and doing. Such work has adopted various approaches to cross-disciplinary practice, including critique, conversation and collaboration. What is increasingly apparent - yet remains relatively unexamined - is the potential for new ways of working the relation of art and geography not as two separate systems working alongside one another, but as a generative encounter in which the full potential for new understanding is elaborated in the nexus of creative experimental practice. Rather than a simple borrowing of methods from other disciplines, what is at stake is a dissolution of boundaries in which the very nature of enquiry in certain areas of the social sciences and humanities becomes coextensive with modes of enquiry developed within contemporary art. This session invites methodologically innovative interventions that are situated explicitly within the nexus of artistic and social-scientific-humanities research, extending the scope of such work beyond familiar, discursive, models of inter-disciplinary practice. Submissions may wish to address, but are not limited to, the following areas of interest: § Affective, material, and non-representational methods § Historical alignments of artistic and geographical enquiry § Innovations in collaborative method and form § Challenges and affordances of cross-disciplinary practice § Can a-linear, non-productive rationales persist and thrive in academic spaces? § Witnessing practice-based research: terms of evaluation § Outside the sand-pit: beyond art as public engagement panacea § Experiments with matter and its different organised forms § Problems and possibilities for more-than-human ‘participatory’ methods § Understanding the ‘visual’ beyond discourse and representation Please send abstracts of not more than 250 words and an outline of your proposed format with full details to [log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]> and [log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]> before the 8 February 2016 Jethro Brice / FutureMuseum Doctoral research student University of Bristol, UK 12 Lena Street Bristol, BS5 6DD 0117 902 9043 07810 847 970 t: @jethrobrice <http://twitter.com/#!/jethrobrice> w1: futuremuseum.org.uk <http://futuremuseum.org.uk/> w2: www.jethrobrice.com <http://www.jethrobrice.com/>