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Call for papers:
Art and geographical knowledge
(RGS-IBG Annual Conference, Manchester: 26-28 August 2009)
Session sponsored by SCGRG and HGRG
Abstract:
Are you critic, collaborator, creator, curator? Does your research in some way develop a
relationship between geography and art? A look at recent publications and conference
programs indicates the growing scope of the interrelationship between art and geography
and the increasing range of forms this work is taking as boundaries between
geographers, artists and curators blur. This session aims to explore the scope, methods
and potential of art as a form of geographical knowledge. Papers are invited which
address the what, why and how of this relationship. In other words what sorts of
geographical knowledge can and have art forms participated in the making of? What
potential do geographers find in art and creative practices? And how – by what
mechanisms and methods – does art become part of geographical knowledge making?
It may be that your artistic and creative practices, or those which you study, are
understood as performative of identities, or of ways of being in and relating to particular
landscapes, peoples, places and the environment. It could be that you find in artistic
practice an alternative mode of geographical knowledge making, offering access to
sensory experiences of landscapes, people or places. Or maybe artistic modes of
research and dissemination practices provide more creative modes of geographical
scholarship, or even, more public, or political geographies. In short what value for the
geographer and the artist can be drawn from the consideration and collaboration of art
and geography? Your focus may be contemporary or historical practice and it is certainly
not restricted to visual art. Formats may include but are not restricted to: papers,
videos, performance works, sound works.
Please send ideas, abstracts, enquiries to Harriet Hawkins at [log in to unmask] by
February 2nd 2009. Please include the following information when you submit your
abstract: 
Name, Affiliation, Contact email
, Title of proposed paper, Abstract (no more
than 250 words) and any technical requirements (video, data projector, sound, etc.)
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