Telling Stories : Cinema, Criticism, Objects
Loughborough University School of Art and Design
Fridays 9th February, 20th April, 21st September 2007

Call for papers

New modes of critical writing are challenging conventional expectations of
meaning and objectivity through narrative/counter-narrative, authorial
presence, style, language, and rhetoric. This development is also present in
the visual arts. This series of symposia will examine the manner and structure
of narration across a range of contemporary practices (e.g. art object, film,
photography, criticism). A programme of symposia, screenings, performances,
and events will address these preoccupations. Keynote speakers include Martha
Buskirk (Montserrat College of Art), Yve Lomax (Royal College of Art) and Jane
Rendell (Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL)

Proposals for 20 minute papers based on new research (with a view to
publication) are now invited for the following symposia

Cinematic Essay Friday Feb 9th 2007

The 'cinematic essay' is a form that incorporates documentary practices,
dramatised elements and experimental approaches. It emphasises theme over plot
and the discovery of narrative through a reflexive and self-critical approach
to moving image production. Speakers are invited to talk about this genre in
contemporary film practice.

Theories and Criticism Friday 20th April 2007

Writings, which offer alternative forms to synthesis, and the linear and
conclusive, challenge the boundaries between theory and literature and between
the rational and subjective. Speakers are invited to explore the performative
exchange across verbal and experiential disciplines.

Objects and Narratives Friday 21st September 2007

Fashioned or found, the object maintains its status as a familiar trope within
contemporary practice. Speakers are invited to explore the possibilities of
narrative in relation to particular, individual and collections of objects.

Proposals for papers (350 words max) should be sent by email to Jane Tormey
j.tormeylboro.ac.uk. For further information please contact tel 01509 228966

DEADLINE for proposals 31st July 2006
Convenors - Nelson Diplexcito, Mary O'Neill, Jane Tormey, Gillian Whiteley
Contemporary Art Theory Research Group, Loughborough University School of Art
& Design, Leicestershire, LE11 3TU