CONFERENCE: Making in Two Modes.

This conference explores the work of practitioners, from the
Romantic period to the present day, who both write and make
visual art. Such concurrent 'making in two modes' raises
significant questions regarding the relationship of text to
image, and of both to different forms of thought. It is now
frequently acknowledged that the material and visual dimensions
of writing are crucial to its effects, and that vision is
threaded through with language. But the question remains as to
whether visual art and literature embody different styles of
thinking, or at least configure thought differently. If both
practices are involved in a kind of world-building, with each
governed by its own formal structures, laws, modes of relation,
and species of content, what is the relationship between these
different 'worlds' when they share the same maker? Is it
possible to explore the meaningfulness of each one equally,
without language (as commonly understood) intervening to provide
the master explanatory code? How can we discuss artists' writings
and visual artworks together without folding the means of one
into the means of the other? Lastly, is it possible to construct
a coherent history for the ways in which the stakes of this
dialogue have shifted over time? How far is the nature of these
problems determined by historical circumstance, and how far do
they transcend (or at least partially abstract themselves from)
such determinations? Papers will be delivered by art historians,
literary scholars, philosophers and artists.

WHERE: Crawford Art Gallery, Cork, Ireland.

WHEN: 15-16 September 2010.

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS:

Prof. Graham Parkes (Philosophy, University College Cork)

Prof. Michael Newman (Art History, Theory, and Criticism, School
of the Art Institute of Chicago, and Art Writing, Goldsmiths
College).

CONFERENCE FEE: 40 euro (full price) / 20 euro (students).
To book a place email Liam Lenihan at l.lenihanucc.ie

For abstracts of all papers, please visit
http://www.ucc.ie/en/DepartmentsCentresandUnits/HistoryofArt/Events/mi2m
/ and follow the link.