CFP 23.04.2021

3 Sessions at UAAC (online, 20-23 Oct 21)

Online / Universities Art Association of Canada, UAAC-AAUC, 20.–23.10.2021

ArtHist.net Redaktion, Université de Montréal

[1] Latin American and Caribbean Art (s): From Where? From Whom?
[2] Visual Arts and the Feminist, Affective Archive: The Present and Future of the Archive in Arts-Based Research
[3] Caresses and Catharsis: On Art and Touch

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[1] Latin American and Caribbean Art (s): From Where? From Whom?

This open session invites scholars, curators, and artists to share their current research on Latin American and Caribbean art (s). The goal is to create dialogue and exchange on the state of those fields. We welcome both contemporary and historical perspectives (from the pre-Columbian period to the present day) and the exploration of a variety of media (painting, sculpture, installation, photography, performance, socially engaged practices, new media, architecture, etc.). We are interested in examining the historical and contemporary presence of Latin American and Caribbean art(s)/artists beyond their traditional geopolitical borders; the inherent intersectionality of those concepts, and also their transmutation in light of past and current migratory and activist movements, technological advances, and sanitary crises; any other topic on art and artists in Latin America and the Caribbean delving into, for instance, the Caribbean’s complex relationship to Latin American.

We accept proposals in French and English | Nous acceptons les propositions en français et en anglais.

Proposals must be sent directly to the session’s chairs Alena Robin <arobin82uwo.ca> and Analays Alvarez Hernandez <analays.alvarezumontreal.ca> by May 16, 2021.

Submissions must include / Les soumissions doivent inclure :
- the name of the applicant / le nom de l’intervenant·e
- the applicant’s email address / l’adresse courriel de l’intervenant·e
- the applicant’s institutional affiliation and rank / l’affiliation institutionnelle et le titre de l’intervenant·e
- title of proposal / le titre de la communication
- a proposal (300 words maximum) / une proposition de communication (maximum de 300 mots)
- a brief biography (150 words maximum) / une courte biographie (maximum 150 mots)

Submissions must be submitted via the following “Call for Papers” form / Les propositions doivent être soumises en utilisant le formulaire « Appel à Communications » suivant : <https://drive.google.com/file/d/1grIE8AwmDPCBGZcFethsqzY0l66NcidW/view>

More information at https://uaac-aauc.com/conference/

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[2] Visual Arts and the Feminist, Affective Archive: The Present and Future of the Archive in Arts-Based Research

Interested scholars/artists/archivists please send proposals to the organizers using this form by midnight May 15:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1grIE8AwmDPCBGZcFethsqzY0l66NcidW/view

Julia Polyck-O’Neill, York University: juliapolyckoneillgmail.com
Leah Modigliani, Temple University, lmodiglianitemple.edu

Dorothy Kim describes the roles desire and emotional affect play in the creation of archives, and in the “political, national, and social forces often at play in creating them” (232). Michelle Caswell and Marika Cifor destabilize and denaturalize the idea of the neutrality of the archive when they position the archivist as caregiver, with “affective responsibilities” (36-38). Zoe Meng Jiang observes how intersubjective experiences between mothers and daughters enact a kind of “soft archive” (35).

Archives have a long association with scholarship in art history and visual cultural studies but approaches to and understandings of the archive have been undergoing social and cultural transformations. This panel invites participants to consider such topics as how feminist methodological, epistemological, and political changes have changed how “the archive” and archival studies are understood and/or used in visual arts-based research, and/or to discuss the use or creation of emerging or alternate archival forms or collections.

Works Cited
Caswell, Michelle and Marika Cifor. “From Human Rights to Feminist Ethics: Radical Empathy in the Archives.” Archivaria no. 81, Spring 2016, pp. 23-43.
Jiang, Zoe Meng. “Soft Archives: Motherhood and Daughterhood in Post-Socialist China.” Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art, no. 1, 2019, p. 35-55.
Kim, Dorothy. “Building Pleasure and the Digital Archive.” Bodies of Information Intersectional Feminism and the Digital Humanities, edited by Elizabeth Losh and Jacqueline Wernimont. University of Minnesota Press, 2019, pp. 230-260.

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[3] Caresses and Catharsis: On Art and Touch

Chairs: Kristen Carter, Florida Southern College, kcarterflsouthern.edu; Jessica Santone, California State University-East Bay, jessica.santonecsueastbay.edu

Lygia Clark’s 1967 “The I and the You” invited two participants to touch each other while wearing conjoined suits that covered their eyes, noses, and ears. For Clark, touch constituted a cathartic and sometimes antagonistic process that interrogated boundaries between self and other. Three decades later, Diane Borsato’s “Touching 1000 People” was a month-long performance of surreptitiously grazing strangers on Montreal streets and buses. Thwarting the gentility of North American personal space, Borsato aimed to improve the city’s wellbeing through intimate contact, in the process recasting touch as curative and creative form. With these projects in mind, we invite papers that explore the cathartic, phenomenological, social, and/or political capacities of touch as creative form in 20th-century body art, performance, and related practices. At a moment when touch has become a source of global anxiety, we turn to these histories for what comfort and instruction they might offer us now.

Please send proposals directly to the chair(s):

Kristen Carter, Florida Southern College, kcarterflsouthern.edu

Jessica Santone, California State University-East Bay, jessica.santonecsueastbay.edu

1. Submissions must include:
- the applicant’s email address
- the name of the applicant
- the applicant’s institutional affiliation
- a brief biography (150 words maximum)
- title of proposal
- a proposal (300 words maximum)

2. Submissions must be submitted via the “Call for Papers” form: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1grIE8AwmDPCBGZcFethsqzY0l66NcidW/view

3. Proposals may be submitted by current members or non-members of UAAC. Non members must become members of UAAC and pay registration fees in order to present a paper at the conference. Membership dues and registration fees must be received by September 20, 2021.

4. Proposals are invited from permanent and contractual faculty, independent scholars and artists, and graduate students in terminal degree programs (examples: PhD, MFA, MDes, etc.) who are engaged in the visual arts (studio practice, art history, visual culture, material culture, museum studies, art conservation, etc.). MA students are not permitted to give papers at the conference.

For more information: https://uaac-aauc.com/conference/

Quellennachweis:
CFP: 3 Sessions at UAAC (online, 20-23 Oct 21). In: ArtHist.net, 23.04.2021. Letzter Zugriff 29.03.2024. <https://arthist.net/archive/33913>.

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