2023 Berkeley-Stanford-SFMoMA Symposium
In-Between: Art and Cultural Practices From Here

"I say we're caught between two worlds—at least two. That's pura bicultura [pure biculture] for me. We didn't theorize postcoloniality after the fact, learn about it from a workshop, or wait for multiculturalism to become foundation lingo for ‘appreciating diversity’—we lived it and still struggle to make art about it."

– Coco Fusco, English is Broken Here: Notes on Cultural Fusion in the Americas

The 2023 Berkeley Stanford SFMoMA Symposium In-Between: Art and Cultural Practices From Here confronts the potentials of those people, spaces, things, ideas, and experiences of the past, present, and future, as they manifest between categories of analysis we might have inherited from canons past.

Situating the symposium within the conceptual space of the “in-between,” we ask our participants to join in proposing new frameworks of hybridity and transdisciplinarity. These approaches are grounded in transregional and intersectional practices that, nonetheless, engage with specificities of place.

We invite participants to propose presentations within the disciplines of art history, art practice, and visual culture across all time periods addressing topics that may include but are certainly not limited to the following:

Beyond the colonial gaze
Local histories and aesthetics
Borderlands and sites of the in-between
Cut, suture, stitch
Potential histories
New cartographies
Problematics of border-being
Liberating the archive
Translation and transmission
Vernacular art
Activism and social movements
Proliferation of aesthetics
De-linearized time and history
Transindividuality
Climate-induced changes
Human-more-than-human interaction

We welcome abstracts or other pitches of no longer than 300 words by February 28, 2023. Presentations should not exceed 20 minutes; we will reserve time for discussion at the end of each panel. The symposium is open to scholars and graduate students in any discipline, as well as artists, critics, and curators. In addition to the abstract or pitch, please also submit:
--A participant bio
--A description of any necessary support and technical needs you may have beyond a standard microphone and projector.

Please submit via e-mail to berkeleystanford2023gmail.com.

Organized by: Alexandra Adams, Josh Feng, Andrea Jung-An Liu, Maria Shevelkina, and Sofía Silva