CAA Annual Conference, Chicago, February 12–15 (2014) International
Committee

Session: Artists’ Workspaces: Portability, Contingency, Virtuality

Chair: Kathryn Brown, Tilburg University, Netherlands. Email:
k.j.browntilburguniversity.edu

Artists’ workspaces have long been prized as sites of extraordinary
creative labor. Many discussions of this subject have, however, failed
to keep pace with the theorizing of art from a global perspective.
Moving away from a Eurocentric notion of the ‘studio’, this session
examines the diversity of artists’ working environments in a
contemporary, international arena. Whether virtual realms, social
spaces, portable structures, or fictions, artists’ working
environments have become increasingly varied and mobile spaces of
exchange between producers and consumers of art. What social,
political, or aesthetic significance attaches to such heterogeneous
and locally contingent environments? What underexplored historical and
geographical examples might offer a new trajectory for reflecting on
images of the artist and approaches to art production? This session
aims to identify fresh ways of analyzing how contemporary artists and
their audiences from around the world conceive of and inhabit artists’
workspaces as real, virtual, and imaginary locations.

Please submit a proposal of not more than 2 pages, letter of interest,
CV, and contact information to Kathryn Brown
(k.j.browntilburguniversity.edu) by no later than 6 May, 2013.