The deadline to submit abstracts is May 9, 2014.
For more information on submissions, please visit:
www.collegeart.org/proposals/2015callforparticipation


[1]
Fashion and the Contemporary Avant-Garde

Session chair: Charlene K. Lau, York University
Email: cklauyorku.ca

In the words of the critic and art historian Hal Foster, there is a
"need for new narratives" in the history of the avant-garde. This
session provides a platform for fashion within theoretical discussions
of the contemporary vanguard and posits that fashion is one such
genealogy of the avant-garde. However, the term "avant-garde" has become
a catchall in fashion discourse for conceptual, experimental, or
intellectual practices. A more critically rigorous definition of the
avant-garde in fashion is needed for these new narratives to be
possible, one which (re)draws the connections between the vanguard and
its social and political aims. In this vein, papers from across
disciplines are welcome, proposing topics including but not limited to
art and fashion, curatorial studies, display culture, performance and
theater studies, popular culture, and wearable technology. Art and
design historians, artists, critics, curators, and designers are invited
to apply.


[2]
Motion Pictures: Contemporary Visual Practices of Movement and Stillness

Marta Zarzycka, Utrecht University; and Bettina Papenburg,
Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf
Email: m.j.zarzyckauu.nl and bettina.papenburghhu.de.

In Western culture, the depiction of movement in art offers the image of
progress, change, and aliveness; stillness, in turn, signifies retreat,
rest, and contemplation. This panel aims to consider movement and
stillness in contemporary visual practices not purely as themes to be
represented, but also as kinesthetic and affective forces shaping the
engagement between images and their viewers. Artworks have played and
continue to play a major role in educating the senses, and, by way of
this capacity, have the power to challenge the dichotomy of motion and
stasis. How does contemporary art render palpable various kinds of
corporeal, material, and affective mobilities? How do images "move" us,
but also "still" us, inviting a state of contemplation and pause? We
seek contributions that address contemporary practices ranging from film
and photography, to performance, installation, and multimedia art, to
further our insights into the aesthetic experience of movement and
stillness.