CfP: University of Chicago Art History Conference (fwd)
Alan Sondheim
This seems really interesting - Alan
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CALL FOR PAPERS: 2001 UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO
GRADUATE STUDENT ART HISTORY CONFERENCE:
confusion: disorientation and synthesis
29/30 March 2001
Abstracts due: 31 January 2001
The term "confusion" denotes a loss of direction, orientation, or sense; yet
also a weaving, or fusing together, of differences. Confusion operates in a
site of contradiction, scrambling accepted perceptions while unifying
disjointed experience. To be disoriented is to have lost one^s way, one^s
senses; yet it is also to be oriented otherwise, toward different horizons
or histories. To synthesize is to reinvent material against nature, to re-
conceive the artificial, working in excess of natural possibilities.
"Confusion" seeks to explore confusion, through disorientation and
synthesis, demonstrating that loss of sense can serve as a new ground
for understanding.
We are soliciting presentations, 20 minutes in length, from across all
disciplines. We are also seeking presentations of work from those with
extra-academic affiliations, including practicing artists, film-makers,
architects, musicians, DJ's, and designers.
Possible topics include:
^ disorientation ^
- dulling, nulling, or extension of the senses (drugs, Bacchanalia) /
confusion of the senses (synesthesia) / "nonsense" (Dada, experimental
literature and poetics)
- to be lost (labyrinths, rhizomes) / loss (mourning, trauma, death)
- medical "disorientation" (anesthesia, amnesia, schizophrenia,
transgenders) and discourses of bodily normativity (cross-cultural medical
practice / "health")
- urban planning and the city (zoning law, urban history; Situationism,
Archigram, Constant; the flanur) / mapping (Johns, Vermeer, Debord) /
architecture (Eisenman, Libeskind, Piranesi)
- loss of origin / living the postcolonial (native literatures,
indigenous art, poetics of the diaspora) / "Orientalism", contested
histories, cultural hegemony
- "other calendrics" / the time of the other
- typography and visual media (Marshall McLuhan, David Carson, MTV)
- confusion of the audience and performance art
- psychoanalysis / surrealism / film (Hitchcock, Buuel, Cronenberg)
^ synthesis ^
- medicine and pharmacy, in culture, philosophy, and art
(Prozac/Ecstasy, the pharmakon, Damien Hirst)
- new materials in industry, science, or art (nature as invention) /
representing and theorizing the material (Aristotle, Marx, Heidegger, de
Man) / virtual reality, digital effects, technology
- sampling: techno, hip-hop, literature, painting (William Burroughs,
Walter Benjamin, Ninja Tune, Rauschenberg) and chance composition (Cage,
Duchamp)
- sculpture "in the expanded field" (Serra, earthworks, Matta-Clark)
- landscape architecture, gardens, grottoes (rationality and the wild)
- collage, assemblage, montage (Schwitters, Hch, Eisenstein)
- monuments, archives, libraries, cultural memory
Please mail duplicate copies of presentation abstract, by 31 January 2001,
to:
University of Chicago
Department of Art History
Graduate Student Conference
5540 South Greenwood Avenue
Chicago, IL 60637 USA
For questions or more information, you may also contact:
Geoff Manaugh (film...@hotmail.com) or
Whitney Rugg (whitn...@hotmail.com)
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