CFP: Political Aesthetics in Musical Viscourses, RIdIM, México City, 23 – 25 Oct 2025

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Call for papers: 24th RIdIM Conference, México City, 23 – 25 Oct 2025 – Extended Paper Proposal Submission Deadline: 31 May 2025
Political Aesthetics in Musical Viscourses

For the upcoming interdisciplinary conference on “Political Aesthetics in Musical Viscourses,” which will take place at the Conservatorio Nacional de Música in Mexico City from October 23 to 25, Association Répertoire International d’Iconograpie Musicale (RIdIM) is inviting scholars and researchers to submit proposals. According to Karin Knorr-Cetina, the term “viscourse” refers to the “integration” of visual representations into continuous communication. The shift in terminology from discourse to viscourse encloses the epistemological potential embedded in visual representations and permits the investigation of visual communication in a “non-discriminatory” and “equative” manner. With an emphasis on how musical themes, such as practices, soundscapes, and sonic expressions, are mediated, represented, and understood through visual means, the conference aims to investigate the intersections of music, politics, and aesthetics in visual representations of music.

Among the themes and subjects are, but are not restricted to

  • Music and the political imaginary: How is music represented visually in resistance, propaganda, or political movements?
  • Protest art and sound activism: How visual culture influences how people perceive protest music and political sound
  • Historical and contemporary representation of music in political viscourses
  • Embodied politics of sound and vision: The ways in which visual narratives, music videos, album covers, and musical performances generally enact political identities (race, gender, class, etc.)
  • Instrumentalization of music in colonial, frontier and imperial enterprises from 15–20th century
  • Censorship in visual-musical media: The function and role of music-related visual art in totalitarian, repressive and authoritarian political contexts
  • Indigenous, post-colonial and decolonial sonic-visual practices: Examining how marginalized and non-Western musical traditions are portrayed in visual media and visual arts
  • The technopolitics of music and visuality: the political ramifications of AI-generated visual-musical media
  • Aestheticized politics and politicized aesthetics: The mutual impact of visual-musical manifestations and political ideas

For further information see: https://ridim.org/call-for-paper-24th-ridim-conference-mexico-city-23-25-oct-2025/


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