[Discussion] CFP: Collage as Cultural Practice

[Gonul Pultar]

From: David Banash <D-Banash@wiu.edu>

Collage as Cultural Practice
University of Iowa, Iowa City
March 24-26, 2005

Call for Papers

The "Collage as Cultural Practice" conference seeks to examine 
interventionist collage practices in all media, with an emphasis on the 
social, political and legal implications of this method of 
appropriation. The conference will interrogate the political and social 
dimensions of collage as a practice that enables oppositional commentary 
across the cultural spectrum: from the leftist collages of the Dadaists 
and Situationists to the unauthorized use of corporate trademarks, 
interventions by queer activists, as well as the more recent flurry of 
internet-distributed anti-war video collage pieces that appropriate from 
the mainstream media in satirical ways.

We seek to bring together scholars of, and practitioners in, the media 
of film and video, music, literature, visual arts and beyond--putting 
together a series of panels, performances and screenings, as well as an 
exhibit at the University of Iowa Museum of Art on "Interventionist
Collage: 'From Dada to Negativland.'"

Confirmed Speakers:

Patricia R. Zimmermann  (Ithaca College, Department of Cinema and 
Photography)
Rosemary Coombe (Canada Research Chair in Law at York University)
Carrie McLaren (Curator of Illegal Art Show, Publisher of Stay Free! 
magazine)
Mark Hosler (Negativland)
Lloyd Dunn (Tape-beatles)
Philo Farnsworth (Illegal Art)
Douglas Kahn (UC-Davis)
Ximena Cuevas (video artist, Mexico City)

Possible Session Topics:

Collage and the Beat Movement
Collage and Copyright
Found Footage Film and Video
Dada & Surrealist Collage,
Situationist and Fluxus Collages
Feminist Strategies of Appropriation
Collage in the Digital Age
Collage: Remixing Cultures
Collage: The Cultural Politics of Appropriation
Collage: From musique concrete to Hip Hop
Collage: Queer Interventions

Send 250-word proposals for papers to
Rudolf Kuenzli(rudolf-kuenzli@uiowa.edu ) or
Kembrew McLeod (kembrew-mcleod@uiowa.edu)
by October 15, 2004.
Conference registration is free.

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