[Bilimsel Haber] Symposium on Visual Culture

[Sule Tarakcioglu]

CALL FOR PAPERS

Transgressions

Symposium on Visual Culture
Department of Art History, York University
Toronto, Canada
March 17, 2006

The Art History Graduate Students Association of York University cordially
invites proposals for academic and creative contributions to its fifth 
annual
symposium on visual culture, this year with the theme of
“Transgressions.”

Transgression is regularly associated with the rupture in artistic forms and
discourse that emerged in the 1960s and 70s, yet the concept applies to many
facets of art and visual culture from all periods. Literally meaning to
“step across” boundaries, we relate transgression to an expanded
discourse within art history, extending to interdisciplinarity and visual
culture, and beyond canonicity and traditional artistic practices and
privileges. While we hope to reflect on this expansion of the field, we 
welcome
research on a variety of modes of transgression in representation. These
transgressions may relate to:

-The Body: crossing lines of gender and sexuality, race and ethnicity;
(dis)abilities; cyborgs and automatons; abjection; hybridity; 
interior/exterior
boundaries.
-Ideologies: transgressive politics;“truth” and its fictions;
shifting paradigms; theoretical trespassing; feminist, queer, and 
postcolonial
revisions.
-Space and Place: architectural transgressions; interstitial spaces;
transnationalism; the atopic.
-Discipline: interdisciplinarity in art and its histories; 
transgressions of the
archive; intertextuality; political/apolitical dimensions of the medium;
deterritorialization.
-The Object: transformation of the art object and its venues; art after
dematerialization; the challenges of objecthood.
-Exhibition: personal and cultural modes of collection and display; 
public vs.
private space; institutional upsets; historical diversions; new directions.

We invite proposals for 15-minute presentations from interested graduate
students of all disciplines. Formats may include presentations of academic
papers or artist talks accompanied by images or screenings. Panel 
entries are
also encouraged. Please submit abstracts or artist statements of 250 
words to
yorkarthistory@yahoo.ca by FEBRUARY 13, 2006.

Art History Graduate Students Association
York University
256 Centre for Fine Arts
4700 Keele St.
Toronto, ON
M3J 1P3 CANADA

Email: yorkarthistory@yahoo.ca


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