[AIW] Third NSRN UK International conference - cfp

James Mackay james.mackay at cytanet.com.cy
Mon Oct 4 11:02:35 CEST 2010


Indigeneity and the Arts: Visual Cultures and Communication

 

Proposals are invited for the third Native Studies Research Network UK
international conference, to be held at the University of Kent from July
6-8, 2011. Papers are welcome from all fields and on any topic, though
priority will be given to those that intersect with the conference's key
theme.

 

This year's conference will emphasise visual culture in the broadest terms,
including historical and literary representations of the visual arts and
political uses of and engagements with visual imagery. From the practice of
continuous artistic traditions through contemporary modes of expression,
from photography and film to television networks and digital media, this
year's conference aims to investigate issues such as continuity and change,
aesthetics and ethics, and cultural and political sovereignty.  

 

How, for instance, are artists, museums, and art galleries responding to
Jean Fisher's charge of a "Western tendency to position 'ethnic' artists
outside the discourses of modern experience"? More importantly, how have
indigenous art practices assisted in what Linda Tuhiwai Smith calls "The act
[and art and science] of theorizing our own experiences and realities"? How
have indigenous filmmakers and screenwriters throughout the world responded
to the challenge posed by long histories of misrepresentation? How have
indigenous communities contributed to the advancement of media ethics? And
how have indigenous artists, photographers and filmmakers used such media to
document narratives of survivance and sovereignty? Douglas Cardinal has said
that "Elders remind us to face the future with a computer in one hand and a
drum in the other." What role does technology, particularly digital media,
play in contemporary indigenous arts practices? And what of the relationship
between tradition and new media? These are just a few of the many questions
this conference hopes to address. Proposals are welcome from all
disciplines. 

 

Keynote speakers to include Andrea Carlson (www.mikinaak.com) and Prof.
Stuart Murray (University of Leeds).

 

Topics to consider may include:

 

Museum culture and contemporary art

Traditional art and artistic traditions

Representations of indigeneity in the arts

The literary representation of art and artists

The visual/ocular in literature

Photography and photographic sovereignty

Indigenous TV and film production

Digital art and the World Wide Web

Performance art and political protest

Technology and the arts

Indigenous theatre

Text and typography

Funding in the arts

Cultural sovereignty

ta Moko and tribal tattoos

Cultural appropriation

Image texts/mnemonic writing systems

Native peoples in/and Western art

Border art

 

Please send proposals of no more than 400 words + brief CV to David Stirrup
( <mailto:d.f.stirrup at kent.ac.uk> d.f.stirrup at kent.ac.uk) by January 31st
2011.

 

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