Call for Papers: ‘Fragments, Openness and Contradiction in Painting and Photography’ Research Symposium
‘Fragments, Openness and Contradiction in Painting and Photography’ Research Symposium
‘The restitution of the tableau form (to which the art of the 1960s and 1970s, it will be recalled, was largely opposed) has the primary aim of restoring the distance to the object-image necessary for the confrontational experience, but implies no nostalgia for painting and no specifically “reactionary” impulse. The frontality of the picture hung on or affixed to the wall and its autonomy as an object are not sufficient as finalities. It is not a matter of elevating the photographic image to the place and rank of painting. It is about using the tableau form to reactivate a thinking based on fragments, openness and contradiction, not the utopia of a comprehensive systematic order’.1
Jean-François Chevrier
In preparation for a 2 day international conference, Tableau/dispositif/apparatus, at Tate Modern in October 2011 a symposium will be held on Saturday November 27 at Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design in collaboration with the London Consortium to hear papers which address the nature of pictorial forms in contemporary practice; “fragmented, open and contradictory” which Jean-Francois Chevrier opposes to the “utopia of a comprehensive systematic order”. This symposium is in preparation for the second day of the Tate conference which will be dedicated to the presentation of research papers.
500 word abstracts should be submitted by 1 October 2010 to Mick Finch – m.finch@csm.arts.ac.uk
1. The Adventures of the Picture Form in the History of Photography, Jean-François Chevrier in The Last Picture Show – Artists Using Photography 1960-1982, Douglas Fogle, Walker Art Centre, 2003.
