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Concentrationary Imaginaries / Imaginaries of Violence

Marquard Smith — Tue, 05 Apr 2011 00:00:56 +0000

An International Conference organized as part of the AHRC Research Project: ‘Concentrationary Memories: the Politics of Representation 2007-2011′, from 13th-15th April 2011 at the University of Leeds.

Speakers include: Andrew Benjamin, Adriana Cavarero, Ian James, Griselda Pollock and Samuel Weber

Venue: Yorkshire Bank Lecture Theatre, Business School, University of Leeds, Clarendon Road.

For further information, conference schedule, etc., please see the conference website.

Call for Papers: ‘Fragments, Openness and Contradiction in Painting and Photography’ Research Symposium

Marquard Smith — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 23:38:02 +0000

‘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’

Jean-François Chevrier in ‘The Adventures of the Picture Form in the History of Photography’ from The Last Picture Show: Artists Using Photography 1960-1982 edited by Dougals Fogle (Walker Art Centre, 2003).

In preparation for a two day international conference, ‘Tableau/dispositif/apparatus’, at Tate Modern in October 2011 a symposium will be held on Saturday 27 November 2011 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.

Submissions: 500 word abstracts should be submitted by 1 October 2010 to Mick Finch through m [dot] finch [at] csm [dot] arts [dot]ac [dot] uk.

Full Programme for 2010 Visual Culture Studies Conference

SPSL — Thu, 20 May 2010 12:07:37 +0000

To book email info@instituteformodern.co.uk or download the booking form
Date: Thursday 27th May 2010 – Saturday 29th May 2010
Venue: The Old Cinema, University of Westminster, 309 Regent Street, London
Cost: £50/25 concessions, booking essential

FULL PROGRAMME

Thursday 27th May 2010

12:00 Registration

1:00-2:15 Session 1
W.J.T. Mitchell (English and Art History, University of Chicago)

2:15-4:15 Session 2 Roundtable: Education
Mark Dunhill (School of Art, Central Saint Martins College)
Will Cobbing (Wimbledon College of Art)
Joanne Morra (School of Art, Central Saint Martins College)
Adrian Rifkin (Art Writing, Goldsmiths, University of London)
Joy Sleeman (History and Theory of Art, Slade School of Fine Art)
Victoria Walsh (Education and Interpretation, Tate Britain)

4:45-6:30 Session 3
Gary Hall (Media and Performing Arts, Coventry University)
Joanna Zylinska (Media and Communications, Goldsmiths, University of London)

6:30-8:30: Reception

Friday 28th May 2010

10:00-11:15 Session 4
Keith Moxey (Art History and Archaeology, Columbia)

11:15-1:00 Session 5
Divya P. Tolia-Kelly (Geography, Durham University)
David Cunningham (Cultural & Critical Studies, University of Westminster);

1:00-2:00 Lunch (Not provided)

2:00-4:00 Session 6 Roundtable: Design Studies – Visual Studies – Cultural Studies
Glen Adamson (Design/Craft, RCA/V&A)
Sarah Chaplin (Architectural Humanities, Greenwich University)
Elizabeth Guffey (Design, SUNY, Purchase)
Raiford Guins (Digital Cultural Studies, SUNY, Stony Brook)
Guy Julier (Design, Leeds Metropolitan University)
Penny Sparke (Design History, Kingston University)

4:30-5:45 Session 7
Lisa Cartwright (Communication, UC, San Diego)

Saturday 29th May 2010

10:30-11:45 Session 8
Nicholas Mirzoeff (Media, Culture, and Communication, New York University)

11:45-1:30 Session 9

Esther Leslie (Political Aesthetics, Birkbeck, University of London)
Esther Gabara (Romance Studies, and Art, Art History, & Visual Studies, Duke University)

1:30-2:30 Lunch (Not provided)

2:30-4:30 Session 10 Roundtable: The Future Institution: An International Association for Visual Culture Studies?
Michael Ann Holly (The Clark Art Institute, Williamstown)
Jeremy Gilbert (University of East London)
Stephen Melville (Art/Aesthetics/Philosophy, Ohio State University)
Griselda Pollock (Art Histories/Cultural Studies, University of Leeds)
Marquard Smith (Visual Culture Studies, University of Westminster)

4:30 Conference Ends

Organizers: Nicholas Mirzoeff (New York University), Joanne Morra (University of the Arts London), Marquard Smith (University of Westminster, London)