EXHIBITION UNDER CONSTRUCTION: After Arcades
EXHIBITION UNDER CONSTRUCTION seeks to distractedly put on view--through unique
methods of display--a flash of ideas inspired by Benjamin's <The Arcades
Project>. We invite previously unpublished works that delve into the
peripheral, the sensual, the historical, the distracted, and the everyday. The
editors of this proposed volume are working under the premise that the
traditional or standard academic volume of 15-20pg. prose essays is no longer
solely capable of containing (or putting on view) works produced after the
radical epistemological break that is Benjamin's <Arcades>. Instead, this
anthology will serve as a forum/gallery for experimental works incorporating a
wide variety of forms--from the feuilleton, photo-montage, trash, historical
essay, single sentence, ficto-criticism, postscript and archival collage to the
annotated bibliography, dream inscription, documentary poem, "empire vignette",
and ethnography of distraction. Nervous, performative, sentient, visual,
transient, poetic and overdetermined works are particularly welcome.
Potential contributors are asked to examine the editors' two previously
co-edited volumes--these suggest the range and poetics of submissions presently
sought: <Performing Hybridity>, May Joseph and Jennifer Natalya Fink, editors,
(University of Minnesota Press, 1999); and <Visit Teepee Town: Native Writings
after the Detours>, Diane Glancy and Mark Nowak, editors, (Coffee House Press,
1999). Other possible prototype collections include <Encyclopedia Acephalica>,
Georges Bataille et al (Atlas Press Reprint, London, 1995); back issues of the
journal <Xcp: Cross-Cultural Poetics> (http://bfn.org/~xcp); POL(E)TICS:
documenta X-the book (Cantz Press); Anyone Series (MIT Press); Zone Books;
<Refusal of the Shadow: Surrealism and the Caribbean>, Translated by Michael
Richardson and Krzysztof Fijalkowski (Verso, 1996);<Mimesis and Alterity>,
Michael Taussig (Routledge, 1993); etc.
Submissions for <EXHIBITION UNDER CONSTRUCTION> should be sent to both editors,
at the addresses below, by September 1, 2001. Please include current
c.v., e-mail address, and SASE with your submission. Send work to:
Mark Nowak, editor
<_Xcp: Cross-Cultural Poetics_>
601 25th Avenue South
Minneapolis, MN. 55454
May Joseph
Associate Professor, Global Studies
Department of Social Science
Pratt Institute
200 Willoughby Avenue
Brooklyn, N.Y. 11205
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