DEADLINE EXTENSION: The deadline for both creative and critical writing submissions for "Monster
and Critic: Transactions Among Arts, Critique, and Culture(s)" has been extended to January 7,
2002
The 15th Annual AEGS Interdisciplinary Conference at the University of Southern California in Los
Angeles will be held February 22-24, 2002.
Keynote Speakers
JUDITH HALBERSTAM will give a talk entitled “Behind the Scenes: Art, Subcultures and Academic.
MARJORIE PERLOFF of Stanford University will give a talk entitled “Writing Poetry/ Writing About
Poetry.”
MARK HARRIS will screen his 2001 academy award winning documentary, Into the Arms of Strangers
We solicit both critical and creative presentations from all disciplines. They may consider (but
are not limited to) the following questions:
* What roles do the artist and the critic play in society?
* What anxieties exist over the boundaries between art and critique?
* How does the artist take a “critical” role in both producing and promoting his/her art?
* How (and why? in whose service?) does the boundary between art and criticism, artist and critic
get produced and policed?
* Are there such things as art or criticism, artist or critic? In what sense, if any, do they
exist?
* How does "theory" and "theorists" fit into the critic/artist split---as a part of the critic, as
a third term (the “Monster”), as removed altogether?
* How does criticism inform art and art inform criticism?
* How does cultural studies complicate the relationship between art and criticism?
* How does the artist’s interior critic alter his/her art?
* Is the Muse a form of interior critique?
* Do writing workshops promote critical or monstrous behavior/results?
* When the artist loses control and becomes a "monster," how does the critic restrain him/her? And
at what cost to art?
* Who has the authority to critique art?
* What, if any, are artists’ obligations to critique or critique's obligations to art?
Our critical and creative writing CFPs are located at:
http://www.usc.edu/dept/LAS/english/aegs/index.htm
Please send a one page abstract by January 7, 2002 to:
Monster and Critic
c/o David Powell
Department of English
Taper Hall of Humanities
USC, University Park
Los Angeles, CA 90089
E-mail submissions are preferred and may be sent to: monsterandcritic@yahoo.com
(Please include abstract in the body of the e-mail)
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