Migrations of Art: Scripting and Staging Subjectivities
We invite you to submit abstracts for the 38th Annual UCLA Art History
Graduate Student Association Symposium, the longest running art history
student symposium in the U.S. This year we will devote a day in response to
the topic “Migrations of Art: Scripting and Staging Subjectivities.”
One of the preoccupations with the production, uses, interpretations and
significance of art has been intricately engaged with the construction of
subjectivities. Such a critical intersection has relevance for visual
practices across cultures, places and times. We propose this conference as a
site of migrations, movements and exchanges of ideas that examine the
economic, political and aesthetic constructions of art and subjectivity in
art history.
“Migrations of Art” seeks to examine the complex connections between art and
subjectivity and to address the ways art and criticism can show the fluidity
and complexity of different subjectivities, from addressing the
multiplicities of subjectivity that result from the migration of people, art
objects and ideas in different localities and moments, to an emphasis on the
destabilization of subjectivities in identity politics. Some related
questions might include: How are personhood (individual or collective) and
historical contexts conceived vis-à-vis the art object? How has the
intersection of art and subjectivity been deployed and understood as a
political (or apolitical) project? How have artists and scholars used the
art object to confer or deny subjectivity to different constituencies? How
have art historians used the art object to construct both the subjectivity
of others and of their respective selves? As people, art objects and ideas
dislocate and relocate, how can we construct knowledge that does not
reproduce hierarchical relationships of power and stabilize subjectivity?
This symposium invites papers from graduate students from all disciplines on
topics that engage such a dialogue. We encourage innovative,
cross-disciplinary topics related to art history and visual culture.
Abstracts of 250 words or less should be submitted along with a C.V. by 15
June 2003 (postmark date).
Abstracts can be sent by mail or email to:
Migrations of Art: Scripting and Staging Subjectivities
AHGSA Symposium
UCLA Department of Art History
P.O. Box 951417
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1417
E-mail: ahsympos@humnet.ucla.edu
For more information go to:
http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/arthist/ahgsa/symposium.html
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