CFP: Collage as Cultural Practice (10/15/04; 3/24/05-3/26/05)

Collage as Cultural Practice, University of Iowa, Iowa City, March=20
24-26, 2005

Call for Papers

The =93Collage as Cultural Practice=94 conference seeks to examine=20
interventionist collage practices in all media, with an emphasis on the=20=

social, political and legal implications of this method of=20
appropriation. The conference will interrogate the political and social=20=

dimensions of collage as a practice that enables oppositional=20
commentary across the cultural spectrum: from the leftist collages of=20
the Dadaists and Situationists to the unauthorized use of corporate=20
trademarks, interventions by queer activists, as well as the more=20
recent flurry of internet-distributed anti-war video collage pieces=20
that appropriate from the mainstream media in satirical ways.

We seek to bring together scholars of, and practitioners in, the media=20=

of film and video, music, literature, visual arts and beyond--putting=20
together a series of panels, performances and screenings, as well as an=20=

exhibit at the University of Iowa Museum of Art on =93Interventionist=20
Collage: =46rom Dada to Negativland.=94

Confirmed Speakers:

Patricia R. Zimmermann (Ithaca College, Department of Cinema and=20
Photography)
Rosemary Coombe (Canada Research Chair in Law at York University)
Carrie McLaren (Curator of Illegal Art Show, Publisher of Stay Free!=20
magazine)
Mark Hosler (Negativland)
Lloyd Dunn (Tape-beatles)
Philo Farnsworth (Illegal Art)
Douglas Kahn (UC-Davis)
Ximena Cuevas (video artist, Mexico City)

Possible Session Topics:

Collage and the Beat Movement
Collage and Copyright
Found Footage Film and Video
Dada & Surrealist Collage,
Situationist and Fluxus Collages
Feminist Strategies of Appropriation
Collage in the Digital Age
Collage: Remixing Cultures
Collage: The Cultural Politics of Appropriation
Collage: =46rom musique concr=E8te to Hip Hop
Collage: Queer Interventions

Send 250-word proposals for papers to Rudolf Kuenzli=20
(rudolf-kuenzli@uiowa.edu ) or Kembrew McLeod=20
(kembrew-mcleod@uiowa.edu) by October 15, 2004. Conference registration=20=
is free.

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