{"id":2954,"date":"2020-06-17T09:38:57","date_gmt":"2020-06-16T23:38:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/acuads.com.au\/?p=2954"},"modified":"2020-06-17T09:38:57","modified_gmt":"2020-06-16T23:38:57","slug":"the-world-we-want-dystopian-utopian-impulses-in-art-making-call-for-papers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/acuads.com.au\/news-events\/the-world-we-want-dystopian-utopian-impulses-in-art-making-call-for-papers\/","title":{"rendered":"The World We Want: Dystopian & Utopian Impulses in Art Making – Call for papers"},"content":{"rendered":"

The World We Want:
\n<\/b>Dystopian & Utopian Impulses in Art Making
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Edited by Grace McQuilten and Daniel Palmer<\/div>\n
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Call for Papers \u2013\u00a0<\/b>Abstracts due 17 July 2020<\/b><\/div>\n
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\u201cHow can we think in times of urgencies without the self-indulgent and self-fulfilling myths of apocalypse, when every fiber of our being is interlaced, even complicit, in the webs of processes that must somehow be engaged and repatterned?\u201d \u2013 Donna Haraway (2016)<\/div>\n
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\u201cIt is art\u2019s job \u2013 along with the other natural, social and human sciences \u2013 to help articulate how we might inhabit the world in a manner that might promote human thriving not its extermination\u2026. to help show us how another world is possible.\u201d \u2013 Justin O\u2019Conner (2020)<\/div>\n
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Overview:<\/u><\/div>\n
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Contemporary art has a complex relationship to crisis. On the one hand, art can draw us toward apocalypse: it charts unfolding chaos, reflects and amplifies the effects of crisis, shows us the dystopian in both our daily life and in our imagined futures. On the other hand, art\u2019s complexity helps fathom the uncertainty of the world, question and challenge the order of things, and allows us to imagine new ways of living and being \u2013 to make new worlds. This edited collection will look at both artistic responses to crises \u2013 including the climate emergency, global and local inequalities, new forms of racism and sexism and the COVID-19 pandemic \u2013 and the changing nature of artistic production itself. Art making has always responded to the world; how are artists adapting to a world in constant crisis?<\/div>\n
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Possible topics include:<\/div>\n
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\u2013 artistic responses to the COVID-19 pandemic<\/div>\n
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\u2013 artistic responses to the climate emergency<\/div>\n
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\u2013 artistic responses to migration and asylum seeking<\/div>\n
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\u2013 art and mental health<\/div>\n
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\u2013 new forms of collectivity in art making<\/div>\n
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\u2013 new economies of online art making and exhibiting<\/div>\n
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\u2013 utopian and dystopian visions in contemporary artistic practice<\/div>\n
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\u2013 radical pedagogy in times of crisis and the responsibility of art schools<\/div>\n
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Please send a 250-word abstract (or creative submission), together with a short biography, to the editors Grace McQuilten and Daniel Palmer by 17 July 2020:<\/b><\/div>\n
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grace.mcquilten@rmit.edu.au<\/a><\/div>\n
daniel.palmer@rmit.edu.au<\/a><\/div>\n
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The editors will determine the selection by 31 July, with draft texts due 31 October<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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