CFP: It Begins With A Story: Artists, Writers and Periodicals in Asia (11-13 Jan 2018, Hong Kong)
This symposium asks how periodicals in Asia across the 20th century have fostered conversations about art and emergent forms of visuality. We are interested in how periodicals constitute genealogies of language and nomenclatures around the modern, the contemporary, the indigenous, the nation, arts and crafts, and tradition.
Light, affordable, and foldable, periodicals travelled with unprecedented speed from writer and artist to printer, and from mail service to reader. These circuits of ideas, practices, and readerships created (and were created by) new sites of experimentation in print technologies, illustration, graphic design, and forms literary and artistic. Their portability opened possibilities for the translation and transposition of ideas across media, language, culture, and geography.
‘Periodical time’—the monthly, the fortnightly, the weekly, or at times, the single issue—became a way of serving and forming diverse publics, with spaces including popular, cultural, and literary magazines; newspapers; self-published zines; artist-run magazines; and journals.
For some artists and intellectuals, the print platform remains appealing for its visual, archival, discursive, and dissemination functions. We seek to understand how periodicals map, compile, translate, and republish texts as they define what it means to be modern and contemporary in specific locales.
This symposium invites contributions anchored around periodicals from Asia published between 1900 to the present.
SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
Material may be submitted in English or Chinese. Please submit the following by Mon, 10 April 2017, to symposium@aaa.org.hk (use the subject line: Art Periodicals Symposium):
1. A 200-word abstract
2. A two-page curriculum vitae with e-mail, phone number, and mailing address
Incomplete or late submissions will not be considered. Final papers must be in English or Chinese. There may be funding for speakers, subject to availability.
Contact Info: Sneha Ragavan, Researcher, Asia Art Archive
Contact Email: symposium@aaa.org.hk
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Light, affordable, and foldable, periodicals travelled with unprecedented speed from writer and artist to printer, and from mail service to reader. These circuits of ideas, practices, and readerships created (and were created by) new sites of experimentation in print technologies, illustration, graphic design, and forms literary and artistic. Their portability opened possibilities for the translation and transposition of ideas across media, language, culture, and geography.
‘Periodical time’—the monthly, the fortnightly, the weekly, or at times, the single issue—became a way of serving and forming diverse publics, with spaces including popular, cultural, and literary magazines; newspapers; self-published zines; artist-run magazines; and journals.
For some artists and intellectuals, the print platform remains appealing for its visual, archival, discursive, and dissemination functions. We seek to understand how periodicals map, compile, translate, and republish texts as they define what it means to be modern and contemporary in specific locales.
This symposium invites contributions anchored around periodicals from Asia published between 1900 to the present.
SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
Material may be submitted in English or Chinese. Please submit the following by Mon, 10 April 2017, to symposium@aaa.org.hk (use the subject line: Art Periodicals Symposium):
1. A 200-word abstract
2. A two-page curriculum vitae with e-mail, phone number, and mailing address
Incomplete or late submissions will not be considered. Final papers must be in English or Chinese. There may be funding for speakers, subject to availability.
Contact Info: Sneha Ragavan, Researcher, Asia Art Archive
Contact Email: symposium@aaa.org.hk
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