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<h3 style="margin-top:0;"><a style="font-weight: 500; font-size: 21px;line-height: 30px; margin-top:25px; margin-bottom: 10px;" href="http://u.osu.edu/mclc/2015/11/04/the-art-of-transculturality-cfp/" target="_blank">The Art of Transculturality–cfp</a></h3>
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<p style="text-align: center;">Call for Papers<br />
<b>"The Art of Transculturality: New Frontiers in Postsocialist </b><br />
<b>China’s Avant-garde and Urban Culture"</b></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><b>Deadline for submission of title and abstract</b> (350 words): 15 December 2015. Please attach a short biographical note.<br />
<b>Conference dates:</b> 27-29 July 2016<br />
<b>Convenors: </b>Prof Daria Berg and Dr Giorgio Strafella<br />
<b>Venue:</b> University of St. Gallen, St. Gallen, Switzerland</p>
<p class="p1"><b>Abstract</b></p>
<p class="p1">This workshop aims to explore innovative ways of looking at the dynamics of transculturality in postsocialist China’s avant-garde and urban culture by bringing together artists, writers, art curators and scholars. Avant-garde literature and art today exist at the margins of China’s officially ordained culture.</p>
<p class="p1">Transcultural trends transform China’s local culture in the age of globalisation. In twenty-first century China the new media — in particular Web 2.0 — offer an emerging public sphere that challenges the mechanisms of government censorship, allowing transcultural trends across China’s virtual frontiers. Web-based discourses traverse the borderlines between China’s officially ordained culture, the globalising world, and Chinese vernacular culture.</p>
<p class="p1">China’s new generation of avant-garde writers and artists push the boundaries of vernacular culture. They appropriate artistic and literary languages from the post/modern Western avant-garde movements to reflect on reform-era China’s transformation and the Maoist heritage.</p>
<p class="p1">The papers will investigate such forms of transculturality in avant-garde Chinese literature and art, focussing in particular on performance and conceptual art. Participants will look critically at the processes of appropriation of transcultural trends and the interpretation of avant-garde languages in contemporary China. During the workshop Chinese avant-garde artists will present and discuss their artistic production and methods. The workshop will shed new light on the transcultural trends and proactive interaction with non-Chinese communities and histories in China’s avant-garde literature and art.</p>
<p class="p1">We invite paper proposals on topics relating to China such as:</p>
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<li class="li1">Avant-garde literature and art</li>
<li class="li1">Politics and culture of postsocialism</li>
<li class="li1">Transculturality</li>
<li class="li1">Art criticism and theory</li>
<li class="li1">Reception of avant-garde art and writing</li>
<li class="li1">Curating avant-garde art</li>
<li class="li1">Publishing avant-garde literature</li>
<li class="li1">Experimental art and literature</li>
<li class="li1">Literary and artistic communities</li>
<li class="li1">Performance art</li>
<li class="li1">Conceptual art</li>
<li class="li1">Online literature</li>
<li class="li1">Art and the Web</li>
<li class="li1">Art and globalisation</li>
<li class="li1">New urban culture</li>
<li class="li1">Clash and cooperation between the avant-garde and the state</li>
<li class="li1">Literature, art and dissent</li>
<li class="li1">Mao and the avant-garde</li>
<li class="li1">Popular culture and the avant-garde</li>
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<p class="p1">Papers will be submitted to an international peer-reviewed publication. For this purpose, we expect participants to give us first refusal on their papers.</p>
<p class="p1"><b>Contact: </b>Dr Giorgio Strafella, <a href="mailto:giorgio.strafella@unisg.ch"><span class="s2"><a href="mailto:giorgio.strafella@unisg.ch">giorgio.strafella@unisg.ch</a></span></a></p>
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by <a href="mailto:denton.2@osu.edu">denton.2@osu.edu</a> on November 4, 2015 </div>
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