[Vwoolf] CFP: Oscillations of Gender & Genre: Intersections of the Literary and Visual Arts (9-12 November 2016), Illinois State University, Normal, IL

Melissa Johnson majohn2 at ilstu.edu
Mon Jun 27 09:39:44 EDT 2016


Dear Woolfians, 

I'm reposting the call for papers for the symposium a colleague and I are organizing. The deadline is this coming Friday, 1 July.  

Sincerely,
Melissa Johnson


Dr. Melissa Johnson, Ph.D., MILS
Associate Professor
Art History/Visual Culture
Graduate Coordinator, MA in Visual
   Culture
214C Center for Visual Arts
School of Art 
Illinois State University

majohn2 at ilstu.edu
http://finearts.illinoisstate.edu/art/graduate/visual_culture/

Call for Papers

Oscillations of Gender & Genre:

Intersections of the Literary and Visual Arts

9-12 November 2016

Illinois State University, Normal, IL

 

Featured Speakers: Jen Bervin, Dianna Frid, and Cecilia Vicuña

 

Illinois State University is hosting an interdisciplinary symposium titled “Oscillations of Gender & Genre” on the intersections of literary and visual art by women to be held 9-12 November 2016. We are specifically interested in the intellectual dialogues that emerge from the work of artists inspired by the writing of women, and vice versa. The symposium will be held in the University Galleries concurrent with the exhibition “Strange Oscillations and Vibrations of Sympathy” (25 October – 18 December 2016). The exhibit explores the concepts of reading and writing as gendered experiences, and will include work by Jen Bervin, Stephanie Brooks, Anne Collier, Moyra Davey, Marcelline Delbecq, Dianna Frid, Melissa Pokorny, Dawn Roe, Kay Rosen, Carrie Schneider, Xaviera Simmons, Lisa Tan, Cecilia Vicuña, and Deborah Willis, among others. The writers evoked, alluded to, or referenced in the pieces to be shown include Octavia Butler, A.S. Byatt, Emily Dickinson, Clarice Lispector, Gabriela Mistral, Toni Morrison, Alejandra Pizarnik, Sylvia Plath, Mary Shelley, Gertrude Stein, and Virginia Woolf. The exhibition title “Strange Oscillations and Vibrations of Sympathy” is derived from a phrase that Sylvia Plath underlined in her copy of Virginia Woolf's The Waves, and that Chicago-based artist Stephanie Brooks later appropriated for a text-based artwork.

 

The symposium, “Oscillations of Gender & Genre,” seeks to interrogate the implications of the conceptual and aesthetic work presented in the exhibition and to expand the dialogue to include other artists, writers, and scholars. The Symposium will open Wednesday afternoon with a talk by Brooklyn-based artist/poet Jen Bervin, Chilean artist/poet Cecilia Vicuña will be the keynote speaker, and the Symposium will close on Saturday morning with concluding summary-remarks by Chicago-based artist Dianna Frid and a conversation with all symposium participants facilitated by the organizers.

 

We invite submissions for 20-minute presentations on the many possible intersections of gender and genre in the literary, visual, and performing arts. Our hope is to delve into the junctures such creative and intellectual collaborations evoke and to invite further discussion about the peculiar nexuses of literary and visual creativity, the gendered forms and experiences of literature and art, and the intellectual conversations that happen between women across time and space as they respond to and build upon one another’s creative forms of expression. Presentations may explore (but are not limited to) such topics as:

 

• The gendering or ungendering of genres through writing, art, and/or performance

• Exploration of artists whose work is visual and literary

• The political and creative progress of feminism

• Visual representations of literary legacies and vice versa

 

Both the exhibition and the symposium are interdisciplinary and international in scope, and we encourage work from the fields of art, theater, literary and cultural studies, performance studies, translation studies, feminism, and gender studies, engaging any region or regions of the world in ways that further the creative and intellectual dialogue about gender and genre. With all of this in mind, we welcome both scholarly papers and presentations of creative research. In addition to proposals from scholars, we encourage submissions from graduate and advanced undergraduate students.

 

Please send 250-500-word abstracts by Friday, July 1, 2016 to Melissa Johnson (Art History/Visual Culture): majohn2 at ilstu.edu and Juliet Lynd (Languages, Literature, & Cultures/Spanish): jlynd at ilstu.edu. Inquiries welcome.

 

Presenters will be notified of acceptance by August 1 and we will request presentation materials to share ahead of the symposium by October 26.

 


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