VISUAL ARTS PORTAL
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| Call for Papers and Invitation to Conference We are inviting you to consider closer changes which were taking into their orbit the notion of spectator. The conference Spaces of Spectators: image, sound, performance, word will be held on 20-23 October, 2011 in Riga, Latvia. | ||||||||||
| 18th century aesthetic with its distanced relations amid creative aesthetic activity and spectator’s passive perception, which were brought by aesthetic experience of the concert hall, theatre and museum, is replaced by engaged spectator's participation with “space” saturated with proximity, sensitivity, and affectivity. Thus spectator (on-looker, viewer) is not only passive observer, but also an artist, performer and participant in the happening of art. Both art happening and everyday life events are saturated with relations of mimesis and activity, distancing and participation. Spectators’ encounter to image (not only picture, but also photo, cinema etc.), sound, performance or word (not only text, but also audio, video etc.) which has the status of art, often happens in non-traditional exhibition places, forming specific image-, sound-, etc. scapes; these processes are blurring the borders not only amid private and public spaces, but also are crossing boundaries between art and other discourses thus leaving traces into various social fields. Changes of spectators’ location in space, artscapes, spacing, immersion carry changes in the field of art theory, history, critique and aesthetic and bid to review and redefine these questions. We are inviting to consider these (and not only these) problems: * Visual, audile and kinetic - blurring and overlapping of genres; * Static – dynamics, passivity – activity, aesthetic – artistic and their interfaces * Immersion aesthetics, aesthetic and political; * Language and affective art zone, word, narrative, shape of life; * Material and semantic aspect of artwork; conceptual and non-conceptual content of art; * The role of critique and curator in forming aesthetic ideas; * Metaphysics of creation. Conference working languages Latvian, English. Participants are requested to apply electronically by 30th of June and include an abstract of not more than 500 words in Latvian and English. The conference participation fee is 25 EUR (payable by 1 August) or 45 EUR . The fee includes four coffee breaks and the compilation and publication of the collection of abstracts in Latvian and English. Please pay your participation fee to the Latvian Asssociation of Aesthetics: registration number 40008046292 account with Swedbank: LV38HABA0551000464933. The application and the abstract are due by the indicated deadline to: latvijas.estetikas.asociacija@gmail.com telephone: +37167289862 | ||||||||||
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