[can-talk] AAANZ: LAST Call for papers. Art and the real: documentary, ethnography, enactment

                       ART ASSOCIATION OF AUSTRALIA
                       AND NEW ZEALAND (NSW Chapter)
                              2007 CONFERENCE
                     Presented by the AGNSW + ARTSPACE


           Art and the real: Documentary, Ethnography, Enactment

                              12-14 July 2007
                   Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney Australia

                             Keynote speakers:
Geoffrey Batchen: Professor of the History of Photography and Contemporary
                   Art, The City University of New York.
 Anne Rorimer: Chicago based independent scholar and freelance curator and
author of New Art in the 60s and 70s: Redefining Reality (Thames & Hudson,
                                  2001).

In  the  last  decade  or  so,  we have witnessed an escalation of artistic
production  drawn  to  ethnographic  protocols,  and  documentary media and
methods.  Artists  framed  in  this  way  include:  Liisa  Roberts,  Sharon
Lockhart,  Kutlug  Ataman,  Nan Goldin, Atelier von Lieshout, Mark Dion and
Gillian  Wearing,  amongst  many others. This conference aims to critically
interrogate  this  current  situation  and  art  which  combines  the human
sciences  and  documentary means, as well as art that attempts to intervene
in social or cultural situations. The precedents for the latter form of art
might include situationism and neo-concretism.

The  conference  would  provide  the opportunity to critically examine both
historical   precedents   and   contemporary   incarnations   of  both  the
ethnographic  turn  in  contemporary  art  and  the  forms  of art practice
characterised as either interventionist or participatory.

Topics to be considered could include:
   Critical and reflective approaches to contemporary incarnations of
      documentary practices
   Exploration of historical precedents in conventional and experimental
      documentary
   Considerations of the claim that contemporary social documentary
      contests the insularity of modernist aesthetic paradigms
   Cross-overs between documentary and fiction
   Art engaging with the everyday life of "ordinary" people, to the point
      of recruiting them to be part of the art works
   Artist as ethnographer
   The politics of spectatorship and the authority of the artist in
      documentary/ethnographic practices
   Is this a form of romanticised appropriation of the marginalised of
      society
   Discipline cross-overs between anthropology, ethnography, sociology
   Digital Media: The demise of photographic indexicality?
   Is Ethnography's self critical turn, since the 1950s, echoed in art?
   Historical forms of art and ethnographic combines: for example,
      ethnographic surrealism of the 1920s and 1930s (Georges Bataille or
      Michel Leiris)

Important dates
    Abstract submission deadline: 16 April 2007
    Notification of acceptance: 30 April 2007

                http://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/aaanz/home

Submission Guidelines
Submission  of  Abstracts  (approx  250-300  words) must include on a title
sheet:  the paper title, session of interest; names and affiliations of all
authors  with  a  postal address, telephone number and email address for at
least   one   contact  author.  Email  abstracts  to  donnab at ag.nsw.gov.au.
Successful  papers  will  be  included  for  presentation in the Conference
proceedings and published for public access on the internet.


Donna Brett
Curatorial Project + Research Officer
Art Gallery of New South Wales
Art Gallery Road, The Domain, Sydney 2000
T: 02 9225 1873
F: 02 9225 1701
M: 041 202 4457

Website: http://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au
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