[ecrea] CALL FOR PAPERS - LIQUIDITY - ADRI SYMPOSIUM - DEADLINE 1 FEB 2013

Call for Papers

This one-day practice research symposium sets out to explore the many 
articulations, explorations, and manifestations of ‘liquidity’ in 
contemporary visual and material culture, history and theory. the 
symposium offers a unique opportunity for practitioners, researchers and 
scholars working across different fields to engage with any topic 
related to ‘liquidity’ broadly conceived.

‘Liquid modern life is a daily rehearsal of universal transience. 
Today’s useful and indispensable objects, with few and possibly no 
exceptions, are tomorrow’s waste. Everything is disposable, nothing is 
truly necessary, nothing is irreplaceable. Everything is born engraved 
with the brand of death. Everything is offered with a use-by date 
attached. All things, born or made, human or not, are until further 
notice dispensable. Paraphrasing an old and famous statement, I would 
say that a spectre hovers over the liquid modern world, over its 
denizens and all their labours and creations; and that is the spectre of 
redundancy.’

Zymunt Bauman, ‘Liquid Arts’, in Theory, Culture and Society, 2007, 
v.24(1): 117-126

We invite 20-minute presentations from artists, curators, academics, 
research students, and other professionals in relevant fields – 
including art, design, architecture and social sciences – that focus on 
critical and socially-engaged examinations of ‘liquidity’. Proposed 
themes include:

liquid anxieties – liquid architectures – liquid archives – liquid arts 
– liquid cities – liquid cultures – liquid design – liquid economies – 
liquid histories – liquid identities– liquid languages – liquid love – 
liquid memories – liquid modernities – liquid places – liquid sites – 
liquid states – liquid technologies – liquid thinking – liquid values

Deadline
Please submit abstracts of up to 300 words together with a 100 word 
biography by Friday 1 February 2013 to <s[dot]lok[at]mdx[dot]ac[dot]uk> 
with ‘CfP Liquidity Symposium’ in the subject line.


This symposium is organised by ADRI, the Art and Design Research 
Institute’s Postgraduate Forum at Middlesex University.
Find us at http://adri.mdx.ac.uk.contentcurator.net/ 
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Marianne Markowski
Middlesex University
Website: http://www.cea.mdx.ac.uk/?location_id=106#CurrentStudents
Blog: http://researchseniorfriendsonline.blogspot.com/
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