[ecrea] CFP: 'So-called waste': Forms of Excess in Post-1960 Art, Film, and Literature - workshop at the University of York

'So-called waste': Forms of Excess in Post-1960 Art, Film, and Literature

Friday 13 February, 2015

University of York

Deadline for abstracts: 12 December, 2014

Visual art, film, and literature since 1960 has been marked by 
leftovers, repetitions, and time lags, despite emerging in a climate of 
accelerated technological development and the erasure of leisure time. 
From artworks that incorporate the trash and detritus of consumerist 
excess to novels and films that indulge in narrative ‘time-wasting,’ the 
cultural production of the last fifty years has revelled in the wasteful 
and excessive. This event asks: what are the aesthetics of excess? What 
are its material, temporal and figurative manifestations? Is artistic 
time-wasting a radical form of resistance to the capitalist imperative 
to be productive? Or do art’s glorious expenditures reinforce aesthetic 
hierarchies that privilege ‘difficulty’? We invite 20-minute papers from 
postgraduates and early-career researchers that engage with waste and 
excess in post-1960 art, literature, and film. Possible topics include 
(but are not limited to) the following:

- Narrative: digressions; footnotes and marginalia; listing; repetition; 
the non-event; the filler; reality effects

- Queer theory: the concept of the queer subject as embodying 
non-(re)productivity; queer temporalities; drag and camp as recycling

- The body: labour; time-wasting and protest

- Feminism: the gendered dynamics of lack and excess

- Economic surplus: abstraction; financial markets; concepts of utility 
and value

- Digital waste: big data; information overload; archive fever

- Cold War politics: nuclear waste; abundance and wasting as critical 
tactics

The event will follow a workshop format, with a paper by Dr. Amanda 
Boetzkes (University of Alberta) and a screening and discussion led by 
Dr. Karl Schoonover (University of Warwick). Please send abstracts of no 
more than 300 words and a brief biography to the organisers, Stephanie 
Lambert ((sjl519 /at/ york.ac.uk)) and Amy Tobin ((at548 /at/ york.ac.uk)), by 
15/12/14. General enquiries are also welcome. This event is free to 
attend, but places are limited; please e-mail to reserve a place.

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