[ecrea] ASAP/7: Arts & the Public

Because we have received numerous individual requests to extend the 
deadline for the ASAP/7 conference (“Arts & the Public”), hosted by 
Clemson University in Greenville, SC from 9/24-27, 2015, we have decided 
to accept proposals until March 1. Please see the CFP below and consider 
submitting a proposal for a paper, a panel, a roundtable, or an 
alternate format. The Association for the Study of the Arts of the 
Present encourages proposals from scholars working on the arts of the 
late twentieth and twenty-first centuries in a number of fields 
(literature, art history, musicology, film and video, digital media 
studies, etc.), and for contemporary artists practicing in a range of 
media (writing, the plastic and visual arts, the digital arts, music and 
sound art, performance, architecture and design, mixed-media and 
intermedia arts, etc.).


ASAP/7: Arts & the Public

September 24-27, 2015

Hosted by Clemson University at the Hyatt Regency in Greenville, SC

Call for Papers

ASAP/7 invites proposals from scholars and artists on the relations 
between the public—broadly conceived – and contemporary visual, 
literary, performing, musical, and media arts. From parks, schools, and 
museums to monuments, performances, and protests, the public encompasses 
less a specific domain than a varying set of political institutions, 
community spaces, and cultural objects. Whether construed as virtual or 
bureaucratic, as utopian or ecological, the public can be both a 
catalyst for artistic production and an object of cultural critique. 
Although we gladly accept outstanding proposals on any topic relating to 
the contemporary arts, we encourage participants to think inventively 
about the intersections between and among the public, its manifestations 
and conceptualizations, and the arts of the present.

POSSIBLE TOPICS INCLUDE:

    * “Outsider,” Self-taught, and DIY Art
    * Social Protest and the Arts
    * Monuments and Anti-monuments
    * Private and Civic Life
    * Land Art
    * Art Squats and Artist-run Collectives
    * Pedagogy and Art Education
    * Media Ecologies
    * Political Aesthetics
    * Neoliberalism and Late Capitalism
    * The Commons
    * Urban Planning, Bureaucracy, and Built Environments
    * Regional/Transnational Geographies
    * Landscapes, Cityscapes, Soundscapes
    * Gender, Sexuality, Spectacle
    * Spaces of Race, Ethnicity, Migration
    * Temporality, Commemoration, Futurity
    * Design, Architecture, and Infrastructure

The program committee will consider papers on these or any other topic 
relating to the contemporary arts. In keeping with our mission, we are 
especially interested in sessions that feature more than one artistic 
medium and more than one national tradition. The program committee will 
give preference to panels and roundtables that feature papers by 
scholars and artists working across and between disciplines.

SESSION FORMATS:

 We welcome and encourage creative and alternative presentational 
styles, alongside traditional papers and panels. Seminars, workshops, 
panel debates, artist discussions, films, installations, visual 
displays, and PechaKucha sessions will all be considered. Seminar 
leaders are asked to propose topics by the deadline and to submit the 
full roster of participants by 3.15.2015. Seminars normally meet for a 
single session, and papers are circulated among participants in advance 
of the conference.

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES:

Abstracts and session submissions should include the following information:

1.          Title of paper or session

2.          Author(s): name and contact information (including email 
address)

3.          Format and style of presentation

4.          Abstract or session description:

• 300-word abstracts for individual papers; or

• 700-word abstracts for:

Panels (3-4 participants)

Roundtables (5-9 participants)

Seminars (8-10 participants)

Other formats

5.          Brief descriptions (up to 150 words) of work and 
publications for each participant

6.          Optional: up to two jpeg images, each under 2MB, to 
complement your proposal

Proposed sessions should include speakers from more than one 
institution. We welcome submissions from a wide range of disciplines, 
academic ranks, and institutional positions, as well as from practicing 
artists in any medium.

PLEASE SEND PROPOSALS TO: (asap7.greenville /at/ gmail.com)

SUBMISSION DEADLINE: 03.01.2015

For more information, see:

ASAP/7 Conference: www.clemson.edu/asap7

ASAP home page: www.artsofthepresent.org


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