[ecrea] CFP: Alternatives to the Present

 CFP: Alternatives to the Present (University of Tartu, Estonia, Sept. 
3-5 2016)


Call for papers for the annual conference of the Association for the 
Study of the Arts of the Present (Deadline: March 26, 2016)
Alternatives to the Present
How and to what ends do the contemporary arts conceptualize, represent, 
and model new spaces and temporalities?
In recent years, much has been said about the difficulty of representing 
new spaces and times at “the end of history.” Fredric Jameson and Mark 
Fisher have famously pronounced that it is nowadays easier to imagine 
apocalypse on Earth than it is to conceive of an alternative to the 
timespace of capitalism. And yet surely there are still possibilities 
for introducing temporal and spatial otherness to the imagination in the 
forms of heterochrony, alternate futures and histories, and alternate 
conceptions of temporality and spatiality based in nonwestern cultures, 
affective perception, digital media, and barter or gift economies (not 
to mention altered states both geopolitical and cognitive).
The manifold practices of today’s literary, visual, media, and 
performing arts are in fact often devoted precisely to conceiving of 
such alternatives. Indeed, a minimal impulse towards some kind of 
"alterity" could be said to penetrate all art, irrespective of its 
medium, genre, place of origin, or ideological orientation. Therefore, 
we invite papers that examine the present status of imagining 
alternative spaces and times in all forms of contemporary art and 
artistic practice.
Possible topics include
• possibilities for hybrid genres and artistic mediums
• new narrative forms and unnatural narratives
• art and theory that imagines the future or past
• the artistic possibilities of imagining radical difference today
• utopias, dystopias, and the changing status of utopian thinking as 
"social dreaming"
• heterotopia and heterochrony
• “zones” (of fantastic origin, of heterotopic space, of 
multidimensional time)
• the contemporary practice of futurisms (“Afro-Futurism,” 
"Sino-Futurism," etc.
• architectural alternatives: ecotopia, ecopolis, etc.
• sciences and the arts of the present
• the timespace of augmented reality and digital gaming
• time and the aural, the times/space of soundscape, music and heterotopia
• dramatic timing, reimaginings of time and space as performance
• manifesting alternative spaces and times specific to various artistic 
mediums: literature, visual arts, installation art, film, TV, theatre, 
music, digital arts, street art, performance art, architecture, urban 
planning
In keeping with the mission of the Association for the Study of the Arts 
of the Present, 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.
Proposals should include 300-word abstracts for papers or 700-word 
abstracts for roundtables or panels, with email addresses and brief 
biographical statement for each speaker. See [asap8.ut.ee] for more 
information or contact [(asap8info /at/ gmail.com)] with inquiries.
ASAP/8: "Artistic Alternatives to the Present" is hosted by University 
of Tartu in collaboration with the Program Committee of ASAP. The 
symposium's host organizers are Marina Grishakova and Jaak Tomberg, 
University of Tartu.
Deadline for submitting proposals: MARCH 26, 2016.
Please send submissions in Microsoft Word format to [(asap8info /at/ gmail.com)]






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