[ecrea] CFP: Daniel Blaufuks: Routes and Intersections

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The call for papers is now open for the International Symposium /Daniel 
Blaufuks: Routes and Intersections/, an interdisciplinary event 
organised by the research group 'Cinema and the World - Studies on Space 
and Cinema', to be held at the Centre for Comparative Studies in the 
University of Lisbon School of Arts and Humanities, Lisbon, Portugal, on 
9 and 10 October 2017.

     With works that range from large-scale photography, to photobooks 
and photo essays, to video, film and installations, Daniel Blaufuks has 
proven himself to be one of the most prolific artists in Portuguese 
contemporary art. The artist has been deeply engaged with questions 
surrounding the Holocaust, exile, memory and postmemory. Photography, 
film and archival material have been the tools chosen for his 
excavations. Nonetheless, it is impossible to overlook the influence of 
literature in the artist’s work.

     In this symposium we aim to reflect on two pervading lines in 
Blaufuks's work: routes and intersections. In /Routes,/ we will explore 
travel through space — be it in extreme conditions such as exile, but 
also as a way of discovering locations, or travelling through cities — 
and travel through memory — lived memory, memory that permeates 
generations, constructed and/or mediated memory. In /Intersections,/ the 
focus will be on the artist's interweaving of multiple media in the 
construction of expandable projects — including /Terezín/ (2007), /All 
the Memory of the world, part one/ (2014), /Attempting Exhaustion/ 
(2016), amongst others — and on the relevance literature takes in his 
projects.

     With an aim to examine Blaufuks's artistic practice as a 
stimulating influence in Portuguese and international contemporary art, 
we invite proposals for 20-minute presentations. The event's working 
languages will be English and Portuguese. Topics may include (but are 
not limited to):

  * The role of archival material in the construction of
    individual/collective memory;
  * Holocaust, from post-memory to prosthetic memory;
  * Photobooks and literature;
  * Road movies and travel diaries;
  * Appropriation as an act of creation;
  * The atlas and the archive;
  * Expanded cinema, photography, and installation art.

Please send 300-word abstracts and a brief (100-word) biographical note, 
addressed to the organizers, Sandra Camacho and Filipa do Rosário, to 
(routesandintersections /at/ gmail.com) 
<mailto:(routesandintersections /at/ gmail.com)> by 16 July 2017.

For more information, please visit 
https://routesandintersect.wixsite.com/lisbon2017 and 
www.comparatistas.edu.pt <http://www.comparatistas.edu.pt>
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