[Commlist] Spatial Mutuality Symposium UCA CFP

*SPATIAL MUTUALITY SYMPOSIUM - ARTISTS and MIGRATION, MATERIALS and 
COMMUNITY CHANGE*

Date: Thursday 23^rd May 2019
Location: University for the Creative Arts,Falkner Road, Farnham, 
Surrey, GU9 7DS
Times: 10:00 – 19:00

*Call for Papers/Presentations*

Migration, the flows of materials, and gentrification are pressing areas 
of interest to artists and filmmakers working with participatory 
practices in a globalised, neoliberal context. Common to these practices 
is a concern with spatiality, acknowledged as a key register of 
politics and social inequality. This one-day symposium aims to bring 
academics and practitioners together to open a dialogue on approaches to 
the spatiality of the movement of peoples, materials, and communities in 
moving image and photography.

The ‘spatial turn’ in the humanities has foregrounded questions 
revolving around personal and social life as situated in space. Widening 
the scale, concerns over boundaries, nation states, resource use and 
climate change have spatial implications. Responding to the 
gentrification of Lower Manhattan in the 1990s, the art historian 
Rosalyn Deutsche suggested that space is “political, inseparable from 
the conflictual and uneven social relations that structure specific 
societies at specific historical moments.” (Deutsche 1996 cf Lefebvre 
1992) For Doreen Massey, space is constructed by narrative and the 
unfolding of personal and community identity (Massey 2005). More recent 
analyses have explored the data of spatiality. (cf Forensic Architecture 
2018; Kurgan 2013;Paglen 2018) Artists and filmmakers have used all 
these approaches and more in their work. This symposium aims to share 
practices that encounter and engage with fluid contemporary space.

The three panels of this symposium are schematically:

*MIGRATION*– artists working with themes of dislocation and place; the 
dislocation of narratives; and participatory practice.

*MATERIALS / RESOURCES*– artists working with the movement and use of 
materials in the global economy; issues of resource exploitation; waste; 
toxicity; exploitationof labour; de/re-colonisation.

*COMMUNITY CHANGE* – artists working with gentrification; social and 
spatial segregation.

Keynote speakers:

  * Christine Molloy, Desperate Optimists
  * Professor Alison Blunt & Dr Olivia Sheringham, Queen Mary University
    of London
Call for papers:

This one-day symposium at UCA seeks 20-minute contributions from artists 
and filmmakers responding to the above broad panel themes. We encourage 
a diversity of practices and presentation forms.

If you would like to present at this symposium, please send abstracts of 
250 words maximum for 20-minute presentations; a biography of 100 words 
maximum; and any technical requirements for the presentation to:

  * Stephen Connolly (stephen.connolly /at/ uca.ac.uk)
    <mailto:(stephen.connolly /at/ uca.ac.uk)>
  * David Rule (drule2 /at/ uca.ac.uk) <mailto:(drule2 /at/ uca.ac.uk)>

https://www.uca.ac.uk/events/spatial-mutuality/

Deadline for abstract submission: 31^st March 12:00 (UK time)

Presentations to be confirmed: 12^th April

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