[Commlist] CFP: Confronting Chaos graduate conference

*Call: **Confronting Chaos - Conference*

*(We welcome traditional & nontraditional forms of presentation)*

Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario, August 25-28 + in-person

Queen’s University’s Screen Cultures & Curatorial Studies program 
invites you to submit proposals by *May 10th 2022* to its inaugural 
graduate conference, taking place in person August 25-28 2022. Dr. Laura 
Marks (Simon Fraser University) will be our keynote speaker. We are 
*interested in **both traditional and **nontraditional forms of 
presentation. *Please see below and the poster attached for our full 
call for proposals.

“The chaos of the mind cannot constitute a reply to the providence of 
the universe. All it can be is an awakening in the night, where all that 
can be heard is anguished poetry let loose.” ― Georges Bataille, 
Literature and Evil

Greek Chaos (the gap between heaven and earth) births Gaia (earth) and 
Eros (sexual desire) which procreate to make other deities. Under the 
acceleration of modernity we encounter the relentless accumulation of 
knowledge without understanding or grounding. We sense our own bodies 
and feel the threat of chaos loom in the mass of ambivalent sensations 
that rise into our perception. We embrace chaos and its vicissitudes, 
asking to be demolished by its operations so we can be reborn – or die – 
anew.**

For our inaugural graduate conference we invite you to think of chaos as 
a space of potential for re-shaping dominant modes of engaging with the 
world. How does art diffuse or activate chaos? In what ways do 
mythological formulations of chaos speak to our present moment? How does 
your artistic/scholarly work respond to, react against, or embrace chaos?

*We are seeking traditional and non-traditional forms of 
presentation:*papers, screenings, performances, animation, workshops, 
theatre, puppetry, curatorial projects, sound work, poetry, DJ/VJ sets, 
light works, live body horror, sculpture, relational aesthetics, 
stripteases, pataphysical contemplations, weddings, rituals, massages, 
parties, beckonings, radio plays, podcasts, found drama – as befits a 
conference on chaos, the options are limitless. We might consider:

  * Geopolitics and the mapping of chaos
  * Quantum chaos and chaos in scientific fields
  * Gendered and affective dimensions of chaos
  * Competing cosmologies and mythologies of chaos
  * Ontologies of chaos
  * Chaos magic, conspiracy, and the supernatural
  * Politics of chaos: anarchism and its lineages
  * Performances of chaos
  * Phenomenologies of chaos: noise, pareidolia, madness

Submit proposals of up to 500 words to 
(sccs.filmandmediagraduate /at/ gmail.com) 
<mailto:(sccs.filmandmediagraduate /at/ gmail.com)>by *May 10th, 2022*. The 
conference will be in-person in Kingston, Ontario. Individual and 
collaborative proposals are welcome. You can include images and audio in 
your proposals, and a summary of your tech needs. If you require 
alternative submission formats, please let us know.

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