[Commlist] Recollections and Projections CFP: Representing Space, Place, and Liminality

Cfp from Intellect Books and Cape Peninsula University of Technology
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REPRESENTING SPACE, PLACE, AND LIMINALITY: RECOLLECTIONS AND PROJECTIONS

Cape Peninsula University of Technology


Dates: 01-03 December 2022
Abstracts: 01 July 2022 (Round 1)
Nb. 05 October 2022 (Round 2)

Place: Virtual

https://amps-research.com/visioning-cput/


CALL:

The concept of liminal space has gained traction in contemporary 
discourses on place and space, particularly since the proliferation of 
placeless geographies (Ralph) and Non-Places (Auge) in the mid-20th 
century. Liminal space, also understood as thresholds, transitional or 
transformative spaces, have also become more manifest and, in recent 
times, taken on peculiar expressions. Strict COVID 19 lockdowns in 2020, 
that descended on us globally, necessitated the absence of people in 
public space. These environments, void of human interaction, were 
subject to a substantial amount of visual representation. In some 
instances, these representations re-instated the spectator, the 
photographer or filmmaker’s gaze of architectural and natural space and 
place, and in others, they brought about the question of the 
fetishization of abandoned space and ruination.

In turn, these modes of representation raise questions about space, as 
an abstract concept, and place as a phenomenon with expressive 
characteristics, meaning and significance – both issues that have long 
been subjects of philosophical, architectural and aesthetic 
contemplation. One such example is the visual representations of space 
and place over the last century in the world of cinema. Examples include 
cinematic representations of outer space, mental space, domestic space, 
gendered space, and of places like cities, as seen in the City Symphony 
in the 1920s.

In these, and other modes of spatial representation, space and place 
have been explored as fundamentally diachronic. Today, however, the 
past, present and future have become miscible through contemporary 
visual media, with the environments we inhabit seen as less time-bound. 
AI is arguably a perfect example, enabling us to visually represent our 
memories, imagination and dreams of places – our oneiric places. In 
doing so, it transports us to these worlds, past present and future, and 
increasingly diminishes the subject-object dichotomy of our perceptions 
of space and place.

Through exploring such questions and themes we encourage abstracts for 
papers and creative contributions related to the representation of 
space, place, and liminality, from both historical and contemporary 
perspectives. We welcome papers examining intersections of place, time 
and representation through a wide range of medias: painting, 
photography, cinema, virtual realities, AI, architecture and more.



https://amps-research.com/visioning-cput/




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