[Commlist] CFP for panel session ‘Exploring narratives of belonging and artistic re-imaginations of the public space’

CFP for panel session ‘Exploring narratives of belonging and artistic 
re-imaginations of the public space’

Panel convenors:
Dr. Basia Sliwinska (Universidade Nova de Lisboa) and Dr. Maria Photiou 
(University of Derby)

Multiple stories of home-ings, being uprooted and re-grounded, bring up 
ongoing issues of rights, whether bodily, land rights or citizenship. 
The politics of belonging, often affiliated with the politics of 
'othering', has been used to strip bodies of their rights, force them to 
leave, expel or curtail access to or from spaces. Building an 
alternative society, as argued by Silvia Federici in Re-enchanting the 
World: Feminism and the Politics of the Commons (2018), requires 
cooperative thinking and making, and acknowledging the entanglements 
between the personal and the political, political activism and 
reproduction of everyday life. This panel interrogates how commoning and 
collectivising enable us to re-imagine the public space. It invites 
contributions that examine the work of contemporary women artists who 
via their practice explore how the reorganisation of home-ing practices 
can offer spaces with/in which belonging is equal. How is politics of 
togetherness activated via artistic practices to support rights for all 
bodies? Women artists’ reconceptions of space can offer new 
understandings of seeing and experiencing the public space, becoming, as 
Marsha Meskimmon in Engendering the City: Women Artist and the Urban 
Space (1997) explains, ‘sentient participants in the city’ who negotiate 
the triangulation of gender, space and representation.

If you are interested in presenting a paper at this session, please 
submit an abstract (max. 200 words) and a CV with list of relevant key 
publications or portfolio (max. 2 pages) by 12 June 2022.

Please email your abstract and CV to (bsliwinska /at/ fcsh.unl.pt) and 
(M.Photiou /at/ derby.ac.uk)

The panel session will be submitted for consideration at the NIAS 
Conference 2023 Belonging & Mobility, which will be held from 19 to 21 
April 2023 in Amsterdam.
Link to the Conference: https://nias.knaw.nl/events/niasconference/

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