[Commlist] Call for participation – Women in Revolt: radical acts, contemporary resonances

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*Call for **p**apers/**p**articipation***

*Women in Revolt: radical acts, contemporary resonances*

22 and 23 March 2024 (10.00 – 18.00) Tate Britain (London)

Opening reception - Chelsea Space, University of the ArtsLondon, 21 
March (18.00 – 20.30)

https://cream.ac.uk/events/cfp-women-in-revolt/ 
<https://cream.ac.uk/events/cfp-women-in-revolt/>

This conference aims to bring together papers that connect and respond 
to Women in Revolt 
<https://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-britain/women-in-revolt>, Tate 
Britain’s major survey of feminist 1970s and 1980s art practices in the 
UK (8 November 2023 – 7 April 2024).

The two-day conference, hosted by Tate Britain on 22 and 23 March 2024, 
following an opening reception at Chelsea Space (UAL) on 21 March, will 
explore the live and performance-based arts, sound and moving image 
practices that were an integral part of feminist creative and 
campaigning activities of the 1970s and 1980s.

The conference will engage with debates emerging from the exhibition and 
situates its historical focus in a wider contemporary and global 
context, welcoming an international and intersectional perspective on 
feminist art practices from scholars, artists and thinkers engaging with 
feminist historiographies in both critical and creative dimensions.

Combining scholarly and practice-led panels and keynote speakers with 
artist talks, screenings, performances and break-out sessions, the 
conference aims to address how some of the tenets of the Women’s 
movement and other activist practices in the 1970s and 1980s continue to 
resonate in contemporary feminism.

*Proposals*

Our call for papers welcomes, but is not strictly limited to the 
following approaches and topics, including those related to 
international contexts outside the UK, particularly those from the 
global majority:

·The role of feminist collective practice, and the legacy of 
consciousness raising and small group cultures connected with moving 
image, performance and sound practices.

·Decolonial approaches in/to feminist theory, histories, organisation 
and canonisation.

·Representations of feminist campaigns for: black visibility and rights, 
equal pay, physical and reproductive rights, wages for housework, 
childcare and community organising.

·Feminist creative practices as forms of resistance and protest during 
this time, such as those connected to queer rights and representation 
(for example Clause 28 in the UK), the British occupation of Northern 
Ireland (and other regions), campaigns in support of the Miner’s strike 
(1984-1985) and workers’ actions, rock against racism and other events 
internationally.

·Feminist groups, movements and practices outside the UK.

·Intersectional representations: addressing LGBTQIA+ activisms and their 
spaces of reception internationally.

·New perspectives and archival research on artists and groups, 
particularly those that have been overlooked.

·Studies of the networks, reception spaces and infrastructures 
supporting live practices and sound/music.

·The role of publishing, both established and small scale, in the 
creation, critical dissemination and evaluation of creative practices.

·Film, video and performance as a reflection of/on feminist campaigns 
and concerns of the period.

·Correspondences between international practices and networks.

·Works that test interdisciplinary approaches across sound, image and 
performance.

·Critical engagement with museums and other platforms in archiving, 
showing and revisiting these practices and movements.

·Reflections on recent (i.e. after 1990) practices and movements in 
relation to theories, events and activism.

·The impact of intergenerational relationships and influence on feminist 
artmaking.

The specific themes and focus of the conference will be shaped by the 
submissions we receive.

All submissions will be read and discussed by an advisory panel 
including: Rachel Garfield 
<https://www.rca.ac.uk/more/staff/rachel-garfield/> (Royal College of 
Art), Catherine Grant 
<https://courtauld.ac.uk/people/catherine-grant/> (Courtauld Institute), 
Claire M. Holdsworth 
<https://clairemholdsworth.wixsite.com/mysite/> (Central Saint Martins, 
University of the Arts London), Lauren Houlton 
<https://cream.ac.uk/people/lauren-houlton/> (CREAM), Onyeka Igwe 
<https://onyekaigwe.com/> (London College of Communication, UAL), Lucy 
Reynolds <https://cream.ac.uk/people/lucy-reynolds/> (CREAM) and Rosie 
Thomas <https://cream.ac.uk/people/rosie-thomas/> (CREAM).

*Proposal submissions*

We particularly welcome and support proposals from researchers and 
artists of colour, disabled speakers, women speakers, queer and trans 
speakers, displaced researchers and artists and people working in/with 
underrepresented territories.

Please submit a proposal, including a contact email and phone number and 
information about any access requirements along with the information 
outlined below to:

(womeninrevolt /at/ westminster.ac.uk) 
<mailto:(womeninrevolt /at/ westminster.ac.uk)> (with the subject line ‘WIR 
conference proposal’) by *11pm (23:00) GMT Tuesday 19 December 2023.*

Participants will be contacted by early January 2024.

For proposals for twenty-minute presentations, please provide the title, 
a 250 word abstract and a brief biography (100 words + social media links).

For pre-constituted panels of three speakers please include a 250 word 
panel statement alongside individual abstracts (100 words) and 
biographies (100 words + social media links).

For practice-led presentations please provide a proposal detailing the 
nature of the work to be presented, with a 250 word description, 
biography/biographies (100 words + social media links) and a concise 
note of technical requirements and maximum length running time.

For further enquiries please contact: (l.reynolds02 /at/ westminster.ac.uk) 
<mailto:(l.reynolds02 /at/ westminster.ac.uk)>

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This event is being organised through CREAM (Centre for Research and 
Education in Arts and Media) <https://cream.ac.uk/> in association with 
an advisory panel and with the assistance of other researchers in the 
field. It is hosted by Tate Britain, and with additional support from 
Chelsea Space, University of the Arts London.

Follow this link to read the TATE Press Release for Women in Revolt 
<https://www.tate.org.uk/press/press-releases/women-in-revolt>.

*Funding / access statement*

Please note that at the time this call is being distributed, the 
organisers are in the process of securing funding and support from 
different institutions, with the aim of making this event as accessible 
as possible.


The event aims to operate on safe-space as well as other open-access 
principles and CREAM are currently in discussion with Tate about these 
arrangements.

Should you have specific access requirements, including travel costs or 
other needs, please feel free to discuss these in your proposal or 
contact us directly (via email, please note it might take a few days for 
us to respond).

The event will be ticketed and priced through Tate events to cover venue 
and administration/marketing with the aim of making it as accessible as 
possible (pricing TBC).


Participants do not have to pay to attend.

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