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[Commlist] Call for interpretive exhibition text panels: Paper Bullets: 100 Years of Political stickers from Around the World

Mon Nov 27 14:22:56 GMT 2023




*Call for Exhibition Text Panels:*

*/Paper Bullets: 100 Years of Political stickers from Around the World/*

You are invited to submit a proposal to write one or more interpretive text panels for a major traveling exhibition entitled /Paper Bullets: 100 Years of Political Stickers from Around the World <https://www.stickerkitty.org/paper-bullets-100-years-of-political-stickers-from-around-the-world/>/.

Hidden in plain sight, publicly placed stickers with printed images and/or text have been used for decades as a form of sociopolitical protest or to advocate sociopolitical agendas. In the United States, for example, as early as the 1910s, labor unions such as the Industrial Workers of the World created the first “stickerettes” or “silent agitators” to oppose poor working conditions, intimidate bosses, and condemn capitalism. Later, during World War II, Allied and Axis countries dropped gummed “paper bullets” or “confetti soldiers” from the sky as a form of psychological warfare to demoralize both troops and civilians. During the 1960s and ’70s American civil rights era, paper “night raiders” protested the war in Vietnam and U.S. imperialism, calling for racial and gender equity among blacks, whites, men, and women. Colorful, lightweight German /spuckies /have also been used for several decades to combat fascism and sexism and to comment on environmental issues.

Drawing from the private collection of Catherine Tedford, Gallery Director at St. Lawrence University, the exhibition features thousands of original, unused political stickers from Canada, Egypt, England, Germany, Indonesia, Mexico, Russia, Spain, Ukraine, the United States, and other countries, dating from the early 20th century to present day. Stickers are organized by geographic location, date, and subject, including gender and sexuality, labor and workers’ rights, race and ethnicity, technology and surveillance, war and conflict, the environment, and police reform, among others (see below).

International researchers, scholars, writers, artists, activists, archivists, librarians, and others from diverse multicultural backgrounds are welcome to submit proposals. Essays will be presented in English, though translations can also be presented in the exhibition. Graduate students are welcome to submit. The Los Angeles Center for the Study of Political Graphics’ poster of the week <https://www.politicalgraphics.org/blog-1/categories/poster-of-the-week>provides some excellent examples of the sort of image-related historical, political, and cultural context needed for the items on display.

Using primary source materials that will be included in the exhibition, authors may select from the following topics:

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*Examples (USA)*

·World War II, 1940s

·War in Vietnam <https://www.stickerkitty.org/paper-bullets-05-usa-u-s-war-in-vietnam/>, 1960s-1970s

·President Richard M. Nixon <https://www.stickerkitty.org/paper-bullets-6a-usa-president-richard-m-nixon-1969-1974/>, 1960s-1970s

·Race, ethnicity, Black Lives Matter/Prison Reform <https://www.stickerkitty.org/paper-bullets-12-usa-black-lives-matter-prison-reform/>, 1970s-present

·LGBTQI <https://www.stickerkitty.org/paper-bullets-7-usa-lgbtqi-1980s-1990s/>, 1980s-1990s/2000s-present

·AIDS epidemic <https://www.stickerkitty.org/paper-bullets-8a-usa-aids-epidemic-1980s-1990s/>, 1980s-1990s

·President George W. Bush <https://www.stickerkitty.org/pb-6a-usa-president-george-w-bush-2001-2009/>, 2000s

·President Barack Obama, 2008 Sticker Robot artists’ pack <https://www.stickerkitty.org/paper-bullets-14a-usa-president-barack-obama-sticker-robot-artists-pack-2008/>, 2008 + 2012 campaigns <https://www.stickerkitty.org/paper-bullets-14-usa-president-barack-obama-2008-and-2012-campaigns/>

·Nature and the environment <https://www.stickerkitty.org/paper-bullets-11-usa-nature-and-the-environment/>, 2000s-present

·Gender & sexuality <https://www.stickerkitty.org/paper-bullets-8b-usa-gender-sexuality/>, 2000s-present

*Examples (Germany), all dated 2000s-present except /spuckies/*

·Spuckies <https://www.stickerkitty.org/paper-bullets-19a-germany-spuckies-1980s-present/>, 1980s-present

·Nature and the environment <https://www.stickerkitty.org/paper-bullets-27-ger-nature-and-the-environment-2009-2019/>

·Capitalism/economy(ies) <https://www.stickerkitty.org/paper-bullets-21a-germany-capitalism-economyies/>

·Reclaim the streets, urban re-development, gentrification, squats <http://Reclaim%20the%20streets,%20urban%20re-development,%20gentrification,%20squats>

·Anti-sexism, -homophobia, -transphobia <https://www.stickerkitty.org/paper-bullets-23-germany-anti-sexism-homophobia-transphobia/>

·Surveillance/technology <https://www.stickerkitty.org/paper-bullets-22a-germany-surveillance-technology/>

·Anti-nationalism <https://www.stickerkitty.org/paper-bullets-21b-germany-anti-nationalism/>

·Football Club St. Pauli <https://www.stickerkitty.org/paper-bullets-29-germany-football-club-st-pauli-fcsp/> “the pirates of the league”

·Die Linke (political party) <https://www.stickerkitty.org/paper-bullets-36a-germany-die-linke-political-party/>

·Linksjugend [solid’] (political youth organization) <https://www.stickerkitty.org/paper-bullets-germany-linksjugend-solid-political-youth-organization/>

·Inforiot – alternative politics and culture <https://www.stickerkitty.org/paper-bullets-31a-germany-inforiot-alternative-politics-and-culture-2010s/>

·Pop culture and culture jamming <https://www.stickerkitty.org/paper-bullets-38-germany-pop-culture-and-culture-jamming/>

·Memes <https://www.stickerkitty.org/paper-bullets-32-germany-memes-2010-2019/>/culture jamming

·May 1 and labor

·Anarchy and resistance

·Anti-authoritarianism and anti-police

·Silvio Meier

·Immigration/refugees

·Anti-fascism and antifa

*Selected examples (Spain)*

·Women’s rights, gender, and sexuality <https://www.stickerkitty.org/paper-bullets-43a-spain-gender-and-sexuality/>, 2010s-present

·Catalan independence movement <https://www.stickerkitty.org/paper-bullets-41c-spain-catalan-independence-movement/>, 1970s-present

·Economy and austerity cuts <https://www.stickerkitty.org/paper-bullets-41a-spain-economy-and-austerity-cuts/>, 2010s-present

·Resistance to joining NATO <https://www.stickerkitty.org/paper-bullets-41b-spain-resistance-to-joining-nato/>, early 1980s

·Anti-fascism <https://www.stickerkitty.org/paper-bullets-42a-spain-antifascism/>, 2000s-present

·Nature, environment, animal rights <https://www.stickerkitty.org/paper-bullets-44a-spain-nature-environment-animal-rights/>, 2010s-present

·May 1 and labor

·References to Picasso’s work

*Selected examples (Canada)*

·Indigenous rights <https://www.stickerkitty.org/paper-bullets-45b-canada-indigenous-rights/>, 2010s-present

·Police brutality <https://www.stickerkitty.org/paper-bullets-45a-canada-police-brutality/>, 2010s-present

*Examples (Mexico)*

·Human dignity, social justice <https://www.stickerkitty.org/paper-bullets-51a-mexico-human-dignity-social-justice/> (2010s-present)

*Examples (Egypt)*

·Arab Spring <https://www.stickerkitty.org/paper-bullets-49-egypt-arab-spring-2010-11/>, 2010-2011

*Examples (Russia)*

·Civil protests <https://www.stickerkitty.org/paper-bullets-50a-russia/>, 2012

*Examples (Ukraine)*

·Euromaidan protests <https://www.stickerkitty.org/paper-bullets-50-ukraine-euromaidan-protests-2013-2014/>, 2013-2014

·Russian invasion of Ukraine (2022-present)

For consideration, please submit a 250- to 300-word abstract and one-page bio/CV to Catherine Tedford at (ctedford /at/ stlawu.edu) <mailto:(ctedford /at/ stlawu.edu)>. The deadline for submissions is March 1, 2024, though early submissions are encouraged. If selected, a complete 1,000- to 2,000-word essay will be due by July 8, 2024. Authors can designate their own Creative Commons <https://creativecommons.org/> licenses for their work.

*Catherine Tedford *first discovered street stickers while visiting Berlin, Germany, in 2003 and has since collected over 18,000 original, unused examples from countries around the world. A two-time recipient of a DAAD German Academic Exchange Service grant, she has traveled to Berlin over 20 times to study street stickers. She writes about political stickers on her research blog /Stickerkitty <https://www.stickerkitty.org/> /and has presented papers at academic conferences <https://www.stickerkitty.org/c-v/> in Canada, England, Germany, Ireland, Scotland, and the United States. For more about stickers, see Takin’ It to the Streets & Stickin’ It to the Man <https://www.stickerkitty.org/takin-it-to-the-street-and-stickin-it-to-the-man-cultural-and-political-resistance-in-contemporary-sticker-art-part-i/> and Sticky art: the Street Art Graphics collection <https://about.jstor.org/blog/sticky-art-the-street-art-graphics-collection/> (/Jstor Blog/).


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