[ecrea] KISMIF 2016 CFP

KISMIF Conference 2016

We are pleased to announce the third KISMIF International Conference
“Keep It Simple, Make It Fast! (KISMIF) DIY Cultures, Spaces and Places”
which will take place in Porto, Portugal, between 18th July and 21st
July 2016.

The submission of abstracts for this conference is open to academic
researchers working in all areas of sociology, anthropology, history,
cultural economics, geography, urban planning, media and cultural
studies and cognate disciplines, such as design, illustration, popular
music, cinema, visual and performing arts.

This initiative follows the great success of the two first KISMIF
Conference editions (held in 2014 and 2015), seeking to voice the will
of the many researchers who have sought to promote an annual scientific
meeting for the discussion of underground music scenes and
do-it-yourself culture at the highest level.

KISMIF Conference 2016 is once again focused on underground music,
directing its attention this time towards the analysis of DIY cultures’
relationship to space and places.

Thus, we challenge students, junior and senior teachers/researchers, as
well as artists and activists, to come to the KISMIF International
Conference and present works which explore the potential of the
theoretical and analytical development of the intersection of music
scenes, DIY culture and space under a multidimensional and multifaceted
vision. We hope with this to enrich the underground scenes and DIY
cultures analysis by producing innovative social theory on various
spheres and levels, as well as focusing on the role of DIY culture in
late modernity.

Indeed, the role of music and DIY cultures is once more an important
question – taking place in a world of piecemealed yet ever-present
change. The space, spaces, places, borders, zones of DIY music scenes
are critical variables in approaching contemporary cultures, their
sounds, their practices (artistic, cultural, economic and social), their
actors and their contexts. From a postcolonial and glocalized
perspective, it is important to consider the changes in artistic and
musical practices with an underground and/or oppositional nature in
order to draw symbolic boundaries between their operating modalities and
those of advanced capitalism. Territorialization and
deterritorialization are indelible marks of the artistic and musical
scenes in the present; they are related to immediate cosmopolitanisms,
to conflicting diasporas, new power relations, gender and ethnicity.

As in previous KISMIF Conferences, it is our intention to welcome
reflexive contributions which consider the plurality that DIY cultural
practices demonstrate in various cultural, artistic and creative fields
and to move beyond music in considering artistic fields like film and
video, graffiti and street art, the theater and the performing arts,
literature and poetry, radio, programming and editing, graphic design,
illustration, cartoon and comics, as well as others.

In 2016, the stimulating scientific KISMIF Conference program will once
again be accompanied by a diverse social and cultural program, embodied
by a series of artistic events, with special focus on underground music
and other artistic expressions. The aim is to provide a unique
experience in terms of the DIY cultures present in Portugal, Porto and
its unique diasporas. (Check here the social and cultural program of
KISMIF Conference 2015.)

The conference will be followed by a summer school entitled “Mappin’
Your Own Underground!” on 22nd July 2015 in Faculty of Arts and
Humanities of University of Porto. The summer school will offer an
opportunity for all students, including those participating in the
conference, to attend specialist master classes and discuss their
research in seminars led by top academics in the field.



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