[Commlist] Call for Papers: Fields of Collaboration in contemporary art practices | International Conference

Fields of collaboration in contemporary art practices | international 
conference

Organized by ICNOVA, IFILNOVA and IHA - NOVA University of Lisbon

Lisbon, October 9-10, 2019


Can all art be considered collaborative? What has motivated so many 
artists, in recent decades, to organize in collectives and participate 
in collaborative projects? Does collaboration in the arts play a major 
role in redefining the art world and in the production of new 
subjectivities? How do collaborative art practices challenge the myths 
of creative genius and artistic individuality?


Collaboration in the arts is indisputably a global phenomenon – as 
asserted by authors such as Grant Kester (2011) –, which emerges 
cyclically, mostly in moments of great uncertainty. Such practices often 
involve a high degree of self-reflection concerning artistic modes of 
production of art, as well as a greater freedom of formal and authorial 
experimentation. However, there is a symptomatic lack of research about 
the long-standing desire of artists to work together and share a 
collective voice (Stimson, Sholette, 2007). Moreover, collaborative 
processes have been notoriously co-opted in the context of capitalism, 
in order to develop more flexible and precarious configurations of work 
(Deleuze, 1992; Boltanski, Chiapello, 2007). Given these contradictions, 
there is the need for a timely debate about the role collaboration plays 
in the current socio-economic context, particularly regarding the ways 
in which the arts may contribute to create another perception of the 
potential and value of collaborative practices (De Wachter, 2017).


We therefore invite artists, researchers and artist-researchers to share 
proposals that, inter alia, investigate art practices where 
collaboration is both the driving force of artistic creation and a field 
of experimentation where aesthetical processes, issues of autonomy and 
organization as well as modes of production and circulation are challenged.


We welcome proposals that explore the historical, sociological and 
aesthetic dimensions of collaborative art practices, bearing in mind the 
following issues and their points of convergence:


- Specific conditions of production of collaborative practices: the 
various means, methodologies, strategies, cultural and economic 
contexts, common guidelines and practices, and collaborative semantics;


- How they relate to public policies and the market: synergies, 
antagonisms and the search for alternatives;


- Challenges, conflicts and decision-making processes in collectives and 
other forms of artistic collaboration;


- Notions of authorship;


- The contribution of collaborative practices in redefining working 
methods in the domain of art;


- New forms of agency: the influence of art practices on collaboration 
in a wider social perspective;


- Relationship with the experimentation of new political forms of 
self-governance outisde of the artistic field, and different notions of 
“common”;


- Formal aspects that distinguish, or fail to distinguish, works of art 
produced collaboratively from those produced in other configurations of 
authorship;


- Relationship of the sptectator to different regimes of aesthetic 
experience, i.e. enabling the audience’s participation in the 
collaborative experience;


- The tension between ethical judgement and aesthetic judgement in the 
critical reception of collaborative works of art.



We invite proposals for presentations of 20 minutes and welcome both 
traditional and non-traditional formats, such as video screenings or 
performances. Papers can be individually or collaboratively authored. 
The working languages are Portuguese and English.


Please send proposals to (camposdecolaboracao /at/ gmail.com) 
<mailto:(camposdecolaboracao /at/ gmail.com)> including:

- A pdf file with your name, paper title, e-mail address, institutional 
affiliation and a short bio (100 words);

- A second pdf file with the paper title, abstract (300 words) and 
keywords (max. 5). In case of a visual or performative presentation, 
please also include up to five images and/or a link to audio or video. 
Please do not include your name on the second file and linked material.


Call for papers: April 15 – May 31, 2019

Conference dates: October 9-10, 2019

Keynote speakers:

Catherine Queloz and Liliane Schneiter [Confirmed]

[Keynote speaker to be confirmed]


Roundtable on collaboration in the arts in Portugal:

António Olaio (artist and professor, Universidade de Coimbra)

José Maia (artist and professor, Universidade do Porto)

Rita Fabiana (curator, Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian)

Sandra Vieira Jürgens (curator and post-doc researcher, Universidade 
NOVA de Lisboa)


+Info:

https://camposdecolaboracao.wixsite.com/home

(camposdecolaboracao /at/ gmail.com) <mailto:(camposdecolaboracao /at/ gmail.com)>

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