[Commlist] CFP Special Issue of Dialogos: Unsubmissive Narcissuses: self-representation and dissident sexualities in Iberoamerican visual arts

CFP Special Issue of Dialogos: Unsubmissive Narcissuses: 
self-representation and dissident sexualities in Iberoamerican visual 
arts (deadline to submit full papers: June 30 2023)

Before and after the colonial period and the consequences of their 
respective dictatorial periods during the 20th century, how was the 
production of self-image recovered and renewed in the artistic and 
cultural space of Iberian America and the Iberian Peninsula in order to 
contribute to the emancipation of subjugated subjects through gender, 
sexuality, race, and social class mechanisms? With a recent historical 
and sociocultural past that is similar (semi-peripheral, dictatorial, 
colonial, Christian, monotheistic patriarchal), marked by the production 
of violence against women and black, indigenous, and queer populations, 
we believe that relating the cases of the Iberian Peninsula and Iberian 
America in this perspective allows for a critical identification of 
aesthetic and political strategies that are both common and diverse in 
the field of arts.

With these questions in mind, throughout 2022 and 2023, the conference 
cycle "Unsubmissive Narcissus: Self-Representation, Identity, and 
Difference in Ibero-American Visual Arts" brought together artists, 
curators, and researchers around the challenge of mapping and reflecting 
on how historically subjugated subjects and groups (LGBTQ+, women, black 
people, racialized populations of the global South) developed -in the 
contexts of Iberian America, Portugal, and Spain, and throughout the 
20th and early 21st centuries- different forms of artistic 
self-enunciation, particularly in the field of self-portraiture, selfie, 
film essay, archival cinema, performance, and other strategies for 
producing self-image that negotiated and transgressed gender, sexuality, 
race, social class, and artistic canons.

As an extension of these activities, we now launch in partnership with 
the JournalDialogos(Scopus Q3) a call for scientific articles and visual 
essays for the Dossier "Unsubmissive Narcissus: Self-Representation and 
Dissident Sexualities in Ibero-American Visual Arts." The dossier is 
open to researchers, artists, and curators who explore in their work the 
different forms of experimentation with the selfie, self-portraiture, 
confessional film, diary archives, and other forms of self-image 
exploration in cinema, photography, performance, video art, novels, and 
TV series, especially in the way these "narcissistic impulses" reflect 
movements and struggles around the following topics:

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    Methodologies of studies on self-representation in visual arts;

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    Queer and feminist epistemes for/against theories of
    self-representation;

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    Decolonial epistemes for/against theories of self-representation;

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    Critical revisions of self-portraits made by women, black,
    indigenous, and queer populations in the 20th-21st century;

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    Critical revisions of representation and self-representation policies;

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    Abjections, aberrations, and monstrosities in self-image production;

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    Social activism and the right to self-image;

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    Reparative practices and aesthetics policies in self-image production;

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    Selfie and self-performance on social media and artistic production;

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    Masks and aesthetics of artifice in self-image production;

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    Drag art and other transformative arts in self-image production;

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    Narcissistic, diaristic, and confessional impulses in cinema;

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    Colonial/artistic relationships between Latin America, Portugal, and
    Spain for self-image production.

Articles will be accepted in the following languages:Portuguese, 
Spanish, English, French, and Italian,and they must be uploaded in the 
online platform of the journal: 
https://periodicos.uem.br/ojs/index.php/Dialogos/index 
<https://periodicos.uem.br/ojs/index.php/Dialogos/index>

This issue aims to contribute to the wider Lusophone, Hispanic, and 
international scientific community, providing new methodological 
approaches from an interdisciplinary, comparative, and transnational 
perspective. Additionally, the analysis and study of a (semi-)peripheral 
geographic and cultural space will enrich the international community 
with new empirical data. Through this editorial project, the authors aim 
to contribute (1) scientific knowledge to current debates on 
self-portraiture in the fields of "identity", "difference", "gender", 
"sexuality", "race", "class", and artistic creation; (2) to the creation 
of an international network on these and other related topics; and (3) 
to increase the international visibility of Ibero-American art history.

Guest editors:

Flavia Bortolon - Federal University of Paraná (UFPR)

Dieison Marconi - Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ)

Lucia Gloria Vazquez Rodriguez - University College London (UCL)

Bruno Marques - New University of Lisbon (NOVA)

Submission period: April 15th to June 30th 2023 (deadline). NO APC


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