[Commlist] CFP AAPlab "Korean Arts: Exploring, Juxtaposing, and Reimagining"

We warmly invite papers for the conference ‘’, Environmental Resilience 
and Sustainability in Korean Arts: Exploring, Juxtaposing, and 
Reimagining", taking place at Montreal University, Montreal, Quebec, 
Canada, 22nd-24th February 2024. Please see the call for papers below.

*CALL FOR PAPERS*

Environmental Resilience and Sustainability in Korean Arts: Exploring, 
Juxtaposing, and Reimagining
*22nd-24th February 2024 *
*University of Montreal*
Montreal, Quebec, Canada

“New social and aesthetic practices of social relationships must be 
pursued with the articulation of: a nascent subjectivity;

a constantly mutating socius; an environment in the process of being 
reinvented.” - GUATTARI, Félix

“We carry the past into the yet the unknown future we are shaping now in 
the present.”    -Jin-me Yoon


The Asian Art Publication Lab (AAPlab) is holding its third 
international conference, "Environmental Resilience and Sustainability 
in Korean Visual and Media Arts: Exploring, Juxtaposing and Reimagining" 
on February 22-24, 2024 at the Montreal University, Montreal, Quebec, 
Canada. The conference defines the term "environment" through ecosophy, 
ecology, and equilibria in response to Félix Guattri's Three Ecologies 
in response to the Korean Canadian artist Jin-me Yoon’s poetic vision.

The AAPlab intersects academic and non-academic cultural communities, 
and the conference invites proposals from Artists, researchers, scholars 
of all backgrounds exploring and revisiting the relationship between 
ecological environments, topics of industrialization and technology.

Potential Topics can include, but are not limited to:

  * Cinema, Media
  * Technology
  * Capitalism, Industrialisation
  * Viruses, Pollution
  * Labour, Gender
  * Violence, War
  * Global warming, Climate change
  * Ethics of Care, Routine

Our environmental and social relations have become acute and radical. 
Despite our utmost efforts to restore one’s substantial-ecological 
living environments, the more we are informed of and come into contact 
with more advanced technology, the more our ecological being is affected 
by the perils of sociopolitical and cultural disequilibrium, 
atomization, complexities in media literacy, mass media, and alienation, 
to name a few.

The conference takes a microcosmic approach to center Korean visual and 
media arts, which can be extended to Asian arts, as we seek to examine 
and envision social and environmental relational discourse in art theory 
and artworks. In resonance with Korean film director BONG Joon-Ho’s 
remark “Films, novels and all creative works, they always reflect the 
violence that exists in the world”, we will examine and revisit our 
living mode and ecological perceptions of today and tomorrow.

Our everyday life undeniably relies on technology, and technology is 
stuck in a relationship that demands constant interaction with cultural 
and economic value. With the emergence of 3 ESG (the consideration of 
environmental issues, social issues, and corporate governance), the 
interrelationality has become inseparable between human beings, 
technology, and the economic value of materiality in the 21st century. 
In response to Japanese farmer and philosopher Masanobu Fukuoka, “the 
more people do, the more society develops, the more problems arise”, the 
conference will cross-examine our global struggle to renegotiate and 
reinvent our relationship in the current ecological landscape.

We welcome proposals on local-international environments, such as ties 
or connections between Canada and Asia. The geographical and cultural 
area of Korean visual and media arts is intended to be an entrance to or 
mirror of Asian arts that include Korean popular arts (Hallyu studies). 
As such, the conference welcomes proposals that examine and explore 
Korean or Asian arts, or comparative studies to Western arts in line 
with the theme.

Academics, artists and graduate students of all backgrounds are welcomed 
to submit a proposal. The conference is open to essays in various forms 
of visual language, such as docu-essays, photo-essays, and conference 
paper presentations.

An applicant may only submit one proposal written either in English or 
French, we aim to conduct this conference in both languages with 
simultaneous interpretation services.

*TIMELINE:
*The deadline for abstracts is 5pm, Friday 26th November 2023 (EST).
Notification of Selected Proposals: December 4th, 2023 (EST)

To propose a research paper, please submit:
- an abstract/summary of the paper (c. 250 words)
- a short speaker biography (max. 150 words) including your affiliation 
and research interests
- contact details

*Research papers should not exceed 20 minutes.
Please submit your abstract at _asianartpublicationlab__(AT)gmail(DOT)com
_
*Asian Art Publication Lab (AAPlab)* is a Montreal-based research and 
creation laboratory at the intersection of arts and technology. Our goal 
is to bridge the gap between the East and West by decolonizing Asian 
arts through inclusive and critical dialogue. We publish and translate 
textbooks, essays, and lived stories based on art practices and 
experiments, and provide a platform for innovative Pan-Asian art projects.
This conference is generously funded by the Academy of Korean Studies in 
Seoul, Korea.

For inquiries:
Emily Leavitt, Research Coordinator at AAPlab at 
(asianartpublicationlab /at/ gmail.com) <mailto:(asianartpublicationlab /at/ gmail.com)>
*Korean Film Festival Canada /Arts East-West*
Nonprofit Asian Media Art Organization, Quebec since 1996
/Where East-Meets West/
Arts East-West/Korean Film Festival Canada 
<https://koreanfilmfestivalcanada.ca/3rd-international-conference/> 
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