06/11/2023
The European Association of Social Anthropologists (EASA) Anthropology and the Arts (ANTART) network event "Re-worlding relations: Anthropology, art, and design" will take place on November 10-11, 2023 at Newcastle University. The event proposes a workshop space to present research and share ideas. If you are interested in participating, please read the CFP below and submit an abstract by 16 June. The event covers accommodation for two nights and breakfast and lunch.
Guest speakers:
Prof. Barbara Glowczewski (French National Scientific Research Center)
Prof. Anna Maria Guasch (University of Barcelona)
Deadline for submission of abstracts: 16 June 2023
In this workshop we take up the concept of worlding to explore practices of arranging the world otherwise and to test a theoretical compass mediated by sensibility and sustainability. Worlding is an idea with a complex genealogy despite, or perhaps because of, its Heideggarian lineage which Gayatari Spivak locates as central to the maintenance of an ongoing coloniality. And yet, worlding allows us to enact a plurality of thinking and practice to contest hegemonic structures, values, and ways of being. It also centres material processes and practices as the means to glimpse how to craft alternative forms of life and relations. We wish to explore: How might anthropology, art, and design - each deeply relational modes of knowledge production and sensory experience – come together to refract the course of a universal modernity? How might such alliances propose alternative forms of organisation and living in-with the world(s)? How might anthropology, art, and design set out paths of re-worlding for new sensible and sustainable relations that move us toward a pluriversal existence? How might such processes occur, be they in the studio, the academy, or virtually through digital forms? What forms of narrativisation and what kinds of knowledge might be produced by re-worlding processes? We welcome academic and artistic contributions pertaining, but not limited to, the sustainability of relations and concomitant materialities of anthropological and artistic practice, extensions of worlding projects from society to ecology to aesthetics, and projects involving anthropologists and artists that propose a re-worlding of relations.
Please submit a 250-word abstract in English, or for an artistic contribution, an image and an abstract, to [email protected] no later than 16 June 2023. Decisions will be communicated by July 7, 2023.
ANTART Convenors:
Giuliana Borea (Newcastle University and PUCP)
Francesca Cozzolino (École des Arts Décoratifs de Paris and LESC/ Université de Paris Nanterre)
Alex Ungprateeb Flynn (University of California, Los Angeles)
Kiven Strohm (National University of Singapore)
Website: https://easaonline.org/networks/antart/
The poster features the work of Denilson Baniwa, image courtesy of the artist.
