cfp: (Image)ining Resistance

[Kirsty Robertson]

Reminder (due date August 1)

 
(Image)ining Resistance

CALL FOR PAPERS

Editors: Keri Cronin and Kirsty Robertson
Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada

We are seeking contributions for a collection of essays tentatively titled
(Image)ining Resistance. Our aim is to encourage interdisciplinary approaches
and critical examinations that address the use of visual imagery in social and
activist movements throughout history. From banners embroidered for suffragette
actions, to the impact of photographs taken in Soweto in 1976, to political
puppets created for recent global justice demonstrations, the intersections
between visual culture and activism relate a rich history with transnational
and transideological import. Interdisciplinary approaches are encouraged, as
are essays addressing a wide range of historical periods, geographic regions
and protest actions. 


Topics might include, but are not limited to:


- the image as a tool of persuasion
- the image as a site of resistance
- "activist" art
- anarchist art
- media coverage of protests and demonstrations
- protest as performance
- culture jamming
- historical analyses of art and protest
- activist art works/projects


Please submit a 500 word abstract and one page c.v., including name and email
address to both Keri Cronin 9jklc at qlink.queensu.ca and Kirsty Robertson
9kmr at qlink.queensu.ca by August 1, 2004.

Though we prefer email submissions, snail mail submissions can be sent to:

(Image)ining Resistance
c/o Keri Cronin and Kirsty Robertson
Department of Art
Ontario Hall
Queen's University
Kingston, Ontario, Canada, K7L 3N6