CFP Imag(in)ing Asia & the Pacific: Emerging Visualities & Art Perspectives", Grad Symposium Cornell Univ, February 20-21, 2009

[Jonathan M Hall]

H-ASIA
December 1, 2008

Call for papers: "Imag(in)ing Asia and the Pacific: Emerging  
Visualities and Art Perspectives", Department of the History of Art  
and Visual Studies Annual  Graduate Symposium Cornell University  
February 20-21, 2009
                                         DEADLINE DECEMBER 15, 2008

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Imag(in)ing Asia and the Pacific: Emerging Visualities and Art  
Perspectives Department of the History of Art and Visual Studies  
Annual Graduate Symposium Cornell University February 20-21, 2009

Location: New York, United States
Call for Papers Date: 2008-12-15 (in 14 days)
Date Submitted: 2008-12-01
Announcement ID: 165508


The symposium addresses the 20th century processes of decolonization,  
modernization, and nation-building that characterized the regions of  
Asia and the Pacific. These structures are revisited in the 21st  
century in the wake of globalization, and art practice in recent  
years has sought to address these questions, variously embracing or  
resisting their assumptions, politicizing their implications, or  
challenging discourse around such formulations. Not only are the  
cities of Asia and the Pacific growing, but have also become major  
centers of art, with mega-exhibitions and biennales that crucially  
forge regional identities and affinities. The symposium aims to  
explore these emerging visualities in the light of the complex, and  
changing socio-political and economic issues that affect countries,  
peoples, institutions and practice in the region.

Keynote Address:
Dr. Melissa Chiu
Director, Asia Society Museum, New York

We encourage submissions that focus on visuality, however, and can be  
from a range of disciplines, including but not limited to Asian  
Studies, Pacific Studies, History of Art, History, Visual Studies,  
Anthropology, Sociology, Studio Art, Architecture, Literature,  
Theatre, Film, and Dance.

Of the many possible engagements with our theme, some include, but  
are not limited to:

*  Classifications, geographies and identities -- Possibilities of  
"Asian" and/or "Pacific" art: art and the archive (Hong Kong), and  
the museum (Fukuoka, Wellington, etc.).

*  Forging regional "cultural" alliances: Inter-Asia theatre, Asia  
Pacific Triennial, Pacific Arts Festival, etc.

*  Art and the city -- cities as sites, cities as centers. Global  
cities and new urbanities (e.g. Shanghai, Mumbai, Auckland, Sydney,  
etc.) Cities as sites of public art. Exhibitions such as Cities on  
the Move, Paradise Now?, etc. Biennales such as Singapore, Gwangju,  
Sydney and new biennales and triennials being planned.

*  Traditional Practices, New Media, and Art against the grain.  
Negotiation of tradition and technology in practice. Space for  
national heritage and culture and emerging alternative spaces/media  
for art.

*  Economies of Art: The movement of art from the region across the  
global art market and the recent booms. The role of museums,  
galleries and auction houses.

Bernida Webb-Binder and Brinda Kumar
Cornell University
Goldwin Smith Hall GM08
607 255 4905
607 266 0566
Email: baw78 at cornell.edu and bk269 at cornell.edu
Visit the website at http://www.arts.cornell.edu/histart/symposium.html

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