Call: Centro Cultural Montehermoso Kulturunea Art and Research Grants Available

CENTRO CULTURAL MONTEHERMOSO KULTURUNEA
ART AND RESEARCH Grants 2008

call for entries
http://www.montehermoso.net/index.php?/arte

Montehermoso 08
The Centro Cultural Montehermoso Kulturunea presents the eighth edition of the grants Support for Creation and Research in Contemporary Art and Thought. This initiative, promoted by Vitoria-Gasteiz Town Council, aims to facilitate the production of the selected projects, as well as their exhibition. In order to make this possible, the grants offered are aimed at Artistic Creation, Curatorship and Research. Authors of any nationality, regardless of age, can present their projects individually or collectively.

Artistic Creation
Awarding of 8 grants for unpublished art projects which are in the production phase or which must be produced during the extension of the grant. The Grant includes an exhibition in the space of the Montehermoso Cultural Centre, within the 2009 programme.

Curatorship
Awarding of 1 grant for a unpublished curatorial project including the participation of at least four contemporary creators. The proposal must be under production or must be produced during the extension of the grant.

Research
Awarding of 3 grants for research projects related to Contemporary Art and Thought. Within this section, at least one of the grants will be aimed at projects related to the development of a Historiography of Feminist Art in Spain.

Film Script
Awarding of 1 grant for a film script project. The proposal must be under production or must be produced during the extension of the grant.

Call: STATIC7 seeks critical text about catastrophe, aesthetics, and narrative

Call for Submission to STATIC 7

DUE: Tue Apr 1, 2008
(Timezone: Eastern Time - Montreal)
http://static.londonconsortium.com/index.php


What happened, has not happened: thus spoke patience, that the end might not be hurried.

Maurice Blanchot, The Writing of The Disaster.

The catastrophe takes care of everything: from Greek tragedy to sci-fi, from ethics to (an)aesthetics, from architecture to game theory, from opera to snuff. Static 7 aims to reconstruct the contradictions and oppositions of the catastrophic narrative, which is peripheral yet at the centre of all things, consigned to the past and always to be reinstated.

Static 7 intends to pace the epistemic disaster zone, reading its debris through contributions which explore the notion of catastrophe in literature, architecture, art, politics, science, music and economics, drawing on sources as diverse as Aeschylus and Virilio, Kant and Beckett, financial risk analysis and nuclear reactor meltdown.

Please send your queries and submissions to static.catastrophe@googlemail.com

Static is the online journal of the London Consortium, a unique collaboration between the Architectural Association, Birkbeck College, the Institute of Contemporary Arts, the Science Museum, and Tate.

We welcome a broad range of written, visual and digital submissions. Please contact the editors at the email addresses given above for submission guidelines and further information.

Call: Papers wanted for "Embodied Politics in Visual Autobiography"

Call for Papers

Embodied Politics in Visual Autobiography

We invite contributions for a proposed collection of essays on visual
autobiography, focusing on health, bodies, and embodied subjectivities.
The collection will consider how cultural practices of self-narration
and self-portraiture image and imagine unruly bodies and, in so doing,
respond to Patricia Zimmerman's call for "radical media democracies
that animate contentious public spheres" (2000, p. xx).

How are health, dis/ability, and the body theorized, materialized, and
politicized in visual autobiographies, including forms such as
photography, video art, graphic memoir, film, body art and performance,
and digital media? We are particularly interested in the potential of
visual autobiographies to:
-explore how bodies negotiate disciplinary regimes and technologies
-produce counterdiscursive manoeuvres and new representational spaces
-investigate how power/knowledge relations constitute embodiments
-provoke critical and ethical reflection

We welcome contributions from academic- and arts-based researchers and
practitioners. We encourage a wide range of critical perspectives:
cultural studies, critical theory, disability studies, feminist
studies, critical race studies, diaspora studies, queer studies,
Aboriginal studies, globalization studies, literary studies, art
history, music, media studies, theatre and performance studies.
Analytic approaches could involve: textual analysis; histories,
presents, and futures; practices and practitioners; and pedagogy.

Possible topics:
dis/ability
sickness/wellness
disease
bodies negotiating borders and boundaries
traded and disappeared bodies
trauma and testimony
memory and memorializing
monstrosity
care of the self
care-giving
fatness and body size
aging
body alterations and transformations
environments
activisms

Send a 300- to 500-word abstract, working title, and a brief bio, by
email in a Word attachment, to Sarah Brophy (brophys@mcmaster.ca) and Janice Hladki (hladkij@mcmaster.ca) on or before May 15, 2008.
Inquiries are also welcome. Final papers should range in length from
4000-8000 words.

About the editors: Sarah Brophy is an Associate Professor in English
and Cultural Studies, McMaster University. Janice Hladki is an
Associate Professor in Theatre and Film Studies, McMaster University.