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Call for papers
The conference Not this time. Temporalities of ending, editing, enduring calls for perspectives on retrieving and renegotiating temporal aspects of artistic practices, lived lives, and knowledge production while at the same time resisting ‘covering’ what we still seem to be in the very midst of today.
This includes, but is not limited to, the following topics:
- Analysis of temporalities of production within the arts today
- Historical and ancestral examples of distributing time otherwise
- Analysis of temporal aspects of knowledge production
- Chronopolitical distributions in contemporary work within and across academia, art, and activism
- Rethinking (art) historical conceptions of time from the feminist, intersectional, critical race, decolonial, postcolonial, and indigenous positions
- Strategies for negotiating temporal relations in a geo-aesthetical perspective
- Theorizing categories characterizing the temporality of pandemic experience
- Reflections on sustainable temporalities, their promises, and their limitations
- Analysis of future-making, both concerning techno-economics and the so-called green transformation
- Theorizing the relation between affect and time
- Re-organization of temporal privileges through artistic and cultural practices
- Historization of concepts of temporality
- Reflections on the contemporary concerning ideas of simultaneity and immediacy
- Methodological discussions of transdisciplinary concepts of time
- Challenging conceptions such as dwelling (verweilen), immersion, and suspense in aesthetic theory
- Cultural analysis of contemporary spatiotemporal paradoxes, also concerning issues of migration and migrants in Europe
Please submit your abstract proposal (max 250 words) and a short bio (max 50 words) to artasforum@hum.ku.dk no later than 1 February 2023.
We welcome academic papers, artists’ presentations (both 20 mins), and group panels (90 mins).