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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.

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Any folks, SCA or otherwise, up for this call from The Polygon Gallery?

The Polygon is pleased to announce Response: Resonance.⁠
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Calling photographers, filmmakers, and visual storytellers! This is an opportunity to create photographic or video work through exploratory workshops with contemporary Indigenous artists. Inspired by diverse approaches to expression across contemporary Indigenous film and media, Response: Resonance broadly considers the ways sound and voice express strength, survivance, and presence.

Workshops will take place online during Summer 2022, helping participants create original work that will be shown at The Polygon Gallery, North Vancouver in Fall 2022.

Don’t worry if you don’t have tons of experience—if you’re a beginner, let us know. We want to hear from you about why you’re interested in the topic “Resonance”, and why you’re eager to learn from Indigenous media artists and Knowledge Holders.
To learn more about the Response program and to access the online application form, please visit the following link: https://thepolygon.ca/news/response-resonance-call-for-artists/

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