[Nettime-ro] Reminder - Call for papers: Provocation as Art. Scandal, Shock and Sexuality in Contemporary Visual Culture

[Horea Avram <horea.avram@gmail.com>]

Call for papers

*Provocation as Art.*

*Scandal, Shock and Sexuality in Contemporary Visual Culture*



*2nd Ekphrasis Conference on Cinema and Visual Culture*

*28-29 May, 2015, Cluj, Romania*



The Faculty of Theater and Television of the BabeÈ-Bolyai University is
announcing the Call for Papers for the Annual Cinema and Visual Culture
Studies Conference to be held May 28-29, 2015. This 2015 conference is
designed to discuss the irreverent nature of art, cinema and visual
production in various media environments. The purpose of the conference is
to deal with the various obstructions of the creative spirit, both in the
context of the passivity of the consumer society and in a highly censored
and politically correct environment. Often art is vilified, accused of
blasphemy and obscenity, threatened with violence, prosecuted and even
imprisoned, yet the function of art has to be a source for scandal and
provocation. The main goal of the conference is interrogating the limits of
what is acceptable or not in art, of what it means to use art as a form of
disrupting the established order. Researchers are invited to explore the
provocative nature of art, by looking deeper into the means by which
artistic expressions challenge the social barrier, and understanding the
breaking force of any work of art, in media and in cinema.



A special feature of the debate is announced as part of this conference,
and it will be dedicated to the philosophy and aesthetics of Lars Von
Trier. This part of the conference is dedicated to the three trilogies of
Lars von Trier, with a special interest for his so called Depression
Trilogy (Antichrist, Melancholia and Nymphomaniac).



Prospective authors are invited to submit their abstracts on the following
subjects:



*Impertinent nature of the artistic act*

*Shocking images and provocations*

*Sexually explicit images in art cinema*

*Controversy and clicheÌs*

*Challenging the canons*

*Scandalous nature of aesthetics*

*Defying the limits of reception in visual arts*

*Risk taking in artistic expression*

*Disturbing representations in media and cinema*

*Dissent and political irreverence in art and visual culture*

*Radicalism and provocations of existing artistic taste*

*Perversity and cultural passivity in visual media*

*Fascination for the monstrous and the unknown in visual representations*

*Taboo breaking in art*

*Antagonism and the dialectics of provocation in art*



Abstracts (up to 500 words) are requested in English for all papers related
to any aspect the conference topics. Approaches from a range of disciplines
and interdisciplinary studies are accepted if related to any aspect of art,
cinema, media, visual culture, and any sub-genre of those fields.
Researchers from all disciplines, as well as PhD students and artists who
are active in research activities are welcome to participate. The sessions
of paper presentations will include about 4 theoretical papers, while
practitioners will be presenting their findings in distinct workshops. Each
panel will have an invited key speaker (to be confirmed). The information
requested with abstract submission must include the name(s) of the
author(s), any institutional affiliation, mailing address and email,
proposed title of presentation (changes are allowed up to the registration
deadline).



*Abstract Submission Deadline: February 15th, 2015*







*Keynote speakers*



*James Elkins *( School of the Art Institute of Chicago)

âUsing Images to Inciteâ



*Linda Badley *(Middle Tennessee State University, US)

âFill All My Holesâ: Nymph()maniacâs Sadeian Discourse







*Registration Deadline: April 15th, 2015*

The language of the conference is English. Please note that there will be a
conference fee of â 150. The fee does not include accommodation and will be
paid in cash at the conference registration desk or on line. Discounts and
reduced fees to be discussed with each applicant. Early bird fees are â
100 if paid by the end of January 2015.



*Contact:* Associate Professor Doru Pop
*Email:* doru.pop@ubbcluj.r <doru.pop@ubbcluj.ro>o /
ekphrasis.teatrutv@ubbcluj.ro <ekphrasis@ubbcluj.ro>

*VENUE:* âBabes- Bolyaiâ University
4 Mihail KogaÌlniceanu St., 400084, Cluj- Napoca,

http://teatrutv.ubbcluj.ro/conferences/provocation/
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