Deadline: 28 June 2019

The international conference Breaking Boundaries: Academia, Activism and the Arts proposes to bring into focus and critically question common grounds and boundaries between and within the Humanities, political activity and aesthetic production.

The upcoming international conference Breaking Boundaries: Academia, Activism, and the Arts proposes to bring into focus and critically question common grounds and boundaries between and within the Humanities, political activity and aesthetic production. Over the course of two days, and in a range of formats, with the input of artists, scholars, activists and all those who fall between those boundaries, we propose to engage with a series of questions prompted by current social and political phenomena. As far-right movements gain popularity across Europe, and old and new discriminations appear legitimized by some political leaders around the world, we ask: What is the role of the arts in the current political climate and how can they influence and engage with large- and small-scale politics? How can these artistic processes form and inform academic discourse and what can academic discourse gain from direct dialogue with the arts? What spaces of resistance can be forged in the spheres of art and academy?

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We welcome artistic projects - individual or collective - that reflect the topics discussed in the conference. In particular we seek pieces and performances that, via different aesthetic approaches and in relation to different cultural and geopolitical contexts, represent and question the relationship between the arts and political activism, as well as the role of academia in political and artistic fields.



We welcome submissions in all formats, including, but not limited to:



Photography

Video Art

Short Film

Illustration

Cartoon

Performance

Spoken Word Poetry

Musical Piece/Song

Dance



In the cases of performance or video projection duration should be limited to a maximum of 20 minutes. We also inform proponents that the conference’s working languages will be English and Portuguese. We ask that any practical requirements for artworks’ exhibition are clearly stated in the proposal.
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Artists whose work is selected are invited to attend the conference and will have the opportunity to present and discuss their work with the participants of the event.


No entry fee

Details:
https://breakingboundaries19.wixsite.com/conference/call-for-artists