[oberlist] LT* call: INTER-FORMAT SYMPOSIUM ON HOSTING AND DISPLACING, NIDA ART COLONY, May 16-19, 2013

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Subject: [artacontemporana] CfP: INTER-FORMAT SYMPOSIUM ON HOSTING AND
DISPLACING, NIDA ART COLONY, May 16-19, 2013
From:    "veda popovici" <veda.popovici at gmail.com>
Date:    Fri, January 25, 2013 4:34 pm
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*CALL FOR PROPOSALS*

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*INTER-FORMAT SYMPOSIUM*

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*ON HOSTING AND DISPLACING:*

*Critical tourism, site-specificity and post-romantic condition*

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*NIDA ART COLONY, May 16-19, 2013*

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In a time where heritage, sustainability and ecology increasingly cross the
path of tourism, artists working in remote contexts and tourists often
share the observation of similar cultural objects: iconic landscape sites,
vernacular culture and authentic artefacts, invented traditions and
nostalgia.

One effect of this condition, as Miwon Kwon highlights in the essay “The
Wrong Place”, is that the increasing mobility of the art system, involving
both centres and remote situations, has led to romanticising the image of
the cultural worker. The symposium aims at bringing into question
correspondences between artistic practices and critical tourism in a
trans-disciplinary context. In contemporary artistic practices, do
displacements take the form of a romantic expedition or are they based on
hospitality and exchange? And what happens in the stay? What kind of
connection/network of competence can be developed in a situation of
post-romantic retreat? How to avoid and/or critically read the exoticism
potential arisen by these sites? How to deal with these two new genres of
colonies – artistic and touristic ones – that are both conceptually and
physically re-shaping the landscape?

*Key-words and key-questions:*

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The artist as tourist

Artistic and curatorial practices in remote contexts as hospitality

Critical tourism and re-mapping culturescapes

Museification of landscape and local histories

Touristic gaze and the construction of places

Sightseeing as artistic research

Nostalgia tourism in post-colonial contexts

Landscape and contemporary forms of exoticism

Identity landscape and site-specific artistic interventions

Localism vs. standardized identities

Critical artistic actions in alpine and seaside contexts

Site-specific materials in Nida and Sierre (snow, dam, amber, sand,
vernacular culture)

Staged authenticity and interpreting tradition

Post-romantic experiences of the picturesque

Dis-placing artistic practices in rural / alpine artistic colonies and
residencies

Networked retreat for cultural production


The symposium is a 4-day-long event (May 16-19 2013) and is a part of the
project* On Hosting and Displacing *co-organised by Nida Art Colony (LT)
and Ecole Cantonale d’Art du Valais/Sierre (CH). The participants will
share their experiences working and living in remotely located art and
residency centers as directors and cultural managers, and as practicing
artists.





*The format: *The format is open; proposals can vary from lectures and
workshops to performances and site-specific artworks. We are able to
provide accommodation and catering to a limited number of participants.
Travel expenses are subject to availability.

*Deadline:* Please send a short proposal (up to 500 words and/or visual
material if needed) by March 1, 2013 to: Vytautas Michelkevicius (
vytautas at nidacolony.lt) and Federica Martini (  < <script
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with subject line “proposal for symposium”
http://www.nidacolony.lt/en/projects/on-hosting-and-displacing/inter-format-symposium-2013


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