CFS: UNFIXED
Posted on | June 9, 2010 | No Comments
UNFIXED is a mutliplatform project initiated and developed by us and it is organized in cooperation with Centrum Beeldende Kunst (Center for Contemporary Art) Dordrecht.
In short UNFIXED is a project that explores the relation between photography, postcolonial perspectives and contemporary art. It includes an exhibition, symposium, workshop, artist commission-residency, and a resulting publication. The title refers to the unfixed nature of photography. It explores the elusive “truth” of photography and its relationship to ideas of ethnicity, culture and identity in contemporary art.
Participating artists: Charif Benhelima (BE), Otobong Nkanga (FR), Keith Piper (UK), Naro Snackey (NL), Hulleah Tsinhnahjinnie (USA) and Hank Willis Thomas (USA). Keynote speaker and essayist: Kobena Mercer (UK).
Relating to this we are invite scholars, artists, writers and professionals to submit proposals for visual and/or textual presentations or papers on topics relating to UNFIXED. Focus point: Unfixing photography’s fixed representations of cultural heritage, ethnicity and identity.
Along with inviting you to submit proposals, we ask you the favor of helping us distribute this to your own networks and/or let us know good places & people to contact – so we can get the word out far & wide. It would be great if it could be posted on your blog. Particularly for the publication, geography should not be a limitation.
Please see UNFIXED Call for Proposals for more detailed information and mail your proposals to unfixedprojects@gmail.com with the subject line – CFP- by 30 June 2010. www.unfixedprojects.org
Tags: Charif Benhelima > Hank Willis Thomas > Hulleah Tsinhnahjinnie > Keith Piper > Naro Snackey > Otobong Nkanga > Sara Blokland
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