PARSE conference 2017
15-17 November 2017, Gothenburg
The second biennial PARSE conference at
the Faculty of Fine, Applied and Performing Arts, University of
Gothenburg, takes as its point of departure the question of EXCLUSION.
How does exclusion operate at a local, national and
international level both within the arts, in education and within cultural
production more generally? How does one get to imagine oneself as an artist of
any discipline – in terms of race, class and access to education? Within the
arts, how can we improve access to learning and the formation of experience –
and what can we model from other disciplines in this respect? How do images of
exclusion – from media images of stranded civilians in Aleppo to molecular
images of diseases untreated due to pharmaceutical drug finance and
distribution – circulate as both knowledge and neutralisation? What are the
politics of access? Do strategies and infrastructures of inclusion simply
replicate and reinforce individualised imaginaries within broadly hierarchical
social structures, particularly as artistic habits of production are
increasingly exported as economised knowledge production to non-Western parts
of the world?
Both within and far beyond the field of cultural production,
people are excluded from territorial, subjective, environmental and imaginative
spaces, be they national or virtual. The weight of the world, as Pierre
Bourdieu would have it, is slighted against the vast majority of people living
upon it. What forms of research and which actions can be taken within the
artistic and pedagogical environment that hold open spaces of contact and forms
of rights?
The PARSE conference on exclusion welcomes individual and
collective proposals on the theme of exclusion from all disciplines. As well as
the arts (visual art, design, performance, music, architecture, craft, etc.),
we are particularly interested to learn from the social sciences, natural sciences,
law, medicine as well as from the professional sphere. We welcome proposals for
presentation nodes and are interested in all forms of presentation.
We are open to all formats:
Panels, performances, screenings, workshops, rhetorical statements, design
proposals, sonic interventions, hearings, plans, public actions, etc.
Deadline for proposals: 10 February 2017
