Call for Panels is now closed. Call for papers open until July 30.
All proposals are due by midnight, Friday, 23 April 2021. Deadline extended to midnight, Friday 30 April 2021.
Submit your applications here: https://powerinstitute.submittable.com/
Call for papers as a pdf here PDF
Conference Theme: Impact
We seek panel proposals that examine the vexed term ‘impact’, in its relation to art, design, film, culture, society and politics. This includes the impact of history, colonialism, politics, technology, capital, nature, migration, and markets on art, design, film, and visual culture. The consequences of impact may be: aesthetic, sensory, social, epistemological, environmental, economic, material, institutional and/or bodily, and may involve consideration of human-animal-plant relations, as well as intersections of race, ethnicity, class, gender and sexuality.
Who Should Apply?
We welcome proposals from artists, art historians, design and moving image historians, museum studies academics, curators, and arts and design professionals to contribute to an invigorating program of panel sessions, workshops, masterclasses and performances as well as collaborations with local galleries and institutions. We especially welcome proposals from First Nations delegates.
What do you need to apply?
The online application form asks you to provide:
● Panel Convenor(s) (2 maximum) contact details.
● A panel proposal (of no more than 250 words) that describes the theme and
topics your panel will address, and a description of the panel format.
Proposals must specify whether their panel will take place in person (at the University of Sydney) or wholly online (via Zoom or equivalent).
All conference participants will need to be AAANZ members, and will need to pay a conference registration fee (which we will keep as low as possible).
Panel Formats & Ideas
All panels will be allocated 90 minutes, and must allow at least 30 minutes for audience questions and discussion.
A standard “research panel” comprises no more than 3 speakers, each delivering a research paper of maximum 20 minutes, along with a short introduction by the convenor(s).
If you would like to propose an alternative format, please describe this carefully in your application. Alternative formats might include roundtable discussions, performances, short talks, workshops, etc.
In formulating panel proposals, you may wish to consider the following questions:
- What are the economic, ecological, and technological impacts on society, culture and communities, and how do they materialize in/through art, design and visual culture?
- What are the positive impacts of art on society, politics and ecologies?
- What are the impacts of decolonisation on arts and visual culture?
- How does art impact conceptions of futures?
- How, why and when does art make its presence felt culturally, politically, environmentally and socially?
- What are the traces, the impressions, effects, footprints of art and visual culture across diverse human societies?
- What, where and how are the forces and violence of impact traced in art and on artists?
- How are the physical processes of art, its labours, materials, and demands, to be fully accounted for in the long and often conflicting histories of art?
- How might art resist impact? How and when does art fail to have impact? Who or what bears the labour of having impact?
- How is art’s impact instrumentalised and measured? Might art’s impact be beyond measure?
For more ideas, have a look at the panel abstracts in the 2019 Call for Papers.
What Happens Next?
The Committee will notify all panel proposers of the outcome of their submission by 7 May.
In May, the Committee will publish all successful Panel Proposals. Individuals will then be invited to submit paper proposals directly to Panel Convenors.
Panel Convenors will then be required to confirm their full panel participants by late June.
If you have any queries, please contact powerinstitute.events@sydney.edu.au