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Art after Disasters: International Symposium
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Posted by: Association of Western Art History
Deadline: 04/10/10
Seoul, Korea, May 21th, 2011.
Airfair and accommodation provided.
This symposium explores the array of artistic responses to the natural and man-made disasters throughout history. Artists have long commemorated natural crises, urban catastrophes, and political tragedies, stirring fear and sense of loss in the name of religion, community, or State. Yet, facing the existential quandary of how to cope with the extremity of violence and destruction, a question arises: Can art both describe disaster and its aftermath and offer redemptive possibilities?
In an effort to address the frustrations and possibilities that disastrous phenomena have presented artists, this symposium seeks papers that examine the visual languages by which disasters and their effects have been interpreted; address the subjects of disaster as catalysis for artistic experimentation.
Send an abstract (max. 400 words) and a brief CV to awah@hanmail.net
Posted on 03/06/10
Expires on 04/10/10
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