[John Levin]

​CALL FOR PAPERS:​

Dada Studies as Countercultural Practice: Intervening in the Art Historical Institution

Session for the College Art Association Conference

New York, New York / 13-16 February 2019

Session Chairs:

Brett M. Van Hoesen, University of Nevada-Reno

Kathryn M. Floyd, Auburn University

Abstract Deadline: August 6, 2018

What can the historical study of the radical tactics of Dada (and its influences) offer as its own kind of countercultural practice? What happens when research and teaching on anti-art, anti-institutional, interventionist, or deconstructionist strategies for interrogating power penetrate the established disciplinary spaces of art history, from university classrooms to scholarly publications, blockbuster exhibitions, archival collections, conference presentations, and the like? What challenges or opportunities have the tensions and alignments between Dada objects of study and institutional frameworks produced, from the earliest histories of Dada in the 1920s and 30s to the recent celebrations of the 100-year anniversary of Zurich’s Cabaret Voltaire? Taking as a springboard the unique interdisciplinary study and practice of Dada, Intermedia, and Fluxus art at the University of Iowa from the late 1960s to the present, this session seeks other cases of critical, countercultural, or interventionist analyses of international Dada’s objects, artists, events, concepts, legacies, and descendants. Given the growing “corporatization” of the university, the so-called “crisis” of the liberal arts, and increasing calls for curatorial and archival transparency, we also ask what potential Dada scholarship or art historical studies of countercultures might have for the discipline and its institutions. In the discursive spirit of Dada, this panel will be organized as a series of four or five short case studies or position papers, followed by guided questions and extended, open discussion among panelists and audience members.

How to Apply: http://www.collegeart.org/pdf/programs/conference/CAA-CFP-2019.pdf

Conference Details: http://www.collegeart.org/programs/conference/proposals

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