This FREE one day hybrid conference (online/face-to-face) is offered by Sarah Pogoda and Zoë Skoulding:

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This one-day online interdisciplinary colloquium will explore ways in which experimental process and procedure in art, music, performance and writing, influenced by avant-garde legacies of the twentieth century, may be newly imagined in a local and global context.

Questions we will explore include, but are not limited to the following: 

• What specific places and/or constellations have been conducive to the emergence of avant-garde practice, and why?

• How can artistic critique of subjectivity help to inform intellectual, scholarly, scientific processes? 

• What role do experimental artistic practices play in contesting ideas of place?

• How do forms of knowledge that are embedded in practice, such as writing and performing, suggest ways of understanding relationships between humans and the nonhuman world? 

• What forms of interdisciplinarity does avant-garde practice draw on, or enable?

• What forms of creative translation might enable artistic and scientific knowledge to inform each other?  What forms of transgression are involved in this encounter?

• How does the re-use and re-appropriation of texts and materials suggest new forms of place and placing? 

• How can dialogues be developed between non-Western epistemologies and the ways in which Western writing and art practices question human subjectivity?   

• How can artistic practices help us to understand the wider distribution of agency and meaning beyond the human? Could this lead to better ecological understanding?