CFP for the conference "Embodied Visions: Performativity, Visuality, Materiality (1960s–1980s)"
We invite you to apply for the international scientific conference "Embodied
Visions: Performativity, Visuality, Materiality (1960s–1980s)", which will take place from May 27 to 28 at the Riga Stradiņš Museum of the History of Medicine.
The conference is organized by the Institute of Literature, Folklore, and Art of the University of Latvia as part of the project "Latvia’s Cultural Ecosystem as a Resource for National Resilience and Sustainability / CERS (2023–2026)."
Application deadline: March 21
Accepted participants will be notified by March 28.
This interdisciplinary conference focuses on space, form, material, and movement in both visual and performing arts from the 1960s to the 1980s—a period marked by radical transformations in artistic practices. It explores performance art, conceptualism, experimental theater forms, kinetic art, site-specific interventions, and other experimental approaches. The era was also shaped by complex ideological, material, and institutional constraints.
The conference aims to examine how embodiment, materiality, and performativity manifested in artworks during the socialist period.
- How did artists navigate censorship while experimenting with form and process?
- What role did alternative spaces, unofficial networks, and pedagogical structures play in these artistic developments?
- How did these initiatives intersect with or diverge from artistic trends beyond the Iron Curtain?
Conference language: English.
For a more detailed call for papers, please click here.
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