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30 September and 1 October, 2010
Call for Papers. Capturing Metamorphosis: Reconsidering Ancient Media in a Post-Medium Condition.
Interdisciplinary Workshop at the Allard Pierson Museum.
Organized by: Alena Alexandrova, Vladimir Stissi (Institute for Culture and History, University of Amsterdam)
Capturing Metamorphosis is a one-day conference organized as a parallel event to the exhibition Metamorphosis: Myth, Image, Medium, to be held in the Allard Pierson Museum in September-October 2010.It will provide an interdisciplinary context to further explore and problematize the central issue of metamorphosis as it is presented in the exhibition and addressed by a group of artists invited to develop new work in a dialogue with the museum collection.
Metamorphosis signifies transgression of forms, borders and definitions, and more generally development and life. It is a central motif in both ancient Greek and Western art. If we consider it out of its strictly iconographic significance, it is a motif that signifies an aspect of the image and of image-making. The continued relevance of this motif is evident in the work of many contemporary artists, who are interested in various forms of hybridity – from the gradual metamorphoses of the media they work with, to challenging and re-examining the definitions of the human body. The very condition of metamorphosis - a radical change, becoming something else, is a challenging subject to translate in a still image. Ancient image-makers solved this problem by using different strategies, which might have much more in common with contemporary media than we would like to think. Ancient art can offer new insights about the contemporary media and the other way around.
The workshop is part of a program of four evenings of lectures envisaged as an encounter and a dialogue between two speakers with different backgrounds. A lecture-performance developed for the occasion with material from the museum and the exhibition will provide a thought provoking and visually appealing intervention.
We envisage the workshop as a truly interdisciplinary dialogue where research and ideas from different fields will complement each other and inspire new ways of re-visiting both old and new media.
Open to research MA students, PhD candidates and researchers in different fields:
- strategies of representing the event of metamorphosis in ancient and
- image-making as a transformative practice and representations of image-making, artists at work, representations of the infrastructure of the medium
- contrasts and the similarities between the ways old and new media represent motion and transformation
- notions of hybridity in ancient and contemporary culture
- poetics of hybridity; the organic and the monstrous; hybrid media or post-media
- strategies of representing temporality in ancient and contemporary art and media
Paper proposals should be sent to capturing.metamorphosis@gmail.com by April 30, 2010.
Selected participants will be notified by May 15, 2010.
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