October 23, 2006
KLab9:
Art Call for Contributions
KLab9: Art Call for Contributions :: Technology, Authorship and Ways of Living :: A weekend gathering for collaborative and creative reflection :: 5th - 7th October, 2007 tbc. :: Institute for Advanced Studies, Lancaster University, North West England.
The Knowledge Lab is an attempt to provide a collective space for anti-capitalist reflection. It is located at the margin of the university, an institution essentially geared towards the production of knowledge as a resource for corporate interest and as justification for particular constellations of power relations. This knowledge lab will address art and ways of critically thinking about our world. Within this broad region of enquiry, the lab will encompass notions of life and art as a political commitment, the influence art can exert in politics and how political ideas in turn influence art. It will also address new ways of making art and how this relates to technologies and social changes, and the use of art as an anti-capitalist means to change and fight the system.
We hope that the knowledge lab will not merely address, but also show that art can initiate critical thinking in the various guises outlined above. Our expectations, in terms of the event, and its outcome, are that this be a sharing of creative ideas and ideas about creativity. We hope that it will draw together people with a common interest in art and alternative ways of living, but working in different fields. From this collective thinking we hope that people will be incited to realize, or make manifest, some of these ways of living and thinking creatively when they leave: We will learn from each other.
STREAMS: Like previous knowledge labs the day will be divided into four streams, each will take place in a separate room:
STREAM 1: TECHNOLOGY Free software, art spaces and interfaces, hardware, and recycling/reusing.
STREAM 2: WAYS OF LIVING Process, moment, performance, politics, gender issues, community and cultural production, personal/political, and imaginative resistance. Also we hope to see papers touching on initiatives in direct democracy; the art of changing that system, and the paradigms of inspiration.
STREAM 3: AUTHORSHIP Copy rights, ownership, patenting, and appropriation.
STREAM 4: THE ART MARKET (new ways of) curating, spaces (physical and virtual) to show art, ways of making money: Marketing, the means of production, market forces and anti-market forces, the art market, and art and ethics.
ACADEMIC PAPERS: The list above is not prescriptive, it simply outlines some of the issues we envisage arising given the titles of the four streams. Please also send papers on other themes, these will be gratefully considered. Submit an abstract of no more than 500 words. In addition please enclose a brief biography. Try to make this, along with your paper, as accessible as
possible.
WORKSHOPS, FACILITATED DISCUSSIONS, ARTWORKS AND PERFORMANCES
These will broadly tie in with, and be presented as part of, one of the four streams above. Send a proposal [Max: A single side of A4], elaborate on: What your contribution will be e.g. a workshop, a discussion, a performance, an artwork. How long you envisage it taking. Do you need any equipment or materials? Do you want to limit the number of participants? If so, how many? What do you hope will be born out of this? How do you propose to arrive at
this end?
SATURDAY EVENING: DJ and VJ session: Call for DJs and VJs to send in samples so they might come and contribute to an evening of art in many guises. Nb. Groups are welcome to contribute workshops, materials for display
INVOLVEMENT AND SKILLS SHARING: Anybody is welcome to attend the weekend, get involved in the discussions, and take part in the workshops. HOWEVER, YOU NEED TO REGISTER TO ATTEND AS THE EVENT IS LIMITED TO 100 PEOPLE, SO PLEASE GET IN TOUCH: klab9art[at]googlemail.com
If you'd like to take a more pro-active role during the conference, you might want to ADOPT a session - that is, prepare it in advance (suggest questions, main issues, reading material etc and propose the length of the session), arrive prepared for discussion themselves, attend it, and participate passionately in the debates and in the drafting of the "output". We also still need people to FACILITATE sessions -ideally a session should NOT be adopted and facilitated by the same person(s). Facilitators are usually best if experienced in their task, and will be called upon to facilitate not only discussion, but also the drafting of the "output". Any which way, please get in touch.
INFORMATION
DEADLINE FOR ALL PROPOSALS: February 1st 2007
CONTACT: klab9art[at]googlemail.com :: Amy, Ana and Synnove
COSTS AND PRACTICALITIES: Unwaged persons: free Unfunded students / low-paid persons: donation Funded students/Lancaster university staff: £20 Academics / waged persons: £65 This contribution is for the whole weekend and includes Friday and Saturday dinner, Saturday and Sunday breakfast and lunch. All food will be vegan and predominantly organic.
ACCOMODATION: Shared accommodation is available on the floor of the very spacious and friendly Quakers' Meeting House, it is free, but please bring sleeping bag and mat. Get in touch if you have any special requirements, and again, please let us know in advance if you're bringing a child.
FOR MORE INFORMATION:
Visit respectively the respective sites for the
previous knowledgelabs:
http://knowledgelab.org.uk/wiki/FirstKnowledgeLab
http://knowledgelab.org.uk/wiki/SecondKnowledgeLab
http://knowledgelab.org.uk/wiki/ThirdKnowledgeLab
About Klab9:Art
http://knowledgelab.org.uk/wiki/KLab9
Posted by jo at October 23, 2006 03:34 PM
