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Call Conference : Of artistic creation in the self-defining or patrimonial buildings in Africa and in its diasporas
Deadline : January 15th, 2009
1st Conference Donatecarcenter.com-UMR 8171
Thursday, May 28th, 2009
27 street Paul Bert, 94200 Ivry-sur-Seine
We plan to study links, from contemporary examples, between artistic creation, patrimonialisation and buildings or self-defining claims, in Africa and in its diasporas. As hypothesis or research track, we notably move following idea forward : the building of an identity or of a cultural heritage is accompanied always, upstream or downstream, by a production or by a manipulation of symbols by means of creations given in look and in evaluation of others. The circulation of these symbols between Africa and its diasporas, or else between Africa and Occident, contributes, for historical reasons and in a context of globalisation of exchanges and of representations, to these buildings or self-defining manipulations. This topic can very well articulate with study in other contexts of reciprocal influence between local creations, international tourism, patrimonial policies or muséales and self-defining claims.
To drive this reflexion, it is therefore necessary to take into account the effects of the globalisation by examining the report between, on the one hand, the processes of creation in their self-defining or patrimonial dimensions and, of other one, new intercultural forms of exchange, the increasing marchandisation of art, the national and international policies of promotion or of protection of heritage, Pan-African artistic demonstrations, development of tourism, the appearance of new modes of communication studies of case will mobilise or cross different disciplines (history, anthropology, history of art, political sciences), will concern very various artistic domains (written or oral literature, poem, music, dance, painting, photograph, architecture, etc.) and will question experiments as well individual as collective. By envisaging different (local, national, continental and international) ladders, they will set out to identify networks or actors' chains, to reconstruct the history of the artists and the objects or else the evolution of their status, and to analyse the contexts of creation in very various fields (political, economic, religious, cultural).
Under its current form, this call to contribution aims only at provoking definite proposals, explained in ten or twenty lines. It would allow us to differentiate the main thematic axles to structure our day forward.
If you are interested (e), as we hope for it, you can forward us before January 15th, 2009 a proposal of intervention and a summary of a dozen lines. We beforehand thank you for it.
Contacts : Eric Jolly : jolly@ivry.cnrs.fr ; Dominique Juhé-Beaulaton : domi.beaulaton@orange.fr ; Marianne Lemaire : m.lemaire@ivry.cnrs.fr ; Estelle sohier : estelle_sohier@yahoo.fr
Postscript : The organizers : Eric Jolly, Dominique Juhé-Beaulaton, Marianne Lemaire, Estelle Sohier
