OPPORTUNITY | CALL FOR PAPERS:
“Para-”: Anthology For Para-Sites 2014 Distributed Exhibition Project
Para-Sites is a distributed exhibition project where artists and researchers operate ‘para-sites’ as a form of public intervention in the US, France, New Zealand, Italy, South Korea, and the World Wide Web between April 30 through May 20. Our various tactics to reappropriate given modes of conduct, public spaces, and systems are analogous to how parasites hijack the metabolism of their hosts for their own purposes that are foreign to their hosting systems. In our framework of parasitism, however, the very process of hosts and guests, or hosts and parasites, controlling and resisting each other is deemed to be what makes their system complex, diverse, and contingent.
Concurrent with our distributed exhibition in different ‘para-sites’, we are now inviting essays for our anthology on the keyword, ‘para-’. The term ‘para-’ as a prefix, originating from its Greek root ‘para,’ meaning ‘beside,’ often implies distinction with analogousness, i rregularity, inappropriateness, disorder, or modification when used in combinations with other words. Through the potentiality that this term opens for creating heterogeneous meanings and practices, we would like to expand current discussions in art and culture with actively practicing writers, researchers, curators, critics, and theorists.
Potential topics to consider in relation to the keyword include but are not limited to:
public intervention
Para-exhibition forms
digital curating
reappropriation
para-writing on art and culture
para-* as an aesthetic tactic
disguise and infiltration
disorder, irregularity, and liminality
properness and normality in everyday life
etymological and/or epistemological discussions on the term, ‘para-’.
Submission
We welcome forms or genres of writing that are often marginalized or excluded from mainstream academic journals. Please send your comple te, proofread essay in a PDF file to parasites.art@gmail.com by April 15, 2014 following the guideline below:
• Length: approx. 300 – 1000 words
• Style: There is no limit or guide for your manuscript style or form. Your essay can be any kind of writing from a plainly written piece of prose to a rule-breaking form of creative writing. We not only welcome writings that convey their content but also those that actively ‘perform’ their content through their forms although, strictly speaking, every form of writing performs its subject matter.
• Procedures: Notifications of acceptance will be given by April 20, which will shortly be followed by digital publication and distribution.
For more information:
http://para-sites.org
https://www.facebook.com/parax hibits
Link: http://para-sites.org/
Deadline: Tue Apr 15th, 2014
