CALL FOR ARTWORKS | DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS: Sunday, January 14, 2024 at 11:59 PM PST
EXHIBITION DATES: February 29 – March 30, 2024
Within a current social condition simultaneously inscribed by a preoccupation with the image of the self and an increasingly integrated reliance on a dematerialized digital realm, how do we understand meanings of embodiment? Does looking inward for meaning shift our focus away from an image of self and toward an experience of self? Can this lead to a re-evaluation of how we both consciously and unconsciously, physically and mentally, embody our self-understanding in visual form?
The committee for the 47th annual UBC AHVA Graduate Symposium and Exhibition has themed this year’s event Entangled Embodiment: Intersections and Dialogues. Embodiment produces–and is produced by– markers of identification like race, gender, ability, sexuality, nationality, class, and other positionalities. The theme serves as a discursive framework to consider ways in which we embody our identities through art, within and without the constraints of flesh.
The intention behind Entangled Embodiment is for artists and thinkers to approach and reimagine various forms, meanings, and conditions of embodiment. The committee welcomes artworks and papers that approach the theme through an interdisciplinary view in varied mediums, practices, platforms, and strategies.
POTENTIAL MEDIUMS, FORMS AND STRATEGIES:
Artworks will be selected by jury. The exhibition is curated collaboratively by the symposium committee. Concerns and areas of interest may include but are not limited to:
- collaborative, community-based work
- process-based work
- alternative processes
- interdisciplinary work
- identity-based work
- film and video
- photography
- digital media
- experiential work
- works focused on situatedness
- performance
- spoken word
HOW TO SUBMIT
Graduate student artists are asked to submit their work via the Google form link: https://forms.gle/kjWy69oa265QDyKz7
The deadline for submissions is Sunday, January 14, 2024, at 11:59 PM PST.
Artworks will be selected by a jury consisting of the symposium committee of AHVA graduate students in the MA Art History, MA Critical & Curatorial Studies, MFA Visual Art, and PhD Art History programs.
Please note that work submitted and selected by the jury will be included in an in-person exhibition taking place on UBC Vancouver campus from February 29 – March 30, 2024 curated by the symposium committee. Submitted work must be available to be delivered or shipped to UBC Vancouver campus in time for installation and remain there for the duration of the exhibition.
