[spectre] CFP: AAH Session: An Era of Walls: Art at the Boundaries of the New Enclosures (Bristol, 3-5 Apr 24)

[Andreas Broeckmann LEU]

From: Leah Modigliani
Date: Oct 7, 2023
Subject: CFP: Session at AAH (Bristol, 3-5 Apr 24)

Bristol, UK, Apr 3–05, 2024
Deadline: Nov 10, 2023

An Era of Walls: Art at the Boundaries of the New Enclosures.
Session at the AAH Annual Conference 2024.

Leah Modigliani, Tyler School of Art and Architecture, Temple 
University, USA, lmodigliani at temple.edu   Noah Randolph, Tyler School of 
Art and Architecture, Temple University, USA, nar at temple.edu

After the fall of the Iron Curtain and the end of the Cold War, pundits 
enthusiastically proclaimed the advent of a new borderless future. Since 
then, six times more border walls covering the Earth’s surface have now 
been erected. They are the brutal visible markers of the New Enclosures 
that contain us all but are not always so clearly visible. In fact, 
images of walls, barricades or blockades are ironic indicators of 
Capitalism’s reorganization of space over the last four decades. This 
spatialization, described by many scholars as deterritorialization, is 
fundamental to the constantly shifting accumulation of capital in more 
“productive” geographies and political contexts. The rigidity and 
strength of such walls buttress the fear of the loss of state 
sovereignty, performing what border theorists call a theatrical presence 
that calms the anxiety of an internal population. This panel will 
consider artist practices that question, challenge or unsettle these 
social relations and the political, geo-economic and environmental 
barriers that engender them.

Possible topics may include (but are not limited to) case studies of 
artists or artworks that contest political and geographic space(s); the 
temporalities of walls; art’s relation to the public sphere; 
intersections between art and related disciplines researching the built 
of environment; art’s ideological marking of territory as monument or 
gentrification; connections between art, activism and time-based media 
or performance. Of particular interest is the question of how such 
artworks might imagine and prefigure new futures.

To offer a paper: Please email your paper proposals direct to the 
session convenors. You need to provide a title and abstract (250 words 
maximum) for a 20-minute paper (unless otherwise specified), your name 
and institutional affiliation (if any). Please make sure the title is 
concise and reflects the contents of the paper because the title is what 
appears online, in social media and in the digital programme.  You 
should receive an acknowledgement of receipt of your submission within 
two weeks.
Deadline for submissions: 10 November 2023


Reference / Quellennachweis:
CFP: Session at AAH (Bristol, 3-5 Apr 24). In: ArtHist.net, Oct 7, 2023. 
<https://arthist.net/archive/40298>.