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<p><b>Call: </b><b><span lang="EN-US">Confronting Chaos - Conference</span></b><span lang="EN-US"></span></p>
<p><b><span lang="EN-US">(We welcome traditional & nontraditional forms of presentation)</span></b><span lang="EN-US"></span></p>
<p>Queen’s University, <span lang="EN-US">Kingston, </span>Ontario, August
<span lang="EN-US">25</span>-<span lang="EN-US">28</span> + <span lang="EN-US">in-person</span></p>
<p><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p><p style="margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:9.0pt;margin-left:0cm"><span style="color:black">Queen’s University’s Screen Cultures & Curatorial Studies program invites you to submit proposals by
<b>May 10th 2022</b> to its inaugural graduate conference, taking place in person August 25-28 2022. Dr. Laura Marks (Simon Fraser University) will be our keynote speaker. We are
<b>interested in </b></span><b><span style="color:black" lang="EN-US">both traditional and
</span></b><b><span style="color:black">nontraditional forms of presentation. </span>
</b><span style="color:black">Please see below and the poster attached for our full call for proposals.</span></p><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">“The chaos of the mind cannot constitute a reply to the providence of the universe. All it can be is an awakening in the night, where all that can be heard is anguished poetry let loose.” </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">― Georges Bataille, Literature and Evil</span></div><div><br></div><div><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Greek Chaos (the gap between heaven and earth) births Gaia (earth) and Eros (sexual desire) which procreate to make other deities. Under the acceleration of modernity we encounter the relentless accumulation of knowledge
without understanding or grounding. We sense our own bodies and feel the threat of chaos loom in the mass of ambivalent sensations that rise into our perception. We embrace chaos and its vicissitudes, asking to be demolished by its operations so we can be
reborn – or die – anew.<b> </b></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">For our inaugural graduate conference we invite you to think of chaos as a space of potential for re-shaping dominant modes of engaging with the world. How does art diffuse or activate chaos? In what ways do mythological
formulations of chaos speak to our present moment? How does your artistic/scholarly work respond to, react against, or embrace chaos?</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black"></span>
<p style="margin:0cm"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">We are seeking traditional and non-traditional forms of presentation:</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black"> papers, screenings, performances, animation, workshops, theatre,
puppetry, curatorial projects, sound work, poetry, DJ/VJ sets, light works, live body horror, sculpture, relational aesthetics, stripteases, pataphysical contemplations, weddings, rituals, massages, parties, beckonings, radio plays, podcasts, found drama –
as befits a conference on chaos, the options are limitless. We might consider:</span><br>
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<li style="color:black;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Geopolitics and the mapping of chaos</span></li><li style="color:black;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Quantum chaos and chaos in scientific fields</span></li><li style="color:black;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Gendered and affective dimensions of chaos</span></li><li style="color:black;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Competing cosmologies and mythologies of chaos</span></li><li style="color:black;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Ontologies of chaos</span></li><li style="color:black;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Chaos magic, conspiracy, and the supernatural</span></li><li style="color:black;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Politics of chaos: anarchism and its lineages</span></li><li style="color:black;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Performances of chaos</span></li><li style="color:black;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Phenomenologies of chaos: noise, pareidolia, madness</span></li></ul>
<p style="margin:0cm"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Submit proposals of up to 500 words to
</span><a href="mailto:sccs.filmandmediagraduate@gmail.com" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#1155cc;background:white">sccs.filmandmediagraduate@gmail.com</span></a><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#5f6368;background:white">
</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">by <b>May 10th, 2022</b>. The conference will be in-person in Kingston, Ontario. Individual and collaborative proposals are welcome. You can include images and audio in your proposals, and a summary of your
tech needs. If you require alternative submission formats, please let us know.</span></p>
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