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• 15 jui 2020

  Montpellier

  Call for papers - Representation

  The visibility of private collections in public cultural institutions

  L’université Paul Valéry Montpellier 3 et MO.CO. Montpellier Contemporain, avec le soutien de l’Institut national d’histoire de l’art, organisent le 20 novembre 2020 une journée d’étude sur la visibilité des collections privées dans les institutions culturelles publiques. Dans un contexte de raréfaction des fonds publics dédié à l’acquisition d’oeuvres, la visibilité de -tout ou parties- de collections déjà constituées représente un enjeu majeur de la scène artistique contemporaine. Pour autant, de multiples controverses mettent en garde contre la starification des collections privées, leur impact sur le marché de l’art, et sur les dangers d’une emprise des collectionneurs sur les institutions culturelles publiques. 

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• 31 jan 2020

  Aix-en-Provence

  Call for papers - Political studies

  Artistic, Digital, and Political Creation in English-Speaking African Countries

  Africa 2020

  French President Emmanuel Macron announced on 3rd July 2018 in Lagos that a Special Season would be organized in France, from June to December 2020, to mark a renewed partnership with Africa, a “varied, strong and diverse continent that will play a part in our shared future”. Even if this cultural focus cannot be abstracted from a broader geopolitical agenda marred by controversial presidential declarations, it nevertheless has the potential to offer a somewhat different coverage of the continent. One can only hope that it avoids the temptation to officially “curate into being” “exceptional” artists (Dovey), tapping into the all-too-familiar image of Africa as “the supreme receptacle of the West’s obsession with, and circular discourse about, the facts of ‘absence,’ ‘lack,’ and ‘non-being,’ of identity and difference” (Mbembe).

   

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• 01 fév 2020

  Aix-en-Provence

  Call for papers - Political studies

  Africa 2020: Artistic, digital, and political creation in english-speaking African countries

  French President Emmanuel Macron announced on 3rd July 2018 in Lagos that a Special Season would be organized in France, from June to December 2020, to mark a renewed partnership with Africa, a “varied, strong and diverse continent that will play a part in our shared future”. The peer-reviewed journal of Aix-Marseille Université research centre on Anglophone Studies (LERMA), E-rea, has decided to seize the opportunity of Africa 2020 to dedicate a special issue to contemporary artistic, digital, and political creation in English-speaking African countries. Heeding Kenyan political analyst Nanjala Nyabola’s advice to eschew the too reductive ‘Africa rising’ and ‘Africa failing’ narratives in favour of ‘Africa being’ stories, this special issue wishes to focus on “stories reflecting the ambivalence, complexity, challenges and opportunities of African societ[ies] in an increasingly connected world”.

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