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Hi everyone!
Helen recently let me know that this Facebook page exists:
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Centre-for-Critical-Studies-in-Museums-Galleries-and-Heritage/449180088466852

It seems to be the go-to place for all the important info about what's going on within our Faculty.

I'm going to put all the dates in the 'Arts Calendar' tab & try and link it onto the blog. Give it a Like!

Performativity in the Gallery - Call for papers for the next AAH conference

CALL FOR PAPERS: Performativity in the Gallery: Staging Interactive Encounters

Museum & Exhibitions Members’ Group Annual Session, the Association of Art Historians
38th Annual AAH Conference & Bookfair

Department of History of Art, The Open University, Walton Hall, Milton Keynes, MK7 6AA
29 - 31 March 2012

This session explores participation, liveness, interactivity, process-based performative practices and performance for the camera in interdisciplinary practices, presented in visual arts gallery spaces. Live art and other multi-art form works that combine visual arts with performing arts such as dance and physical theatre have an intricate relationship with the canon of art history. Art history has been wary of live art’s tendency to encourage increased formal and conceptual risk-taking and its interdisciplinary nature. Time-based performances have also challenged the conventions of documentation and the viewer’s access to the art experience. A live art practitioner has yet to win the Turner Prize.

The session is particularly interested in new research analysing the intricate relationship between art history, live and performing arts and museum and gallery space; what it means to present, curate and create interdisciplinary performative work for gallery spaces. The Museums & Exhibitions Members’ Group invites papers from a wide range of practitioners, including art historians, curators and artists, to consider performativity in gallery spaces across all historic and contemporary periods.

The 2012 AAH Annual Conference will showcase the diversity and richness of art history in the UK and globally over an extensive chronological range. Like The Open University itself, AAH2012 is open to all people, places and ideas. This three-day event will present a broad scope of geographies and methodologies, ranging from object-based studies, socio-historical analyses, theoretical discourses, visual culture of the moving image, exhibition cultures and display. Sessions and papers will reflect the composition of the wide constituency that is art history today. Further conference info & fees: http://www.aah.org.uk/page/3327

If you would like to propose a paper, please email the session convenors directly. Please submit an abstract of your proposed paper in no more than 250 words, your name and institutional affiliation (if you have one). You will receive acknowledgement of receipt of your submission within two weeks. Please read the Conditions of Submission at: http://www.aah.org.uk/media/docs/Code%20of%20Practice%20-%20sessions_AAH2011.pdf

Session Convenors:
Dr Outi Remes, South Hill Park Arts Centre, outi.remes@southhillpark.org.uk
Dr Marika Leino, Christie’s Education mleino@christies.com

Deadline for submissions: 7 November 2011.

Rise Art, the curated art marketplace, recently launched across the UK. The website, which commissions and promotes the work of talented emerging and established artists across the globe, now has thousands of artists portfolios listed across the site, and a growing board of curators who, along with our users help select the artists featured across the site.

The team at Rise Art has announced an open call for submissions. Artists are encouraged to submit their profile and upload works to the site.

Artists and enthusiasts can also take advantage of Rise Art's community tools to connect with one another and promote upcoming events and exhibitions. To get started visit www.riseart.com

Finally, the team is looking for current Leeds students with a keen interest in curatorial and gallery studies to participate in the public discourse on Rise Art and help shortlist artist portfolios across the website for consideration. If you would like to get involved, please email the Rise Art team at info (at) Rise Art (dot) com.

Centre for Critical Studies in Museums, Galleries and Heritage

Hello All,

there are some exciting developments on the Museum Studies programmes within the School of Fine Art, History of Art and Cultural Studies....watch this space for news on the new Centre for Critical Studies in Museums, Galleries and Heritage................

We'll keep you posted!

mark