CAA 2023 ANNUAL CONFERENCE • CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

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CAA's 111th Annual Conference will be held February 15–18, 2023 at the New York Midtown Hilton. Dozens of sessions have been accepted by the 2022–2023 Annual Conference Committee and are seeking participants. During this annual Call for Participation, we invite you to search session abstracts and submit your presentation proposals directly to session chairs by August 31.

Felice Amato, assistant professor of art education at Boston University and the current chair of the Academic Committee for UNIMA-USA is convening a panel called The Visual Narrative of Masquerade.

How is masquerade a visual narrative event? Spectacle has long been used to tell stories that transcend text, unfolding an aesthetic staging in a public space. In this session, presenters are invited to explore the visual narrative staged through practices such as masquerade, in all its diverse manifestations. Case studies and artist talks are encouraged. Examples of solo masquerade as well as collectives are of interest. Questions that might be asked: How does pageantry employ sequential art storytelling practices? Often developed through a collective process, how does the devising process influence the content? What does it mean to devise visually, spatially, and temporally? What are the political effects of real bodies in real time and space? How does the site of a masquerade shape the event and its meaning? How are sequence and hierarchy established within masquerade? How do narratology and phenomenology intertwine? How does involving the body of the participants and/or spectators in ways that are synesthetic, sequential, and temporal change the experience of storytelling?

To apply to present, please send the following to famato@bu.edu by August 31:

  • Completed proposal form (see link below).

  • A shortened CV (close to 2 pages).

  • (Optional) Documentation of work; limit to five images as a single PDF, especially for sessions in which artists might discuss their own practice.

Please see more details here: https://caa.confex.com/caa/2023/webprogrampreliminary/meeting.html