CFP: Visualising the Rural

This conference aims to provide a platform for an interdisciplinary debate questioning the meaning of the contemporary rural landscape seen through photography. This discussion ranges from philosophical questions of the relationship to space based on the visual, to sociological and environmental questions of the differentiation between rural and urban spaces as well as aesthetic and art historical reflections on the meaning of the rural for contemporary society.

What does it mean to live in rural space? Does or can photography shape our understanding of the rural? What does the rural realm mean to the urban population? How do we view and evaluate rural depictions within the context of the wider contemporary art world?

This conference aims to bring together theory and practice in rethinking rural space.

CALL FOR PAPERS

Academics and practitioners are invited to present papers or illustrated talks about their work / projects / research.

Please submit abstracts of 200w - 400w along with a short biographical note of no more than 200w (pdf attachments) to:

Katrin Joost: [email protected]

The deadline for submission is: Monday 11th March 2013

Suggested Themes:

• Edgelands of the Countryside: Intersections between the Rural and the Urban

• Rurality beyond the Pastoral Myth

• Signs of the Rural – Connotations of Locality

• The Conflict between Traditional Economies and Environmental Futures

• Insistent Rift between the Rural and the Urban Realms

• Rural Art – Cutting Edge or Provincial

• The Countryside- The New Playground?

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