Academic Sessions: Exeter 1998
Gender: In Theory and Practice
Convener:
Dr Marsha Meskimmon (Staffordshire University)
The construction of gender identities can be seen to operate in the spaces between experience and representation, or in aesthetic terms, between theory and practice. This session is concerned with exploring these spaces in terms of the interaction between \'embodied subjects\' and forms of gender identity articulated in and through art. How do particular individuals construct provisional identities in making or writing about art? How does gender difference figure in the languages or processes of art practice?
Papers are invited from art historians, practitioners and theorists from other disciplines who wish to consider particular instances of the production of art and/or its histories as a form of enacting or performing gender. It is envisaged that the session could include papers which consider modes of practice, aesthetic theory and historical perspectives on the theme.
Proposals for papers should be sent to the convener at the following address:
History of Art and Design, Staffordshire University, College Road, Stoke-on-Trent ST4 2XW. Tel: (01782) 294705.
Dr Marsha Meskimmon (Staffordshire University)
The construction of gender identities can be seen to operate in the spaces between experience and representation, or in aesthetic terms, between theory and practice. This session is concerned with exploring these spaces in terms of the interaction between \'embodied subjects\' and forms of gender identity articulated in and through art. How do particular individuals construct provisional identities in making or writing about art? How does gender difference figure in the languages or processes of art practice?
Papers are invited from art historians, practitioners and theorists from other disciplines who wish to consider particular instances of the production of art and/or its histories as a form of enacting or performing gender. It is envisaged that the session could include papers which consider modes of practice, aesthetic theory and historical perspectives on the theme.
Proposals for papers should be sent to the convener at the following address:
History of Art and Design, Staffordshire University, College Road, Stoke-on-Trent ST4 2XW. Tel: (01782) 294705.