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Beyond TextRethinking Complicity and Resistance: The Relationship between Visual Arts and Politics

A two-day Postgraduate Conference, University of Aberdeen 23-24th October 2009

Image by Chris HeppellCall for Papers

Submission Deadline: 11h September 2009

Please see the full Call for Papers.

Registration and Programme

Deadline for registration is Friday 9th October. You can register for the event via the on-line store.

Programme (PDF)

Abstracts

Abstracts (PDF)

Keynote Speaker: Zeigam Azizov.

Zeigam Azizov, born 1963 in Salyan, Azerbaijan, lives in London since 1992. He teaches at Goldsmiths’ College in London and currently at the University of Klagenfurt. Solo exhibition: Kunstraum Lakeside, Klagenfurt (2008); ICA, London (1995). Group shows: «Global Photography now: Post Soviet States», Tate Modern, London (2006); «Global tour», W139, Amsterdam (2006), «Utopia Station», Haus der Kunst, Munich (2004); 50th Venice Biennial (2003); «Becoming Global», Bauhaus Foundation, Dessau (2003); «Routes», Grazer Kunstverein, Graz(2002); «Outsourcing», inIVA, London (2002); «Never look back», Shedhalle, Zurich (2001).

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Venue

The conference venue is Room MR028, MacRobert Building, King's College Campus (no.7 on the map) at the University of Aberdeen.

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