2011 Interstices Under Construction Symposium: Technics, Memory and the Architecture of History
Launceston, Tasmania, Australia
November 25 2011 - November 27 2011
2011 Interstices Under Construction Symposium:
Technics, Memory and the Architecture of History
Key speakers:
Prof Alessandra Ponte, Université de Montréal, Canada
Prof William Taylor, University of Western Australia
Dr Peg Rawes, Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London
Dr Karen Burns, Monash University
Prof Jeff Malpas, University of Tasmania
In the light of massive catastrophes - the earthquakes near Sendai and Christchurch, the tsunamis of Acheh and Katrina's devastation of New Orleans - the question of urban and architectural reconstruction invokes the question of remembering. What is this 'past' that we remember and on which we base our future reconstructions? What images of the past do we call upon in our decisions to build or not to build - and how do they negotiate the terrain between memory and history, nature and culture, technology and sustainability, planning and responding, tradition and innovation, foundations and interstices?
Abstracts due by 31 July 2011
What are some of the key image-objects that architecturalise historiography, particularly the historiographies of architecture, design and art? What are the ontological conditions surrounding these historical image-objects, their construction and dissemination? What alternative topologies of memorialising the past are imaginable: narratival, conversational, oral and gestural? What images are inherited by the historian, and how does the interior (psychic) condition of the historian assimilate (or not) the otherness of the image-objects that arrive from the outside?
Taking seriously the metaphor of the cinematic, the temporalisation of the image-object and its absorption into the sphere of production, and the indeterminacy of images that carry the technics of interhuman relations, the symposium invokes the theatre of the historian's individuation alongside history's mnemotechnics that organize the images which appear whenever memory is invoked.
For full Call for Papers/Works, please refer to http://intersticesjournal.wordpress.com/
The Technics, Memory and the Architecture of History symposium is the first trans-Tasman Interstices project, to be held in Launceston at the School of Architecture & Design, University of Tasmania, Australia on 25-27 November 2011.
The Interstices symposium will run in conjunction with the Cinema, Theatre, Publics: The future place of social imaginings Colloquium organized by UTAS’s Cinema in Transition Experiment (CITE) on 24-25 November 2011.
We invite you to contribute to the symposium by sending a 500 word abstract of your presentation (scholarly paper, drawings, installations, and/or film) and short bio to Stephen Loo (.(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)) by 31 July 2011. Abstracts will be double-blind refereed and, if accepted, published on the Interstices website http://intersticesjournal.wordpress.com/and www.interstices.auckland.ac.nz