The Sensuous Knowledge Conference Comes to Town: Join us in Bergen, Norway, 23 – 25 January 2013!
A unique collaboration between Art Museums of Bergen and Bergen Academy of Art and Design forms the new context for the conference: Sensuous Knowledge will take place inside of two exhibitions Material Information curated by Juan Andrés Gaitán and Real Life Stories, curated by Feng Boyi and Bjørn Inge Follevaag which includes Ai Wei Wei.
The exhibitions will strengthen and inspire the sensuous in energetic and powerful ways as is key to Sensuous Knowledge. We will keep the successful format from the previous series 2004 – 2009: Participants present their practice-based research projects and discuss them in small groups of peers within which discussions may snowball throughout the three days.
The new venues have inspired the title Ta(l)king Place. We invite 30-minute presentations of artistic and/or curatorial, practice-based research projects for the groups. We are looking for presentations that appraise, examine, deconstruct, interrogate, or in some alternative manner articulate how places of all kinds are appropriated, created, depicted, experienced, talked about, used, or by other means made subjects for signifying practices in, through, or by way of the arts.
Practitioners from all art disciplines (including design and the performing arts) and from the museum world are welcome to submit proposals for presentations of completed or ongoing artistic or curatorial research projects for the 2013 Sensuous Knowledge conference. Please send us just one page (C.600 words) with a summary of the main points and main artistic, curatorial, discursive, or ethical challenges that your project entails, with a note on what kind of audio or visual material you want to present and thus a description of the format of your presentation. Please include a couple of images in your proposal as appropriate.
The deadline for proposals is 15 July 2012, and you will be informed about the outcome of your proposal by 15 September. A general invitation to participate in the conference, a preliminary program, and details about registration, conference fee, etc. will be published in September.
Submit you proposal to <sensuous.knowledge@khib.no>
