"Collage as Cultural Practice"

Iowa City, March 24–26, 2004

Collage as Cultural Practice seeks to examine interventionist collage practices
in all media, with an emphasis on the social, political, and legal implications
of this method of appropriation. The conference, taking place March 24–26,
2005, at the University of Iowa, will interrogate the political and social
dimensions of collage as a practice that enables oppositional commentary across
the cultural spectrum: from the leftist collages of the Dadaists and the
Situationists to the unauthorized use of corporate trademarks, interventions by
queer activists, and the more recent flurry of Internet-distributed antiwar
video collage pieces that appropriate from the mainstream media in satirical
ways.We seek to bring together scholars of, and practitioners in, the media of
film and video, music, literature, visual arts and beyond — putting together a
series of panels, performances and screenings, and an exhibition at the
University of Iowa Museum of Art on Interventionist Collage: From Dada to the
Present. Confirmed speakers include: Patricia R. Zimmermann, Rosemary Coombe,
Carrie McLaren, Mark Hosler, Lloyd Dunn, Philo Farnsworth, Steev Hise, Craig
Baldwin, Joshua Clover, Douglas Kahn, and Xmena Cuevas.

Possible session topics
are: Collage and the Beat Movement; Collage and Copyright; Found Footage Film
and Video; Dada and Surrealist Collage; Situationist and Fluxus Collages;
Feminist Strategies of Appropriation; Collage in the Digital Age; Collage:
Remixing Cultures; Collage: The Cultural Politics of Appropriation; Collage:
From musique concrète to Hip Hop; and Collage: Queer Interventions. Send 250-word proposals for papers to Rudolf Kuenzli at rudolf-kuenzli@uiowa.edu or
Kembrew McLeod at kembrew-mcleod@uiowa.edu.

Conference registration is free.

Deadline: October 20, 2004.

kembrew mcleod

assistant professor

department of communication studies

university of iowa

contact info:

1037 e. washington st.

iowa city, ia 52240

kembrew-mcleod@uiowa.edu

319-341-3583