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Call for Art, Performance, Papers, and Workshops
GenderQueer/QueerGenders
Conversations among Artists, Activists & Academics
University of California, Santa Barbara
February 11, 12, and 13, 2005
GenderQueer/QueerGenders is a multidisciplinary,
multimedia conference
that will take place in Santa Barbara, CA, this coming
February. It
will be a forum for people w! ho've been thinking
about queerness and
gender from different places (institutions, geographic
locations,
identities) and through different means (performance,
scholarship,
organizing, cultural politics, etc). The conference
will bring
together artists, scholars and activists as equal
contributors to
conduct workshops, exhibit and perform art, and
present academic
research. A priority of this conference is to reflect
the diversity
and complexity of gender expressions and the
meanings gender has in different racial and cultural
locations.
Tothat end, we particularly encourage proposals by and
for people of
color, working-class people, and people with
disabilities.
GenderQueer/QueerGenders will be a forum for
discussing the
multiplicity of queer gender identities as they are
experienced and
expressed simultaneously with race, region, class,
access, ability and
other identities. One catalyst for this project has
been our
collective frustration with the lack of certain
critical discourses
about intersections of genders and sexualities.
Specifically, we are
concerned about the limited discourse on "emerging"
queer genders
including, for example, queer femininities,
heterosexual queers, and
the ways that gaps like these overlap with existing
silences about
race, class and privilege. We fear that these
discourses are sometimes
overshadowed by homogenizing "conventional" narratives
of
genderqueer and transgender communities. We hope to
create a space to
theorize a wider range of queer g! enders more fully
representative of
our identities, communities, and political/artistic
work.
We are seeking a wide range of participants and
therefore are
soliciting contributions from across form and
discipline, including:
visual art
video or film
workshops
performance pieces
research presentations
activist and organizational skillshares
Possible points of entry:
genderqueer * disability * race * femme * masculinity
* organizing *
science * sex * `straight' queerness * art,
performance and politics *
cyber bodies * genderfuck * misogyny * dance * spoken
word *
virtual gender * song * imperialism * paint *
photography * kink *
technology * transsexual * BDSM * politics * sculpture
* fat *
revolution * attitude * hormones * body modification *
desire *
permission * fem! ininity * lo ho * inclusion *
healthcare * social
services * law * embodiment * restriction * FTM *
access * love * star
fucking * culture * no ho * language * sex work *
religion *
government * education * advocacy * youth * allies *
class * history
* transgender * transnational * DIY * music * images *
representation
* discourse * dialogue * critique * feminism *
children * GID *
reproduction * intersex * relationships * size *
anti-racism *
community * bodies * food * nationalism * immigration
* industry *
privacy * identity * public * MTF * genitalia * zines
* privilege *
sexual assault * hate crimes * invisibility * business
* patriot act *
civil rights * subvert * age * justice * border patrol
* butch * drag
* passing * tranny * chaser * diaspora * activism *
film * nationality
* polyamory * colonialism * marriage * none of the
above
HIGHLIGHTS OF THE CONFERENCE WILL INCLUDE THE
FOLLOWING EVENTS
community art project
drag cabaret night
evening of performances
keynote speaker series
HOW TO SUBMIT
Submission deadline is October 15, 2004
To submit a proposal, please send the following to the
email (as an
attachment) or snailmail listed below:
For all proposals, please provide your name, preferred
pronouns, and
current email, phone and mail address.
For research presentations, send a 300 word abstract.
For workshop and skillshare proposals, send a 300 word
description of
your workshop or skillshare ideas.
Visual artists should send samples of work and a 300
word description
of their artistic vision.
Performers, filmmakers and other creative artists
should contact us
for further information.
If you would like to participate or contribute to the
conference in
ways that are not listed here, please contact us with
your ideas.
Email address: gq_qg@???
Snailmail address:
GenderQueer/QueerGenders Conference
Interdisciplinary Humanities Center
HSSB, 6th floor
University of California, Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara, CA 93106
GenderQueer/QueerGenders is a graduate student
initiated project based
at UCSB, primarily funded by UCSB's Interdisciplinary
Humanities
Center
--
Katrin Nikoleyczik (Dipl.-Biol.)
Institut für Informatik und Gesellschaft
Abt. 1: Modellbildung und soziale Folgen
Universität Freiburg
Friedrichstr. 50
D-79098 Freiburg i. Br.
Fon: (+49)-0761-203-4924
Fax: (+49)-0761-203-4960
http://mod.iig.uni-freiburg.de/
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