[csaa-forum] Call for Papers - HAIR

[Meredith Jones]

Call for Papers, Artworks, Photography, Fiction, Interviews

“Hair”
The first book in the TRUNK series

Editors: Suzanne Boccalatte (artworks) & Meredith Jones (writing)

To be published by Boccalatte Pty Ltd

TRUNK books will be a series of small, corporeal, personal, and sensual 
books. They are intended to be beautiful, coveted objects filled with 
fascinating content, much like an old trunk in an attic. These 
collectable volumes will be consumable and engrossing as a whole, yet 
filled with short pieces so that each book can also be flipped through 
or dipped into at random. Each will explore a part of the human body 
through writing, art, and photography. There will be interviews, essays, 
fiction, photo essays, poems, and art works addressing multifarious 
dimensions of the theme. The series is aimed at an intelligent, engaged 
audience interested in both “high” and popular culture and is intended 
to have wide appeal.

Our first volume will be about hair. Hair has deep cultural and social 
significance (is it the only body part that can boast a dedicated 
musical?). Hair grows on all mammals, but the particular configuration 
of short vellus hair on the body and long terminal hair on the scalp is 
found only on humans. We seek writing and art that explores the 
fascinating cultural, historical, religious and social aspects of this 
evolutionary ambiguous outgrowth of protein. Submissions must be 
accessible, curious, entertaining and stimulating. Art and photography 
can be of any size; writing should be 1500 words or less.

Often, it is an absence of hair or a hiding of hair that is culturally 
or medically significant: thus we encourage fiction, essays, and 
interviews about alopecia, male-pattern baldness, temporary hair loss 
caused by chemotherapy, hair transplants, and Muslim, Jewish and Sikh 
traditions of covering hair.

Hairy stories about fashion, personal expression, religion, cultural 
confluences, and social status will be most welcome. Perhaps you would 
like to contribute a photo-essay of famous combovers, or a more academic 
piece about hair extensions and the global hair trade? Or you might 
consider Goth hair, henna, hairdresser training, braiding, or hair dying.

Facial hair and body hair must not be forgotten: we will welcome work 
that addresses body hair removal, the “Brazilian”, changing 20th Century 
attitudes to women’s leg hair, bearded ladies, men’s facial hair (the 
goatee, the beard, mutton-chops), Freda Kahlo’s eyebrows, and the 
moustache.

This hairy collection may also include visual or written pieces about 
wigs, going grey, androgyny, the beehive, locks of hair kept as 
mementoes, collections of celebrity hair, the blonde recessive gene, 
Medusa’s hair and its symbology, and the story of Rapunzel.

Submissions are due 9 June 2008

Contacts:

Dr Meredith Jones (writing editor)
IML, UTS
PO Box 123
Broadway NSW 2007
meredith.jones at uts.edu.au

Suzanne Boccalatte (visuals editor)
507/55 Holt Street
Surry Hills NSW 2010
suzanne at boccalatte.com


-- 
UTS CRICOS Provider Code:  00099F
DISCLAIMER: This email message and any accompanying attachments may contain
confidential information.  If you are not the intended recipient, do not
read, use, disseminate, distribute or copy this message or attachments.  If
you have received this message in error, please notify the sender immediately
and delete this message. Any views expressed in this message are those of the
individual sender, except where the sender expressly, and with authority,
states them to be the views of the University of Technology Sydney. Before
opening any attachments, please check them for viruses and defects.

Think. Green. Do.

Please consider the environment before printing this email.