[csaa-forum] Call for Submissions: Spectres of Evaluation - 6 & 7 February 2014, Melbourne, Australia

Tue Jul 23 09:29:28 CST 2013

Dear Colleagues,

I want to personally invite you to submit an abstract for a
paper/panel/workshop to our upcoming conference in Melbourne, Australia on
February 6 and 7, 2014. This international conference is the culmination of
a 3 year research project examining creative and critical approaches to
evaluation and value in relation to community-engaged arts practice.

The abstracts are due mid September with responses confirmed shortly after. See
below for the CFP. We also hope to have a 'Call for Artists' soon as well!
Please forward this email invitation to other researchers and artists who
you think may be interested in this conference. Registration opens in a few
weeks at www.spectresofevaluation.com<http://vcam.cmail1.com/t/r-l-bjrlytd-jdujddiljh-o/>.
In the meantime, you can register your interest by signing up for our
mailing list at that website. Apologies if you are already on our mailing
list!

Hoping you are all keeping well and being creative,

Marnie

Dr Marnie Badham, Artist- Researcher

Centre for Cultural Partnerships
Faculty of the Victorian College of the Arts and Melbourne Conservatorium
of Music
The University of Melbourne
234 St Kilda Road, Southbank VIC 3006

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Join us on the banks of the Maribyrnong River at Footscray Community Arts
Centre in Melbourne, Australia.  This international arts conference is
presented by The Centre for Cultural Partnerships, VCA & MCM, University of
Melbourne <http://vcam.cmail1.com/t/r-l-bjrlytd-jdujddiljh-i/> & Footscray
Community Arts Centre. <http://vcam.cmail1.com/t/r-l-bjrlytd-jdujddiljh-d/>

Keynote speakers include artists and academics, with more names to be
released soon.  Speaker highlights include:

• Dr Sophie Hope <http://vcam.cmail1.com/t/r-l-bjrlytd-jdujddiljh-h/> (UK),
Artist/Researcher/Academic (pictured above)
• Ted Purves <http://vcam.cmail1.com/t/r-l-bjrlytd-jdujddiljh-k/>, (USA),
Artist/Researcher/Academic
• Tania Bruguera
<http://vcam.cmail1.com/t/r-l-bjrlytd-jdujddiljh-u/>(CUBA/ USA),
Artist

*For more information:*
contact at spectresofevaluation.com<contact at spectresofevaluation.com?subject=Enquiry%20-%20Spectres%20of%20Evaluation>
www.spectresofevaluation.com<http://vcam.cmail1.com/t/r-l-bjrlytd-jdujddiljh-o/>
Centre for Cultural Partnerships,VCA & MCM, University of Melbourne.

Today, the making of art is haunted by spectres of evaluation, with
competing claims and judgments about the limits, uses, and value of art.
This international conference examines creative and critical approaches to
evaluation and value in relation to community-engaged arts practice.

Taking its cue from the artwork *Spectre of Evaluation* (Thomas Hirschhorn,
2008) www.e-flux.com/announcements/art-and-politics-as-usual<http://vcam.cmail1.com/t/r-l-bjrlytd-jdujddiljh-b/>,
the conference looks to reconfigure the relationship between artists, art
experts, and what the artist terms the “non-exclusive audience.”

Through diverse and creative formats and a range of local and international
speakers, these timely conversations also explore the relationship between
established community arts practices and the appearance of new forms of
collaboration and engagement across a range of disciplines, from
participatory design to social practice.

This conference marks the culmination of a 3 year Australian Research
Council-funded Linkage project “Towards an Integrated Approach for
Evaluating Community-based Arts” with investigators Dr Lachlan MacDowall
(University of Melbourne), Dr Martin Mulligan (RMIT University), Frank
Panucci (Australia Council for the Arts) and Dr Marnie Badham as Research
Fellow (University of Melbourne).

  *CALL FOR PAPERS*

*Deadline 15 September 2013, email to
contact at spectresofevaluation.com<contact at spectresofevaluation.com?subject=Submission%20for%20Spectres%20of%20Evaluation>
*

The Spectres of Evaluation conference committee is now inviting abstracts
for presentations, workshops and panel presentations connecting themes
around ‘art’, ‘community’ and ‘value’.  In particular, we are interested in
receiving proposals that address the following themes:
●       Critical approaches to evaluation of community-based arts including
negative value and potential for harm, network theories, dialogic methods,
and new aesthetic language
●       The use of creative, participatory and democratized methods in
cultural measurement
●       Re-presentational practices such as exhibition, evaluation,
critical writing and curating involving community-based art
●       The value of art as labour and the role of the artist in society
●       The competing lenses of evaluation: perspectives from political,
health, justice, international development, education, or arts sectors

●       Alternative systems of value in community-based arts: gift exchange
and reciprocity, creative commons, feminist economies, peer assessment,
crowd funding, and risk assessment
●       The implications of new technologies, open source hacking, digital
research methods and communication, and data visualization on arts
evaluation practice

*Proposal outline:*
Please submit your brief proposal in relation to one of the conference
themes listed above, including the following headings on a one-page Word
document attached to your email.

●   Name, position, institution, contact information
●   Title of presentation or workshop
●   Format (choose one):

   1. Theoretical papers or innovative case studies(20 minutes)
   2. Participatory workshops (60 minutes)
   3. Panel presentation, maximum 3 presenters, 1 chair (90 minutes)

●   Abstract (300 words)
●   Biography (100 words)

*Closing date:*
Please email your one page submission by Sunday 15 September 2013 to
contact at spectresofevaluation.com, Centre for Cultural Partnerships,
University of Melbourne.

*Date of advice:*
Papers will be reviewed by the conference committee and authors will be
notified of the outcome of their submission by Friday 27 September 2013.

*Post-conference publication:*
Selected presenters may be invited to submit a chapter based on their paper
for a publication on the themes of the conference.

For more information:
contact at spectresofevaluation.com<contact at spectresofevaluation.com?subject=Call%20for%20Submissions%3B%20Spectres%20of%20Evaluation>
www.spectresofevaluation.com<http://vcam.cmail5.com/t/r-l-btiltuy-yukdkdkydu-d/>
Centre for Cultural Partnerships,VCA & MCM, University of Melbourne.

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