Now closed
Current Calls for Papers for issue #6, 2014
Calls for Papers closing on 30 June 2013
Call for New OPEN Section
craft +
design enquiry has introduced a new OPEN section to complement the THEMED
section in each issue of the journal.
The OPEN section will publish selected papers on any aspect of
contemporary craft and design research. All papers submitted to the OPEN
section will be peer-reviewed in accordance with existing craft
+ design enquiry procedures. Papers will be selected to go
forward for peer-reviewing on submission of a completed paper. Submission
closing date: 30 June 2013 for
publication in c+de#6 (2014)
For
further information, a Submission Lodgement Form and Author
Guidelines contact jenny.deves@anu.edu.au
Guest edited by Anne Brennan and Patsy Hely
Craft
is often invoked as an antidote to change, its materials and practices
described and inscribed in terms of continuity and tradition. However, this is
a comparatively recent idea that has its roots in the turbulent moment of the
Industrial Revolution, a way of negotiating and at times resisting the huge
economic, social and cultural changes that were sweeping Europe at the time.
Some argue that we are currently experiencing a similar period of profound
upheaval as we grapple with the implications of climate change, globalisation
and the impact of the information revolution on our societies and cultures.
Perhaps it is no coincidence that this period of change is mirrored by a
resurgence of interest in relationships between craft and memory, particularly in
relation to the specific histories of certain practices, and also to the
histories and experiences of individuals. This issue of craft +
design enquiry invites papers that will re-examine and re-evaluate
relationships between craft, materials and memory at a time of global change.
One
possible thread of enquiry might address material histories, engaging with the
way in which the histories, usages and even composition and production of
traditional craft materials has shifted and changed over time. What might be
the implications of these shifts and changes, and how have contemporary
political, social, cultural and environmental exigencies shaped the way in
which such materials are made, used and considered today?
Another
thread of enquiry might explore relationships between craft and the archive. As
museums and archives shift and change in response to the contemporary world,
new ways of viewing objects and different interpretive strategies are
constantly in play. Craft and design scholarship has expanded considerably over
the last decades. How are crafted objects in collections being differently
interpreted and understood in the light of these changes?
A
third line of enquiry might attend to relationships between craft, memory and
individual histories. Autobiographical strategies on the part of both makers
and writers about craft developed as a way of undermining the imposition of the
aesthetic priorities of the fine arts on craft, and as a way of investing
craft’s objects with meanings that recognise the way in which objects circulate
through lives and cultures. The editors are particularly interested in papers
that re-evaluate and re-imagine these strategies, in particular papers that
question some of the more comforting connections that have been made between
craft’s histories and practices and autobiography as the locus of an
unproblematic and idealised past.
— Anne Brennan and Patsy Hely, Editors craft + design enquiry #6
Anne
Brennan is an artist and writer and the head of the Art Theory Workshop of
the ANU School of Art. A founding member of Gray Street Workshop, she has
written extensively on the visual arts, craft and design. Her research
interests encompass the ways in which private and public memories coalesce in
institutions such as the memorial and the archive. She has undertaken a number
of projects in archives and museums, including Secure the Shadow at the Hyde
Park Barracks, Sydney, with Anne Ferran in 1995 and Archives and the Everyday
at the Australian War Memorial in 1996. She is currently engaged in a writing
project about memory and place.
Patsy
Hely is an academic and artist working in the field of ceramics and is
Convenor of the Graduate Coursework and Honours programmes at the ANU School of
Art. Her work is held in many national public collections, in the V & A
(London) and in the Musee de Mariemont
(Belgium); she has exhibited widely in Australia and in a number of countries
internationally. Her PhD, 'Ceramics and the Articulation of Place', was awarded
in 2007 and she is currently
engaged in a project investigating early Australian ceramic objects and ideas
about place and identity. She has worked at a number of institutions, including
Sydney University Tin Sheds, the College of Fine Arts (COFA) and Southern Cross
University.
Steps to submitting a paper to the themed section of c+de#6
This
issue of craft + design enquiry will be published
by ANU E Press mid 2014. The Call for Papers
closes on 30 June 2013.
Step
1: Anne Brennan and Patsy Hely (guest editors)
ask contributors to submit an abstract from now until 30 April 2013. They will
respond promptly to contributors about their proposed papers. Send your
abstract to jenny.deves@anu.edu.au
Step
2: Following advice from the guest editors,
contributors are required to complete and submit their final papers by 30 June
2013. Email jenny.deves@anu.edu.au for a Submission
Lodgement Form to be submitted with your paper.
