Art and Geopolitical Borders: contested sovereignty and
art practice
One day symposium, Manchester School of Art, Thursday 19 November 2015
In recent years there has been a growth in interest in the ways that art practice can both acknowledge and articulate the issues around geo-political borders. Borders have long functioned as a vital component of state-formation and nation building, a role that continues within the shifting politics of globalisation. Their significance is thus subject to ongoing redefinition through a dynamic between a repressive politics of containment and attempts to challenge this. Within these zones of contestation, relationships between geographies and power become both clearly visible and subject to dispute. And although this functions on one level in terms of collective experience, the effects on individuals can also be destructive and traumatic.
Please send an abstract of no more than 300 words and a short biography to one of the organising panel: Fionna Barber f.barber@mmu.ac.uk; Simon Faulkner s.faulkner@mmu.ac.uk; Beccy Kennedy b.m.kennedy@mmu.ac.uk by 1 July 2015
Selected papers from the symposium will be published in an edited collection.
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