Collage as Cultural Practice
Collage as Cultural Practice
University of Iowa, Iowa City
March 24-26, 2005
This conference seeks to examine interventionist collage practices in all media, with an emphasis on the social, political, and legal implications of this method of appropriation. It will interrogate the political and social dimensions of collage as a practice that enables oppositional commentary across the cultural spectrum: from the leftist collages of the Dadaists and the Situationists to the unauthorized use of corporate trademarks, interventions by queer activists, and the more recent flurry of Internet-distributed antiwar video collage pieces that appropriate from the mainstream media in satirical ways. We seek to bring together scholars of, and practitioners in, the media of film and video, music, literature, visual arts and beyond-putting together a series of panels, performances and screenings, and an exhibition at the University of Iowa Museum of Art on Interventionist Collage: From Dada to Negativland.
Confirmed speakers include: Patricia R. Zimmermann, Rosemary Coombe, Carrie McLaren, Mark Hosler, Lloyd Dunn, Philo Farnsworth, Douglas Kahn, and Xmena Cuevas.
Possible session topics are: Collage and the Beat Movement; Collage and Copyright; Found Footage Film and Video; Dada and Surrealist Collage; Situationist and Fluxus Collages; Feminist Strategies of Appropriation; Collage in the Digital Age; Collage: Remixing Cultures; Collage: The Cultural Politics of Appropriation; Collage: From musique concrete to Hip Hop; and Collage: Queer Interventions.
For more information, please contact Rudolf Kuenzli at rudolf-kuenzli@uiowa.edu or Kembrew McLeod at kembrew-mcleod@uiowa.edu. Conference registration is free.
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