CFP: SCMS 2014: Panel on Sexuality and Urban Space
Seattle, Washington March 19-March 23Chaired by Ara Osterweil and Amy Herzog:
We are looking for one more paper!!
Hi everyone,Amy and I have been looking forward to collaborating for a long
time, and this seems like a perfect opportunity. We are both broadly interested
in issues of avant-garde/ artist cinema, sexuality, urban space, the public
sphere, fantasy, and violence, but are of course open to new directions,
interpretations, and inspirations of these and related ideas. While a more
thorough explanation of the panel will be forthcoming to anyone who responds
with interest, here's a quick preview of what we're each thinking:
•Amy Herzog is currently working on VALIE EXPORT (specifically Tap and Touch
Cinema and the mythology surrounding Genital Panik) and Shirley Clarke
(especially her imagined Pleasure Palace Theater of the Future and her
collaborative Head-Body Games) as an extension of Amy's ongoing work on Times
Square in the 1960s and 70s and the peep show. The focus will be on certain
resonant themes circulating within these projects and in contemporaneous peep
arcades: public sexuality, haptic-experience-based forums, interactivity and
the mediated body. I’m also thinking through the politics of virtual feminist
interventions, either future-leaning proposals, or reconstructions of events
that “should have” happened.
•Ara Osterweil is currently working on Kenneth Anger's film Fireworks (1947)
and its relation to the militarization of the public sphere during World War
and, more specifically the infamous "zoot suit" riots of Los Angeles. I'm
interested in the ways that the sadomasochistic sexual fantasies chronicled in
this film emerge in relation to larger questions concerning the regulation of
urban space, minority sexual culture, racism, and the imagination of adolescent
sexuality.
These are brief descriptions, but at this point, we wanted to very quickly get
an idea if any of you were interested in submitting a paper? Ideally we are
looking for one more speaker as well as a possible respondent. Unlike the
usually deadly conference panel, we're hoping to do something vital and fun
around these exciting issues. Too often, good, engaging writing and speaking
gets sacrificed to the unforgiving deadlines and structure of a conference, but
we think with a little creativity and some energetic collaboration, this need
not be the case.
If you have something that might work, don't hesitate to contact us asap at:
aosterw...@hotmail.com and aher...@gc.cuny.edu
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