CALL FOR PAPER
TRIESTE CONTEMPORANEA
SEMINARS ON ART HISTORY
3-4 June, 2011
- The fragile pedestal -
Deadline: 1st of March, 2011
Participation is free of charge and the expenses for travel and lodging will be covered by the committee.
The seminar: The purpose of the seminar is to offer European students and young researchers
the opportunity to share their research work with a group of young scholars of different provenance
and to verify work methods, with the supervision of an international team of professors and
professionals in the field of contemporary art.
Trieste Contemporanea plans to create a collaborative space for research parallel to the academic
one, in which the transmission of knowledge among students and professors is organized
according to the requests of the student. In this way, the student will have the opportunity to
develop and correct his own work in the making, thanks to the confrontation with other participants
and the suggestions and evaluation of the supervisors.
The seminar is an integral part of the CEI Venice Form for Contemporary Art Curators from Central
Eastern Europe.
The seminar will last two days and will take place in Trieste in the Studio Tommaseo (via del
Monte) and will be in English.
Participation is free of charge and the expenses for travel and lodging for the participants will be
covered by the organizing committee.
Themes for the paper: Forms of public art from World War 2 to our time: historical evolutions
in monumental art; social implications, identity expectations and communicative functions in the
production of site-specific art; new models of commissioned art with collective involvement.
How to participate:
The call for paper is directed at students and young researchers of contemporary art up to and not
over age 35. Since the seminar is a session of the CEI Forum (you can find informations about
it on: http://www.triestecontemporanea.it/pagina.php?id_p=27&id_m=3&id_sm=24&l=e) and the
cultural mission of Trieste Contemporanea is to create an observatory on art of Middle Eastern
Europe, part of the number of places for participants will be reserved to scholars from countries
adherent to CEI (Albania, Austria, Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, the Czech
Republic, Hungary, Italy, Macedonia, Moldavia, Montenegro, Poland, Rumania, Serbia, Slovak
Republic, Slovenia, Ukraine).
The applicants are invited to send a paper from 5 to 8 pages long in English on a contemporary
art topic pertaining the theme of the seminar, an introductory bibliography and an abstract of 500
words by 01/03/2011.
- Since the seminar is considered an instrument of support in the research work of the student,
it is not necessary that the text present an investigation that has reached its results, but it
should underline and present in a critical manner the boundaries of the area of research and the
unresolved points that the candidate wants to bring to the discussion of the seminar. The text
presented can be either produced ad hoc for the seminar, trace a work in progress or summarize a
work which has already been presented in a degree or phd thesis or publication.
-The text should be sent in attachment to tscont@tin.it (in pdf format) along with a curriculum vitae
et studiorum. The subject of the message should be “history of art seminars: application”. In the
text of the message the candidate has to provide: first name, last name, date and place of birth,
citizenship, address of residency, e-mail address and telephone number.
Selection of participants:
-The selection of the candidates will be the exclusive responsibility of the organizing committee.
- 8 students will be selected.
- Criteria for selection: It’s fundamental that the papers show aptitude for research and a profound
knowledge of the issue pre-selected. The originality of the theme’s composition will be evaluated.
- Starting on 01/04/11, the names of the selected participants will be announced.
Supervisors:
Confirmed supervisors:
Marquard Smith (University of Westminster, London, England).
Edith András (Research Institute for Art History of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest,
Hungary).
Piotr Piotrowski (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan, Poland).
Organization of seminar:
- The selected texts will be sent to the supervisors a month before the opening of the works.
- The seminar will open with introductory lectures by the supervisors. These lectures will offer
the students and the public an insight in the practical work of research.
- Each participant will have 30 minutes to present his work. Each presentation will be
followed by 20 minutes of discussion during which the supervisors and participants will give
an opinion on the work, giving suggestions regarding further investigation, corrections or
ulterior paths to follow.
- At the end of the individual presentations a round table will be held in conclusion.
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