[Themaintainers] CFP: Affective and Generative Dimensions in Covid 19 Activism

[Jilly Traganou]

Affective and Generative Dimensions in Covid 19 Activism
Session Chair: Jilly Traganou
Deadline for Abstract Submissions September 16(please see https://caa.confex.com/caa/2021/webprogrampreliminary/meeting.html)

The session will explore the role of art/design in activist work generated by either professional or non-professional artists and designers in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. These material, spatial, visual or sonic practices might have been created by solidarity/mutual aid movements; within specific professions or workspaces (e.g., healthcare providers, distribution centers, gig economy employees, other essential workers); efforts to relieve an impoverished population and restore the social net (e.g., stop-rent and anti-eviction movements); or as extension of existing activist work (e.g., decarceration, tenants’ or immigrants’ rights). Work of these movements not only utilize art/design languages that communicate emotion and messaging, but are also based on methods and processes akin to art/design in their iterative, prototyping, and prefigurative capacity. Some of these projects also reveal the generative capacity of art/design, as seen in the creation of innovative supply lines for 3-D printed equipment, the restoration of human connection through rooftop musical performances and patient portraiture, and the performance of everyday collective practices such as #clapbecausewecare. Each panelist’s 10-minute presentation will include one or two case studies interwoven with theoretical analysis, addressing issues such as collective processes and spatiality of activist work, the emotional and affective registers of their material or immaterial articulations, and their short- or long-term ambitions and impact. Reflection by a respondent, followed by a panel discussion, will raise broader questions on the role of material, spatial, visual, and sonic practices in redistributing agency, and evoking collective possibilities for change now and beyond the COVID-19 crisis.
 
Please email Jilly Traganou: traganog at newschool.edu


Jilly Traganou, PhD
Professor of Architecture and Urbanism 
Parsons School of Design

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