Yunjin La-mei Woo is an artist, researcher, and curator. Her research interests range from the sociohistorical formation of ‘life’ as an idea to political art and critical studies of everyday life. In particular, Woo is interested in liminal states or entities of life (e.g. anomalies and infectious vectors) as metaphors and how they are conveyed or communicated through media and politically rendered in society.
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'Para-' Anthology: Call for Essays (Extended Deadline 4/20)
Deadline:
Sun Apr 20, 2014 23:59
Para-Sites is a distributed exhibition project where 12 artist groups intervene public places in the US, France, New Zealand, Italy, South Korea, Ireland, and the World Wide Web from April 30 through May 20.
Concurrent with our distributed exhibition in different ‘para-sites’, we are now inviting essays for our anthology on the keyword, ‘para-’. The term ‘para-’ as a prefix, originating from its Greek root ‘para,’ meaning ‘beside,’ often implies distinction with analogousness, irregularity, inappropriateness, disorder, or modification when used in combinations with other words. Through the potentiality that this term opens for creating heterogeneous meanings and practices, we would like to expand current discussions in art and culture with actively practicing writers, researchers, curators, critics, and theorists.
Potential topics to consider in relation to the keyword include but are not limited to:
[*]public intervention
para-exhibition forms
digital curating
reappropriation
para-writing on art and culture
para-* as an aesthetic tactic
para-realities
disguise and infiltration
disorder, irregularity, and liminality
properness and normality in everyday life
etymological and/or epistemological discussions on the term, ‘para-’. [/*]
Submission
We welcome forms or genres of writing that are often marginalized or excluded from mainstream academic journals. Please send your complete, proofread essay in a PDF file to parasites.art@gmail.com by April 20, 2014 following the guideline below:
• Length: approx. 300 – 1000 words
• Style: There is no limit or guide for your manuscript style or form. Your essay can be any kind of writing from a plainly written piece of prose to a rule-breaking form of creative writing. We not only welcome writings that convey their content but also those that actively ‘perform’ their content through their forms although, strictly speaking, every form of writing performs its subject matter. Images can also be submitted along text.
• Procedures: Notifications of acceptance will be given shortly and be followed by digital publication and distribution in May to June.
For more information:
http://para-sites.org
https://www.facebook.com/paraxhibits
Concurrent with our distributed exhibition in different ‘para-sites’, we are now inviting essays for our anthology on the keyword, ‘para-’. The term ‘para-’ as a prefix, originating from its Greek root ‘para,’ meaning ‘beside,’ often implies distinction with analogousness, irregularity, inappropriateness, disorder, or modification when used in combinations with other words. Through the potentiality that this term opens for creating heterogeneous meanings and practices, we would like to expand current discussions in art and culture with actively practicing writers, researchers, curators, critics, and theorists.
Potential topics to consider in relation to the keyword include but are not limited to:
[*]public intervention
para-exhibition forms
digital curating
reappropriation
para-writing on art and culture
para-* as an aesthetic tactic
para-realities
disguise and infiltration
disorder, irregularity, and liminality
properness and normality in everyday life
etymological and/or epistemological discussions on the term, ‘para-’. [/*]
Submission
We welcome forms or genres of writing that are often marginalized or excluded from mainstream academic journals. Please send your complete, proofread essay in a PDF file to parasites.art@gmail.com by April 20, 2014 following the guideline below:
• Length: approx. 300 – 1000 words
• Style: There is no limit or guide for your manuscript style or form. Your essay can be any kind of writing from a plainly written piece of prose to a rule-breaking form of creative writing. We not only welcome writings that convey their content but also those that actively ‘perform’ their content through their forms although, strictly speaking, every form of writing performs its subject matter. Images can also be submitted along text.
• Procedures: Notifications of acceptance will be given shortly and be followed by digital publication and distribution in May to June.
For more information:
http://para-sites.org
https://www.facebook.com/paraxhibits
“Para-”: Anthology for Para-Sites 2014 Distributed Exhibition Project
Deadline:
Tue Apr 15, 2014 23:55
Para-Sites is a distributed exhibition project where artists and researchers operate ‘para-sites’ as a form of public intervention in the US, France, New Zealand, Italy, South Korea, and the World Wide Web between April 30 through May 20. Our various tactics to reappropriate given modes of conduct, public spaces, and systems are analogous to how parasites hijack the metabolism of their hosts for their own purposes that are foreign to their hosting systems. In our framework of parasitism, however, the very process of hosts and guests, or hosts and parasites, controlling and resisting each other is deemed to be what makes their system complex, diverse, and contingent.
Concurrent with our distributed exhibition in different ‘para-sites’, we are now inviting essays for our anthology on the keyword, ‘para-’. The term ‘para-’ as a prefix, originating from its Greek root ‘para,’ meaning ‘beside,’ often implies distinction with analogousness, irregularity, inappropriateness, disorder, or modification when used in combinations with other words. Through the potentiality that this term opens for creating heterogeneous meanings and practices, we would like to expand current discussions in art and culture with actively practicing writers, researchers, curators, critics, and theorists.
Potential topics to consider in relation to the keyword include but are not limited to:
public intervention
Para-exhibition forms
digital curating
reappropriation
para-writing on art and culture
para-* as an aesthetic tactic
disguise and infiltration
disorder, irregularity, and liminality
properness and normality in everyday life
etymological and/or epistemological discussions on the term, ‘para-’.
Submission
We welcome forms or genres of writing that are often marginalized or excluded from mainstream academic journals. Please send your complete, proofread essay in a PDF file to parasites.art@gmail.com by April 15, 2014 following the guideline below:
• Length: approx. 300 – 1000 words
• Style: There is no limit or guide for your manuscript style or form. Your essay can be any kind of writing from a plainly written piece of prose to a rule-breaking form of creative writing. We not only welcome writings that convey their content but also those that actively ‘perform’ their content through their forms although, strictly speaking, every form of writing performs its subject matter.
• Procedures: Notifications of acceptance will be given by April 20, which will shortly be followed by digital publication and distribution.
For more information:
http://para-sites.org
https://www.facebook.com/paraxhibits
Para-Sites: Call for Artists
Deadline:
Sat Mar 01, 2014 23:55
Para-Sites is an alternative exhibition project where given modes of production, circulation, and consumption of art are “hijacked” or re-appropriated.
We are interested in using public spaces, systems, or mass-produced commodities for unexpected purposes, which may denaturalize routinized patterns of everyday life. By twisting common assumptions or repeated habits of the everyday, we attempt to disturb how things are supposed to be and how we are expected to live.
Media/Genre:
Any modes of conduct that reappopriate conventional ways of using or occupying public spaces are welcome. In doing so, we would like to bring attention to imaginative and contingent qualities of everyday life. We are also open to media or genres, including (but not limited to) performance acts, demonstrations, lectures, apparatuses, site-specific installations, wheat-pastes, stickers, instructions, websites, automatons, and software programs.
Space:
Any public spaces in the United States can be our exhibition sites. This show does not involve a single, fixed space in a gallery or a museum. There will be no designated white rooms unless you “borrow” them from another, more conventional exhibition. Instead, people who don’t expect to encounter works of art in their everyday life will run into your work in a public space, wherever it might be.
Time:
The exhibition duration will be April 30 to May 20, 2014.
Proposal guideline:
Send a 200-word proposal of your proposed work and three images of your previous work with brief captions to wooyunjin@gmail.com by March 1 2014. Links to online portfolios are also welcome and will substitute submissions of previous work.
More information can be found at:
http://parasites-art.tumblr.com
