Posted by Rosie Jennings on September 16th, 2024.
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The Omnipotence of Dream
Salford Museum and Art Gallery, Crescent, Salford M5 4WU
Conference: Wednesday 12 February 2025
Deadline to apply: Friday 18 October 2024
2024 marks the centenary of the publication of Andre Breton’s Manifesto of Surrealism. This conference focuses on the practices and strategies of surrealism in historical and contemporary art and design. It coincides with a major exhibition, The Omnipotence of Dream taking place at Salford Museum and Art Gallery from 19 October 2024 – 23 February 2025. The conference aims to examine practitioners and practices in relation to the exhibitions and collections in the museum.
Papers could include but are not limited to:
- Recontextualisations of Surrealist artworks, with an emphasis on British Surrealist works
- Discussions of how contemporary theories can enliven our understanding of historical or contemporary surrealist works, such as the Feral, Queer and crip theories and critical race theories
- Explorations of how the strategies and techniques are used by surrealist artists employed today?
- Considerations of how surrealist practices are used to examine contemporary issues such as the environment, conflicts, gender politics etc.?
- We are also interested in the three thematic areas used by Alemani to structure the curation of the 59th Venice Biennale Arte (2022):
o The representation of bodies and their metaphases
o The relationship between individuals and technologies
o The connection between bodies and the earth
Please submit your abstract (max 300 words) and biography (no more than 100 words) to [email protected] by Friday 18 October 2024. Conference papers should be no more than 20 minutes in length.
