C A L L F O R P A P E R S

In conjunction with its spring exhibition of the work of Charles Simonds, the Institute of Fine Arts at New York University announces a call for papers for a symposium to take place on Saturday, April 2, 2016. Dwellings: Charles Simonds and 1970s New York will use Simonds’s work and its original context in downtown New York as a point of depar-ture for addressing alternate histories and metho-dologies in the study of the art of the recent past. As the 1970s crystallizes into a historical period, certain episodes are privileged while others fail to be written into art history. This symposium will reinstate a key figure as it seeks to offer new narra-tives in the history of art.

Proposals are sought from academics, professio-nals, and students alike. Interdisciplinary papers and those from related fields (i.e. literature, anth-ropology, and history) are very welcome.

Topics may relate broadly to a variety of aspects of Simonds’s work from the 1970s to today, as well as the reception and study of it, and may include:

∙ The work of Charles Simonds and his peers

∙ Historicization and canonization in art history

∙ Exhibition history and art historiography

∙ Socially engaged practice

∙ The legacy of Minimalism and

Post-Minimalism

∙ Representation and narrative

∙ Craft and the artist’s hand

∙ Architecture and urbanism

∙ Anthropology as artist’s material

∙ Feminism and gender

∙ Land art, geology, and topography

∙ Notions of time

∙ Myth and myth-making, religion, and sacred spaces.

Applicants are asked to submit a CV and an abstract of 500 words to s imondssymposium@gmail .com. Submissions are due December 15, 2015.

Dwellings: Charles Simonds and 1970s New York