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CALL FOR PRESENTATIONS
Proposals for presentations are invited for the 2nd Contemporary Pacific Arts Festival (CPAF) beingheld at the Footscray Community Arts Centre in Melbourne, Australia from 21-22 March 2014. TheCPAF symposium brings together creative practitioners, community elders, students, academics andarts industry professionals whose work engages with the contemporary Pacific in a one-daysymposium on the banks of the Maribyrnong river. We welcome proposals from a variety of disciplinesand perspectives that will contribute to the symposium discourse.
Themes:Proposals are invited that address issues of contemporary art and culture of the Pacific through one ofthe following categories:
Theme 1: Contemporary performing arts practices.Theme 2: Pacific ways of knowing in contemporary contexts.Theme 3: Contemporary Pacific visual art, film and animation.Theme 4: Community arts and engagement.
Possible topics could include (but are not limited to):
• Activating Pacific collections in Australian museums and galleries;
• Community arts and self-determination;
• Contemporary Pacific adornment, fashion and design;
• Contemporary Pacific dance, music and performance;• Contemporary Pacific tattoo;
• Curating Contemporary Pacific art;
• Intellectual property and traditional knowledge in the Pacific;
• Pacific art and activism;
• Pacific art education in Australian institutions;
• Pacific art and entrepreneurialism.
• Pacific oral traditions and contemporary spoken word;
• Representations of contemporary Pacific gender identities in art and literature.
Presentations:Presentations may take the form of summaries or overviews of their work, and artists are invited tospeak to examples of their practice. P resentations should be l imited to 5 minutes and will begrouped according to topic or perspective into themed sessions. Time will be provided after all of the
presentations for Q&A and group discussion.
Authors are welcome to include visual supports to assist delivery of their oral presentation. Please notethat we cannot provide photocopying facilities at the symposium, but we will provide a data projectorwith audio capacity in the presentation theatre.
Submission deadline:
Abstracts (recommended length 150-200 words) must be received by Wednesday 12 February 2014.Notification of acceptance by Friday 21 February 2014. Email proposals to:[email protected]
Registration:Registration: $20 – waged/ $10 unwaged/conc.
Contact:
For more information about submitting your proposal andregistering for the symposium, please contact TorikaBolatagici.
Email: [email protected]
