[Reader-list] [Announcements] Territories Reimagined: International Perspectives- Call for Papers and Projects

[Mitoo Das]

*TRIP *

*Territories Reimagined: International Perspectives*

Manchester, 19-22 June 2008.

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*Call for Papers and Projects*

 

    * *Psychogeography*
    * *Neogeography*
    * *Deep topography*
    * *Urban interventions*
    * *Locative media*
    * *Collaborative Mapping*

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Between June 19 and 22, 2008, TRIP brings together artists, academics, 
movers, shakers, do-ers and dissenters in a unique event combining an 
interdisciplinary conference with a city-wide series of  actions, 
exhibitions, and screenings. TRIP enables the previously separate worlds 
of theory and practice to interact, initiating new approaches and 
energies, and furthering techniques to take on and alter the physical 
environment.

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Beginning as a reaction to the industrial revolution, the re-imagining 
of the city by romantics, bohemians, and avant-gardists evolved into a 
diverse range of strategies, practices and arguments, from the 
psychogeographic drift or derive to the artistic intervention. By the 
1990s these were being utilised by artists, writers, activists, and 
historians, attempting to negotiate urban and rural space in the 
post-modern world.

 

But practices developed in the twentieth century encounter a different 
world in the twenty first - a more observed and policed world on the one 
hand, a more corporate, globally-connected world on the other. 
Increasingly the body, social, individual and political, is the site of 
contradictory demands - the demands to consume versus the demands of 
control.

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TRIP will be based at Manchester Metropolitan University, on the city's 
main southerly corridor, Oxford Road. But we want events to take place 
throughout Manchester, in as wide a variety of spaces and venues as 
possible. Like many northern cities, Manchester is changing fast.  
Perhaps you want to critique the implications of "regeneration", or 
perhaps you want to stimulate new ways of engaging with an increasingly 
consumerised environment. Maybe you're passionate about the 
possibilities of inventive walking and drifting, or maybe you're a 
performance artist aiming to change the energy of a public space. 
Wherever you're coming from, TRIP wants to hear from you with your ideas.

 

*To submit a paper*, you should send an abstract outlining your subject 
and the key points of your presentation.

*To submit an idea for an intervention, performance or a walk* involving 
members of the public, please outline in one paragraph the aims and 
ideal locations for your project.

*To submit an idea for a gallery-based project*, please outline in one 
paragraph the thinking behind your installation or work..

 

Please try to keep your paragraphs to a maximum of 200 words. And don't 
forget your contact details. Deadline for submissions: *October 1^st 2007*.

 

Submissions should be emailed to:  TRIP at mmu.ac.uk <mailto:TRIP at mmu.ac.uk>

*(*and for further information on festival announcements, walks, talks 
and events, then please access our blog-space, which will be updated 
regularly at :

*http://trip2008.wordpress.com/*

 

The festival proceedings will be fully documented and recorded, and an 
edited volume of essays, art and photography will be published at a 
later date.**

 

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