[MGSA-L] CFP Regarding Nicolas Calas

[Roland Moore]

Regarding Nicolas Calas An International SymposiumAthens School of Fine Arts, National and KapodistrianUniversity of Athens21-22 October 2016 Poet, critic, curator, and theoretician Nicolas Calas’s workspanned the formation of modernism in Greece, the theoretical and politicalorientation of French Surrealism in the late 1930s, Surrealism’s Americaninterlude in the 1940s, and the directions of postwar art in the US. Thissymposium seeks to open Calas’s theories and practice to a broader public and invitesproposals from scholars and creative artists to reflect upon the contexts ofhis theoretical, critical, poetic output, as well as his curatorial practiceand involvement within the art world. Addressing this important yet for a timeneglected or mythologised figure of the transcontinental avant-garde, thissymposium aims to reappraise Calas and present new work on under-researchedangles and hitherto unexplored connections with artists, critics, and scholarsof his own time. The intention is to explore the important interfaces ofCalas’s writings on art, theory, his poetry and politics, and engage with himas a ‘nomadic sage’ moving across and within different cultures and criticalidioms.  Parallel events will also comprise a series of workshops and anexhibition that will be hosted at the Athens School of Fine Arts. The workshopswill be organised under three thematic clusters, poetics, politics, paradox, and will invitepracticing artists who work in different media to respond to the diversecontexts of Calas’s work and engage with The Elena and Nicolas Calas archivethat is held in The Nordic Library in Athens. The symposium will coincide withthe opening of the exhibition that will present work produced in the workshops. Plenary speaker: Mary Ann Caws, Distinguished Professor ofComparative Literature, English and French, The Graduate School of the CityUniversity of New YorkPlease send proposals(250 words) for 20-minute papers together with a short bio note to regardingcalas at gmail.com byApril 30, 2016.  Possible lines ofenquiry ‘regarding Nicolas Calas’ may include: •                Politics, poetry andpsychoanalysis and their influence on Calas’s thought and practice•                Surrealistaffinities and Calas’s eclecticism and unique voiceThe American art scene during theCold War•                The contextsof Abstract Expressionism, Calas’s participation at The Club, his exchange withBarnett Newman and other up-and-coming artists of the European and American artscenes such as Jasper Johns, Marcel Broodthaers, Chryssa, Takis, George Brecht,Fluxus, John Cage et al.•                Calas’swritings for art magazines such as View,Tiger’s Eye, Artforum, Art Magazine etal.Calas in the Village Voice•                Calas aseducator•                Theinfluence of anthropology and his collaborations with Margaret Mead and RuthBenedict•                Calas'srelation to Breton•                Calas’srelation to Bataille and the Collège de sociologie•                Calas ascollector, curator and art director of various galleries, including his closerelationship with Peggy Guggenheim, Marian Goodman, Lawrence Alloway,  andother gallerists, curators and collectors•                Hisunfinished magnus opus on Hieronymus Bosch•                Calas acrossand against the grain: affiliations and genealogies from St Paul to the Beats•                Calas andthe baroque Regarding Nicolas Calas is organised by Mata Dimakopoulou, (National andKapodistrian University of Athens), Vassiliki Kolocotroni, (Universityof Glasgow), Irini Marinaki, (Art Historian, Phd in Art History, ΤheLondon Consortium, University of London), Tereza Papamichali, (Phdcandidate in Fine Art, Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw), KonstantinosStefanis, (Art Historian, Finopoulos Collection, Benaki Museum, Phd in ArtHistory, Τhe London Consortium, University of London), Vassilis Vlastaras (Athens School of Fine Arts)


  
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