Aiming to review, reassess and refine accounts of resistance, political and psychic, as they pertain to an understanding of oppressive or repressive normative, dominant or hegemonic forms or formations of power in and across polities and social life, as well as in and across visual culture, we particularly wish to invite contributions which seek to identify relations between resistance and reinvention: resistance to norms of visual culture – of effects or senses of meaning, style, technique, genre, site, space, media, spectatorship, narrative, interacting or producing – that enable, solicit, provoke or otherwise entrain reinvention, in and beyond visual culture. Resistance involves different agents and senses of agency: groups or individuals; but also psychic agencies drawn into different relations by novel or complex visual, hybrid or multi-media work. Contributions may thus seek to analyze and assess work, objects, uses of media or genre that invoke or provoke socio-political resistance. Retracing resistance to resistance may be part of this in so far as political resistance needs to aim at what preoccupies its field/s of concern, releasing new ways of acting, thinking, feeling or imagining. Visual cultural objects may also be said to resist: sustaining and promoting the meanings of particular causes, sometimes in complicity with the worst, they may also be understood to generate excessive or subversive senses. Apparent conformity to traditions may harbour the germ of their reinvention. Indeed, traditions and senses of identity may be imagined to necessitate their more or less narrow resistance and reiterating reinvention. Far from being exclusively the activities of minorities, resistance and reinvention may be understood to involve all of us implicated in visual culture today, with enquiries into their operative relations of wide-ranging significance.
Posted on: Thu, 27 Jun 2013 19:23:55 +0000
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