Call for Art, Performance, Papers, and Workshops for GenderQueer/GenderEnders Conference

Call for Art, Performance, Papers, and Workshops

GenderQueer/QueerGenders
Conversations between Artists, Activists & Academics

University of California, Santa Barbara
February 11, 12, and 13, 2005

Call for Art, Performance, Papers, and Workshops

GenderQueer/QueerGenders
Conversations between Artists, Activists & Academics

University of California, Santa Barbara
February 11, 12, and 13, 2005

GenderQueer/QueerGenders is a multidiscplinary, multimedia conference
that will take place in Santa Barbara, CA, this coming February. It
will be a forum for people who?ve been thinking about queerness and
gender from different places (institutions, geographic locations,
identities) and through different means (performance, scholarship,
organizing, cultural politics, etc). The conference will bring
together artists, scholars and activists as equal contributors to
conduct workshops, exhibit and perform art, and present academic
research. A priority of this conference is to reflect the diversity
and complexity of gender expressions and the meanings gender has in
different racial and cultural locations. To that end, we particularly
encourage proposals by and for people of color, working-class people,
and people with disabilities.

GenderQueer/QueerGenders will be a forum for discussing the
multiplicity of queer gender identities as they are experienced and
expressed simultaneously with race, region, class, access, ability
and other identities. One catalyst for this project has been our
collective frustration with the lack of certain critical discourses
about intersections of genders and sexualities. Specifically, we are
concerned about the limited discourse on ?emerging? queer genders
including, for example, queer femininities, heterosexual queers, and
the ways that gaps like these overlap with existing silences about
race, class and privilege. We fear that these discourses are
sometimes overshadowed by homogenizing ?conventional? narratives of
genderqueer and transgender communities. We hope to create a space to
theorize a wider range of queer genders more fully representative of
our identities, communities, and political/artistic work.

We are seeking a wide range of participants and therefore are
soliciting contributions from across form and discipline, including:

visual art
video or film
workshops
performance pieces
research presentations
activist and organizational skillshares


Possible points of entry:

genderqueer * disability * race * femme * masculinity * organizing *
science * sex * ?straight? queerness * art, performance and politics
* cyber bodies * genderfuck * misogyny * dance * spoken word *
virtual gender * song * imperialism * paint * photography * kink *
technology * transsexual * BDSM * politics * sculpture * fat *
revolution * attitude * hormones * body modification * desire *
permission * femininity * lo ho * inclusion * healthcare * social
services * law * embodiment * restriction * FTM * access * love *
star fucking * culture * no ho * language * sex work * religion *
government * education * advocacy * youth * allies * class * history
* transgender * transnational * DIY * music * images * representation
* discourse * dialogue * critique * feminism * children * GID *
reproduction * intersex * relationships * size * anti-racism *
community * bodies * food * nationalism * immigration * industry *
privacy* identity * public * MTF * genitalia * zines * privilege *
sexual assault* hate crimes * invisibility * business * patriot act *
civil rights * subvert * age * justice * border patrol * butch * drag
* passing * tranny chaser * diaspora * activism * film * nationality
* polyamory * colonialism * marriage * none of the above


HIGHLIGHTS OF THE CONFERENCE WILL INCLUDE THE FOLLOWING EVENTS
community art project
drag cabaret night
evening of performances
keynote speaker series


HOW TO SUBMIT

Submission deadline is October 15, 2004

To submit a proposal, please send the following to the email or
snailmail listed below:

For research presentations, send a 300 word abstract.

For workshop and skillshare proposals, send a 300 word description of
your workshop or skillshare ideas.

Visual artists should send samples of work and a 300 word description
of their artistic vision.

Performers, filmmakers and other creative artists should contact us
for further information.

If you would like to participate or contribute to the conference in
ways that are not listed here, please contact us with your ideas.


Email address: gq_qg [at] riseup.net

Snailmail address:
GenderQueer/QueerGenders Conference
Interdisciplinary Humanities Center
HSSB, 6th floor
University of California, Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara, CA 93106


GenderQueer/QueerGenders is a graduate student initiated project
based at UCSB, primarily funded by UCSB's Interdisciplinary
Humanities Center

GenderQueer/QueerGenders:
Conversations between Artists, Academics, and Activists