Art/Law Features and Related Events
Cary Young Vision and Justice Symposium Modern Art Oxford May 19 2023
A one day symposium, ‘Vision and Justice’ at Modern Art Oxford on May 19th exploring themes in my solo show ‘Appearance’, including relations between images, law and fiction, and between power, gender and the cinematic. The speakers are a mix of legal theorists, women judges and art historians. Speakers include: Prof. Geoffrey Batchen (Uni. of Oxford)…
Parliament of Plants II Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein May 5 – October 22 2023
Parliament of Plants II May 5–October 22, 2023 Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein with Hilti Art Foundation Städtle 32 FL-9490 Vaduz Liechtenstein Hours: Tuesday–Sunday 10am–5pm, Thursday 10am–8pm T +423 235 0300 mail@kunstmuseum.li kunstmuseum.li The exhibition Parliament of Plants II gives a voice to plants. It testifies to a new view of these beings, which are inextricably linked with…
The MayDay Collection – Open Call for a Juried Exhibition Digital Art & NFT Auction to promote Workers’ Rights Worldwide May 1-10 2023
he MayDay Collection – Open Call for a Juried Exhibition Digital Art & NFT Auction to promote Workers’ Rights Worldwide May 1-10, 2023 Submit here! In light of the upcoming International Labor Day, May 1, this Open Call invites international artists, scholars, and activists whose work promotes the rights of workers worldwide to submit proposals for the juried…
CfP: Roan/M Arts Territory Exchange and RAN (Running Artfully Network)The Tabernacle Machynlleth (deadline 30 April) June 4th 2023
Roan/M Call for papers We invite researchers, scholars, activists, practitioners and artists to submit proposals for a symposium to accompany the exhibition Roan/M by Franco-Vietnamese artist Sarah Le Quang Sang (SLQS). Organised by Arts Territory Exchange and RAN (Running Artfully Network). June 4th 2023 The Tabernacle, Heol Penrallt, Machynlleth, Wales. We encourage papers and presentations…
Bodies Care Conflicts and Commitments IDENSITAT / Santa Mònica Barcelona 28 April 2023
IDENSITAT / Santa Mònica BODIES, CARE, CONFLICTS AND COMMITMENTS From the body politic to the socialisation of care in cultural institutions 28/04/2023. Conference and debates Where: Santa Mònica. La Rambla, 7, 08002 Barcelona The conference wants to engage in debate regarding caring and the plurality of ecosystems articulated as social bodies, focusing upon the construction, the reconstruction or…
Sergio Bonilla Pinzón Do your Will, it will be Law FILET Friday 21 April 2023
III. The so-called exemplary Man. Love is the Law, Love under Will. A piece of art sold as a piece of meat. Money and its delirious chase. The fistful of love of king Normal XXIst, the castigations and the harassing looks that stab; will we set them on fire? The ropes on our bulging necks…
Carey Young: Appearance 25 March – 2 July 2023
Carey Young: Appearance 25 March – 2 July 2023 Focusing on the artist’s multi-layered vision of female identity, this major new exhibition by Carey Young builds on her 20 year research into law and offers timely new perspectives on power, gender and justice. The show centres on three major video pieces, plus…
Siarter y Coed / Charter of the Trees ‘Treesense’ Utopias Bach and The LORE School Pontio, Bangor 3 May 2023
What rights do trees want? What rights do they have? What rights could they have? Which trees can we help? What if trees don’t want rights? These are all important questions that we would like to pose to think of ways that we can make use of the law that we already have, to create…
Court for Intergenerational Climate Crimes: Extinction Wars Gwangju Biennale 5 April – 30 July 2023
Framer Framed is delighted to present a new iteration of Radha D’Souza and Jonas Staal’s Court for Intergenerational Climate Crimes, entitled Extinction Wars, at the Netherlands Pavilion of the 14th Gwangju Biennale, between 5 April and 30 July 2023 in Gwangju, South Korea. Court for Intergenerational Climate Crimes: Extinction Wars Presented by Framer Framed as the Netherlands…
performingbordersLIVE: Our Bodies in the Commons Battersea Arts Centre 29th April 2023
After three years of digital-only transnational collaborations, performingbordersLIVE is back! They would like to invite you to a gathering at London’s Battersea Arts Centre for a day of collective thinking on what we can do when we harness our resources, time, bodies, and care, to collectivise them.Starting from a place of lived experience, and picking…
CfP: Changing Fabrics – working with artists in analysing world events EWIS Amsterdam 12-14 July 2023
Call for papers | 10th European Workshops In International Studies | EWIS Amsterdam 12-14 July 2023 Changing Fabrics: working with artists in analyzing world events Workshop conveners: Tasniem Anwar, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, t.anwar2@vu.nl Sofia Stolk, Asser Institute, s.stolk@asser.nl Renske Vos, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, r.n.vos@vu.nl For scholars of international law and politics, there is much to…
CfP: The Cultural Techniques of Law University of Helsinki (17-19 January 2024) Deadline 16 June 2023
Provisional CfP: The Cultural Techniques of Law (17-19 January 2024) Ericsson Bakelite telephone, 1931. Design: Jean Heiberg. University of Helsinki, Finland Convenors: Matilda Arvidsson (Göteborg), Tormod Johansen (Göteborg), and Panu Minkkinen (Helsinki) PROVISIONAL CALL FOR PAPERS In the Anglophone world, German legal historian and critical legal theorist Cornelia Vismann (1961–2010) is best known as an…
Precarious Solidarities: Artists for Democracy (1974–77) 1–2 February 2023
‘Precarious Solidarities: Artists for Democracy (1974–77)’ Dates: 1–2 February 2023 Time: 12:00–15:00 (GMT) Location: Online This Exhibition Histories symposium takes Artists for Democracy as a starting point to explore the entanglements of artistic practices with transnational solidarities shaped by migration and political mobilisation. This gathering will approach these histories through an intersection of multiple overlapping agencies and conditions of…
Performing Borders Rallying the Commons E-Journal Issue 2
The theme of this year’s Performing Borders E-Journal stems from this process of rallying together, of commoning and communing, for the creation of something better and the maintenance of other ways of being. It is a movement away from disembodied discourse towards actions, gestures, and gatherings that (even for a moment) let us consider what…
Legal Sightseeing Institutional Architecture: Winter Reads
Law – Space – Architecture Over the winter months legal sightseeing presents a mini-blog series on international law’s institutional architecture. We explore how institutional architecture is international law in concrete. Buildings, spaces and infrastructures make law physical and visible, felt and imagined, functional, historic and exclusive. Through this series we both reflect on a recent…
Post-Critical Perspectives on Critical Legal Studies Recording Cardozo School of Law 6 November 2022
Please see here the recording for this event that happened on 6 November 2022 at Cardozo Law School New York.
CfP NUART Journal Issue VII TRESPASS Deadline 6 February 2023
NUART JOURNAL CALL FOR PAPERS ISSUE VII: TRESPASS Deadline: February 6 2023 “I was 16 years old when I first trespassed onto some railway tracks and write the initials of the graffiti crew (of which I was the only member) on a wall. Afterwards the most incredible thing happened – absolutely nothing. No dogs chased…
LORE of the LAND: Tales Trials and Environmental Justice Bangor and Cardiff University 28 October & 4 November 2022
Milly Jackdaw and Dr Lucy Finchett-Maddock Professional storyteller Milly Jackdaw and Dr Lucy Finchett-Maddock (Bangor Law School, The LORE School) would like to invite you to gather round for two upcoming ‘around the fire’ storytelling events in Bangor and Cardiff this Autumn, as part of the Festival of Social Sciences. They will tell chosen Welsh tales from history and folklore with the hope…
Call for Interim Committee Members to establish a new Scholarly Association for Legal Humanities / Cultural Legal Studies in the UK 18 November 2022
Legal humanities / cultural legal studies refers to the study of the broad concerns of law and justice through the methods and knowledges of the humanities. It encompasses history, culture, art, literature, philosophy, and related disciplines and interdisciplinary areas that might be captured under the term ‘law and humanities’, ‘law and culture’, ‘cultural legal studies’,…
CfP: Placing Experiment: Losing Gaining and Shifting Ground Bangor University 3 December 2022
Saturday 3rd December 2022 Bangor University Placing Experiment: Losing, Gaining and Shifting Ground Organisers: Prof Zoë Skoulding z.skoulding@bangor.ac.uk and Dr Sarah Pogoda s.pogoda@bangor.ac.uk This one-day interdisciplinary colloquium will explore ways in which experimental process and procedure in art, music, performance and writing, influenced by avant-garde legacies of the twentieth century, may be newly imagined in a local and global…
