arts-based research to explore the rich terrain of dreams, fantasy, and the unconscious mind.
- Radical Storytelling: The use of unconventional narrative techniques to amplify marginalized voices or tell stories that conventional methods fail to capture.
- Art and Activism through Strangeness: How surrealism, absurdism, and avant-garde practices inspire social and political change.
- The Ethics of the Unusual: Ethical considerations in creating and interpreting art that intentionally disturbs or challenges audiences.
- Embodied Oddity: Investigating how the physical body and performance art can convey the peculiar and provoke deeper connections with viewers.
- Temporal Anomalies in Art: Artistic explorations of time, non-linear storytelling, and how the strange distorts our perception of temporal flow.
- Myth, Ritual, and the Peculiar: Revitalizing ancient myths and rituals through the lens of arts-based research to reinterpret their relevance in contemporary contexts.
- The Absurd in Everyday Life: Artistic reflections on absurdity as a response to contemporary existential, societal, or political challenges.
- The Margins of Creativity: Celebrating outsider art, naive art, and other forms of creativity that defy categorization within traditional artistic norms.
- Digital Peculiarities: Examining how technology, virtual reality, and AI contribute to new forms of creative oddity and artistic disruption.
To send in your abstracts, please fill out the proposal form by January 25, 2025 on: https://forms.gle/RucSS6fNX61qb8de7
Kindly note that only proposals submitted through this form will be considered (so please refrain from sending any proposals via email)
For inquiries and further information, please contact conferences@labrc.co.uk
Enquiries: conferences@labrc.co.uk
Web address: https://labrc.co.uk/2024/11/29/strangeness-and-oddity/
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