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Elsewhere residencies invite creatives of all kinds to experiment with context, process, and collaboration within a three-story former thrift store turned living museum. Residents endlessly compose and re-imagine Elsewhere’s environment—the first floor thrift store (two storefronts), second floor boarding house, and third floor warehouse—through creative and critical projects that respond to layers of objects, artworks, collections, architectures, histories, sites, concepts and collectivities. Residents use the immense at-hand resources from the 58-year inventory as both material and inspiration for site-specific investigations that transform and build upon past projects and/or chart new trajectories for the collaborative. Residents enter into an evolving collaborative artwork, inhabit production spaces, and establish living sites throughout the museum, discovering the aesthetic, performative, and social qualities of everyday objects and the intervention of things within an extraordinary, immersive experiment in living, working, and playing.

ImageTexT Special Issue: The Hernandez Brothers

Guest Editors, Christopher Gonzalez and Derek Parker Royal

For nearly thirty years the Hernandez brothers (Gilbert, Jaime, and Mario) have created comics that have expanded beyond superhero and sci-fi, bringing so-called “alternative” comics to the fore. Their fictive worlds are as sprawling and complex as Faulkner’s Yoknapatawpha County, and more scholars are beginning to take a closer look at their comics, specifically Love and Rockets. In keeping with this interest, ImageTexT will devote a special issue to the works of the Hernandez Brothers. This volume will seek to explore a multitude of theoretical perspectives that may further illuminate the brothers’ oeuvre. Possible topics may include, but are not limited to:

· Their influence on other graphic novelists, alternative comics, or mainstream comics

· Representations of the Latino/a subject

· Depictions of violence and trauma in their work

· Issues of gender, the body, and the sexual subject

· The act of consuming (eating, addiction, pornography, etc.)

· The significance of the telenovela as a metaphor for reading their comics and as a possible stylistic influence

· Any aspect of the non-Love and Rockets stories, e.g., their work with larger publishers such as DC and Dark Horse

· Their uses, or deconstruction, of Magical Realism

· The growth or evolution of prominent characters (Luba, Fritzi, Hopey, Maggie, etc.)

· Their possible influences on text-only authors such as Junot Díaz

· Comics and the political subject

· Narrative theory, narration, and narrative techniques of the Hernandez Brothers

· The Hernandez Brothers’ place and/or legacy (either as individuals or collectively) in the comics medium

All essay submissions should not exceed 10,000 words, including notes. Contributors should format submissions based on the MLA Style Manual, 3rd edition, and use endnotes. Authors will be responsible for securing copyright permission for all images used. Address all inquiries, and submit all completed manuscripts, to the guest editors at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it . Please include the words “Hernandez Special Issue” in the subject heading.

Deadline for final manuscript submission is April 2, 2010.

ImageTexT is a peer-reviewed, open access journal dedicated to the interdisciplinary study of comics and related media published by the English Department at the University of Florida with support from the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. For more information on http://www.english.ufl.edu/imagetext/" rel="nofollow">ImageTexT

November 16, 2009
4:00-6:00PM
MATX Studios & Gallery, 109 N. Harrison Street, Richmond, Virginia

Featuring work by:

Nathan Altice
Basar Buyukkusoglu
Amy Colombo
Jennie Fleming
Norberto Gomez
Leejin Kim
Jennifer Smith
Sean Stewart
Melinda White

Selected by Rhys Himsworth, artist in residence, Painting and Printmaking

To celebrate the opening of the Media Art and Text (MATX) Gallery the program hosts an exhibition to introduce viewers to the breadth and variety of work being made within it. This will be the first of many exhibitions in the new MATX gallery that aim to debate the practical, intellectual, and theoretical challenges posed by today’s multimedia environment.

(from CAA)

Posted by: Yale Center for British Art
Deadline: 11/30/09

Architecture and Performance Graduate Student Symposium
Saturday, February 27, 2010
Yale Center for British Art
New Haven, Connecticut

This symposium explores the historical and theoretical relationships between architecture and performance across a range of disciplines, geographic locations, and periods.

We invite proposals for 25-minute papers on this theme from graduate students across the arts and sciences.
Special consideration will be given to papers examining the topic in relation to British art and culture. Cross-disciplinary and comparative studies are particularly welcome.

Please submit abstracts of no more than 300 words by
November 30, 2009. E-mail to This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it ,
or mail to:
Imogen Hart, Research Department
Yale Center for British Art
1080 Chapel Street
P.O. Box 208280
New Haven, CT 06520-8280

Travel funds for speakers are available upon application.

Tarragona, Spain - July 8-22, 2010

The international Summer School, “Decolonizing Knowledge and Power,” is an undertaking that aims at enlarging the scope of the conversation (analysis and investigation) of the hidden agenda of modernity (that is, coloniality) in the sphere of knowledge and higher education. This course is offered through the Center of Study and Investigation for Global Dialogues, in Tarragona, Spain, in collaboration with the Ethnic Studies Program at the University of California, Berkeley.

This year's faculty members include:

Chela Sandoval, Salman Sayyid, Nelson Maldonado-Torres,
James Cohen, Ramón Grosfoguel, Oscar Guardiola-Rivera,
Kwame Nimako, Tiffany Ruby Patterson and Daphne V. Taylor-García.

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