CALL for Work 2021 "Artist Parent Pandemic: Video and New Genres"

 

      image (c) 2020 Niku Kashef

OPEN CALL: Artist-Parent Pandemic Video and New Genres
Submission Deadline Extended to 12.31.20

It’s been a year since we first heard of COVID. Balancing family, studio time and employment is a precarious endeavor for artist-parents during the best of times. During this year of upheaval and social-distancing, artists have needed to re-imagine parenting, caretaking, family-life, education, and safer-at-home as a site for their time-based, video and new genre works. 

Artists are invited to submit works for curatorial consideration by Myrel Chernick and Niku Kashef for the second iteration of this Artist-Parent Video Biennial and for future screenings.

 

HOW TO SUBMIT:

• One to two pieces per artist. 
• Time Limits: video no longer than 4 minutes – complete works only, no trailers 
• No title cards or end credits - a title card will be created for each piece to include: Artist’s name; Title of piece (if applicable) 
• Upload submission to Vimeo and allow downloading on video settings 
• Title your Vimeo video AND file: LastName_FirstName_TitleOfWork 
• Email the Vimeo link to: timebased.familyart@gmail.com 
• Please use the following for the subject line of your email:
  “Your Name and Title of Submission 2020”
• In the body of the email please include a 50 word bio and include a website or preferred reference URL to your work; your contact phone number; and contact email 
• All submission uploads due December 31, 2020
  
  

The College Art Association (CAA) Conference's artist ArtSpace and MediaLounge programming offer informal and dynamic sessions, panels, screenings, curated media, distinguished artists interviews, exhibition opportunities and other events. This year's online conference will allow programs that are more accessible, free and open to the public. There is requirement for CAA membership or registration fee for the conference in order to participate in this program or to attend/view.

Accepted works for this screening will need be original content by the artist and be released to be screened for the CAA online viewing period. 

 

Exhibition/Screening will be open to the International Public and available for viewing online through the 109th College Art Association Annual Conference to Conference Registrants from February 5th- March31st, 2021.

To forward and post this CALL please link to
https://tinyurl.com/artistparentpandemic

Thank you for your time and submission

Myrel and Niku

 

Mothering in the Academy

After becoming a mother over a decade ago, I was thrilled to find a few titles (Mama, Ph.D., Parenting and Professing, and The Family Track: Keeping Your Faculties while you Mentor, Nurture, Teach, and Serve) addressing the complicated and often difficult relationship that mother-scholars have with higher education. The past year has seen a spurt of new additions to this literature. On my shelf right now, waiting for the end of the semester, I have Mothers in Academia and Professor Mommy. I recently finished Academic Motherhood: How Faculty Manage Work and Family and reviewed some of the salient points for Nursing Clio, here. Clearly, inroads have been made but little has been solved yet and there is much to be discussed.

RAW Symposium 2/22/14 with Jennie Klein

The RAW Symposium: Motherhood and Contemporary Art
http://www.norton.org/RAWSymposium2014

Call for Papers: The Maternal Turn

Total Art Journal: Call for Papers

The Maternal Turn: Contemporary Performance and Maternal Aesthetics

Guest editors Myrel Chernick and Jennie Klein

What does it mean to perform maternity? What is a maternal aesthetic, and how might it be expressed through imagery and actions? For this issue of Total Art, we are seeking submissions on contemporary performances of the maternal. Inspired by Nicholas Bourriaud’s idea of relational aesthetics and Claire Bishop’s notion of the social turn in contemporary art, we are interested in work that engages others through relations that are affective and “maternal,” even when not performed by a mother for her biological child. Topics that are of particular interest to us include the following:

·         Maternity and collaboration

·         Maternity, collectivism and social relations

·         The historical performance of maternity.

·         The performance of maternity and the maternal body

·         The performance of biological and non-biological maternity, including non-normate maternity, adoptive mothers, infertility, and the performance of motherhood

·         The ethical implications of working with children

·         Mothers who collaborate with their children.

·         What it means to be a mother and an artist today

Submissions are due March 15, 2014. Please send submissions to guest.editor@totalartjournal.com

Balancing Act: Art, Family & other Distractions Panel at CAA 2014

This panel discussion is chaired By Niku Kashef and Micol Hebron at the College Art Association National Conference in Chicago on Febuary 14th 2014 from 12:30-2p.

The panel is held in ARTspace and is free and open to the public. If you are in the Chicago area, please join us for a lively discussion and other ARTspace programming. For more information, see all the ARTspace programs and schedule at: http://conference.collegeart.org/2014/schedule/artspace