Critical Animals 2011 – call for #proposals #TINA #geekgirl
Critical Animals
 Critical Animals, a creative research symposium held as a part of This Is Not Art, is now calling for proposals to participate in the 2011 festival.
DEADLINE – APRIL 1, 2011 Critical Animals is a forum for students, researchers, writers, artists, thinkers and curious individuals who are critically engaged with creative and experimental art practices.
It’s an opportunity to present papers and ongoing research, as well as to challenge creative practices and work collaboratively with others in the field. Critical Animals aims to strengthen the links between practice and theory with a flexible definition of research that encompasses creative, experimental, interrogative and practice-lead approaches.
The symposium is particularly interested in promoting crossdisciplinary and collaborative approaches. In assessing your proposal they’ll be looking at how they can program you and your work to form interesting conjunctions with other artists and thinkers.
This year’s symposium will take place over three days, from Friday 30 September to Sunday 2 October, in Newcastle, NSW. Papers, panels, presentations. Critical Animals are keen to receive proposals from artists and researchers who are investigating or putting into practice specific areas of theory and philosophy. From explorations of form and methodology, to issues impacting on everyday life, they welcome research material and reflections on poetics, politics, aesthetics, practice-lead research, ecological art and ecopoetics, the social implications of art and the overlap between the arts and the sciences.
Experimental and non-traditional presentations are encouraged.
Submit proposals, questions, ideas and concerns to criticalanimals@gmail.com www.criticalanimals.org