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Untie the Knot: Redefining Normativity in Love Even though love is an emotion experienced by virtually everybody everywhere, the ways in which we live sexuality and intimacy, as Lauren Berlant argues, “have been profoundly shaped by theories” (Berlant 2012). While psychoanalytic theories have long served as the dominant explanatory models of sexuality, subjectivity and desire, other modes of explanation “have been offered by aesthetics, religion, and the fantasies of mass and popular culture, which are not usually realistic but often claim to have distilled emotional truths about love’s nature and force” (ibid.). There are several aspects in which we wish to approach the topic of love through this conference. We begin with the most obvious connection - the relation between love and sexuality. Here we’re interested in examining the concept of mononormativity and tackle the alternative ways of constructing intimacy and thus challenging common (mis)perceptions of polyamory. This also involves exploring the connection and the difference between sexual and non-sexual ways of loving and further discussing the broad spectrum of asexuality, gray-asexuality and considering numerous manifestations of love as caring labour. We’re also focused on examining the link between love and politics. Following bell hooks, who argued that love is a material power capable of empowering both individuals and collectives, and drawing from Michael Hardt’s conception of love as a generative and collective force, we wish to challenge the modern concept of love - one that is limited to the “the bourgeois couple and the claustrophobic confines of the nuclear family”(Hardt, Negri 2004). We want to move away from the understanding of love as a strictly private affair and consider it as a site for collective “becoming-different” instead. On this note, we’re questioning love as a commodity, considering the salability of love as a product mostly marketed towards heterosexual couples and in that way normalizing heterosexuality and monogamy. In times of the ongoing rise of fascism and right-wing extremism on a global level, we believe that it is necessary to think of the complex ways in which love towards another “can be transferred towards a collective” (Ahmed 2004). We want to understand not only love’s radical and transformative potential, but the different ways in which it can be a source of exclusion, domination and violence. Here we want to stress the importance of the political struggle over the question - who has the right to declare themselves as acting out of love - as posed by Sara Ahmed in The Cultural Politics of Emotion. Finally, we wish to investigate the relationship of love as subject of culture and that of science. Looking at love as a distilled set of symptoms, we want to question cultural and societal agency related to what we understand as being or falling in love, but also terms such as unconditional love widely used in familial settings. We are interested to see how neuroscience, psychiatry, pharmacology, biology and other related fields of research analyze, hypothesize and explain what love is and how it is shaped either by chemical, cultural, biological or societal rules and characteristics. Ultimately, we seek to explore whether this knowledge and technological advances yield forms of misuse and abuse. We invite researchers, academics, artists and others to submit their paper proposals for the conference program. We are interested in presentations that challenge existing theoretical as well as material and embodied practices of love in order to move towards more unrestrained conceptions of love. The deadline for submission of abstracts (up to 500 words) and CV is June 1st 2019 on midnight. Submissions can be sent to the following email address: kontejner@kontejner.org and conference@organvida.com If you have any questions, please contact us via emails kontejner@kontejner.org and conference@organvida.com Organization committee: prof. Jasna Galjer, PhD (Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb) prof. Žarko Paić, PhD (Faculty of Textile Technology, University of Zagreb) prof. Sandra Vitaljić, PhD (Academy of Dramatic Art, University of Zagreb) prof. Leonida Kovač, PhD (Academy of Fine Arts, University of Zagreb) KONTEJNER | bureau of contemporary art praxis ORGAN VIDA — International Photography Association
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Razveži vezu: Redefiniranje normativnosti u ljubavi Iako je ljubav emocija koju doživljavamo više-manje svi na ovoj planeti, načini na koje živimo našu seksualnost i intimnost, kako tvrdi Lauren Berlant, "dubinski su oblikovani teorijama" (Berlant 2012.). Psihoanalitičke teorije dugo su nudile dominantna objašnjenja seksualnosti, subjektivnosti i žudnje, no druga tumačenja mogu se pronaći "u estetici, religiji i fantazijama masovne i popularne kulture, koja uglavnom nisu realistična, ali često tvrde da su baš one pronikle u srž emocionalnih istina o prirodi i snazi ljubavi" (ibid.). Na ovoj konferenciji temi ljubavi želimo pristupiti iz nekoliko različitih perspektiva. Počinjemo od najočitije poveznice – odnosa između ljubavi i seksualnosti. Želimo istražiti koncept mononormativnosti i pozabaviti se alternativnim načinima konstruiranja intimnosti, propitujući na taj način ustaljena viđenja ili stereotipe vezane uz poliamoriju. To također podrazumijeva proučavanje poveznica i razlika između seksualnih i neseksualnih oblika ljubavi te raspravu o širokom spektru aseksualnosti, sive-aseksualnosti i razmatranje brojnih ekspresija ljubavi kao brižnog rada. Fokusirane smo i na istraživanje veze između ljubavi i politike. Slijedeći bell hooks, koja je tvrdila da je ljubav materijalna sila koja može osnažiti i pojedince i kolektive, i pozivajući se na koncept ljubavi kao stvaralačke i kolektivne sile Michaela Hardta, želimo preispitati modernu ideju ljubavi – onu koja se odnosi na "buržujski par i klaustrofobične okvire nuklearne obitelji" (Hardt, Negri 2004.). Želimo se odmaknuti od shvaćanja ljubavi kao nečeg isključivo privatnog te je razmotriti kao prostor kolektivnog "postajanja-drugačijim". Također, propitujemo ljubav kao robu, promišljajući njezinu utrživost kao proizvoda namijenjenog prvenstveno heteroseksualnim parovima, čime se normaliziraju heteroseksualnost i monogamija. U vrijeme rastućeg fašizma i radikalno desnog ekstremizma na globalnoj razini, vjerujemo da je nužno razmišljati o kompleksnim načinima na koje se ljubav prema drugome "može prenijeti na kolektiv" (Ahmed 2004.). Želimo razumjeti ne samo radikalni i transformativni potencijal ljubavi, već i kako se ljubav može zloupotrijebiti kao izvor isključivanja, dominacije i nasilja. Ovdje želimo naglasiti važnost političke borbe oko pitanja – tko ima pravo proglasiti da djeluje iz ljubavi – koje je postavila Sara Ahmed u knjizi Kulturne politike emocija. Konačno, želimo istražiti odnos ljubavi kao predmeta kulture i pitanja znanosti. Promatrajući ljubav kao uzak snop simptoma, želimo propitati kulturni i društveni kapacitet za djelovanje vezan uz ono što nazivamo zaljubljivanjem, ali i termine kao što su bezuvjetna ljubav, koji se najčešće koristi u kontekstu obitelji. Zanima nas kako neuroznanost, psihijatrija, farmakologija, biologija i druge discipline analiziraju, postavljaju hipoteze i tumače što je ljubav i kako je oblikuju kemijska, kulturna, biološka ili društvena pravila i karakteristike. Za kraj, želimo istražiti proizvode li to znanje i tehnološki napredak neke oblike zloupotrebe i nasilja. Pozivamo istraživače, znanstvenice, umjetnice i sve druge da dostave svoje prijedloge za program konferencije. Zanimaju nas izlaganja koja podrivaju postojeće teorijske, kao i materijalne i utjelovljene ljubavne prakse kako bismo se približili/e slobodnijim konceptima ljubavi. Rok za slanje sažetaka (do 500 riječi) i životopisa je 1. lipnja 2019. u ponoć. Prijave se šalju na email adrese: kontejner@kontejner.org i conference@organvida.com Za dodatna pitanja kontaktirajte nas putem emaila kontejner@kontejner.org i conference@organvida.com Organizacijski odbor konferencije: prof. dr. sc. Jasna Galjer, Filozofski fakultet Sveučilišta u Zagrebu prof. dr. sc. Žarko Paić , Tekstilno-tehnološki fakultet Sveučilišta u Zagrebu prof. Sandra Vitaljić, Akademija dramske umjetnosti Sveučilišta u Zagrebu prof. dr. sc. Leonida Kovač, Akademija likovnih umjetnosti Sveučilišta u Zagrebu uz predstavnika organizatora: kustose udruge KONTEJNER | biro suvremene umjetničke prakse i udruge ORGAN VIDA