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Object Fantasies

Fantaisies d’objets

Objektfantasien

Forms & Fictions

Formes & fictions

Formen & Fiktionen

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Published on Wednesday, July 09, 2014

Abstract

Interdisciplinary Conference of the Junior Research Group “Premodern Objects. An Archaeology of Experience“ (Elite Network of Bavaria / Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich), Munich, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, October 7-9, 2015.

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Argument 

In modern understanding, the word “object” signifies something material, spatially defined and functionally determined. These notions are accentuated by the word objectivity, which defines an ideal, systematic mode of grasping objects as “subjects” that presumably operate neutrally and scientifically. In contrast, the Latin word “fantasia” has, since antiquity, signified an apparition or the ability to imagine something that can equally be an image, a concept or, also, an object.

The conference takes the latter alternative meaning, that is, the non-objective experience of objects as well as recent positions of thing studies as the basis for inquiry into the creative act in the reception and construction of objects. How, for instance, do the object fantasies let the borders between object categories or objects and creatures blur? What role do they – equally nourished by illusion and experience – play in the perception and handling of material objects? To what degree do perceptions of and references to objects have a lasting effect on the conception and creation of other material objects or fictional objects in images and texts? And finally: What correlation exists between the creative handling of the objectual, the self-perception of subjects and the concrete and imaginary conditions of their social lives?

The conference will pursue these as well as other lines of questioning of different formal as well as fictional possibilities in the creation of objects. Welcome are papers from all fields of human sciences on individual objects, object categories and systems, objects in images and texts, objects with images and script as well as object theories.

Conditions and submission guidelines

The travel and accommodation costs of the speakers will be covered. The conference serves as a preparation for an anthology on the same topic. Working languages are English, German, French and Italian. Please send a one page abstract and a short CV by

July 31, 2014

to objektfantasien@kunstgeschichte.uni-muenchen.de.

The proposals will be evaluated by the Junior Research Group; answer will be given at the end of august. 

Members

For more information: http://www.kunstgeschichte.uni-muenchen.de/forschung/forsch_projekte/objekte/index.html

Places

  • Munich, Federal Republic of Germany

Date(s)

  • Thursday, July 31, 2014

Keywords

  • objet, forme, fiction, fantaisie, expérience

Contact(s)

  • Philippe Cordez
    courriel : philippe [dot] cordez [at] louvre [dot] fr

Reference Urls

Information source

  • Philippe Cordez
    courriel : philippe [dot] cordez [at] louvre [dot] fr

License

CC0-1.0 This announcement is licensed under the terms of Creative Commons CC0 1.0 Universal.

To cite this announcement

« Object Fantasies », Call for papers, Calenda, Published on Wednesday, July 09, 2014, https://doi.org/10.58079/qg1

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