[oberlist] CA* call: Banff Research in Culture 2015 / Summer Research Residency

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Subject: [CultTheory] Banff Research in Culture 2015 (Deadline Reminder) /
Summer Research Residency / Call for Applicants
From:    "Imre Szeman" <imre at ualberta.ca>
Date:    Fri, October 31, 2014 10:01 pm
To:      "Imre Szeman" <imre at ualberta.ca>
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(Please circulate to anyone who might be interested)


Demos: Life in Common

Banff Research in Culture 2015 – Summer Research Residency

*Program dates:* June 1, 2015 - June 19, 2015

*Application deadline:* December 10, 2014



*Faculty:* Alex Hartley
<http://www.banffcentre.ca/programs/program.aspx?id=1534&facId=4754&p=member>
*, *Nina Power
<http://www.banffcentre.ca/programs/program.aspx?id=1534&facId=4776&p=member>
,* Astra Taylor
<http://www.banffcentre.ca/programs/program.aspx?id=1534&facId=4761&p=member>*



Further info, including application information, can be found at:

http://www.banffcentre.ca/programs/program.aspx?id=1534

(Contact: Brandy Dahrouge: brandy_dahrouge at banffcentre.ca)



The word demos names ‘the people’, and thus democracy is, at its most
basic
constitutive level, the shared power of people thinking and acting.
Democracy is grounded upon the capacity of the people to narrate and decide
the shape of collective life. But the ‘democracy’ we experience and live
with today has devolved into practices of state sovereignty and
governmentality, a society characterized by social and economic inequality,
and an under-represented and disenfranchised electorate. And it seems, too,
that hopes in technology as a mechanism that might yet create a new common
ground have failed to achieve their promised ends.



*Demos: Life in Common* invites participants to consider the ways in which
we constitute and experience collective life in this century. We seek to
bring together artists, writers, researchers, and cultural producers who in
their work explore the ways in which we might reinvigorate democratic life
today—not just ‘democratic’ in its narrow, political sense, but as
life in
common in which being and belonging engenders the full flourishing of
individuals and communities. What new forms might politics take today—a
time that bears little resemblance to those bygone centuries that gave
birth to many of our political structures and imaginings? How is collective
self-determination mobilized and what do recent events demonstrate about
the will of the people and the will of the state? What is the role of new
technologies in enhancing or impeding social equality? Might it yet help to
create new forms of community and belonging? And how might contemporary
cultural, artistic and intellectual activities enliven the belief of the
dêmos in its own capacities and possibilities?



“Demos” also names cultural and social practices that suggest other
ways in
which we might pursue our inquiries during this program. A demo is also an
*essai*—an attempt, a test, an experiment in sound that allows musicians to
record their own creative efforts and to share their ideas with others.
And, demos are what groups engage in when they want to draw attention to
problems and limits that existing structures of government, law or economy
can’t address or even apprehend. Demonstrations are a site at which the
demos tries to upend the ossified language of culture and politics by
upsetting the patterns of the quotidian, taking to the streets and
affirming their collective displeasure *en masse*. Over three weeks,
participants will engage in experiments of thinking, acton, and
making—demos that challenge the self-certainties and pieties of existing
structures and practices, and so help to envision and enable renewed
forms,of democratic life.

We look forward to receiving compelling and original proposals from
thinkers and artists.




*Banff Research in Culture 2015*

Banff Research in Culture (BRiC) is a residency program designed for
scholars and artists engaged in advanced theoretical research on themes and
topics in culture. Graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, junior faculty
(pre-tenure), activists, writers, and practicing artists from around the
world will convene at The Banff Centre for three weeks to contemplate the
theme *Demos: Life in Common*.



BRiC is designed to offer researchers and artists with similar interests
from different disciplinary and professional backgrounds, an opportunity to
exchange opinions and ideas in a fruitful and intensive environment.
Participants are encouraged to develop new research, artistic, editorial,
and authorial projects, both individually and in connection with others.
Participants will attend lectures and seminars offered by visiting faculty.
This program aims to develop new approaches toward the study and analysis of
culture, as well as create lasting networks of scholars and artists who
might use this opportunity as the basis for future collaborative work.



*Demos: Life in Common* is the fifth edition of BRiC following *Distributed
Intimacies* (2014);* Dock(ing); or, New Economies of Exchange* (2013); *The
Retreat: A Position of dOCUMENTA (13)* (2012), and *On the Commons; or,
Believing-Feeling-Acting Together *(2011). The Banff Centre is a
world-renowned facility supporting the creation and performance of new
works of visual and digital art, music, dance, theatre,research and writing.


The 2015 edition of BRiC is generously supported by The Banff Centre, the
University of Alberta, and the Centre for Comparative Literature at the
University of Toronto.
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