CFP: Skin
- Region: All Regions
- Type: Call for Papers
- Cost: Free
Skin
Call for Papers—Passepartout #46
Edited by Edward Alan Payne, Laura Katrine Skinnebach, and Gry Lind Merrild Hansen
Skin is a contentious cultural artefact. It constitutes the body’s encounter with the world and may be read like a map of our lives and identities. But the different signs inscribed on our skin – its pigments, decorations, holes, scars, and hair (or lack thereof) – embody cultural meanings that through history have led to discrimination and repression, or privilege and power. Skin is a field of cultural debate and calls for further critical study. From a new-materialist perspective, we might trouble the tendency to treat the skin in anthropocentric terms, for does the tree not have skin? And what of the sculpture, the robot, the animal, or the face of the earth – skin surfaces that meet and negotiate with their surroundings? In this theme issue of Passepartout, we will explore the problem of skin and its intersections with art history and visual culture. We seek articles that probe skin as a material, conceptual, metaphorical, bodily, and artistic interface.
Read the full version of the CFP on Passepartout’s website here:
Deadline for abstracts: June 1, 2024. Max. 400 words to edward.payne@cc.au.dk and lks@cc.au.dk. Deadline for articles: November 1, 2024.
In November 2024, we will—depending on financial support—organize a seminar at Aarhus University where contributors will have the opportunity to share ideas and provide feedback on each other’s contributions. The volume will be published in spring 2026.
