Event Details

End: October 25, 2014
Contact: baksunarts@aol.com
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Call for Essays

THE MAP IS NOT THE TERRITORY

PARALLEL PATHS-PALESTINIANS, NATIVE AMERICANS, IRISH 

 

Seeking essays for a scholarly catalogue describing a unique art exhibition that explores the relationships and commonalties in Palestinian, Native American, and Irish experiences of invasion, occupation, and colonization – not as novelty or polemic, but as history and current events. Although many peoples worldwide have suffered long and often brutal intrusions, Palestinians, Native Americans, and the Irish have intersected for centuries in specific and often unusual ways. The exhibition examines some of these intersections and asks how contemporary artists examine and process them through their own lives and visions. 

 

Essays are requested from Irish  and Native American points of view that consider these relationships in the context of topics such as land, diaspora, conflict, resistance, walls, identity, culture, and persistence. By Native American, we mean indigenous peoples of North and South America. By Irish, we include the diaspora.

 

'Deadline for 500-word abstracts with a 300-word bio is October 25, 2014. 

 

If accepted, completed 2500-word essays will be due January 5, 2015. 

 

 

Contact Jennifer Heath, baksunarts@aol.com.