The last avant-garde?: Disability arts and (rethinking) mobility

Taking as its starting point a remark by Turner Prize nominee Yinka Shonibare that disability arts is “the last avant garde”, this panel focuses on the role of aesthetic experimentation in disability arts and the possible rethinking of the relationship between avant-garde aesthetic strategies and inclusive arts. Points of connection between the avant-garde and disability arts include a rejection of traditional aesthetic forms, the development of aesthetic strategies appropriate to non-normative bodies, politics and populations and the implications of these ideas for the conference themes. This panel is intended as a facilitated discussion involving researchers and artists undertaking work in this area. The panel will begin with some brief provocations reflecting on the implication of Shonibare’s comment. For example, Gerard Goggin will discuss three projects by Antoni Abad with artists and activists with disability in Barcelona, Geneva and Montreal as part of Abad’s Megaphone project, a decade-long, global digital art project. Bree Hadley will speak on performative interventions in public space, performance art, live art, activism and culture hacking by artists with disabilities, such as pwd's online performances, and artist’s performative responses to the austerity agenda in the US, UK, and Australasia. Eddie, Lachlan and Sarah will discuss ideas arising from their work on the project Beyond Access: The Creative Case for Inclusive Arts, which involved research with six Melbourne-based artists/artistic companies with disability, supported by Arts Access Victoria. Chair: Dr Eddie Paterson (School of Culture and Communication, Faculty of Arts, University of Melbourne) Dr Bree Hadley (Creative Industries, QUT) Professor Gerard Goggin (Professor of Media and Communication and ARC Future Fellow, University of Sydney) Dr Lachlan MacDowall (Head, Centre for Cultural Partnerships, University of Melbourne). Sarah Austin (PhD candidate, Theatre/Centre for Cultural Partnerships, VCA and MCM) Artists (tbc, based on existing relationships with artists developed in the Beyond Access research).

The link between avant-garde and postmodernism in women, by Philippe Sollers

Eguíluz, Federico; Merino, Raquel; Olsen, Vickie; Pajares, Eterio; Santamaría, José Miguel (eds.)

From Art to Avant Garde? Television, Formalism and the Arts Documentary in 1960's Britain

Sexton, J. (2008). From Art to Avant Garde? Television, Formalism and the Arts Documentary in 1960's Britain. In L. Mulvey and J. Sexton (Eds.), Experimental British Television (pp.89-105). Manchester: Manchester University Press. RAE2008

Women artists of the international avant-garde: the case of "Abstraction-Création" (1931-1936)

Women’s contribution to abstract art in the interwar period is a subject that, to date, has received very little attention. In this article we deal with the untold story of the participation of women artists in Abstraction-Création, the foremost international group dedicated to abstract art in the 1930s. Founded in Paris in 1931, the group took on the work of two previous collectives to become a platform for the dissemination and promotion of abstract art and consisted of around a hundred members. Twelve of these were women, whose writings and works were published in the group’s annual magazine, abstraction creátion art non figuratif (1932-1936), and who participated in a number of the group’s exhibitions. Compared to what had occurred in previous groups, the participation of women, although reduced in number, was comparable to that of the male artists and being members of the group had a generally positive impact on the women’s careers. However, all this came at the expense of relinquishing any gender specificity in their work and the public presentation of it, and demonstrates that the normalization of women’s contributions to the avant-garde could only be brought about alongside a questioning of the more dogmatic views of modernity.

L'avant-garde russe face à la "terreur de l'histoire" : historiosophie et historiographie dans les Doski sub'by de Velimir Xlebnikov et dans l'art analytique de Pavel Filonov

Thèse numérisée par la Division de la gestion de documents et des archives de l'Université de Montréal

La musicalité filmique : de l'avant-garde au cinéma contemporain, transformations temporelles et rythmiques

Mémoire numérisé par la Division de la gestion de documents et des archives de l'Université de Montréal

Les relations entre la scène et le cinéma dans le spectacle d'avant-garde : une étude intermédiale et in situ de Relâche de Picabia, Satie et Clair

Mémoire numérisé par la Division de la gestion de documents et des archives de l'Université de Montréal

« L’Écho des jeunes » : une avant-garde inachevée

La fin du XIXe siècle a connu, au Canada comme en Europe, une floraison de revues littéraires, parmi lesquelles « L'Écho des Jeunes », publié à Montréal, se distingue par son éclectisme et sa modernité. Cette revue est la création d'un groupe de jeunes qui, depuis la petite municipalité de Sainte-Cunégonde, noue des rapports étroits avec une partie de l'avant-garde française contemporaine. Elle s'efforcera pendant quelques années d'imposer un ton nouveau, entre décadence et symbolisme, parmi les jeunes poètes canadiens-français, juste avant la création de l'École littéraire de Montréal, dont beaucoup de ses collaborateurs deviendront membres. « L'écho des Jeunes » réussit à donner une expression convaincante de l'esprit fin-de-siècle répandu dans de petits milieux montréalais très originaux, trop négligés par l'histoire littéraire.

Le burlesque québécois : l'avant-garde version « peuple »

Tout le monde a entendu parler du burlesque, mais cette pratique reste le parent pauvre du champ théâtral. D'abord, parce qu'il a été longtemps discrédité, au Québec comme ailleurs. Mais aussi parce qu'on a peine à le définir et à le distinguer d'autres pratiques nord-américaines de la même époque, tels que les spectacles de variétés, le vaudeville américain et les revues. [...]