IMC 2015: Sessions
Session 141: Investigating Future Premoderns (TM): Neomedieval Aesthetics in the 21st Century
Monday 6 July 2015, 11.15-12.45
Sponsor: | Confraternity of Neoflagellants |
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Organiser: | Norman James Hogg, Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies in Society & Culture, Concordia University, Montreal |
Moderator/Chair: | Nick Thurston, School of Fine Art, History of Art & Cultural Studies, University of Leeds |
Paper 141-a | Before and after Contemporary Art (Language: English) Index terms: Art History - General, Philosophy |
Paper 141-b | They Came Back Wrong?: Nighthawking in the Middle Kingdom (Language: English) Index terms: Art History - General, Performance Arts - General, Philosophy, Technology |
Paper 141-c | You Have Never Been Modern! (Language: English) Index terms: Art History - General, Folk Studies, Performance Arts - General, Science |
Abstract | Medieval archetypes such as pilgrimage, liturgy, anchoritism, relic-ing, alchemy, banquetry, palimpsesting, mumming, compagnonnage, gifting and commoning are popular practices and themes in contemporary art. Why are so many artists mobilising metahistorical anachronisms to explore their contemporaneity – recalibrating and reactivating a variety of premodern ideas as vehicles of renewal - in ways that are best described as neomedieval? This panel of artist-theorists will speculate on neomedievalism’s aesthetic potentialities, from the elasticated loops and folds it presses on our ideas about history, to the untimely visions of differing non-modern futures it can help us to invoke. |