*CFP* "STEVE MCQUEEN: 'I WANT THE BURDEN'", 14TH ANNUAL CONTEMPORARY DIRECTORS SYMPOSIUM

Steve McQueen: “I want the burden”

14th Annual Contemporary Directors Symposium

Friday 24 September 2021 (provisional date)

Online

University of Sussex

 

Working across a range of formats, from video art and gallery installations to Hollywood to BBC1 with his recent Small Axe pentalogy, Steve McQueen’s prodigious output has been marked by formal ambition and political urgency, engaging most notably, but not exclusively, with black experience in racialised settings. This symposium interrogates his body of work, its political, aesthetic and institutional dimensions, and the interfaces between them.

Keynote speaker: Dr Clive Nwonka, University of York

Proposed papers are especially welcome on, but not limited to, the following topics:

• Blackness 
• The body and haptic images 
• Class 
• Funding, commissioning, production 
• Intertextuality 
• London 
• Masculinity 
• Memory and memorialisation 
• Music 
• Pain 
• Popular genre/s

 

The deadline for proposals for this event has been extended by a month to May 20, so there's still time to work on something.

Proposals of no more than 250 words should be sent to Thomas Austin (t.r.austin@sussex.ac.uk). Thanks very much.