Conference on tattoos

Call for Papers

Conference

"The Skin as Matrix"
10 Chester Row
London SW1W 9JH
1 April 2017

Squarely sited at the intersection of art and life, engraving on
human skin "tattoos" has recently emerged as an engrossing object of
investigation (see "Paper like Skin", Print Quarterly, March 2014,
pp. 83-84 and skin as matrix, Print Quarterly, March 2012, p. 84,
fig. 76).  Following in the footsteps of museums interpreting the
material through exhibitions such as "Engraving Prestige: Hand
Tattoo of Paiwan", Print Quarterly intends to fully engage, hosting
a conference in 2017 that aims to act as a crucial interpolation in
the ongoing dialogue between tattoos and aesthetic studies,
envisaged here in an historical and transcultural perspective from
the earliest known human artistic manifestations to the present day.

Outstanding papers will be considered for publication in the
Journal.  We would welcome any kind of contextualized approach that
permeates frontiers and proposes to analyse the various practices
through which this art form is constructed and contested and look
forward to exploring the dynamic nature of this discursive field.

Proposed themes for consideration:

    The Significance of the Tattoo from Prehistory to Angelina Jolie

    European Tattoos: Sources and Meaning

    Wim Delvoye's Pigs: 1997 to today

    A Wrinkle in Time: Issues of Conservation in Tattoo-engravings

    The Well-Tanned Matrix

    Pushing the Boundaries: Expanding Waistlines and the Tattoo

    The Posthumous States

Please submit abstracts and images (no originals please) to
editor<-at->printquarterly<.>co<.>uk by 31 June 2016.


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