Call for Submissions

[Judith Rudakoff]

Greetings,

Apologies for any duplicate or cross postings. Please disseminate widely.

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS:

Transgendered Canadian performance artist Nina Arsenault has been 
characterized as cyborg, intellectual, and artist. After sixty plastic 
surgeries to feminize and beautify her originally male body, Arsenault 
has become an icon for a new queer generation. Her stage plays, 
electronic presence through videos disseminated online, website, blog, 
social networking presentation sites, her print media writing, and her 
celebrity/nightclub appearances as well as writings about her life and 
work alternately objectify and subjectify her: she is both artist and 
work of art.

Rejecting the binary of real versus fake and dedicated to exploring 
authenticity, Arsenault's work continues to examine the relationship of 
the omnipresent female self within the newly constructed female body, 
while critics, theorists and documentarians continue to engage in an 
examination of the artist as art.

/TRANS(per)FORMING Nina Arsenault: Body of Work, Body of Art/, to be 
published by Intellect Books Ltd, UK in 2012 will be edited by Judith 
Rudakoff. Included will be academic essays, critical response papers, 
popular media articles, Arsenault's writing and colour photographs.

Submissions from the perspective of theatre, video, feminist theory, 
queer theory, gender studies, sexual diversity studies, performance 
studies, cultural studies, media studies, celebrity studies or any 
related areas are invited in the form of academic essays, critical 
response papers or popular media articles on topics which may include 
(but are not limited to):

·         Longing and Belonging: Authenticity versus Realness

·         Queer aesthetics: the art object as beautiful, erotic, satirical, subversive, comic, tragic, blashphemous and grotesque.

·         Superstar reproduction: Nina Arsenault and the manufacturing of celebrity

·         Double vision: The masculine gaze in the art of Nina Arsenault's femininity.

·         Transgressing acceptable trans-narratives: return to normative society or failed tragic queen

·         The artist as art

·         The intersections of vocal training and dramaturgy in the solo theatrical artist

·         Arsenault's self-portraiture in the digital age of self-representation and self-dissemination

·         The democratization of social networking and the sexually discriminated artist: Arsenault's/Facebook/  site as installation.

·         Palatable empathies: Narratives of Nina Arsenault's transformation on television and in the theatre

·         Titillation, ornamentation and the ritualized body: The art of geisha vs. the transsexual gay nightlife hostess

·         Mythology vs pathology: a crossroads for the queer artist?

·         Chasing the Real from inside the labyrinth of postmodern deconstructivism(s)

·         Blasphemous iconography: creating art that complicates the world instead of trying to save it.

·         Heretic transmissions: Nina Arsenault and the politics of the right and the left

  

Please direct all proposals and queries to Judith Rudakoff, Editor atinfoninabook at gmail.com  <mailto:infoninabook at gmail.com>  on or before September 30 2010. Essays, papers and articles selected for publication (subject to final peer review) must be received on or before February 1 2011. For academic essays selected for publication, reading copies of/Silicone Diaries/  or/I Was Barbie/  will be made available for consultation.

  

Proposals of up to 500 words (academic essays) and up to 250 words (critical response papers or popular media articles) should be accompanied by a brief biographical statement (in Microsoft Word .doc/or/  .rtf format) and covering email note should include your name, any affiliation, preferred email contact information.

  

Academic essays should be between 3000-5000 words and critical response papers and popular media articles should be between 500-1500 words.

  

Prospective contributors may consider source material such as but not exclusive to:

·    /The Silicone Diaries/, stage play//

·    /I Was Barbie/, stage play//

·    "Glamour Crack", series of videos produced by Nina Arsenaulthttp://www.youtube.com/user/venusmachina//

·    Video representation of Nina Arsenault on YouTube/  /http://www.youtube.com/user/ninaarsenault//

·    Nina Arsenault's website and blog:  www.ninaarsenault.com  <http://www.ninaarsenault.com/>  //

·    /T Girl/  columns for/Fab/  /Magazine/  (archived electronically at http://www.fabmagazine.com/archive.html)//

·    Publicity Archive (up to December 2009), housed in Clara Thomas Special Collections and Archives, Scott Library,York  University,Toronto,Ontario. (File TPC 220)//

·    Club/party hosting, celebrity appearances as Nina Arsenault//

·    Appearances as fictional characters (Barbie at L'Oreal Fashion Week 2009 inToronto, Jessica Rabbit)//

·    Television appearances inCanada  (including/The Jon Dore Show/  (Comedy Network),/Kink/  (Showcase),/Train 48/  (Global),/Fashion Television/  and/Sex Matters/(CITY) )//


-- 
Judith Rudakoff (Dr.)
Professor
Theatre Department
331 Centre for Film&  Theatre		Tell me and I may forget
York University				Explain to me and I may remember
4700 Keele Street			Involve me and I will understand
Toronto Ontario
Canada M3J 1P3

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Email: rudakoff at yorku.ca		
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