innovateheritage.com open-call

http://innovateheritage.com/participation/open-call/

Open Call for working professionals, scholars and artists dealing with intersecting or overlapping aspects of Arts and Heritage.

Deadline for Applications: January 31, 2014

Through lectures, panel discussions, exhibitions, performances, screenings and workshops, Innovate Heritage provides a platform to explore relationships and foster dialogue, promote creative approaches to theoretical and practical issues, and to enhance collaboration between the arts and heritage.
Based out of the World Heritage Studies program at the Brandenburgische Technische Universität (BTU) Cottbus, Germany, the function of this conference is to jump from a foundational knowledge base of UNESCO World Heritage into an expanded, tactile, and exploratory perspective, looking at the subtexts of heritage in collaboration with the arts.
While the arts and heritage are both connected within the cultural sector, a strong trans/interdisciplinary approach is needed in order to further examine the shared values and elements of each in imagination, innovation, and processes of constructing cultural identity.

Topics include but are not restricted to:

• Connections between arts and heritage in constructing cultural identity
• Folk arts as cultural heritage in relation to contemporary arts/design (living intangible heritage and community intellectual property rights)
• Topographies of heritage (literature, poetry, music and other creative interpretive landscapes)
• Contemporary reinterpretations of cultural and natural heritage in arts
• The power of performance and arts in addressing and healing uncomfortable/colonial heritage
• Power, aesthetic and interpretation (what art or heritage is considered valuable, and by whom?)
• Contemporary art & sustainable development
• Creative industries, arts & heritage