Horniman Museum Arts Fellowship
Tea’s Times Conference Open Call
Deadline for submission: 19th January 2024
Notification of acceptance: 29 January 2024
Conference dates: 14 and 15 March 2024, Camberwell College of Arts, London
Drawing together the histories of photography and tea, the University of the Arts and the Horniman Museum, London invite proposals for a conference exploring reciprocity and extraction in photography and tea.
Tea is enjoyed across the globe by individuals and communities every day. It inspires cultural customs and national identities. The Horniman Museum’s origins in the profits of the tea trade are being unpacked through a decolonial lens in their new exhibition 茶, चाय, Tea. This conference is conceived in response to this exhibition and draws
parallels between the founding of Horniman's Tea Company (1826) and the first fixed photographic images, including Joseph Nicéphore Niépce's View from the Window at Le Gras (also 1826).
From points of departure in colonial practices and the mass productions of the industrial revolution, tea and photography each map a shifting multiplicity of social and political relationships. As interest in environmental practice in photography increases, tea becomes one among other plant-based developers in contemporary use. This conference then will examine photography and tea as the results of processes of extraction, exchange, reciprocity and materialisms, situating these histories relative to colonial and imperial practices.
Submissions are invited in a breadth of forms from artist performances and practical workshops to panel discussions and papers which can also be delivered recorded or online.
Possible themes in relation to tea and photography include but are not limited to:
Links:
Tea’s Times Exhibition
茶, चाय, Tea Exhibition
Tea Project Horniman Museum
Tea’s Times Conference Open Call
Deadline for submission: 19th January 2024
Notification of acceptance: 29 January 2024
Conference dates: 14 and 15 March 2024, Camberwell College of Arts, London
Drawing together the histories of photography and tea, the University of the Arts and the Horniman Museum, London invite proposals for a conference exploring reciprocity and extraction in photography and tea.
Tea is enjoyed across the globe by individuals and communities every day. It inspires cultural customs and national identities. The Horniman Museum’s origins in the profits of the tea trade are being unpacked through a decolonial lens in their new exhibition 茶, चाय, Tea. This conference is conceived in response to this exhibition and draws
parallels between the founding of Horniman's Tea Company (1826) and the first fixed photographic images, including Joseph Nicéphore Niépce's View from the Window at Le Gras (also 1826).
From points of departure in colonial practices and the mass productions of the industrial revolution, tea and photography each map a shifting multiplicity of social and political relationships. As interest in environmental practice in photography increases, tea becomes one among other plant-based developers in contemporary use. This conference then will examine photography and tea as the results of processes of extraction, exchange, reciprocity and materialisms, situating these histories relative to colonial and imperial practices.
Submissions are invited in a breadth of forms from artist performances and practical workshops to panel discussions and papers which can also be delivered recorded or online.
Possible themes in relation to tea and photography include but are not limited to:
- Intersections between tea and photography as social and technical apparatuses
- National and transnational artistic and food based practice
- The legacy of imperial and colonial practices
- Revisiting history and reconsidering narratives
- Extractive processes in food, economics and the arts
- Capitalism and metaphors of liquidity
- Materiality and the sensorial
- Environmental/ sustainable practice
- The varied temporalities of food and photography
- Reciprocity, ritual and agency in social practice
- Forms of affect in photography and tea sharing.
- The distillation of identity in tea and/or photography.
Submissions in a PDF including: - title for the presentation and 300-word proposal
- Name, Email, Institutional Affiliation (if any) or Individual,
- 150-word Bio and CV
- Website, Instagram.
Please send submissions and any questions to: photographyresearch@arts.ac.uk by the 19th of January 2024
Links:
Tea’s Times Exhibition
茶, चाय, Tea Exhibition
Tea Project Horniman Museum
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