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Book Submission

Call for submissions deadline 31/01/2018 Apologies for cross-posting. Artists who explore the relationship between the Self and the Other are invited to respond with images and short positional statements for publication. This call is equally suitable for visual and performance artists.

Self and Identity have become major themes of our connected lives. The ease with which we gravitate to like-minded people, the bubble we comfortably find ourselves in means that we only sometime manage to discern the difference between ourselves and other people. The bubble remains intact; wars, elections, referenda rattle our security but for many life continues as before. As artists, we need to reach further than most. We need to approach the Otherness of the outside world with more generosity. To accept the possibility that we cannot answer questions about selfhood without a recognition that the differences between people, experienced as alienation and separation, are unreal : following Paul Ricoeur and his work “Oneself as Another”, we must accept that we have too much Otherness within ourselves.

This call is to reach out to you as an artist with this shared interest and to join with me in a community of shared research. I found this line of research beginning with the cast shadow of the self and through exploring its independent, isolated and wayward behaviour. I have previously made a short monograph “Shadow:Other:myself” (ISBN 978-1977535535, preview https://goo.gl/TC6DqV )

To take this goal of community building further my intention is to make a limited edition, hardback book publication of your contributions. The book will feature 20 (approx. ) artists with images and facing text. In the first instance, two copies will be posted to each published participant. We can then discuss our next steps.

Initially, send (email aldobranti at gmail dot com )

a relevant image and

an account (200 words) to describe your Self’s response to the Other with

a URL for other relevant work.

tell me where you found this call

The artist must confirm that they own copyright in the image and text. On progress the selected image must be available in hi-res (3000 x 3000 pixels) -- the artist will at all times retain control of copyright both of image and text. As editor I can help you with any translation from your own words, the text of the book will be published in English. Deadline 31/01/2018 Keywords : alterity, art, book, intersubjectivity, ipseity , publication

I came across this post on the Zealous platform and being in the middle of writing my dissertation it seemed a very specific and relevant call-out for my work and research. I placed a submission including my most recent painting and a statement about how my work relates to the theme of the Self and the Other.

Isabelle Plowman, born in 1994, lives and works in Essex.

My work aims to explore the complex subject of identity as well as the relationship between the Self and the Other by concealing and revealing aspects of my sitters to present them as something other than how they are viewed in reality. Drawing on influences of psychoanalytic and social theories such as Lacan’s ‘mirror self’, Freud’s ‘ideal self’ and the theory of the other, my ongoing research aims to support the complex issues that surround the subject of identity. Being a volunteer at a local homeless shelter, I am interested in exploring the notion of human connection and how the dynamics change between the interaction between viewer and the subject when presented as an artwork. I find it interesting how the relationship changes towards the depicted subjects when painted as a portrait in the eyes of the viewer. The fact that the people are presented in a beautiful and colourful way is to show a contrast between how they are viewed as a group by society and challenges these opinions when presented in a gallery or street setting.

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