The 14th Annual International Illustration Research Symposium will explore the role illustration plays in cultural heritage.
22 - 23 November 2024
The symposium will present panels, papers and posters by practitioners and researchers from the fields of illustration and heritage, who explore the active processes of heritage-making.
Hosted by the Illustration programme at Camberwell College of Arts, University of the Arts London. The event will take place at Chelsea College of Arts and include a site visit to the Quentin Blake Centre for Illustration. Tickets will go on sale in April.
Call for papers and posters
The call for papers and poster proposals is now closed.
Paper proposals
To submit a paper proposal, include:
- working paper title
- 300-word written proposal detailing how the paper relates to the symposium themes
- 3 images maximum
- 100-word biography and affiliation
- reference to a symposium theme or prompt listed (personal interpretations of these prompts are welcome).
Poster proposals
To submit a poster proposal, include:
- working poster title
- 150-word written proposal detailing how the visual work relates to the symposium themes and key word poster prompts listed
- 5 images maximum (from your own practice and/or research)
- 100-word biography and affiliation
- reference to 1 key term theme or prompt listed (personal interpretations of these prompts are welcome).
Notes: Posters will be exhibited alongside the symposium. Posters can be fully illustrational. Format specifications and practicalities for poster printing and display will be shared after the submission deadline has passed.
Symposium prompts and provocations for paper and poster proposals
Heritage as process
- Heritage is an ongoing, active process.
- Illustration is a tool that can be used to bridge the gap between objects, people, and places and their stories.
- Illustrative processes can disrupt the process of heritage-making, for example in the archive, collection, or museum.
- People working in heritage often use illustrative processes in curation, collecting, captioning and more.
- Heritage is used to build future worlds.
Participating in heritage
- Illustrators participate in the historical narrative, rather than/as well as spectating or recording it.
- Illustration plays a key role in museology, anthropology, archaeology, and curation.
- Affected communities and individuals participate in the processes of illustration and heritage-making.
- By exploring heritage through illustrative practice, we participate in events that are historically and geographically distant.
A found voice and a made voice
- Illustration gives voice to historical individuals and communities, particularly those who are under-represented.
- Through the processes of heritage-making and illustration, the historical voice can be ‘found’ and/or ‘reconstructed’.
- Illustration as ventriloquism, medium/conduit and/or spokesperson.
Representing and representation
- Illustration can represent prehistoric and historical landscapes or sites.
- Illustration in the context of heritage can construct and represent a collective social memory and a ‘national story’ (Stuart Hall, 1999).
- Heritage-making represents a collective form of knowledge-making.
- Illustration in the context of heritage draws attention to/privileges certain aspects of history, but not others.
List of key subjects, processes and ideas
A non-exhaustive list of key terms that suggest subjects, processes and ideas that we welcome in paper and poster submissions:
- archaeology and museology
- archives, collections and museums
- care
- collectives and communities
- collectivity, plurality and chorality
- conservation
- curating and collecting
- customs and traditions
- dance, song and performance
- dress and costume
- excavation
- folk
- heritage as a process
- heritage futures
- identity
- inheritance and legacy
- interpreting and exhibiting
- memory
- nostalgia
- object narratives and embodiments
- place and situatedness
- preservation
- religion and spirituality
- story-telling and fiction
Contact
If you have further questions get in touch with us at illustrationandheritage@arts.ac.uk
