We are excited to share with you the updated program for the upcoming 2021 SURREALISMS Virtual Conference, which will begin at 9 am EST on Thursday, November 11 and run nearly around the clock until Sunday, November 14.

We have an exciting line-up of panels, roundtables, gallery tours, discussions, and pre-recorded artistic submissions featuring artists and scholars from all around the world.

A pdf of the conference schedule is attached here:

The most up-to-date information about the conference will be available on the conference site: https://isss2021.exordo.com/

When you visit the site, you will be asked to register. The registration fee structure is graded according to employment/access to resources.

BASIC CONFERENCE INSTRUCTIONS:

1) you can access the conference schedule by clicking on the “AT A GLANCE” tab at the top of the page and selecting the relevant day. Note that Ex Ordo displays times in Eastern Time (which changes on November 7). You can calculate time zones using this world clock/time zone calculator: https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/meeting.html

2) on November 11-14 you can join the conference by clicking on the “LIVE” tab at the top of the page. A prompt will ask you to download the WebEx program (it is a quick download). WebEx is similar to Zoom but more secure.

3) to view the pre-recorded “On Demand” artistic presentations at any point during the conference or up to 2 weeks after, select the “ON DEMAND” tab.

4) to view recordings of live sessions you may have missed, click on the “ON DEMAND” tab the following day for the recording bundle. Recordings will be available during the conference and for two weeks afterward for registered participants only.

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Nous sommes ravis de vous envoyer le programme mis à jour du colloque virtuel SURREALISMES 2021, qui débutera à 9 h EST le jeudi 11 novembre et conclure le dimanche 14 novembre.

Nous avons un programme passionnant de panels, de tables rondes, de visites de galeries, de discussions et de soumissions artistiques préenregistrées mettant en vedette des artistes et des universitaires du monde entier.

Veuillez trouver ci-joint le pdf du programme du colloque, mais les actualités du colloque seront disponibles sur le site :

https://isss2021.exordo.com/

Lors de votre visite sur le site, il vous sera demandé de vous inscrire. La structure des frais d’inscription est graduée selon l’emploi/l’accès aux ressources.

INSTRUCTIONS DE BASE DE LA CONFÉRENCE :

1) Vous pouvez accéder au programme de la conférence en cliquant sur l’onglet “AT A GLANCE ” en haut de la page et en sélectionnant le jour concerné. Notez qu’Ex Ordo affiche les heures en EST (qui changera le 7 novembre). Vous pouvez calculer les fuseaux horaires à l’aide de cette horloge mondiale : https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/meeting.html

2) Du 11 au 14 novembre, vous pouvez rejoindre la conférence en cliquant sur l’onglet “LIVE” en haut de la page. Une invite vous demandera de télécharger le programme WebEx (il s’agit d’un téléchargement rapide). WebEx est similaire à Zoom mais plus sécurisé.

3) Pour visualiser les présentations artistiques préenregistrées « À la demande » à tout moment pendant la conférence ou jusqu’à 2 semaines après, sélectionnez l’onglet « ON DEMAND ».

4) Pour visualiser les enregistrements des sessions en direct que vous avez peut-être manquées, cliquez sur l’onglet « ON DEMAND » le lendemain pour le forfait d’enregistrement. Les enregistrements seront disponibles pendant la conférence et pendant deux semaines par la suite pour les participants inscrits uniquement.

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Nos complace compartir el calendario actualizado de la Conferencia Virtual SURREALISMS 2021, que comienza a las 9 a.m. EST el jueves 11 de noviembre al domingo 14 de noviembre.

Contamos con una fascinante programa de paneles, paneles de discusión, recorridos por galerías, debates y presentaciones artísticas pregrabadas con artistas y académicos de todo el mundo.

Se adjunta un pdf del programa de la conferencia, pero la información más reciente sobre la conferencia estará disponible en el sitio web de la conferencia:

https://isss2021.exordo.com/

Cuando visite el sitio, se le pedirá que se registre. La estructura de las tasas de registro se gradúa de acuerdo con el empleo / acceso a los recursos.

INSTRUCCIONES BÁSICAS DE LA CONFERENCIA:

1) Puede acceder al programa de la conferencia haciendo clic en la pestaña “AT A GLANCE” en la parte superior de la página y seleccionando el día correspondiente. Tenga en cuenta que Ex Ordo muestra las horas en hora del este (que cambia el 7 de noviembre): puede calcular las zonas horarias utilizando esta calculadora de reloj mundial / zona horaria: https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/meeting.html

2) Del 11 al 14 de noviembre, puede unirse a la conferencia haciendo clic en la pestaña “LIVE” en la parte superior de la página. Se le pedirá que descargue el programa WebEx (esta es una descarga rápida). WebEx es similar a Zoom pero más seguro.

3) Para ver las presentaciones de arte pregrabadas “On Demand” en cualquier momento durante la conferencia o hasta 2 semanas después, seleccione la pestaña “ON DEMAND”.

4) Para ver las grabaciones de las sesiones en vivo que quizás se haya perdido, haga clic en la pestaña “ON DEMAND” al día siguiente para obtener el paquete de grabación. Las grabaciones estarán disponibles durante la conferencia y durante dos semanas a partir de entonces solo para los participantes registrados.

The International Society for the Study of Surrealism is delighted to present this Winter Book launch of Magnetic Woman. Karla Huebner will present her work which will be followed by an audience Q&A.

Part art book and part biography, Magnetic Woman examines the life and work of the artist Toyen (Marie Čermínová, 1902–80), a founding member of the Prague surrealist group, and focuses on her construction of gender and eroticism. Toyen’s early life in Prague enabled her to become a force in three avant-garde groups—Devětsil, Prague surrealism, and Paris surrealism—yet, unusually for a female artist of her generation, Toyen presented both her gender and sexuality as ambiguous and often emphasized erotic themes in her work. Despite her importance and ground-breaking work, Toyen has been notoriously difficult to study. Using primary sources gathered from disparate disciplines and studies of the artist’s own work, Magnetic Woman is organized both chronologically and thematically, moving through Toyen’s career with attention to specific historical circumstances and intellectual developments approximately as they entered her life. Karla Huebner offers a re-evaluation of surrealism, the Central European contribution to modernism, and the role of female artists in the avant-garde, along with a complex and nuanced view of women’s roles in and treatment by the surrealist movement.

Karla Huebner is associate professor of art history and affiliate faculty in the Women, Gender, and Sexuality program at Wright State University.

To order your free tickets, see the Eventbrite page here.

You can purchase a copy of the book here.

We look forward to seeing you on Wednesday 27 October 2021, 7.30pm – 8.30pm (GMT).

The online submissions portal for the 2021 ISSS Surrealisms Worldwide Virtual Conference Event – Nuits blanches: Noches en Blanco: Around the Clock, 11-14 November 2021, is now open.

We ask that you please upload your proposals (individual presentations, pre-arranged panels or workshops, and pre-recorded artistic presentations) through the following site:

isss2021.exordo.com

Please submit your proposals here, instead of through the gmail address. (N.b. If you have already submitted a proposal via gmail, we will write to ask that you submit through ex ordo instead).

Please see our updated trilingual Call for Papers here and submit your proposals by 20 August 2021.

We are excited to work with Ex Ordo, as it will afford a far more stable and functioning platform for hosting our Fall 2021 virtual conference. The conference will now feature a) a live, around-the-clock virtual conference stream as well as b) a repository of pre-recorded artistic content, available “asynchronously” to registered conference attendees. This can include films, poetry readings, digital art, and other material, and will be available only to registered conference participants for a limited period.

Information about joining the ISSS can be found here.

We are delighted to share our invitation for our upcoming online event, Surrealism Beyond Borders: Stephanie D’Alessandro and Matthew Gale, curators of Surrealism Beyond Borders, in conversation.

Join Stephanie D’Alessandro, Leonard A. Lauder Curator of Modern Art and Curator in Charge of the Leonard A. Lauder Research Center for Modern Art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and Matthew Gale, Senior Curator at Large at Tate Modern, as they discuss their work toward the upcoming exhibition, Surrealism Beyond Borders, a project that challenges conventional narratives of the revolutionary artistic, literary, and philosophical movement.

We hope as many of you can attend next Wednesday 14 July 2021 at 10am – 11am (EST) // 2pm – 3pm (BST).

You can order free tickets via the Eventbrite page: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/surrealism-beyond-borders-in-conversation-tickets-162133699259

The ISSS is excited to announce that the trilingual Call for Proposals for ISSS Surrealisms is now live at:

https://surrealismstudies.org/virtual-conference-2021/

This virtual event will consist of “interlocking, time-zone specific, local conferences”, bringing the latest in research pertaining to Surrealism. The deadline for proposals is 15 August 2021.

We look forward to hearing from you!

Consider joining the ISSS! More information about membership benefits and what your membership contributes to can be found here:

https://surrealismstudies.org/join/

The Journal of Surrealism and the Americas has published the second number of a General Topics issue. It can be accessed at: jsa.asu.edu

Current issues feature articles and reviews can be accessed free of charge on the JSA website. 

Journal of Surrealism and the Americas 11:2 (2020)

Feature Articles

Agustín Cárdenas: Sculpting the ‘Memory of the Future’

Susan Power

Bataillean Surrealism in Mexico: S.NOB Magazine (1962)

David A.J. Murrieta Flores

Mexican Carnival: Profanations in Luis Buñuel’s Films Nazarín and Simón del desierto

Lars Nowak

Giorgio de Chirico, the First Surrealist in Mexico?

Carlos Segoviano

Review by Danielle Johnson 

All past JSA issues (2007-2020) are archived and available free of charge to readers via ASU Library KEEP: https://keep.lib.asu.edu/collections/126577

Call for Proposals

The global pandemic has interrupted academic events and activities all over the world, including the 2020 ISSS Paris Conference, which has been rescheduled for autumn 2022. As we await our next in-person gathering in Paris, the ISSS Board has recently scheduled a virtual conference for November2021. In addition, the ISSS is also coordinating a series of virtual events this Winter and Spring.

Over the last year, we have all shared the experience of physical distance, though this has not diminished intellectual bonds, exchanges, and conversations. The ISSS remains committed to promoting research and fostering intellectual communities around surrealism and its many legacies, despite the challenges presented by COVID-19. Virtual events present the opportunity to bring together interlocutors from different geographical locations, invigorate participation, and spur new collaborations and connections across the globe.

We would thus like to seize the opportunity afforded by remote communication and issue this Call for Proposals for a curated series of virtual events sponsored and promoted by the ISSS for active members over the course of the winter and spring 2021. These events are not a replacement for the ISSS annual conferences in 2021 (virtual) and 2022 (Paris), but are meant instead to maintain and enrich our ongoing collective work on surrealism.

We solicit formats that suit the virtual medium, as well as encourage collaboration and the creation of research networks. Events can take place between early February and late June of 2021.

Events may include, but are not limited to:

–           Roundtable discussions

–           Discussion of pre-circulated papers

–           Reading groups

–           Panels with short presentations (5-10 min. each)

–           Series of workshops on new collaborative projects

–           Media-based creative work

The events may be live on Zoom, pre-recorded, or a combination of both.

Please send a complete proposal to surrealismstudies@gmail.com as soon as possible, although we will continue to accept proposals on a rolling basis. Please make sure to include the following:

–           Title of your proposed virtual event. Please make sure to designate it as a “Winter/Spring 2021 Virtual Event”

–           Names, emails, and affiliation of leaders and/or known participants (note that all participants/audience members must be active ISSS members; if your event is selected by ISSS, we can circulate your CFP to members if that is desirable)

–           Short description and rationale of the event (300 words)

–           Date and time of the proposed event (please provide two alternate dates and times; also include time zone)

–           Language or languages of proposed event

–           Format of the virtual event, including proposed size and composition of audience; pre-recorded or live on Zoom (note that if recording the event, all participants will need to sign permissions waivers in advance—this will be the organizer’s responsibility; ISSS will provide the blank permission waiver; also, please indicate whether your event might host a larger audience of ISSS member-listeners as well as active participants, and what the desirable limit of such a group size might be for your event)

–           Technological specifications and plans

Proposals will be peer-reviewed by the ISSS Programming Committee. ISSS will actively disseminate publicity for selected events to the organization’s members and international network through the ISSS website and social media. We also will host a public YouTube page for recorded events with signed permission waivers, although this is wholly optional. ISSS cannot contribute to organizational costs, technological needs and support, honoraria, and other associated expenses. Virtual event leaders will be expected to organize, manage and run all aspects of their event; leaders must supply their own access to Zoom and any necessary digital tools and components.

For more information, please contact surrealismstudies@gmail.com.

ISSS Programming Committee:

Jonathan P. Eburne

Elliott H. King

Effie Rentzou

Abigail Susik