CfP: KISMIF Conference + Summer School "DIY Cultures, Sustainability, and Artistic Ecosystems"
CfP: KISMIF Conference + Summer School 2022 "DIY Cultures, Sustainability, and Artistic Ecosystems”
13-16 July 2022
Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Porto, Casa da Música, and TM Rivoli, Portugal
SUMMER SCHOOL ‘REBEL WITH A CAUSE’, 12 July 2022
Porto, Portugal + Online
Deadline: 31 March 2022
We are pleased to announce the sixth edition KISMIF International Conference ‘DIY Cultures, Sustainability and Artistic Ecosystems’ (KISMIF 2022) which will take place in Porto, Portugal, between July 13 and 16 2022. The submission of abstracts for this Conference is open to researchers, academics, activists and artists working in all areas of sociology, anthropology, history, cultural economics, cultural studies, geography, philosophy, urban planning, media and cognate disciplines such as design, illustration, popular music, film, visual and performing arts. This initiative follows the great success of the past four KISMIF Conferences (held in 2014, 2015, 2016, 2018 and 2021) and brings together an international community of researchers, artists and activists focusing on alternative music-art scenes and do-it-yourself cultures.
The KISMIF Conference provides a unique forum in which participants can discuss and share information about alternative cultures and DIY practices from around the world. KISMIF focuses on cultural practices often opposed to more conventional, mass-produced and commodified forms of cultural production and mediation and the anti-hegemonic ideologies around aesthetic and lifestyle politics that are typically embedded in DIY culture. KISMIF is the first, and to date only Conference in the world that examines DIY culture theory and practice as an increasingly significant form of cultural practice in a global context. The conference has a multi-/transdisciplinary approach, accepting contributions from academics, artists and activists involved in all aspects of alternative scenes and DIY cultures, and based on various methodologies – quantitative, qualitative and multi-methodological analyses. The aim is to discuss not only music, but also other artistic fields such as cinema and video, graffiti and street art, theatre and performing arts, literature and poetry, radio, programming and editing, graphic design, illustration, cartoons and comics.