Streetnotes Winter 2006

Xcp Website is collecting STREETNOTES for its WINTER 2006 Exhibition.

Heterotopia: Festival & Disaster

Streets and public places are not always stable environments. Signals, codes, mores and customs change. Space is socially constructed. At times, extraordinary change brings cataclysmic disruption. Normalcy can be suspended and the apparent meanings of social spaces can be altered. In times of festival and other effervescent assemblies, the normative patterns of the streets can also dramatically change. New rules and new roles may appear. However, because the street is a dynamic social place, its normative patterns, and the concept of normalcy itself are always in contention and social mediated. This issue of Streetnotes looks at how disruptions and interventions can both disintegrate and renew social conceptions of public place. We are interested in accounts of slow and procedural disasters as well as the instant. We are concerned with momentary revelries and micro-social fissures in the status quo as well as the wider carnivalesque. In the Winter 2006 issue, we seek documentary, poetic, and ethnographic accounts of the “street” as heterotopia, a concept Michel Foucault described as a place "capable of juxtaposing in a real place several spaces, several sites that are incompatible." ("Of Other Spaces" Diacritics v16 n1)


About Xcp: Streetnotes:
Xcp: Streetnotes is a biannual online exhibition of the socially descriptive arts. We accept essays, experimental documentary, photography and poetry. We are especially interested in ethnographic and geographic description, interviews, and other products of field work conducted in and about the street or public places. Exhibitions of Streetnotes have been published on the internet biannually since 1998. Past exhibits have been saved and are accessible.

Guidelines:
Please send text documents as rich text format documents (*.rtf), MS Word (*.doc) or as ascii files (*.txt).
Images should be sent as jpeg file (*.jpg) set to 72 dpi and sized no larger than 800 x 600 pxls. html files are also ok, but please do not include animation, javascripts, or other programming. We are unable to publish video or sound at this time. Please visit our site to see past contributions: http://www.xcp.bfn.org or write the editor with questions, David Michalski: michalski@ucdavis.edu

Deadline: November 15, 2005.
Estimate publication date : January 1, 2006.

Please send electronic materials to:
David Michalski, michalski@ucdavis.edu
Please also place “Xcp” is the subject line.

Diskettes (PC) and Hardcopies can be sent to:

David Michalski
Humanities and Social Sciences Dept.
288 Shields Library, 100 NW Quad
University of California,
Davis, CA 95616
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