The Arts Society, Newnham College is inviting submissions on the theme of Bodies of Work for an exploratory and transmedial project to be launched in May 2010. Bodies of Work is a student-led initiative funded by the AHRC, and will form the second instalment of Women and the Arts, an interdisciplinary anthology that marked the 80th anniversary of Virginia Woolf’s talk, ‘Women and Fiction’, and its later publication as A Room of One’s Own.
Bodies of Work will consist of a printed journal, accompanied by its electronic sister, an online archive that will hold articles, illustrations and digital media submitted to both parts of Women and the Arts. Bodies of Work will feature work from academics in the arts and sciences, graduate students, arts practitioners and writers in the wider community.
We are seeking essays not exceeding 4000 words, interviews, reviews, photographs, short films, illustrations, sound recordings, animation, poems, short stories and other creative submissions which may consider, amongst other things:
- artistic representations of the body
- the relationship of writers and artists to their bodies
- women at work, the working body
- body image; scarred and reorganised bodies; plastic surgery
- essays on a specific author’s/artist’s corpus
- bodies marked as being Other etc.
- the medical body
- drawing from the body, on the body; tattoos; life-drawing; anatomical sketches
- the gendered body; sex; pornography; women’s magazines
- technological bodies; digital cartesianism; Second Life and online bodies
- re-membering the adolescent body
We look forward to receiving work, from both men and women, on a broad range of
topics, in any media.
For questions and queries, contact the editor, Holly Corfield-Carr, at info.womenandthearts@googlemail.com
Please email submissions to submissions.womenandthearts@googlemail.com
Deadline for submissions: March 31st 2010
