RN02 | Esa 11th Conference

RN02 – Sociology of the Arts

Coordinator:
Tasos Zembylas zembylas@mdw.ac.at University of Music and Performing Arts, Vienna, Austria

The general theme of the 11th conference of ESA will be “Crisis, Critique and Change”. With these keywords one may associate the questions “What crisis?”, “Whose critique?” and “What changes?”. Art’s position within society and politics has always been complex and ambivalent. Artists may raise a critical voice or offer ideological legitimation for a dominant, hegemonic image of society. They may display a strong commitment or keep a distance from others’ fate. The attitude of the arts towards contemporary issues such as the ecological crisis, the debt crisis, violence against minorities and opponents, economic exploitation, and deprivation of people’s rights has never lost any relevance. Therefore, we would like to create special sessions and invite papers on this topic with the expectation that they may include a broad nexus of sub-issues around the relation and commitment of arts in society.

The ESA-conference has always been open to other themes that are not related to the main theme. This openness to all areas of the sociology of the arts is highly valued since the Research Network aims to bring together researchers and supporting interchange and mutual learning. For this reason, we invite experienced and young scholars from various disciplines sensitive to social inquiries into the arts to submit papers with a different thematic focus, such as:

Sessions

01RN02 Developments in particular domains in artsDevelopments in particular domains in arts, including architecture, urban planning, applied arts, arts within the domain of popular culture (e.g. film, television, and popular music) as well as traditional ‘high’ arts (e.g. music, visual arts, literature, theatre, etc.)

a01RN02

02RN02 The process of production, distribution, promotion and commercialisation of works of art, including artistic practices, the impact of technology, new means of production, forms of collaboration, the formation of art theory, the development of arts markets, the process of valuation, etc.

a02RN02 Visual Arts: Ranking, Branding, Valuation

Chair: Hans Abbing

b02RN02 Artistic Practices and Classification

Chair: Laura Verdi

c02RN02 Perspectives on Arts Markets

Chair: Sari Karttunen

d02RN02 Networks and Structures of Production

Chair:Gerhard Panzer

e02RN02 Literature and its Field

Chair: Nina Zahner

f02RN02 Arts and Scenes in Digital Age

Chair: Marie Buscatto

g02RN02

h02RN02

03RN02 The process of presentation and mediation of arts, including art criticism and publicity in all domains of the arts, museums, theatres, concerts, audience studies, attitudes towards the audience, educational programs, etc.

a03RN02 People’s Activities in Different Fields of Arts

Chair: Ana Gonçalves

b03RN02 Adressing the Audience: Participation and Interactions

Chair: Predrag Cveticanin

c03RN02

d03RN02

04RN02 Professional development, including amateurs and semi-amateurs, vocational education, art schools, professional differentiation, artistic income, artistic reputation, the relation to arts management, etc.

a04RN02 Reflections on Artists

Chair: Dan Ratiu

b04RN02 Art Schools, Vocation and Recongnition/Consecration

Chair: Alain Quemin

c04RN02

05RN02 Arts organisations (not only museums and theatres, but also festivals and artists’ unions) – investigation of historical development, power relations, effects, program selection, processes within the organisations such as gate-keeping, leadership, etc.

a05RN02 Economic Perspectives and Gatekeeping Processes

Chair: Ellen Loots

b05RN02 Theatres

Chair: Victoria Alexander

06RN02 Arts policy (especially the sociological aspects thereof), including legal issues, public and private funding, public discourse and debates (e.g. classification of art, arts and religious symbols, arts and sexuality, arts and racism), censorship, analysis of the impact of arts, sustainability, lobbying associations, cultural ministries or other government bodies.

a06RN02 Cultural Planning, Participation and Funding Issues

Chair: Tasos Zembylas

b06RN02 Cultural Policy and Political Struggles

Chair: Maaria Linko

c06RN02 Cultural Policies and the Public

Victoria Alexander

d06RN02

07RN02 Social and cognitive effects of the arts, including arts and identity formation, arts and bodies, aesthetic experience, arts and ethics, coding and decoding, gender related practices, ethnographic aspects, art for social transformation, arts in communities, and arts as a part of urban culture.

a07RN02 Arts in Public Space and its Social Effects

Chair: Sacha Kagan

b07RN02 Arts and Social Change

Chair: Sacha Kagan

c07RN02 Aesthetic experience and sense-making

Chair: Ian Sutherland

d07RN02 Various Music Genres

Chair: Isabelle Darmon

e07RN02 Arts and Society

Chair: Clara Levy

f07RN02

08RN02 Arts from a macrosociological perspective, including (de-)institutionalisation, economisation, globalisation vs. localism, digitalisation, mediamorphosis, arts and social cohesion, arts and ethics, arts and hegemony and arts and power.

a08RN02

09RN02 Theoretical development in arts sociology such as the production of culture approach, (post-) structuralism, field theory, system theory, praxeology as well as methodological issues.

a09RN02 Design and Fashion

Chair: Arturo Rodríguez Morató

b09RN02 Using Fields Theory

Chair: Dagmar Danko

c09RN02 Theoretical Perspectives

Chair: Andreas Gebesmair

d09RN02 Artistic Critique

Chair: Mara Ratiu

10RN02 (open)

c10RN02

Joint Sessions

02_b02JS07 – Artistic Practices and economic constraints