Jo-Anne Duggan Essay Prize – Call For Papers

Jo-Anne Duggan (1962-2011) was a great artist and a great friend of the ACIS. Her artistic practice left what is arguably the richest and most compelling recent collection of photographs by an Australian artist to engage with Italian culture, history and art. Her work demonstrates not only artistic rigour and depth but also remarkable breadth, spanning from public spaces/places of Italian diaspora in Australia to enquiries into the re-contextualisation and museification of Renaissance art, from Australian archives of Italian migration to complex case studies on the legacy of the Gonzagas. In her research-led and interdisciplinary endeavour, Jo-Anne asked crucial questions and opened up original paths with regard to the construction of space/place, our relationship with the past and its reception, and the role of photographic art in mobilising and questioning the viewer’s gaze, starting from what she called her ‘postcolonial eye’.

To honour her memory, ACIS http://acis.org.au/prize, with the generous support of Kevin Bayley, The Colour Factory http://www.colourfactory.com.au/gallery/artists-in-our-stockroom/jo-anne-duggan and the editorial committee of Portal: Journal of Multidisciplinary International Studies http://epress.lib.uts.edu.au/journals/index.php/portal, has established a biennial Jo-Anne Duggan Essay Prize to be awarded for the first time in 2015. The aim of the Prize is to foster and expand Jo-Anne’s rich creative, artistic and scholarly legacy in order to maintain enquiry into the nexus between creative practice and research, especially among younger/emerging scholars. The Prize is designed to keep Jo-Anne’s questions alive in order to continue to learn from her own answers.

The due date is 1 March, 2015 and prizes include:

  • $1000 for the winning essay; $250 for two highly-commended essays
  • Winning entry will be offered publication in the prestigious journal: Portal: Journal of Multidisciplinary International Studies
  • Winning and highly-commended entrants will be invited to present their submissions at the Australasian Centre for Italian Studies (ACIS) biennial conference, The University of Sydney, 1-4 July, 2015.

Full details on eligibility and submissions can be found at http://acisnet.files.wordpress.com/2014/06/guidelines-jo-anne-duggan-prize1.pdf.