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April 27, 2006
Visual & Performing Arts in the Fantastic
The brand-new Visual & Performing Arts division of the IAFA is all about the site where the visual meets the verbal, where the dynamic and physical intersect the purely textual.
If that doesn't help, then perhaps it's about seeing and acting science fiction, or maybe even being fantasy.
This category includes such topics as:
Illustrations
Graphic novels
Anime
Music
Dance
Sculpture
Theater
Photography
Body Art
Some write science fiction and fantasy, while others show it and do it. The Visual & Performing Arts Division is where we try to determine exactly what that means.
Stacie Hanes is the head of the Visual & Performing Arts section. Her MA focused on 19th Century British Literature. She has published several chapters and articles about Terry Pratchett's Discworld novels, the most recent in The Sandman Papers from Fantagraphics, due out in May 2006. Her most recent research has been into 19th century sf (or precursors to the genre) as subversive literature.
She publishes book reviews, micro-essays, photographs, and truly random thoughts in EnglishSpace, and can be reached at shanes1 AT kent.edu.
(Stacie and Barb will be selling tickets to the smackdown over the topics of fan art and cosplay, to be held the Tuesday before the conference in the hotel lobby.)
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