[artinfo] Call for papers: The future of the biennial
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Call for papers: The future of the biennial -
experimental places to reinvent political space?
Seismopolite Journal of Art and Politics
www.seismopolite.com
The upcoming issue of Seismopolite Journal of Art
and Politics will discuss the political future of
the contemporary art biennial. How can biennials
become experimental «sites» to rethink the
relationship between art and politics, without
lending themselves too easily to the confines of
the contemporary art market and neoliberal
political geography? While biennials are often
criticized for subjecting themselves to urban/
regional marketing strategies, they are also
defended as valuable places for the formation of
new alliances among art scenes of the
'periphery', that are today steadily changing the
global art map. How does this development affect
the possibility of contemporary art to reflect
and influence local politics?
Contributors from diverse disciplinary
backgrounds are invited to submit essays,
exhibition reviews or interviews that discuss the
future of the biennial through a high variety of
possible angles.
Topics may include (but are not restricted to):
- The capability of biennials to reflect and influence local politics
- The art biennial as a global and regional phenomenon
- Biennials and political activism
- Art biennials as utopian political «sites»
- The biennial as an experimental site for
decolonization strategies and artistic
interventions in geopolitical discourses
- The potential of biennials to contribute to a
rewriting of the history, political geography and
epistemology of places and regions.
- Mobility, relational geography and regionalization in contemporary art
- Biennials as experimental regimes of bodily
orientation and their politics of sensation
- Biennials as reimaginations of
territorialities, and renegotiations of the
concepts of space and place
We accept submissions continuously, but to make
sure you are considered for the upcoming issue,
please send your proposal, CV and samples of
earlier work to
<mailto:submissions at seismopolite.com>submissions at seismopolite.com
within December 20, 2013.
Commissioned works will be translated into
Norwegian and published in a bilingual version.
Contact
<mailto:submissions at seismopolite.com>submissions at seismopolite.com
Paal Andreas Bøe
Phone: +4797788597
www.seismopolite.com
P. A. Bøe/ Seismopolite Journal of Art and Politics
Myra
NO-7533
Norway
Seismopolite Journal of Art and Politics is a
bilingual English and Norwegian quarterly, which
investigates the possibilities of artists and art
scenes worldwide to reflect and influence their
local political situation.
Current issue: <http://www.seismopolite.com/>www.seismopolite.com
Previous issues:
<http://www.seismopolite.com/artandpolitics>www.seismopolite.com/artandpolitics
Contact: <mailto:submissions at seismopolite.com>submissions at seismopolite.com
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