[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.

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