[ecrea] CFP: Issue 28: Contending with Crisis (InVisible Culture)

We’re circulating the latest CFP for InVisible Culture, titled 
"Contending with Crisis" 
<http://ivc.lib.rochester.edu/call-for-papers-issue-28-contending-with-crisis/> 
(copied and attached in this email). Please forward it to potentially 
interested parties. We are also pleased to announce that IVC 25: 
Security and Visibility <http://ivc.lib.rochester.edu/>, the first 
installment of our Special Double Issue 25 & 26 is now live. Keep 
checking the website over the next few weeks as we publish more content, 
including special contributions from University of Rochester faculty and 
an interview with renowned art historian Douglas Crimp about his memoir 
/Before Pictures/.



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  Call For Papers: Issue 28, Contending with Crisis


For its twenty-eighth issue, /InVisible Culture: An Electronic Journal 
for Visual Culture/ invites scholarly articles and creative works that 
address the complex and multiple meanings of /contending with crisis/.

Defined by the global uncertainty of a world afflicted by varied and 
ambiguously interrelated states of emergency, the present can be seen as 
a critical historical conjuncture characterized by crisis. In the 
context of its worldwide occurrence, crisis refers irreducibly to a 
multitude of circumstances, events, and thematizations: military 
conflict, debt crises, issues of political representation, the mass 
migration and displacement of refugees, increasing ecological 
disruptions. Such ruptures in the social demand constant attention from 
individuals and communities, constituting a need for committed 
artististic and scholarly engagements with questions of what it means to 
be in crisis and how to deal with it.

Following Lauren Berlant’s understanding of crisis as “an emergency in 
the reproduction of life, a transition that has not found its genres for 
moving on,” we encourage authors to contemplate the fluidity/liminality 
of crisis, exploring both its emancipatory and repressive potentials. As 
an ongoing situation, a conceptual and rhetorical figure, an ideological 
representation and for many an urgent fact of life, the contemporary 
condition of crisis evokes a range of responses from those forced to 
contend with it.

For IVC 28, we invite contributors to explore visual representations and 
contestations of various states of crisis. How do crises emerge and 
perform in the visual field? How does the global situation of crisis 
reconfigure the possibilities of political representation? How do the 
material conditions of crisis constrain and transform everyday life and 
social organization? What kind of aesthetic responses and modes of 
cultural production proliferate in response? What forms of domination 
surface in times of crisis and how do they become realized in ensuing 
reorganizations of social orders? What productive potentials emerge or 
re-emerge in the face of specific and far-reaching crisis conditions?

Possible topics of exploration include, but are not limited to:

  * Visualizing/representing crisis, the visual politics of crisis
  * Political representation and subjectivity in/of crisis
  * Uneven distribution of vulnerabilities along lines of race, gender,
    and sexuality
  * Precarity, biopolitics and affective regimes of crisis and austerity
  * Activism, social movements, visual and performative protest repertoires
  * Creative responses to states of crisis, new modes of artistic
    production, aesthetics of resistance
  * Collaborative aesthetics and the commons
  * Material landscapes of crisis, crisis and urban space, austerity
    urbanism
  * Aesthetics of rupture, ruin, abandonment
  * Historiographies, afterlives of crises
  * Crisis genres: crises of dispossession (debt crisis, moral discourse
    of indebtedness), crises of political representation (Arab Spring,
    global rise of neo-populist nationalisms, Brexit, 2016 US election),
    postcolonial crises, military crises (Syria, Ukraine), refugee and
    humanitarian crisis, ecological crises (climate change, Fukushima, 
DAPL)

*Please send completed papers (with references following the guidelines 
from the Chicago Manual of Style) of between 4,000 and 10,000 words to 
(invisible.culture /at/ ur.rochester.edu) by June 30th, 2017. Inquiries should 
be sent to the same address.*

*Creative/Artistic Works*

In addition to written materials, /InVisible Culture/ is accepting works 
in other media (video, photography, drawing, code) that reflect upon the 
theme as it is outlined above. Please submit creative or artistic works 
along with an artist statement of no more than two pages to 
(invisible.culture /at/ ur.rochester.edu). For questions or more details 
concerning  acceptable formats, go to 
http://ivc.lib.rochester.edu/contribute or contact the same address.

*Reviews*

/InVisible Culture/ is also currently seeking submissions for book, 
exhibition, and film reviews (600-1,000 words). To submit a review 
proposal, go to http://ivc.lib.rochester.edu/contribute or contact 
(invisible.culture /at/ ur.rochester.edu).

*Dialogues*

The journal also invites submissions to its Dialogues page, which will 
accommodate more immediate responses to the topic of the current issue. 
For further details, please contact us at 
(invisible.culture /at/ ur.rochester.edu) with the subject heading “Dialogues 
submission.”

* /InVisible Culture: An Electronic Journal for Visual Culture (IVC)/ is 
a student-run interdisciplinary journal published online twice a year in 
an open access format. Through peer reviewed articles, creative works, 
and reviews of books, films, and exhibitions, our issues explore 
changing themes in visual culture. Fostering a global and current dialog 
across fields, IVC investigates the power and limits of vision.




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