[ecrea] CFP: MIRAJ Special Issue 7:2 Transnationalism and South Asian Artists’ Moving Image

*Gabriele Grigorjeva*
Public Programme & Research Assistant | Graduate School
Editorial Assistant | Moving Image Review & Art Journal (Wednesdays)


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University of the Arts London**

Camberwell, Chelsea and Wimbledon Graduate School
16 John Islip Street | London | SW1P 4JU

United Kingdom


(g.grigorjevaite /at/ arts.ac.uk) <mailto:(g.grigorjevaite /at/ arts.ac.uk)>


*please note that I work part-time



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*Moving Image Review & Art Journal*

*I**ssue 7:2*

*/Transnationalism and South Asian Artists’ Moving Image/*

*Call for Papers | Deadline: 1 March 2017*

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The uncontestably global ecologies of contemporary moving image art have 
invited some deliberation on questions of regional aesthetics, identity, 
circulation and transnationalism. Yet such discussions have mainly taken 
place in the context of exhibiting ‘non-western’ art in the western 
world. Contradictions still persist in the project of destabilizing 
assumed hierarchies within the Euro-American art world (in the most 
recent Documenta XI and Venice Biennale, for example) whilst artists of 
the global South gain currency primarily by meeting the expectations of 
‘western’ art markets. Furthermore, Euro-American art historical 
discourse remains negligent of film and video art’s legacies from the 
South, including experimental film and screen-based arts.  As a 
consequence, moving image art by ‘non-western’ artists is either caged 
into essentialist frameworks founded on mythical notions of 
‘authenticity’, or stirred into the melting pot of contemporary art 
without due attention to their particular cultural and aesthetic 
contexts. This /MIRAJ/ issue, therefore, engages with the 
particularities of film and video art practices from South Asia, and 
leverages these in theorising the relationship between regional, global 
and transnational moving image cultures.

To address some of these gaps in scholarship, this special edition of 
MIRAJ focuses on the circuits of production, exhibition and authoring of 
South Asian artists moving image in order to chart key theoretical 
terrains of ‘regional’ practices in a global context. We solicit 
articles from artists, critics and curators who work within and outside 
South Asia, that highlight conceptual frameworks and offer insights on 
the multi-layered relationships between ‘home and the world’, region and 
identity, aesthetics and translatability, cultural specificities and 
contexts of classification/consumption/circulation. We invite articles 
that build upon foundational work in South Asian moving image art and 
film histories as well as transnational art practices and aesthetics.

We are particularly interested in articles that address the following:


·Theories of film and video art outside of the ‘national’ framework that 
are attentive to influences, collaborations and exchanges across 
geographic and political regions.

·Examples of significant regional exchanges and collaborations between 
artists and filmmakers from India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka.

·The relationship between region, identity and moving image practice in 
South Asia.

·The aesthetic pre-cursors (in a pre-cinematic sense) that influence 
contemporary moving image art in the region, including investigations of 
artist(s)’ methodologies.

·Experiments in film and video art that emphasise ‘indigenous forms’.

·Transnational curatorial practices that work with and around the 
regional/national framework.

·Historicising South Asian moving image art in the post-medium context.

·Spectatorship and post medium/ multi-media art in/from South Asia.

·South Asian artists’ moving image engagement with science, political 
activism, environmentalism, urbanism etc.

·South Asian artists’ moving image hybridity with alternate media 
genres, such as experimental film, documentary, and digital media.

·Digital media and the exhibition and distribution of ‘regional’ moving 
image art.

·Digital archives and curatorial practices in/about South Asian film & 
video art.


We publish the following types of writing: scholarly articles (5000-7000 
words); opinion pieces, feature articles and interviews (3000-5000 
words); review essays of books, individual works, exhibitions and events 
(3000-5000 words). Scholarly articles will be blind peer-reviewed and 
feature articles and review essays can be peer-reviewed on request. 
Articles submitted to /MIRAJ/ should be original and not under 
consideration by any other publication, including online publications. 
We do not publish articles by artists about their own work, nor reviews 
by curators or venues about their own exhibitions.

*Please submit completed manuscripts only. *

*Send all contributions by e-mail in Word format to the Editorial 
Assistant: (miraj /at/ arts.ac.uk) <mailto:(miraj /at/ arts.ac.uk)>.*

*Deadline for completed articles: 1 March 2017*



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