[Commlist] Call For Papers: IVC Issue 33, After Douglas Crimp

*Call for Papers: *

*Issue 33, After Douglas Crimp*

For its thirty-third issue, /InVisible Culture/ invites scholarly 
articles and creative works that engage with the legacy of Douglas Crimp 
(1944-2019). Douglas was foundational to /InVisible Culture/ and its 
institutional home, the Graduate Program in Visual and Cultural Studies 
at the University of Rochester. The first issue of /InVisible 
Culture/ included his essay “Getting the Warhol We Deserve,” 
<http://ivc.lib.rochester.edu/getting-the-warhol-we-deserve-cultural-studies-and-queer-culture/> 
in which Douglas used Warhol’s gayness as an interpretative hinge while 
also advocating for the importance of cultural studies’ contributions to 
art criticism. Besides his profound influence on art scholarship, 
Douglas’s pedagogy reverberates through the work of those he taught and 
mentored in various academic and art institutions. We invite 
contributors to reflect on the myriad ways in which Douglas’s legacy 
impacts the pasts, presents, and futures of art history and cultural 
criticism.

Throughout his career, Douglas made crucial contributions to art theory, 
queer theory, and cultural studies. In 1977, Douglas curated the seminal 
exhibition /Pictures/ at New York’s Artists Space, which established him 
as one of postmodern art’s major interlocutors. He continued to spur 
critical engagements with art institutions and postmodernism with his 
many essays in /October/ and his 1993 book /On the Museum’s Ruins/. 
During the rise of the AIDS crisis, Douglas turned to what he called 
“cultural activism”; his writings later collected in /Melancholia and 
Moralism/ (2002) helped galvanize a generation of queer activists. 
Further, he wrote influentially on Warhol, the New York art scene of the 
1970s, modern and contemporary dance, and film. Alongside his conceptual 
and critical acuity, one distinctive feature of Douglas’s work is the 
way he integrated the self and personal experience into his writing—a 
trait he most fully realized in his 2016 book /Before Pictures/.

As well as engaging with Douglas’s oeuvre, we invite contributors to 
engage with artist Louise Lawler’s question, “What would Douglas Crimp 
say?,” published in /October/ earlier this year, by reflecting on how 
his scholarship and activism may help us make sense of the present 
historical conjuncture.

Contributions to this issue may address (but are by no means limited to) 
the following topics and themes:

                 ▪              Art and activism

                 ▪              Public health crises

                 ▪              Queer social life and its histories

                 ▪              Modernism and postmodernism

                 ▪              Queer analyses of art and visual culture

                 ▪              Museums, institutional critique, and 
cultural decolonization

                 ▪              Appropriation strategies in artistic 
and cultural practices

                 ▪              Film and contemporary dance

                 ▪              The relationships among art history, 
cultural studies, and politics

                 ▪              Autobiography and memoir

*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) 
<mailto:(invisble.culture /at/ ur.rochester.edu)> by February 15, 2021. 
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) 
<mailto:(invisble.culture /at/ ur.rochester.edu)>. For questions or more 
details concerning acceptable formats, go to 
http://ivc.lib.rochester.edu/contribute 
<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). For this issue we 
particularly encourage authors to submit reviews of games or other forms 
of interactive media. 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 
accommodates 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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