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[Commlist] CfP – Visual Studies in collaboration with Open eye Gallery, Liverpool UK – Visualising Climate Crisis

Thu May 27 15:09:20 GMT 2021



CfP – Visual Studies in collaboration with Open eye Gallery, Liverpool UK – Visualising Climate Crisis

Visual Studies Journal in collaboration Open Eye Gallery, Liverpool invite thematic and illustrated essays in traditional format (6-8,000 words) that critically and conceptually examine how we come to see, understand, and respond to climate crisis. By foregrounding the visual as an optic to better understand and examine these pertinent and timely issues, we welcome proposals that examine: • How artists, activists, communities, and institutions deploy the use of photography and visual culture as a way of understanding the past, present and future impacts on communities, audiences, and people around the globe. • Specific works of art and art practices that either historically or contemporaneously explore issues of climate crisis. • Critique the role and relationship between galleries, museums, institutions and issues of climate crisis, advocacy, and education. • Climate migrancy, the history of land and water management, food, and agricultural processes and/or the impact of food, clothing, and electrical consumption in relation to climate crisis. • Food, biodiversity, recycling, land and water use, climate and race justice, architecture, non-human animals, and alternative energy sources as issues related to the climate crisis, either negatively or positively. This call also welcomes Visual Essays & New Media Reviews related to the themes of the call. As part of the process, successful submissions will feature in the Open Eye Galleries LOOK Lab, a precursor to the Galleries LOOK photography biennale. The final Visual Studies output, earmarked for July 2022, will be the official publication of the exhibition and wider activities associated with the biennale. The theme of LOOK 2022 will be centred on climate catastrophe and environmental concerns by using photography and visual culture as a way of understanding the past, present and future impacts on communities, audiences, and people around the globe. This will be achieved by looking at climate migrancy, the history of land and water management, where our food, clothes and electronic items come from and how this will be impacted by restricted resources, and how photography has been used as a tool to tell us about ourselves and our heritages. In the run up to the biennial, the gallery space and associated platforms will be turned into the LOOK Lab (Feb 2022) thinking space where artists, writers, scientists, lecturers, communities, and others can use the gallery as their workspace or studio. As part of this initiative, there will be a Visual Studies session/roundtable hosted by the journal editors. The focus of the session will be on the ‘power of images’ in climate crisis. This session will allow journal participants to join the space, physically or virtually to workshop their WIP idea, discuss and exhibit samples of their text and images and engage with a selection of exhibiting artists and active community groups to further unpack the theme of the biennale and the value images have/play in this context. In short, this will be an interim stop in the publication journey allowing authors to gain feedback, workshop ideas and engage in discussions and debate before the final publication. Authors will also be offered an opportunity to submit a short piece, set of images or provocation to the Look Biennale website.

Submission details:
1,000 word extended abstracts submitted to (climatecrisis /at/ openeye.org.uk) before Friday, July 02, 2021. The extended abstract can include the overview of the paper as per, plus if the author(s) so wish, address how they may engage with the Lab. A subsequent deadline will be 2 weeks prior to the Look Lab event in January 2022 – detail to be communicated to successful abstracts. Successful applications, chosen by a panel from Visual Studies and the gallery will be informed that their paper has been accepted on or before July 16, however, due to foreseeable demand, we will be unable to write to unsuccessful submission. Context: Visual Studies is a is a leading international peer-reviewed journal published on behalf of the International Visual Sociology Association. The journal publishes visually-oriented articles across a range of disciplines, and represents a long-standing commitment to empirical visual research, studies of visual and material culture, the development of visual research methods and the exploration of visual means of communication about social and cultural worlds. Visual Studies is a key resource for all disciplines that engage with images, society, and culture, and aims to set the standard for the scholarly use of visual material. Open Eye Gallery produces exhibitions, long-term collaborative projects, publications, festivals, and university courses — locally and worldwide. We welcome over 85,000 visitors to our gallery every year, over 200,000 to projects in other venues, and many more to our online spaces. The gallery proactively takes risks to spark crucial conversations and enable creative expression.


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