[Commlist] CFP for Glissando #43: Diversity. Curating

Call for Papers: Glissando #43 Diversity. Curating


Contemporary music magazine "Glissando" invites you to contribute to the 
upcoming #43 issue on Diversity. Curating. Contemporary music and sound 
art. We invite you to submit abstracts/project proposals (up to 2,000 
characters) and, after acceptance, full articles  (30-35.000 
characters), medium-length texts (12-15.000 characters) including 
interviews, or shorter texts (up to 6,000 characters) such as curatorial 
statements, diary entries, manifestos, commentaries and other written or 
visual formats (optionally) closely related to the topic of the issue.

Issue theme: Diversity. Curating

Abstract submission deadline: 15.02.2023

Ready text /material submission deadline (after acceptance): 31.04.2023

Submission address: (magazyn.glissando /at/ gmail.com) 
<mailto:(magazyn.glissando /at/ gmail.com)>

Submission language: English*

*We are offering professional editorial and proofreading support for 
each text and would like to encourage particularly non-native English 
speakers to submit their articles. We regret that due to limited 
resources, we are unable to provide translation from other languages. 
However, if language is a serious barrier for you, we would still 
consider translating your text from your preferred language. Please 
contact us directly and sufficiently in advance if this is your case.

Lead editor: Monika Żyła

https://glissando.pl/aktualnosci/cfp-43-diversity-curating/ 
<https://glissando.pl/aktualnosci/cfp-43-diversity-curating/>


Diversity. Curating
Contemporary music and sound art

The artistic, social, and critical potential of music and sound curating 
is still a much debated and contested area that constantly shifts in its 
attempts to adequately respond to the most pressing challenges we face 
nowadays. The theme behind the upcoming #43 issue of Glissando stems 
precisely from these questions: What curating can do and for whom? How 
curating can enhance more equal and meaningful participation in music 
and sound art? How to curate more inclusively and transparently? How 
curatorial practices can mobilize resources to afford more consistent 
and sustainable relationships between artists, collectives, 
institutions, and audiences?

In the upcoming issue of Glissando magazine, we are excited to create a 
space of reflection concerning some of the recent curatorial practices 
in music and sound, together with the challenges, and responsibilities 
they might bring about. At the same time, we want to continue imagining, 
articulating, and negotiating future objectives, values, directions, and 
multidimensional possibilities of curating. If curating music and sound 
art becomes more about openness, being together, creating, sharing, and 
maintaining common space, learning from one another, and growing 
together, how can we think of refining the way contemporary music and 
sound art worlds operate? How can we reimagine and afford more 
inclusive, equally shared, and welcoming spaces for everyone involved?

With this new issue of Glissando #43, our ambition is to create a 
platform to encourage sharing, negotiating, and promoting new curatorial 
voices, perspectives, ideas, and solutions. We want to create a 
significant collection of insightful accounts, thought experiments, 
curatorial proposals, statements, and other helpful resources we might 
find useful. The genres of proposed texts and materials could include 
the following: long-form think pieces, case studies, original research, 
interviews, short reports or letters, profiles, reportages, opinion 
pieces, visual essays, manifestos, commentaries, or how-to articles. We 
wish to dedicate this space to imagining new possible networks, allies, 
coalitions, and collaborations across music and sound disciplines and 
genres. We believe that this new issue of Glissando will become a 
valuable source that would bring us closer to better, more fair, 
equitable, open, effective, supportive, and accessible contemporary 
music and sound art. We think that articulating, nuancing, and 
reflecting on some of these critical questions together might bring us 
closer to the answers we so urgently need.

The range of possible topics is rather wide. It might include but is not 
limited to the following issues:

● Emerging voices, perspectives, and strategies in curating
● Diversity and inclusion in curating contemporary music and sound art
● Transparency and sustainability in curating
● Accessibility (access to space, knowledge(s), concepts, discourses, 
economic, geographical, and social), creating safe spaces
● Barriers experienced in the fields of contemporary music and sound art
● Addressing and overcoming epistemic injustice(s) (injustice related to 
knowledge) in curating
● Various approaches to (dis)abilities and neurodiversity in curating
● Curating for and with vulnerable groups (physically, mentally, 
socially, and economically underprivileged persons)
● Non-orthodox, non-Eurocentric, and decolonial approaches to curatorial 
practices in music and sound art
● Cultural, ethical, and legal issues and challenges concerning sonic 
and musical repatriation, as well as approaches toward looted musical 
objects
● Care, hospitality, and healing in curating
● Curatorial responses to crisis (HIV epidemic, Covid-19, environmental, 
economic, humanitarian, military, and war)
● Flat hierarchies, horizontality, distributed power relations, and 
alternative leadership models in music organizations, collectives, and 
institutions
● Freelance curating vs. institutional curating
● Self-curating (in ensembles, collectives, artist groups, communities, 
and commons)
● Empowered/empowering audiences
● Slow-curating and long-term relationships in curating
● Musicians as curators, composers as curators, music critics as curators
● Exploring the role of space (both physical, social, as well as 
metaphorical) in curating
● Collective, grassroots, and community-oriented curating
● New solutions related to the commissioning system in contemporary 
music (open calls, deadlines, rehearsals, payment schemes, logistics, 
and other ● practical aspects of event production and management)


The authors of approved articles will be offered a fee.

https://glissando.pl/

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