[Commlist] CFP: Collectivities - Refract Vol. 6

Refract - An Open Access Visual Studies Journal

Call for Papers

Volume 6: Collectivities

Deadline: November 15, 2026


What brings people together? What makes a collective possible? How do 
artists and cultural producers gather, organize, think, feel, and create 
together while working within and against institutions of power? What 
new forms of representation and material practice emerge through 
collective modes of creation? What tensions and power relations shape 
collective work?


For Volume 6 of Refract, Collectivities, we invite contributions that 
critically examine the spaces, labors, and affects that mediate 
collective, or otherwise collaborative, practices. We are interested not 
only in what collectivities produce, but also in the infrastructures and 
relationships that sustain them. These might include: the shared 
attachments that animate collective forms of research and preservation; 
the visible and less visible labors of skill-sharing and 
consciousness-raising that enable materials and knowledges to circulate, 
and artists to mobilize; and the spaces—official, provisional, or 
clandestine—that serve as both backdrop to and object of collective 
artistic and political intervention.


While we embrace the generative potentials of collective practice, we 
also recognize that collectivities are rarely uncomplicated. They can 
give rise to tensions and imbalances that challenge efforts to move 
together against the status quo; at the same time, productive 
contestation can reorient these efforts toward new ends. As such, we are 
also interested in the ways that conflict and difference fuel, hinder, 
or transform collective practices.


For the full call and submission information, please visit 
https://escholarship.org/uc/refract/CFP 
<https://escholarship.org/uc/refract/CFP>. No payment from authors is 
required. Questions and inquiries can be sent to (refractjournal /at/ ucsc.edu) 
<mailto:(refractjournal /at/ ucsc.edu)>.

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