[ecrea] IVC CFP: Border Crossings

http://ivc.lib.rochester.edu/cfp-border-crossings-issue-26/

*"Border Crossings" - Issue 26*

For its twenty-sixth issue, /InVisible Culture: An Electronic Journal
for Visual Culture/ invites scholarly articles and creative works that
address the complex and multiple meanings of/ border crossings/.

In September 2015, a photograph shocked the world by showing the body of
a small boy lying facedown on a beach in Bodrum, Turkey. Later
identified as Aylan Kurdi from Syria, he and other members of his family
perished in a failed attempt to flee to Canada. The image became the
focal point of the on-going refugee struggles, confronting us with the
power of images, their affective potential, and the politics of
representation.

IVC Issue 26 seeks to examine how border crossings can challenge the
stable, ontological distribution of power, capital, and resources along
constructed lines of demarcation. In considering the crossing of a
border, we must first understand what constitutes a border and how it
performs in the visual field. Globalization tries to dissolve borders
through the decentralization of power, yet at the same time, it
immanently and symbolically re-inscribes national borders through the
unequal distribution of capital. In thinking about contemporary art, art
historian Pamela M. Lee’s /Forgetting the Art World/ utilizes
theoretical concepts taken from Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri’s
/Empire/, to critique globalization and its processes of cultural and
social homogenization that “evacuate difference and distance”.

For Issue 26, we would like contributors to consider how border
crossings can be a conceptual tool to understand acts of inclusion and
exclusion of not just bodies and materials, but of ideologies and
cultures. Against the backdrop of multiculturalism and neoliberal
democracy, how do racial, class, and gender borders undermine the
possibility of a unified political project? How do borders produce
stateless subjects to perpetuate precarious conditions of labor? How can
we think of borders as a form of infrastructural control and networked
artificial intelligence? And if a visual object is a material
manifestation of globalization, how does it negotiate borders through
its circulation?

We welcome papers and artworks that further the various understandings
of/border crossings/. Possible topics of exploration include, but are
not limited to:

·Modern and postmodern conceptions of space, borders, and liminality

·Historical accounts of migration through visual culture (painting,
photography, performance, film, etc.)

·Currency of images

·Critique of the so-called global turn in contemporary art

·The ideological practice of framing

·Border crossings as acts of negotiation and transgression

·Border crossings as an erasure of the self and the other

·Feminist and ecological critiques of nation-states

·Precarious, immaterial, and cognitive labor and labor as information

·Representations of systemic violence as it relates to border crossing

·Critical practices of border crossings and antagonism towards borders

·The bodily and material effects of immaterial borders

*Please send completed papers (with references following the guidelines
from the Chicago Manual of Style) of between 4,000 and 10,000 words to
ivc[dot]rochester[at]gmail[dot]com by March 15, 2016. Inquiries should
be sent to the same address.*

*Creative/Artistic Works*
In addition to written materials,/ InVisible Culture/ is accepting work
in other media (video, photography, drawing, code) that reflect upon the
theme as it is outlined above. For questions or more details concerning
acceptable formats, go tohttp://ivc.lib.rochester.edu/contribute or
contact ivc[dot]rochester[at]gmail[dot]com.

*Reviews*
/InVisible Culture/ is also currently seeking submissions for book,
exhibition, and film reviews (600-1,000 words). To submit a review
proposal, go tohttp://ivc.lib.rochester.edu/contribute or contact
ivc[dot]rochester[at]gmail[dot]com.

*Blog*
The journal also invites submissions to its blog feature, which will
accommodate more immediate responses to the topic of the current issue.
For further details, please contact us at
ivc[dot]rochester[at]gmail[dot]com with the subject heading “blog
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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