[Commlist] CFP: The Aesthetics of Creative Activism (Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism)

CFP: The Aesthetics of Creative Activism

(A special issue of the /Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism/)

Guest Editors: Elspeth Tilley and Nicholas Holm

As both a field of study and form of practice, creative activism seeks 
to understand how artistic forms can serve the ends of activist 
interventions. To date, most emphasis has been on the activism 
component, drawing on theories of social movement formation, 
participatory action, and community organising. While there has been 
passing mention of aesthetics (relying heavily upon Rancière) the 
‘creative’ term in creative activism remains woefully undertheorized. 
There are some scholars who have asked important questions about affect 
and effect, but overall, creative activism is ripe for deeper research 
into and theorisation of its aesthetic forms. Key questions include how 
creative activism differs from other activism, what makes it creative, 
and how (whether) the artistic components function effectively to 
achieve or enhance social change.

The Editors welcome submissions on any philosophically informed 
exploration of artistic forms as activist interventions., including, but 
not limited to:

• Ethics and morality in and of artistic activism
• Relationships between aesthetic value and artistic activism
• Affect and effect in and of creative activism
• Race, creativity and social justice: from jazz music to BLM and beyond
• Advancing an aesthetic theory of creative activism
• Didacticism and its discontents
• Pandemic shock, climate grief, and compassion fatigue: artistic 
responses to overwhelming topics
• Catharsis and creative activism: compatible or opposing forces?
• Creative activists as futurists: the role of artistic imagination in 
accelerating social change and generating future solutions
• Creative activism evaluation: how does scholarship from aesthetics and 
art criticism help us determine outcomes and effectiveness?
• First-order change versus second-order change: can art achieve 
systemic alteration or only awareness and individual empowerment?
• Critically analysing the forms, claims and creative processes of 
artistic activism: avoiding art-washing, and challenging assumptions 
about what works, what has value, and why
• Decolonization, anti-capitalism, and the role of creative activism in 
resistance or transformation

Publication is expected in Spring 2023. The deadline for submission is 
August 1, 2022.

Submissions should not exceed 7,500 words and must comply with the 
general guidelines for submissions (see “Author Guidelines” on the JAAC 
page on the Oxford University Press website: 
https://academic.oup.com/jaac/pages/general-instructions 
<https://academic.oup.com/jaac/pages/general-instructions>. Upload 
submissions to the JAAC online submission website, 
http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/jaac 
<http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/jaac>, making sure they are identified 
as submissions for the special issue.

If you have questions please contact:
Nicholas Holm < (N.H.F.Holm /at/ massey.ac.nz)> or Elspeth Tilley < 
(E.Tilley /at/ massey.ac.nz)>

For the complete cfp: 
_https://aesthetics-online.org/resource/resmgr/files/jaac/cfp_jaac_creative_activism_.docx 
<https://aesthetics-online.org/resource/resmgr/files/jaac/cfp_jaac_creative_activism_.docx>_

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Dr Nicholas Holm 
<http://www.massey.ac.nz/massey/expertise/profile.cfm?stref=990001>|Senior 
Lecturer in Media Studies

Building 7, Room 7C43 |Massey University |Wellington |Aotearoa New Zealand

DDI 04 979 3544 |ext. 63544 | (nhfholm /at/ massey.ac.nz) 
<mailto:(N.H.F.Holm /at/ massey.ac.nz)>

https://nicholasholm.wordpress.com/ <https://nicholasholm.wordpress.com/>

Recent Publications
Holm, N. (2021) No Time for Fun: The Politics of Partying during a 
Pandemic 
<https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09502386.2021.1898026>,/Cultural 
Studies /35.2-3.

Holm, N. (2020) Bright Grey: The Political Dialectic Of Bureaucratic 
Boredom 
<https://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/lwish/nf/2020/00000100/f0020100/art00009>, 
/New Formations /100.

Holm, N. (2020)Consider the (Feral) Cat: Ferality, Biopower, and the 
Ethics of Predation 
<https://brill.com/view/journals/soan/aop/article-10.1163-15685306-BJA10006/article-10.1163-15685306-BJA10006.xml?language=en>, 
/Society and Animals /(Online Advance).

Holm, N. (2017) Humour as Politics 
<https://www.palgrave.com/de/book/9783319509495>, Palgrave MacMillan.

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