[Commlist] RLEC: call for papers on “Communication and Mediation in/of Art”

  RLEC: call for papers on “Communication and Mediation in/of Art”

Between September 5 and November 1, is open the call for papers for 
/Lusophone Journal of Cultural Studies/ on “Communication and Mediation 
in/of Art”. The issue is edited by Zara Pinto-Coelho (CECS, University 
of Minho, Portugal), Helena Pires (CECS, University of Minho, Portugal) 
and Jean-Marie LaFortune (Laboratoire de Recherche sur les Publics de la 
Culture, Université du Québec, Canada).

In the current (tensive) framework of contemporary art (Jimenez, 
2005/2021), given the complexity of its formal, compositional, 
procedural codes, but also its imbricate entanglement with the social 
and political (Bishop, 2004), and economic dimensions (Afonso & 
Fernandes, 2019), the imperative of communication and mediation has been 
accentuated. Communication and mediation, between (and within) art, 
artists, artistic and cultural institutions, and its professionals 
(critics, curators, strategic communication experts, cultural 
journalists, researchers) and the publics, is justified by the influence 
the principles of accessibility, democratisation, participation or 
collaboration, or even art education, have in opening the “art worlds” 
(Becker, 1982) to the multiple spheres of communalised (or, desirably, 
made common) aesthetic experience (Stiegler, 2004/2018). Thus, 
understanding the multiple roles, displacements, (re)mediations operated 
by the actors, (non-)places and different devices in this phenomenon of 
closer relationships is critical. The risk of a growing communication 
gap, identified in recent research (Anastasiya et al., 2020), motivates 
many of the existing practices and experiments committed to transforming 
the paradigms that persist in the field of art and culture. However, in 
the debate on mediation, its normative and utilitarian dimensions, as a 
technology aiming at changing behaviours, is more evoked than its 
political nature, as a technology of social transformation (Fontan, 
2007, p. 12). Moreover, the practice seems to show that this is a 
pitfall since contradictory interests converge in the project of 
establishing a common ground, those linked to institutions and those 
arising from populations and individuals (LaFortune, 2008/2016, pp. 10-12).

This thematic section of the /Lusophone Journal of Cultural 
Studies/ welcomes articles, reviews or interviews committed to the topic 
under consideration in its various facets. Admitting the relevance of 
“post-literary” media and the plurality of forms of artistic expression, 
ranging from visual arts to music and performing arts, including the 
media arts, we welcome proposals that rethink the role and dynamics 
observed in criticism and curation, artistic education, cultural 
journalism, strategic communication (namely in the relationship with the 
media or with the markets), among other professional areas of mediation, 
instanced by galleries, museums, independent venues or different 
contexts. How do the discourses, in their various media, from exhibition 
catalogues to technological devices — supporting the digitalisation of 
archives and collections, collaborative or social media platforms, 
distance mediation, and even including interactive mechanisms in the 
places of art exhibition and production — produce today circular and 
multicentric models of interaction? What place, for art, in mediating 
with the communities and organisations, public and private, with whom 
one negotiates the conditions of their practical life (Cruz, 2018)? How 
to inter-mediate new understandings, perceptions, and interpretations 
regarding artistic production anchored in marginal geographies and 
populated by the effects of post-memory (Pinto Ribeiro, 2021)? Are 
artists increasingly aware of their responsibility in sharing the most 
fundamental concerns, of the common life, that concern individuals and 
groups in their condition as citizens of the world-in-between (alluding 
to the social or inter-interest sphere Arendt describes)?

Particular attention to contributions from researchers in the social 
sciences and humanities on one or more of the following topics:

  * curation and criticism
  * cultural journalism
  * practices of consumption and participation in cultural life
  * Socio-cultural animation practices
  * mediation and community art
  * technological/digital mediation of art
  * strategic communication in cultural and artistic organisations
  * mediation between the art world and the art market
  * the third sector in art
  * art education/artistic education
  * art therapy
  * care through art
  * publics and non-publics

*IMPORTANT DATES*

*Submission of full manuscripts:* September 5 to November 1, 2022
*Editor’s decision on full articles:* January 8, 2023
*Deadline for submitting the full version and translated version:* March 
31, 2023
*Issue publication date*: June 2023

*LANGUAGE*

Articles can be submitted in English or Portuguese. After the peer 
review process, the authors of the selected articles should ensure 
translation of the respective article, and the editors shall have the 
final decision on the publication of the article.

*EDITING AND SUBMISSION*

/Lusophone Journal of Cultural Studies/ is an open-access academic 
journal that adheres to the stringent standards of peer-reviewing and 
blind peer reviewing. After submission, each paper will be distributed 
to two reviewers previously invited to evaluate it according to its 
academic quality, originality and relevance to the objectives and scope 
of the theme of this issue of the journal.

Original articles are submitted on the journal’s website 
<https://www.rlec.pt/>. When submitting for the first time to the 
/Lusophone Journal of Cultural Studies, /please register here 
<https://rlec.pt/user/register>.

Publication guidelines are available here 
<https://rlec.pt/about/submissions>.

For further information please refer to (rlec /at/ ics.uminho.pt) 
<mailto:(rlec /at/ ics.uminho.pt)>

No payment from the authors will be required.**

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