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Subject: Artinfo Digest, Vol 97, Issue 12
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Subject: [artinfo] Call for Papers: Artistic Subversion

Kunstlicht: Journal for Art, Visual Culture & Architecture

Call for Papers

Artistic Subversion: Exposing Conditions & Cracking the Frame

(working title), Kunstlicht, Vol. 38 (2017)

<http://www.tijdschriftkunstlicht.nl/>www.tijdschriftkunstlicht.nl/

Deadline for proposals: 21 February 2017

Issue release: Spring 2017

Submit proposals via redactie at tijdschriftkunstlicht.nl

In this time of tumultuous politics, the upcoming
issue of Kunstlicht will consider the strategies
and methods by which artists engage with
subversion to unveil, resist, or transform
structures of power.

Writing on the activities of the Situationist
International in 1957, Guy Debord argued that
subversive ideas were forbidden access to public
discourse as a result of the 'rigged game of
official culture'. Yet subversive ideas, by means
of pure suppression, may only grow in influence.
In order to disempower them, Debord argues,
'[t]he ruling ideology arranges the
trivialization of subversive discoveries, and
widely circulates them after sterilization'. This
recuperation of subversion into spectacle is a
reality with which critical artistic practice
must contend.

As philosopher Chantal Mouffe has noted, today
'artistic critique has become an important
element of capitalist productivity'. As such, art
is implicated in regimes of social control and
the consolidation of capital. But (how) can it be
called upon to subvert these regimes? Artists
like Martha Rosler, with works that combine
disparate images such as 'House Beautiful:
Bringing the War Home' (1967-72, 2004-08) and 'If
It's Too Bad to be True, It Could be
Disinformation' (1985), or Elizabeth Sisco, Louis
Hock, and David Avalos who collaborate on public
projects such as 'Welcome to America's Finest
Tourist Plantation' (1988) or 'Art Rebate' (1993)
that engage directly with media to shape the
discourse they generate, continue to devise
strategies to generate critical reflection
despite the treacherous nature of the terrain.

Kunstlicht invites contributions that focus on
specific case studies (past or present), as well
as theory-based discussions on subversion in art.
How can art be subversive and what does it
effectively subvert? How do historic, cultural,
or socioeconomic circumstances influence
approaches to subversion, and how does the
controversy it generates effect its potential? Is
the subversive quality of an artwork
intrinsically connected to its context, or is it
possible for a work to continue to be subversive,
or to become subversive, in new contexts? With
such questions in mind, this issue seeks to
explore subversion in relation to artistic
practice, and the factors that must be considered
when making an artwork that may threaten reigning
hegemonies.

Proposals (200-300 words) with attached r?sum?s
can be submitted to
<mailto:redactie at tijdschriftkunstlicht.nl>redactie at tijdschriftkunstlicht.nl.
Selected authors will be invited to write a
2,000-3,000 word paper (excluding notes). Papers
may be written either in English or in Dutch.

Authors who publish in Kunstlicht will receive
three complementary copies. Kunstlicht does not
provide an author's honorarium. Two years
following publication, papers will be submitted
to the freely accessible online archive. This
issue will appear in print, and additionally a
selection of articles published online.

Contact
redactie at tijdschriftkunstlicht.nl
Steyn Bergs & Rosa te Velde, Editors in Chief

Address
<http://www.tijdschriftkunstlicht.nl/>www.tijdschriftkunstlicht.nl/
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
De Boelelaan 1105
Amsterdam
The Netherlands


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