Call For Papers - The World's Largest Index/List of Call For Papers

Journal of Science and Technology of the Arts

JSTA

URL: https://revistas.ucp.pt/index.php/jsta/callforpapers
Call For Paper Type: SI
H2 Index: 0
Submission Date: 2021-09-15

Visual Arts

Current open Call for Papers:

- On Criticism: “Is there a place (still) for criticism?”: September 15, 2021

+++

On Criticism: “Is there a place (still) for criticism?”

Deadline: September 15, 2021

Editors: Luiz Camillo Osorio (PUC-Rio), Nuno Crespo (EA-UCP/CITAR), Sabeth Buchmann (Academy of Fine Arts Vienna)

At a time when it is urgent to think about the role of art in society outside the contexts of institutions and their agents, this special issue intends to discuss how the crisis of criticism and new gestures of participation - allowed and encouraged by the intense development of digital technologies for collaboration, which seem to have made everyone an art critic -, contribute to develop critical thinking about the arts and create a concrete space for reflection and action by the spectator.

The first question to be addressed is whether the dissolution of authority and mediation of the word of criticism, replaced by technological and digital means of participation, can (or not) replace art criticism as we know it, sometimes based on a logic of institutional or authorship authority. This is a work possibility that implies analysing the modalities and spaces of criticism in its present and past, and understanding how the spectator’s relationship with artistic creation produces new reflective spaces.

This discussion can be placed between philosophy, history, and theory, underlining the relevance of criticism as a necessary reflexive moment for the construction of the artistic object and to understand how this reflexive nature has been transformed through new modes of relationship with art modalities of the relationship with art. However, the scope of this discussion is not limited to the debate about the limits and possibilities of criticizing art as a discipline but tries to think about the way society is called to participate in the artistic field using common everyday tools, such as, for example, a smartphone and social media.

It is important to test approaches between the practices of criticism and the other practices of the art system: artistic and curatorial. This special issue intends to systematize the historical evolution of criticism and problematize the transformations it has undergone to date. In a time of crisis for institutions, it is important to define and propose new institutional formats (considering different geopolitical realities) and also new strategies and tools that take advantage of the full potential of new digital media. For this purpose, it is essential to analyse the processes of digital value attribution in the context of a quantitative regime of an evaluation society and to debate how they relate (or can relate) to the practice of criticism traditionally linked to qualitative judgments.

We are welcoming papers that address these topics:

- curatorial practices as criticism

- criticism and post-colonialism

- shifts from ‘institutional critique to infrastructure critique’

- criticism in a globalized art world

- criticism and post-media

- the relevance of digital media in the practice of criticism

- qualitative versus quantitive in art criticism

- beyond criticism

Bibliography

Ahmed, S. (2012). On Being Included. Racism and Diversity in Institutional Life. Duke University Press.

Benjamin, A. (2010). Writing Art and Architecture. Re.Press.

De Boer, K. & Sonderegger, R. (eds.). (2012). Conceptions of Critique in Modern and Contemporary Philosophy. Palgrave Macmillon.

Bishop, C. (2013). Radical Museology or What's Contemporary in Museums of Contemporary Art? Koenig Books.

Eagleton, T. (2005). The function of criticism. Verso Books.

Elkins, J. and Newman, M. (2008). The State of Art Criticism. Routledege.

Lijster, T., Milevska, S., Gielen, P., Sonderegger, R. (2015). Spaces For Criticism. Shifts in Contemporary Art Discourses. Anagram Books.

Gates, H. L. (2014). The Signifying Monkey. A Theory of African American Literary Criticism. Oxford University Press.

Groys, B. (2010). Going Public. Sternberg Press.

Harney, S. & Moten, F. (2016). The Undercommons. Fugitive planning & black study. Autonomedia.

Hofstettler, K. (2014). Under (Post-)Colonial Eyes: Kant, Foucault, and Critique. Nikita Dhawan (ed.). Decolonizing Enlightment. Transnational Justice, Human Rights and Democracy in a Postcolonial Word. Barabara Budrich.

Joselit, D. (2020). Heritage and debt. MIT Press.

Mau, S. (2019). The metric society. On the quantification of the social. Polity Press.

McGovern, F., Johnston, M. J., & Wieder, A. (eds.). (2019). The Disintegration of a Critic. Sternberg Press.

Nesbitt, N. (2013). Caribbean Critiqze. Antillean Critical Theory from Toussaint to Glissant. Liverpool University Press.

Novotny, S. & Raunig, G. (eds.). (2010). Kunst und Kritik. Turia + Kant.

O’Neil, P. (2012). The Culture of Curating and the Curating of Culture(s). MIT Press.

Vishmidt, M. (2017). Between Not Everything and Not Nothing: Cuts Toward Infrastructural Critique. Maria Hlavajova and Simon Sheik (eds), The Former West. Art and the Contemporary after 1989. The MIT Press.

Von Hantelmann, D. (2010). How to do Things with Art. JRP Ringier.

Event Promotion

2024-06-02 ~ 2024-06-06

2024-08-19 ~ 2024-08-22

Journal of Science and Technology of the Arts

Event Promotion

Journal Promotion