[MGSA-L] InVisible Culture, CFP Reminder: "Contending with Crisis" Deadline June 30th, 2017

Sat Jun 3 12:42:30 PDT 2017

Dear MGSA subscribers,

*InVisible Culture: An Electronic Journal for Visual Culture (IVC)* is
circulating the CFP for its 28th Issue “Contending with Crisis.”
<http://ivc.lib.rochester.edu/call-for-papers-issue-28-contending-with-crisis/>
The
deadline for submissions is June 30th, 2017. Please share widely with any
potentially interested scholars, artists, relevant listservs and social
media platforms, and don’t hesitate to reach out with any questions.

We are also pleased to announce that IVC 26: Border Crossings
<https://ivc.lib.rochester.edu/>, the second installment of our Special
Double Issue 25 & 26 is now live. In addition to our regular featured
content, the special issue includes contributions from University of
Rochester faculty and an interview with renowned art historian Douglas
Crimp about his memoir *Before Pictures*.

Best regards,
Julia Tulke

—
Julia Tulke

PhD Student, Visual and Cultural Studies
University of Rochester

www.aestheticsofcrisis.org

*Issue 28: “Contending with Crisis”*

For its twenty-eighth issue, *InVisible Culture: An Electronic Journal for
Visual Culture* invites scholarly articles and creative works that address
the complex and multiple meanings of contending with crisis.

Defined by the global uncertainty of a world afflicted by varied and
ambiguously interrelated states of emergency, the present can be seen as a
critical historical conjuncture characterized by crisis. In the context of
its worldwide occurrence, crisis refers irreducibly to a multitude of
circumstances, events, and thematizations: military conflict, debt crises,
issues of political representation, the mass migration and displacement of
refugees, increasing ecological disruptions. Such ruptures in the social
demand constant attention from individuals and communities, constituting a
need for committed artististic and scholarly engagements with questions of
what it means to be in crisis and how to deal with it.

Following Lauren Berlant’s understanding of crisis as “an emergency in the
reproduction of life, a transition that has not found its genres for moving
on,” we encourage authors to contemplate the fluidity/liminality of crisis,
exploring both its emancipatory and repressive potentials. As an ongoing
situation, a conceptual and rhetorical figure, an ideological
representation and for many an urgent fact of life, the contemporary
condition of crisis evokes a range of responses from those forced to
contend with it.

For IVC 28, we invite contributors to explore visual representations and
contestations of various states of crisis. How do crises emerge and perform
in the visual field? How does the global situation of crisis reconfigure
the possibilities of political representation? How do the material
conditions of crisis constrain and transform everyday life and social
organization? What kind of aesthetic responses and modes of cultural production
proliferate in response? What forms of domination surface in times of
crisis and how do they become realized in ensuing reorganizations of social
orders? What productive potentials emerge or re-emerge in the face of
specific and far-reaching crisis conditions?

Possible topics of exploration include, but are not limited to:

• Visualizing/representing crisis, the visual politics of crisis
• Political representation and subjectivity in/of crisis
• Uneven distribution of vulnerabilities along lines of race, gender, and
sexuality
• Precarity, biopolitics and affective regimes of crisis and austerity
• Activism, social movements, visual and performative protest repertoires
• Creative responses to states of crisis, new modes of artistic production,
aesthetics of resistance
• Collaborative aesthetics and the commons
• Material landscapes of crisis, crisis and urban space, austerity urbanism
• Aesthetics of rupture, ruin, abandonment
• Historiographies, afterlives of crises
• Crisis genres: crises of dispossession (debt crisis, moral discourse of
indebtedness), crises of political representation (Arab Spring, global rise
of neo-populist nationalisms, Brexit, 2016 US election), postcolonial
crises, military crises (Syria, Ukraine), refugee and humanitarian crisis,
ecological crises (climate change, Fukushima, DAPL)

*Please send completed papers (with references following the guidelines
from the Chicago Manual of Style) of between 4,000 and 10,000 words
to invisible.culture at ur.rochester.edu
<invisible.culture at ur.rochester.edu> by June 30th, 2017. Inquiries should
be sent to the same address.*

*Creative/Artistic Works*
In addition to written materials, *InVisible Culture* is accepting works in
other media (video, photography, drawing, code) that reflect upon the theme
as it is outlined above. Please submit creative or artistic works along
with an artist statement of no more than two pages to  invisible.culture at ur.
rochester.edu. For questions or more details concerning  acceptable
formats, go to http://ivc.lib.rochester.edu/contribute or contact the same
address.

*Reviews*
*InVisible Culture* is also currently seeking submissions for book,
exhibition, and film reviews (600-1,000 words). To submit a review
proposal, go to http://ivc.lib.rochester.edu/contribute or contact invisible
.culture at ur.rochester.edu.

*Dialogues*
The journal also invites submissions to its Dialogues page, which will
accommodate more immediate responses to the topic of the current issue. For
further details, please contact us at invisible.culture at ur.rochester.edu with
the subject heading “Dialogues 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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