March 2025
MFI Sticker Project. Calls for participants. During the MFI Making Connection: Mapping Creative Encounters program, alys longley and Linda Knight collaborated on creating a sticker framework that supports social connection during our fractured times. The stickers are placed on different surfaces and encourage the public to take in their surroundings, make connections with others, or generate communication. The sticker framework invites you to participate and paste a sticker somewhere to encourage public response and action. Take a moment and be prompted to connect. Take a photo of the sticker in situ and send it to us. If you use social media, you can share the photo of this action, add your encounter/connection responses, and you can tag the accounts on the sticker if you wish. To receive a sticker, contact linda.knight@rmit.edu.au
Open call: Some Like it Hot. The 2025 PARSE conference builds on the previous themes of Violence (2021) and Powers of Love (2023) to now ask: What role can artistic research play in the urgent process of meaning-making at the intersection of aesthetics, ecology, and social justice? How can it contribute to new forms of political and cultural consciousness and provide pathways to tangible action? By engaging with the concept of HEAT from diverse angles, we aim to uncover how artistic praxis may not only reflect but also intervene in the challenges of our time.
Some Like it Hot calls for proposals particularly from emerging researchers, independents, collaborators, the recalcitrant and the curious. We prioritize artistic, curatorial, performative, and work-in-progress propositions that address heat from various positions, perspectives, and disciplines. The 2025 PARSE conference takes place in Gothenburg alongside a parallel online program. The call closes on Monday, March 31, 2025. Here is the link to the online submission form
Juliana España Keller is participating as a Senior Researcher, Concordia University, Centre for Sensory Studies in the ‘Uncommon Senses V’ conference hosted by Concordia University from 7 -10 May. Juliana will present a journal paper on “Entering a Sonic Intra-Active Quantum Relation with Plant Life” and installing a new AI-generated audio-visual projection and spatial sound installation with CEREUS: radical encounters in acoustic ecologies, a sound performance collective.
Uncommon Senses IV: Sensory Ecologies, Economies, and Aesthetics at Concordia University, Montreal, Canada showcases scholars from across the social sciences, humanities and arts to explore the future of the senses in a changing world. With four days of stimulating presentations, discussions, workshops, artwork and socializing, it will be a true feast for the senses!
Call for papers: Fifth International Conference of Anarchist Geographers and Geographies, at the University of São Paulo (USP), Department of Geography, Auditorium Milton Santos, 9 to 12 December 2025. The deadline for presenting abstracts is 31 March 2025. More info: https://ugihg.hypotheses.org/
Jaclyn Brickman is currently showing work: Machina Ex Natura, curated by Shohei Katayama, at 849 Gallery, Kentucky College of Art and Design, Louisville, KY.
Jaclyn is also showing: Sourced From the ‘Zoo, at Arcus Gallery, KVCC Center for New Media, Kalamazoo, MI.
Call for abstracts: The organising committee invites submissions for the inaugural 2025 Online Arts in Teacher Education Conference. This no-cost virtual gathering will bring together educators, researchers, and practitioners from around the globe to explore contemporary approaches to online arts education. Closing deadline, April 1, 2025. For more information and abstract submission portal, visit the conference website.
Perdita Phillips has had a solo show: rock love, at Artgold in Kalgoorlie-Boulder Karlkurla, featured work from Perdita’sTerrane Project residency. The show included soil treated cyanotype prints, banners, mapworks and rugs printed from aerial photos of abandoned open pits.
Perdita has also had a solo show: Collected Habitats, which included works, 9 videos and a video installation in a collection of rarely seen works from the last 11 years. The exhibition at Ellenbrook Arts, Perth, won the Festival Fringe 2025 award for Visual Arts and Film. Congratulations, Perdy! For reviews, see https://www.facebook.com/share/p/19vHSFYaLM/ and https://artsreview.com.au/perdita-phillips-rock-love/ and https://www.perditaphillips.com/portfolio/rock-love-2024/ https://www.perditaphillips.com/portfolio/collected-habitats-2025/
Emma van Daal and Ariel Moy have a co-authored article that describes, conceptually and practically, their multimodal experimentations in mapping night-time spaces for infants and new parents: New Materialist Mapping the Lived Experiencing of Trauma in Perinatal and Infant Mental Health https://www.mdpi.com/2076-0760/13/12/682
Peter Kelly and Seth Brown invite contributions to what they see as an ongoing ‘conversation’ on contemporary global politics. Please visit the link for more info: https://youngpeoplesfutureslab.org/on-trump-authoritarianism-plutocracy-and-the-enshittification-of-the-promise-for-regenerative-and-just-futures-for-young-people/
Call for submissions: the workshop “Emerging Voices for the Changemaking of Food Systems” will take place in Montpellier, France, June 11 to 13, 2025, organised by AESOP-Sustainable Food Planning (https://aesopsfp.wordpress.com/)
The call is aimed at early-career researchers (PhDs/Postdocs), with a preference for ongoing or recently completed work, to foster peer-to-peer learning on key research and action challenges in food systems and food policy. Event details at this link.
Juliana España Keller is a presenter and performer in the CARPA9 Conference Program on 28-30 August 2025 at the Theatre Academy of the University of the Arts Helsinki, Finland.
CARPA9 is an integral part of the national and international fields of artistic research. It introduces the local research community to new and high-level experts. It gathers in Helsinki a cohort of critical international researchers helping the artists and researchers in networking and keeping themselves up to date on timely trends in the global field. CARPA9 provides a window for artist-researchers to make their work known internationally. Globally, the last ten years have seen a decisive shift in the way the performing arts have begun to address environmental issues. Climate justice has become one of the guiding principles in performance-making across the world. This shows that there is a great need for eco-pedagogical development and research.
Newly launched network: Environmental Humanities: H-EcoLit supported by H-Net. You are welcome to register for free as a member of the newly launched network called “H-EcoLit”, supported by the H-Net of the Michigan State University: https://networks.h-net.org/h-ecolit
H-EcoLit is an international network of academics and researchers of all levels who study the fields of Environmental Humanities, Literary Theory and Cultural Criticism. The network seeks to explore issues beyond the traditional binary of nature-culture and examines the changing status of subjectivity, agency, and citizenship while envisioning matters for sustainable futures in a more-than-human world.
More-than-Human Mapping Symposium. The Living Maps Network is hosting the upcoming symposium. In addition to being open for people to attend, a publication will be created from this event via a wider call. If you are interested in contributing to this theme, please contact ferne.edwards@citystgeorges.ac.uk 24-26th April in London – please see more details here: https://www.livingmaps.org/forthcoming-events.
Perdita Phillips will be giving a short talk as part of the Living Maps conference, and there may be other MFI members who are, too.
Peggy Karpouzou and Nikoleta Zampaki. Special Issue: “Critical Green Theories and Botanical Imaginaries: Exploring Human and More-than-human World Entanglements” published in Open Cultural Studies: https://www.degruyter.com/journal/key/culture/8/1/html
Special Issue: “Ecologies of Life and Death in the Anthropocene” published in Lagoonscapes. The Venice Journal of Environmental Humanities: https://edizionicafoscari.unive.it/en/edizioni4/riviste/the-venice-journal-of-environmental-humanities/2024/2/
Special Issue: “The Digital Environmental Humanities: Towards Theory and Praxis” published in HJEAS: https://sciendo.com/issue/HJEAS/30/2
Open access chapter: “Toward Posthuman Aesthetics: The Flesh of the World in Auguste Rodin’s Le Penseur and The Thinking Robot” published in Nidesh Lawtoo’s volume titled Mimetic Posthumanism. Homo Mimeticus 2.0 in Art, Philosophy and Technics at Brill: https://brill.com/display/title/63101
Co-authored chapter: “The Poetics of Zombification in Ryan Mecum’s Dawn of Zombie Haiku” In Zombie Futures in Literature, Media and Culture. Pandemics, Society and the Evolution of the Undead in the 21st Century edited by Simon Bacon, published by Bloomsbury: https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/zombie-futures-in-literature-media-and-culture-9781350285491/?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR2ke9BRjbumYjBJu_Pc9RJdnHVdnagHuCfHbyf9YOYcKp8YEELC0zSpKYQ_aem_Ah1fwQ0N-t8hZfEJlaY8Dw
Virtual Program: Affrilachian Freedom Dreaming. West Virginia University (WVU) Art in the Libraries’ Inaugural WVU Feminist Activist Artist Residency program presents artist Catron Booker and her project, “Affrilachian Freedom Dreaming: Honoring Dr. Ancella Bickley.”
Join Art in the Libraries and WVU Libraries on Friday, March 28 at 10 a.m. via zoom to hear from Booker about her experience as the first WVU Feminist Activist Artist Resident, her process and inspiration for exploring the Dr. Ancella Bickley archives in the West Virginia & Regional History Center and her resulting artistic product, a short film honoring Bickley.
Jaclyn Brickman has an upcoming solo exhibition: Plexus Projects, curated by Laura Splan, Online. More information at: https://www.plexusprojects.org/
ESR Curatorial Research Fellowship 2025. New York City. We seek a curatorial research fellow to interpret and advance the work of Elaine Spatz-Rabinowitz (b. 1942), an American visual artist whose work pushes the limits of representation and abstraction through innovative use of material in painting, photography, and sculpture. Spatz-Rabinowitz received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2007 for her mixed media work on war and violence and is currently focusing on climate collapse in a series of hybrid works revealing fragmented Arctic landscapes.
The fellow should have a postgraduate degree in art history or curatorial studies (or equivalent professional experience) and a keen sense of the contemporary art world. They will research galleries and museums, help to develop a compelling narrative around this body of work, and co-lead projects as appropriate. We welcome applications from retired and/or independent curators and younger candidates.
Compensation for this part-time position is in the form of housing. You will have sole occupancy of a small, sunny, comfortably furnished studio apartment located on East 30th Street in Manhattan, NYC — close to the MOMA, the Met, and more — with a market rental value of $2800 monthly. In exchange, you will work 20–25 hours weekly on this project, meeting regularly with the fellowship supervisor. Viewing works in person will require visits to the artist’s studio in Cambridge, MA. To apply, please send a cover letter with your CV and references to esrfellow@gmail.com by April 15th, 2025. The cover letter should explain how you would situate this body of work in today’s artistic landscape, with reference to the current and archival materials available on the artist’s website: https://espatzrabinowitz.com/
The fellowship will begin in Autumn 2025 with an initial commitment of 12 months. Renewal is possible by mutual agreement. More details about the apartment can be found at bit.ly/esr-nyc.
Online publication launch: HJEAS’ thematic issue titled “The Digital Environmental Humanities. Towards Theory and Praxis” edited by Peggy Karpouzou and Nikoleta Zampaki. 31st of March 2025 at 13:00 p.m. CET (Central Europe Timezone). The url to join: https://unideb.webex.com/unideb/j.php?MTID=m341f0082f74d29bc826d226c9a507e1c Password: HJEAS_Launch
Perdita Phillips attended the Australian Posthuman Summer Workshop intensive, which featured Rosi Braidotti and N’arweet Carolyn Briggs https://www.posthuman.au/summerlab
and will be back in Melbourne in March to complete her work for the Tate Adams State Library of Victoria Creative Fellowship.
Commons Feast Virtual Monthly Meet-Up. Free to attend. Everyone is welcome. Please come and share who your plant, fungal or human companions are or who you are looking forward to seeing again. To book via Eventbrite: https://tinyurl.com/ywhf9zc2. Tuesday 18 March, 7-8pm, GMT.
Australian Walking Artists, which include members of MFI, are having an artist survey exhibition, Way Beyond Goes Way Out, in Kandos, NSW Australia, 3 May to 22 June https://www.wayoutartspace.com.au
Jaclyn Brickman has two screenings of her project: Speculative Speciation: Artificial Anagenesis and Creative Cladogenesis. The films are made in collaboration w/ Dr. Sharon Gill, animal communication, bird song, soundscape ecology, science communication and outreach, STEAM.
Speculative Speciation: Honeycreeper, Birds on Record – March 2025 issue, Labocine, online https://www.labocine.com/
Speculative Speciation: Passenger Pigeon, Cosmic Rays Film Festival, Chelsea Theater, Chapel Hill, NC https://cosmicraysfilmfest.com/ March 21-23
Call for Contributions. University for the Creative Arts: Creative Education Conference 2025. The University for the Creative Arts (UCA) are delighted to announce its call for contributions for the Creative Education Conference 2025, a one-day event dedicated to exploring Innovative Practices in Creative Education. Submissions should align with the conference theme, ‘Innovative Practices in Creative Education, ’ and offer insights into new approaches, research, or experiences in the field. This will be on Tuesday, 18th June 2025, from 10:00 – 17:00, at UCA’s Epsom Campus. Deadline for submissions: 18th April 2025. More info: https://creativeeducation.uca.ac.uk/the-creative-education-conference-/
Call for Proposals for Papers for a Special Issue of Planning Perspectives. Architect-planners: transnational and global perspectives.
Planning Perspectives invites proposals for a special issue which explores the role and activities of architect-planners from global and transnational perspectives. The leading international journal for the study of planning history, Planning Perspectives [ISSN 0266-5433 (Print); ISSN: 1466-4518 (Online)] is particularly interested in exploring the historic links between planning and architecture with regard to urbanisation and the environment, regional planning, built form and landscape, places and people. Specifically, this special issue aims to explore the historic and sometimes contested role of trained architects in major planning schemes, as testified by the results of both realised and unbuilt schemes. Proposals of no more than 300 words should be submitted by 31 March 2025 to the editorial office at: planningperspectives@brookes.ac.uk
Presentation: Walking and Memory Mapping with artist Marlene Creates. 30th April 2025 6pm – 8pm Stratford, east London.
Canadian artist Marlene Creates has used memory mapping in her work since 1986—maps drawn both by her and by others for her. Memory maps are examples of alternative maps, also called participatory maps, counter maps, living maps, deep maps, and even radical maps. Every map tells a story and alternative maps tell alternative stories.
In this presentation, Marlene will show works done in collaboration with Indigenous Inuit and Innu elders in northern Labrador, and her own elderly relatives on the island of Newfoundland. Her most recent work centers the perceptions of about 200 school children who came for multidisciplinary guided walks in the 6-acre patch of old-growth boreal forest where she has been living and working since 2002 on the island of Newfoundland/ Ktaqmkuk.
following the talk Marlene will facilitate a hands-on workshop: Site + Memory = Place: A Memory Map Drawing Workshop guiding participants in drawing their own thematic, layered memory map of a place that is or has been important to them. All materials for the workshops are included. Book your place here:
Call for papers: Ocean Pop: Marine Imaginaries in the Age of Global Polycrisis. Edited by Anja Menzel and Charlotte Gehrke. The open access journal Ocean and Society from Cogitatio Press is welcoming article proposals for its upcoming issue “Ocean Pop: Marine Imaginaries in the Age of Global Polycrisis,” edited by Anja Menzel (University of Bamberg) and Charlotte Gehrke (Nord University).
This thematic issue examines how oceanic spaces, actors, and entities are represented, imagined, and understood in popular culture. Utilizing the concept of marine imaginaries, contributions analyze a wide range of media—such as art, film, gaming, music, and newspapers—to highlight the real-world implications of marine imaginaries and their reflection in societal social debates. In doing so, contributions span across diverse geographical contexts and cover a wide range of themes ranging from pirate codes to conservation measures. They analyze how popular cultural texts convey messages about marine imaginaries and their respective media forms, engaging not only with the content of these texts but also considering how their choice of medium influences perceptions of the ocean and its crises. Deadline for Abstracts: 15 April 2025 | Deadline for Articles: 30 September 2025. Authors interested in submitting a paper for this issue are encouraged to read the full call for papers here: https://www.cogitatiopress.com/oceanandsociety/pages/view/nextissues#OceanPop
November 2024
Exploring the Interface of the Other and the Self. Artists and practitioners are invited to submit visual works for inclusion in this upcoming book. The publication will examine the boundaries between self and other through photography, painting, and other visual media, complemented a reflective text. Contributions are sought from individuals whose work interrogates themes of identity, alterity, and the complex interplay between inner and external worlds. Submissions should be emailed to foscofornio.publishers@gmail.com with the subject line: Submission – Exploring the Interface of the Other and the Self. All attachments must be clearly labelled with the artist’s name and title of the work. Deadline: Submissions will be accepted until 31 January 2025.
Submission Requirements.
Visual Artworks: High-resolution images of photographs, paintings, drawings, or mixed media. Format: JPEG or TIFF (minimum 300 dpi). Title, medium, dimensions, and year of creation. Written Component: A reflective text of up to 400 words. This will be presented as facing text for the selected artwork. Contextualising the submitted work in relation to the book’s themes. Insights into the conceptual, philosophical, or methodological approach. Artist Biography: A short biography (150 words) including relevant experience and contact information.
New issue of Research in Arts and Education: RAE 3/2024 Thematic issue on Art and a Hopeful Future is edited by Raisa Foster and Katja Sutela. Read via the link: https://journal.fi/rae/issue/current.
Listening With Earth the companion issue to ‘Ecologies of Embodiment’ of the open-access videographic Journal of Embodied Research 7:2 (2024) is available. The collection of video articles problematises the notion of the ‘more-than-human’ and exploring listening-with as a speculative and generative (eco)somatic practice. https://doi.org/10.16995/jer.issue.1311
The World Education Research Association (WERA) Call for proposals to establish an International Research Network (IRN). The purpose of WERA-IRNs is to advance education research worldwide on specific research topics. IRNs are collaborative groups of scholars working on innovative research perspectives. IRNs synthesize knowledge, examine the state of research, and stimulate collaborations or otherwise identify promising directions in research areas ofworldwide significance. WERA-IRN proposals must be submitted via the following platform: Submission: WERA-IRN Proposals 2025. Proposals must be submitted by 1 February 2025. The review of the proposals will be conducted by the WERA IRN Committee under the leadership of Ingrid Gogolin (WERA Past President and Appointed Liaison) and Rocío García-Carrión (WERA Secretary General).
Angell, M.-L. (2024). C(h)ords of care. International Journal of Education & the Arts, 25(si1.20). http://doi.org/10.26209/ijea25si1.20
Plant Table is a performance activation by Carol Brown (NZ/Aus) & Gregory Lorenzutti (Brazil/Aus) entangling humans and plants in dances of relation. Table guests are invited to exchange vegetal stories, witness a duet and contribute to a collective archive of plant memories.
Organic materials sourced locally are placed on the table becoming a sensorium of movement potential, punctuated by plant meditations, facilitated dance scores, plant visibility walks, readings and bean sorting. https://tinyfest.org/2023/plant-table/
Digital Caretaking ☲fireside☲ Talk Series (online) every 2nd Tuesday @17hrs AEST from 9.7 until 10.12 2024 Hosted by Nancy Mauro-Flude, featuring expert practitioners from the global frontiers of holistic computing arts and regenerative design. Further info via link: https://www.autoluminescence.institute/events/digitalcaretaking_talks/schedule_list_series_2024/
Forthcoming:
Series 10 – 12.11.24 Waxing Crescent ☾ Demystifying Digital Obsolescence and the compulsion to buy new computers
Series 11 – 26.11.24 Waning Gibbous 🌘 Permacomputing in Art and Design schools
Series 12 – 10.12.24 Waxing Crescent ☾ Energy as a commons is where the slime mould creeps
Alys Longley was selected to share work at Movement Research at the Judson Church in NYC in October and performed with collaborators Macarena Campbell Parra and Francisco González Castro.
Congratulations to Patrick Macasaet for successfully completing your PhD! Titled POLYPHONIC PRAXIS: Architectural Design in Real-time and Immersive Gaming Environments. ‘Polyphonic Praxis’ is research at the nexus of architectural design, pedagogy, gaming environments, virtual speculative worlds, and future practice. Grounded in the critical exploration of real-time and immersive virtual gaming environments, this research advocates for a highly polyphonous and interdisciplinary approach as an exploration of architectural practice operating within contemporary virtual contexts. Central to this research are three fundamentals: Polemics, Immersions, and Ecologies. Images from Patrick’s Doctoral exhibition, at RMIT Design Hub Gallery:
Nordstrom, S. N. (2024). Inquiry as Resonance: Wiry Workings of Failure and Patience. Qualitative Inquiry, 0(0). https://doi.org/10.1177/10778004241288599
Juliana España Keller will be a resident participant in: Expanded Spaces in Nea Livera, Greece from November 15 – 30th, 2025. More info via the link: https://aadk.es/espacios-expandidos/
Juliana will also be a Visiting Professor at the Bauhaus University – Weimar, Germany from December 10th – 14th, 2024. Department of Acoustic Ecologies and Sound Studies. Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, Art and Design/Media Art and Design, Germany
Mapping Edges have a digital work out: https://multispeciesbelongings.substack.com/p/a-recipe-for-a-photo-diagram
Kimbal Bumstead has collaborated with Dr Sana Murrani (Principle Investigator), as the artist researcher on Ruptured Atlas. Ruptured Atlas (2024) is an innovative spatial architectural heritage of more-than-inhabitation project that employs creative, participatory mapping techniques to document the intricate and multi-layered built-environments and journeys of the Yazidis over the past ten years (since the 3rd of August 2014 Yazidi Genocide). More info via the link: https://ruptured-atlas.shorthandstories.com/ruptured-atlas/
Mohandas, S. (2024). Dalit lifeworlds at risk: When postcolonial critique fails. Knowledge Cultures, 12(2), 49-66.
Osgood, J., Archer, N., Albin-Clark, J. & Mohandas, S. (2024, ed.) Bewildering early childhood ‘pioneers’ [Special Issue], Pedagogy, Culture & Society, 32(4), pp.875–883. DOI:10.1080/14681366.2024.2355096
Nikoleta Zampaki & Peggy Karpouzou. “The Poetics of Zombification in Ryan Mecum’s Dawn of Zombie Haiku” In Zombie Futures in Literature, Media and Culture. Pandemics, Society and the Evolution of the Undead in the 21st Century edited by Simon Bacon, London and New York: Bloomsbury, 2024, pp. 253-261. Link: https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/zombie-futures-in-literature-media-and-culture-9781350285491/
Nikoleta Zampaki & Peggy Karpouzou. “Toward Posthuman Aesthetics: The Flesh of the World in Auguste Rodin’s Le Penseur and The Thinking Robot” In Mimetic Posthumanism. Homo Mimeticus 2.0 in Art, Philosophy and Technics edited by Nidesh Lawtoo, Leiden: Brill, 2024, pp. 77-91. Link: https://brill.com/display/title/63101
Calls for presentations for the 2025 Drama Australia National Conference, Invigorate, hosted by Drama South Australia closes on Monday 2nd December 2024. All the details can be found here https://www.dramasa.org/invigorate-2025-national-conference
Call for Papers: Visual arts, narrative and social class, 24-25 April, 2025, Turku, Finland. Art and society are deeply entangled, and visual arts offer a crucial window into historical, social and economic conditions. This conference is interested in the role of social class in the production, circulation and stories of the visual arts. During a two-day conference at the University of Turku, artists and researchers are invited to discuss the intersections between the visual arts, narrative and social class in Finland and across the world. It asks how visual art creates and changes understanding of social class. Presentation abstracts of 250 words, in English or Finnish, should be sent to Avril Tynan by December 31, 2024. The conference will take place at the University of Turku on April 24, 2025 and at Life on a Leaf on April 25, 2025. On Thursday, hybrid sessions will enable participation in person and online.
Studies in Theatre and Performance (STP) journal are seeking to appoint two new members of the editorial team. We are looking to recruit two general editors to start in January 2025. STP is a Taylor and Francis journal supported by DramaHE. It is an international, peer-reviewed journal that publishes widely in the field of theatre and performance. To see recent issues of and articles published in STP, visit: https://www.tandfonline.com/journals/rstp20
Send in your CV and responses to the questions 1. What makes a good editor? 2. What are the values and pitfalls of the peer review process? 3. How can editors work actively to decentre their practices? 4. How would you like to develop STP? to the Editorial team:
harriet.curtis@dmu.ac.uk tom.six@cssd.ac.uk bryony.white@warwick.ac.uk
Call for Journal Articles: Drawing beyond the Visible. TRACEY Drawing and Visualisation Research. Guest editor – James Bowen. Deadline – 31st January 2025. More info via the link: https://ojs.lboro.ac.uk/index.php/TRACEY/about/submissions
Linda Knight exhibited Mapping Extinction II in Puudu Taske / Missing at Tartu Art House, Estonia as part of #Tartu2024, European Festival of Culture. With Ackroyd & Harvey, Justine Blau, Samuel Collins & Mo Langmiur, Alain Delorme, Katrin Gattinger, Elisa Gleize, Louise Gugi, Jayne Ivimey, Flo Kasearu & Elina Vitola, Diana Lelonek, Fiona Tan, Kristina Ollek & Kert Viiart. More info: https://tartu2024.ee/en/programme-archive/exhibition-missing/?event=105571
Linda exhibited Mapping Extinction III, Mapping Extinction IV as part of ÆMPIRE\ Arthouse Hartford, Hartford CT, USA. With 005 co, Nicholaus Arnold, Daniel Ballesteros, Liz Bannish, Logan Bishop, Bolow Life, David Borawski, Aimée Burg, Joe Bun Keo, Jaclyn Cane, Melanie Carr, Megan Cascella, Deborah Dancy, Ray DiCapua, Douglas Degges, Tamara Dimitri, Enrique Figueredo, Santi Pérez García, Emily Jay, Aude Jomini, Helen Kauder, Eben Kling, Amy LaBossiere, Tao LaBossiere (1968–2024), Nathan Lewis, Luciana McClure-Lewis, Mychaelyn Michalec, Joe McCarthy, Kathryn Myers, Mark Mulroney, José Ortiz, Jeff Ostergren, Martin Parr, Jesse Peck, Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Janet Pritchard, Maria Porada, John Richardson, Andre Rochester, Christopher Roque, Chris Sancomb, Blake Shirley, Jeff Slomba, Tim Tanker, Paul Theriault, Judith Thorpe, Hadrian’s Wall Working Group, Jim Whitten, Robert Zott, Mark Zurolo, Utopian Mega Praxis.
Ben Spatz has published a companion special issue of JER 7.2: Ecologies of Embodiment II. Full issue is found: https://jer.openlibhums.org/
PRAKSIS and the Asia Pacific Artist Research Network (APARN) Open Call: Residency 30 – Climate / Coloniality. Residency dates: 12 August – 11 September 2025.
Application deadline: 23:59 CET, 5 January 2025. Climate change is indisputably a problem that is largely created by a privileged elite from the Global North, but it disproportionately impacts nations and regions in the South, alongside those in the north who have least resources to protect themselves from its effects. How might artists, wherever they come from, mobilise the local knowledge of individuals and communities from the Global South as they act in relation to climate crisis? How can they absorb and/or deploy globally interconnected knowledge and skills without reproducing the imperialist concepts and practices that underpinned colonial modernity?
Developed with the Asia Pacific Artistic Research Network (APARN), PRAKSIS residency 30, Climate / Coloniality invites artists to consider sustainability in the context of critical approaches to colonial knowledge, and explore new modes of community-engaged practice on a planet under threat. For more information and to apply: https://www.praksisoslo.org/residencieslist/2025/r30-climate-coloniality
August 2024
España Keller, Juliana (2024). Entering Into a Sonic Intra-Active Quantum Relation with Plant Life. Open Cultural Studies, Vol. 8(1)
Congratulations to Perdita Phillips for being awarded the Tate Adams Memorial Residency Fellowship! Held at Baldessin Studio and supported by State Library Victoria, AUS. Perdita’s residency project is: Anticipatory archive – mapping lithic traces from colonial pasts to spectral or regenerative futures. More info: https://www.slv.vic.gov.au/get-involved/fellowships/tate-adams-memorial-residency
Nancy Mauro-Flude presented FP: Heritage Frontiers in Computational Media Art: The Oceanic Provenance of Permacomputing and Codework at ISEA2024: 29th International Symposium on Electronic Art. More info on the academic, creative and artist program: https://isea2024.isea-international.org/creative-program/
Call for papers: Anti-colonial Futures and Representation. Centre for Global and Indigenous Futures, and Cultural Studies Association of Australasia conference 2024. 25-29 November, Macquarie University. Deadline for abstracts: 12 August. More info: https://www.globalindigenousfutures.com/anti-colonial-futures-and-representation-call-for-papers
Juliana Espana Keller was performer and sound composer for: Dismetropsia, with Cristina Savage and Maria Del Mar Suarez La Chachi. La Termica, Malaga, Spain, 5 July. More info: https://latermicamalaga.com/red-friday-julio-2024/
Jones, Sarah Jane, Crosby, Alexandra, & Vanni, Ilaria (2024). From photo documentation to photo diagrams: a technique to make civic ecologies present and legible. Visual Communication.
Linda Knight recently spoke at Traces of Extinction: Solastalgia, Species Loss and Semiotics of Recovery conference, Estonia.
The sixth mass species extinction is one of the greatest ecological threats of our time. The conference, hosted by the University of Tartu, Estonia 5-7 June 2024, focused on cultural, subjective and semiotic approaches to extinction. A subjective approach to extinction may raise the question of how we experience extinction in the shared lifeworld or ‘semiosphere’. At the same time, artistic research opens fresh perspectives in combining cultural creativity with environmental decline. Linda had the privilege of speaking about her research via her artistic investigations into extinction using her inefficient mapping process. Other distinguished speakers included David B. Rothenburg (New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA), Annette L. Bickford (York University, Canada), Matthew Chrulew (Curtin University), Pauline Delahaye (French Society of Zoosemiotics), Debora Villarubia (Biotyka.ES Corporation, Spain). The conference brought together academics, researchers, artists and writers, and formed part of the Creative Nature Festival, Tartu. https://tartu2024.ee/en/
Cloaking Quilting Reckoning: We Stole Wages by Linda Knight is showing with the International Art Textile Biennale 2023-2024. The final venue for the touring exhibition is Emerald Art Gallery: https://www.chrc.qld.gov.au/facilities-recreation/central-highlands-regional-galleries/emerald-art-gallery/ The exhibition is 16 August – 30 September.
Centre for Post-Capitalist History TV will be at the South Bend Museum of Art, South Bend Indiana, Opening July 13, runs through August: https://southbendart.org/the-center-for-post-capitalist-history/
On June 21st + 22nd (solstice 2024) Leah Sandler presented We Keep Our Faces Always Toward the Sun, a collaborative project with composer Chaz Underriner.
Devised for Solstice 2024, and with consideration of new legislation in Florida preventing local governments from requiring basic heat protection for outdoor workers, this projection and sound piece is an elegy for protection from the sun. A cell phone video of the April 8th solar eclipse shot inside a DIY pinhole viewing device projected onto a circular screen constructed from hand-pulled paper with pulp made from Florida HB 433 (2024), dried in the Florida summer sun, hung by a single roofing nail, is accompanied by a minimal drone score resonant with the frequency of the sun’s vibrations by composer Chaz Underriner. This gesture is a contemplation of Floridian vulnerability and irreverence to the sun. (The human scale of time exists within the geological scale of time.) Link: https://leahsandler.art/We-Keep-Our-Faces-Always-Toward-the-Sun
From Peter Kelly: Launch of mini-documentary Crisis + Change + Growing Up in Geelong, and the final report (PDF 554kb) from the research project: COVID-19 and Disadvantaged Young People’s Education and Employment Aspirations: A Longitudinal Study of Young People’s Transitions in Geelong.
This webinar will showcase the voices of young people in Geelong as they examine their experiences of the pandemic, and reflect on their changing hopes and aspirations in the context of this and other crises. It will also outline and invite discussion of a number of key findings and recommendations from the research project. The event will be the first in a series of: Intergenerational Dialogues for a Planet in Crisis. At a time that the UN Secretary General has called ‘a code red for humanity’, and when young people in their millions have taken to the streets to protest inaction in the face of climate change, there is an urgent need to engage in dialogue across generational divides about what sustainable, regenerative and just futures might look for young people and future generations if they are shaped by a ‘radical politics of hope’. Bringing together young people, community groups, politicians and policy makers, businesses and academics, this series of face-to-face events and webinars will be grounded in place based engagements with planetary wide challenges and opportunities in what the World Economic Forum has called times of ‘permacrisis’. 11.00 am—12.00 pm AEST Wednesday 31 July 2024. Online via Zoom. Eventbrite registration here https://redi.deakin.edu.au/events/crisis-change-growing-up-in-geelong/
String-Figuring. Web-Piece by Catalina Hernández-Cabal. This web piece holds composed and curated traces of our experience of sustaining a five-month-long movement and art-based study of our embodied trajectories as minoritized people in the United States, amidst the Covid-19 pandemic. The site includes participants’ creative responses to the scores (prompts) I designed for the experience, addressing themes such as space-place, entanglements, tensions, and forms of refusal. It functions as a form of mapping encounters and experiences, using relational art-making and movement as a form of scholarship and theorizing. From String Figuring—also the title of this project—emerged feminist theorizing, a virtual (but very real) space, and enduring friendships. See the work here: http://stringfiguring.com
Puffpaper IV: Works on paper by Zoe Amor, Catherine Pilgrim, David Golightly & Benjamin Sheppard.
There’s a shared sensibility and complexity of mark-making in the artworks on exhibited in Puffpaper IV – the fourth of Artpuff’s annual celebration of works on paper. Catherine Pilgrim’s work revolves around researching local women from our Central Victorian history. Through drawing, she pays careful attention to the lost stories of women. Her imagery is poetic and spare, her approach honouring her subject: “Careful drawing is central to all that I do – paying homage to the underrated domestic role (mostly) played by women during the 19th and early 20th centuries … The single colour blue acts to remind us of the monocultural views of most historical information and was chosen to echo the domestic colours often found in Victorian era china” (Catherine Pilgrim, artist). There’s similar poetry in Zoe Amor’s work. As well, a sense in which the process of drawing, and creating art, is inextricable from the meaning held in the works that result. The atmospheric pieces she creates embody a life-force that’s present in the moment of making: “Drawings are made with such immediate energy. They capture through qualities and quantities of light what you think, feel, dream or remember of the observed. When the tool of the medium becomes an extension of your hand, heart and mind, your sensibilities and ideas in that moment flow into the work – a process that can be mysterious, confronting, transformative all at the same time…” (Zoe Amor, artist). David Golightly and Benjamin Sheppard share this exploratory approach, working intuitively, each in their own way absorbed in the expressive potential of line and shape. Golightly’s experimentation with cardboard constructions and their potential for organic sculptural forms gives rise to works of quiet depth. Paper soaked in water becomes a malleable material lending itself to crushing, folding, piercing and reshaping. The resulting dried objects have a toughness that belies the fragility of the material. For Sheppard, it’s the expressive possibilities of line, scribble, figurative and abstract marks in combination. Central to his practice is a focus on the capacity for ‘drawings in progress’ to articulate ideologies, and on art-making as a means of considering contemporary social, political and identity issues. The hand, and the physical play of manipulating line, creating breathing space and light, and making marks, is very much evident in the work of all four exhibiting artists. So too is a love and understanding of paper, materials and the surfaces they yield. A show to take in slowly. More details: https://www.artgalleria.com/view-room/49835
Mapping Edges convened two sessions at the Institute of Australian Geographers conference 2024 at the University of Adelaide, 1-5 July 2024, titled Wetlands geographies, an eel-eye view of geographical futures. It was a great opportunity to think with other water geographers and geography-adjacent researchers and be inspired by the richness of their creative approaches.
Peter Kelly, Luke Howie, James Goring, and Seth Brown and the Young People’s Sustainable Futures Lab recently held a symposium to launch their project Co-Designing Young People’s Pathways to Net Zero Futures. Full details of the project: https://youngpeoplesfutureslab.org/project/co-designing-young-peoples-pathways-to-net-zero-futures-nzfs/
Call for submissions: Ecokritike: journal in Environmental Humanities – we accept submissions
of articles, book reviews and special issue proposals on a rolling basis: https://ecokritike.hcommons.org/about/
Book Series: Posthumanities and Citizenship Futures. Rowman & Littlefield. Series Editor: Peggy Karpouzou and Series co-Editor: Nikoleta Zampaki: https://rowman.com/Action/Series/_/LEXPCF
Call for abstracts: Storyworlds: A Journal of Narrative Studies. Colors in Econarratives about the Human and More-than-Human World
Edited by Peggy Karpouzou and Nikoleta Zampaki. Deadline for submissions: August, 31, 2024. https://nebraskapressjournals.unl.edu/calls-for-papers/
Book Series: Brill Research Perspectives in Critical Theory. Series Editor: Peggy Karpouzou. Proposals Accepted on a rolling basis: https://brill.com/display/serial/RPCTS?contents=about
Horne, Ralph, Ambrose, Aimee, Walker, Gordon, & Nelson, Anitra (2024). Post-carbon Inclusion: Transitions Built on Justice. Bristol University Press: https://bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/post-carbon-inclusion
Call for proposals: Past, Present and Future Econarratives. Exeter Studies in Environmental Humanities. University of Exeter Press.
Editorial Advisory Board: Marco Armiero, Mieke Bal, Dominic Boyer, Jeff Diamanti, Vicki Kirby, Nina Lykke, Orsola Rignani, Scott Slovic, Imre Szeman, Robert T. Tally Jr.
Exeter Studies in Environmental Humanities: Past, Present and Future Econarratives provides a forum for innovative scholarship in Environmental Humanities, encompassing critical strands and interdisciplinary approaches to literary, ethical and socio-political explorations of life-forms’ entanglements, reaching from antiquity to present. The series encourages and includes works that examine cultural representations of the environment and species’ interplays, and which contribute alternative post-anthropocentric storytellings to the one of the Anthropocene, which has a disastrous impact on all Earth’s ecosystems and even threatens the planet’s existence.The series seeks to engage with original manuscripts (monographs, edited collections and handbooks) on a great range of Environmental Humanities topics, exploring past, present and potential future narratives, and ‘restorying’ our relationship with nature to rethink sustainable planetary futures. To discuss a proposal please contact: Professor Peggy Karpouzou pkarpouzou@phil.uoa.gr Dr. Nikoleta Zampaki nikzamp@phil.uoa.gr or Commissioning Editor Becky Taylor b.taylor@exeterpress.co.uk
Call for papers: Fair Use
liquid blackness: journal of aesthetics and black studies issue 9, no. 2, Fall 2025. Fair use is a legal doctrine that promotes freedom of expression by permitting the unlicensed use of copyright-protected works in certain circumstances. Fair use is an affirmative defense that can be raised in response to claims by a copyright owner that a person is infringing a copyright. A [fair use] code provides guidance to rights holders as to when it may not make sense for them to claim infringement in light of an appropriate invocation of fair use. This issue of liquid blackness: journal of aesthetics and black studies welcomes critical engagements with the fair use doctrine—its premises, objects, and practices—and is particularly interested in its praxis as it extends beyond its strict legal meaning. Submissions Due: September 1, 2024. Submit to: https://mc04.manuscriptcentral.com/dup-lbk
Symposium: THE ART OF CULTURAL EXCHANGE: Asia-Pacific Conversations in Creative Writing
Wed 9th Oct 2024, 9:30 am – Thu 10th Oct 2024, 4:30 pm AEDT. Community Hub/Library at the Dock. 107 Victoria Harbour Promenade, Docklands VIC 3008, Australia.
The Symposium breaks from conventional academic conference formats. It is designed for all participants to engage actively across the two-day program: talking, listening, taking our time, and sharing food to enable in-depth thinking and to forge new connections.
Featuring leading writers, poets and scholars from across the region, including Ali Cobby Eckermann (Yankunytjatjara), Dicky Senda (Mollo, West Timor), Ann Ang (Singapore), Priya Chabria (India), Conchitina Cruz (Philippines), Arpita Das (India), Marjorie Evasco (Philippines), Roanna Gonsalves (Australia), Hsu-Ming Teo (Australia), Alvin Pang (Singapore), Lily Rose Topé (Philippines), and RMIT’s Michelle Aung Thin, David Carlin, Melody Ellis, Eugenia Flynn, Michele Lee and Francesca Rendle-Short. More info: https://events.humanitix.com/the-art-of-cultural-exchange
Call for papers: Casteism Across Borders: Mapping the Diasporic Reproduction of Caste Discrimination and Anti-Caste Struggles
Transitions: Journal of Transient Migration. Guest editors: Dr Vikrant Kishore, Dr Stephen Goulding, Dr Ratan Lal
This Special Issue of Transitions: Journal of Transient Migration will explore the complex and often overlooked perpetuation of casteism and anti-caste activism in South Asian diasporic communities around the globe. Some key concerns noted in academic discourse, but which remain largely under appreciated by scholars thus far, are how casteism reproduces itself and transforms as it crosses national borders and perseveres as a dynamic and fluid force in South Asian diasporic communities around the globe (Modi 2023). This issue aims to provide a timely contribution to research by exploring the manifestations of diasporic caste baggage and casteism, examining how these inherited practices of division and discrimination are both preserved and contested in new socio-cultural landscapes. We welcome expressions of interest in the form of 300-word abstracts that outline your proposed contributions to the Special Issue. Deadline: 31 August 2024. More information: https://www.intellectbooks.com/journal-editors-and-contributors
Call for Papers: Thematic Issue on Challenging Conformity in Arts Education.
Research in Arts in Education. Guest editors: Judit Onsès and Ebba Theorell.
Keeping these insights in mind, we invite researchers to share their art education experiences and research in relation to questions such as: How can art education welcome diversity of artistic and educational processes and challenge conformity? How can traditional arts education contribute to experimenting with stereotypes in arts practice and foster significant and insightful learning? What kind of approaches to art education may enhance learners’ subjectivity and expression? How can arts education challenge individualization and standardization, and foster collaborative creative learning? Please submit a max. 150-word (excluding references) abstract by September 10, 2024, through Research in Arts and Education’s online platform: https://journal.fi/rae/about/submissions.
Re-Evaluations in Feminism and Contemporary Art
13 September, Middlesex University
A hybrid conference – either in person OR online. Link: http://Re-Evaluation in Feminism and Contemporary Art | n.paradoxa’s blog (wordpress.com)
Disinformation – “Closed Circuit” – architectural + immersive sound installation at Shatwell Farm, Somerset – in “Sounds & Shapes” exhibition, curated by Matchett & Page, July 2021
“Closed Circuit” by Disinformation was commissioned and installed at Shatwell Farm, Somerset as part of the exhibition “Sounds & Shapes”, curated by Matchett & Page. The installation was open 11am to 5pm, Saturday 17th July to Sunday 1st August 2021
Stephen Duncombe (2024) The Affect and Effect of Artistic Activism. Fordham University Press
Æffect is rich with examples that demonstrate successful artistic activism, including Undocubus, an old bus painted “No Fear” across its side that was driven cross-country by a group of undocumented immigrant activists; Journal Rappé, a video show created by Senegalese rappers who created long-form investigative reports by rapping the current news in French and Wolof; and War on Smog, a staged a public performance piece by artistic activists in the city of Chongqing in Southwest China. Scannable QR codes are included to provide tools that help readers assess the æffect of their artistic activism. Available here: https://www.combinedacademic.co.uk/9781531506513/aeffect/
March 2024
SOCIETY. SPACES. SCREENS – Art, Media and Society. Phoenix, Arizona (+Virtual)
Dec 11-13, 2024.
USA | BRAZIL | SOUTH KOREA. In-person presentations to be held at Arizona State University, USA, with virtual strands coordinated by Cesar University School, Brazil, and Yonsei University, South Korea
Part of the MEDIATED CITIES Series. Abstract Date: June 30, 2024 https://amps-research.com/conference/society-spaces-screens/
NEW SCHOOLS OF THOUGHT – Creative Teaching and Critical Thinking. Los Angeles, California (+Virtual)
Jan 8-10, 2025
USA | CHILE | INDONESIA. In-person presentations are to be held at California State University, USA, with virtual strands coordinated by the Catholic University of Parahyangan, Indonesia and the University of the Andes, Chile. Abstract Date: July 1, 2024 https://amps-research.com/conference/schools-of-thought/
PhD scholarships available – ARC Discovery Project ‘Surfacing Urban Wetlands in Two Urban Renewal Sites in Sydney’
University of Technology Sydney
Urban wetlands in Australia provide benefits for climate change mitigation, pollution reduction, habitat provision and socioecological connection. However, in large cities like Sydney, urban wetlands are unseen because they are undergrounded and, therefore, not adequately understood. This illegibility and loss of understanding by residents, planners and policymakers impede wetlands’ good management. This project surfaces wetlands through visualisation in a multimodal knowledge platform focusing on two urban renewal sites, Green Square and Marrickville South. We leverage design ethnography to develop resources for strengthening multiple stakeholders’ socioecological engagement through methods empowering just, creative and open participation. Fully funded for 3.5 years full-time
Domestic Students must apply by 8 April 2024.
Email your CV and cover letter to alexandra.crosby@uts.edu.au
Communicating climate hope: Countering eco-anxiety and climate doomism in research and practice.
University of British Columbia and Tilburg University
Vancouver, BC, Canada; Tilburg, Netherlands, August 15-16, 2024
As the impacts of the climate crisis rise, we are also seeing a rise in eco-anxiety. Although experiencing such emotions may inspire some to act, for many the result is doomism, and a resulting inability to act. Therefore, the current Climate Hope event aims to explore the vital role of effective communication in fostering hope and driving positive action in the context of climate change. Although we very much welcome participants from a wide range of disciplines to the conference, we focus on the following disciplines in this call for submissions: academics working on climate hope; artists who produce art in this direction; and community-oriented activists seeking to foster climate hope in the public sphere. website: climatehope2024.com
Abstract submission deadline: April 8, 2024
Open Cultural Studies: Critical Plant Theories and Cultures: Exploring Human and More-than-human World Entanglements
Edited by Peggy Karpouzou and Nikoleta Zampaki (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens,
Greece). Deadline for submissions of full articles until April 30, 2024 https://www.degruyter.com/journal/key/culture/html#overview
Lagoonscapes 4 | 2 | 2024: Special Issue’s Title: Ecologies of Life and Death in the Anthropocene
Guest editors: Professor Peggy Karpouzou, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece & Dr. Nikoleta Zampaki, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece. Deadline for submissions of full articles until July 31, 2024 https://edizionicafoscari.unive.it/en/edizioni4/riviste/the-venice-journal-of-environmental-humanities/info#call
Storyworlds: A Journal of Narrative Studies.
Call for Abstracts for Special Issue “Colors in Econarratives about the Human and More-than-Human World“
Please send an abstract of up to 300 words and further queries to pkarpouzou@phil.uoa.gr or nikzamp@phil.uoa.gr by August 31st, 2024. https://nebraskapressjournals.unl.edu/calls-for-papers/
Husberg, Hanna and Agata Marzecova, “Beyond 5G: fieldnotes from Finland,” Mediapolis: A Journal of Cities and Culture 7, no. 3 (September 2022) https://www.mediapolisjournal.com/2022/09/fieldnotes-from-finland/
Florence, Eloise (2024), Traces of Aerial Bombing in Berlin: Entangled Remembering. London: Bloomsbury Academic https://www.bloomsbury.com/au/9781350268999/
The Healing: Planetary Health in times of Climate Change
A community online 6 week course featuring healers from Brazil, Kenya, Nigeria, India and Philippines, plus a special participation by award-winning artist and poet Cecilia Vicuna. Every Wednesday 19:30 GMT/BST via zoom. Registration is by voluntary donation. https://www.guardiansworldwide.org/donate
Jenny Hickinbotham, songwriter and singer and Laura Altman on things like clarinet have created a show about Mothers and Daughters and Hearing Voices. Hickinbotham’s performance is a response to The Big Anxiety Resource Centres’s latest three day forum 21-23 March requiring submissions which challenge contemporary mental health language, strategy and therapy.
Jenny’s presentation with internationally acclaimed Musician Laura Altman at UNSW The Anxiety Resource Centre on March 28th 11.30.
Mohandas, Sid and Osgood, Jayne (2024), Feminist New Materialist Approaches to Childhood Studies. Oxford Bibliographies https://www.oxfordbibliographies.com/display/document/obo-9780199791231/obo-9780199791231-0286.xml
Nelson, Anitra (2023) ‘Degrowth in IV movements’, 10 October. Progress in Political Economy — https://www.ppesydney.net/degrowth-in-iv-movements/
Feeling, Drawing, Thinking @Mejia 33 Tinning Street Brunswick, Melbourne, Australia. 9th – 24th of February 2024
Mejia Gallery kicked off its 2024 program with an exhibition celebrating contemporary drawing practices coming out of RMIT’s School of Art in recent years. Current Drawing department staff members Ruth O’Leary and Benjamin Sheppard assembled their work along with RMIT alumni and three prize winning 2023 graduates from the Drawing department in the School of Art—a humble local survey of recent drawing practice in the continuum of people making marks that communicate feelings and embody thought. Participating artists: Madeleine Joy Dawes, Rachael Goy, Ruth O’Leary, Becc Ország, Zoé Pietrzniak, Jas Shalimar, Benjamin Sheppard, Ka Yan So (Kelly), Annie Wallwork and Mia Zamparo http://Mejia.com.au
Call for Papers, Mediations of Body in Popular Spaces/Culture. Language, Literature, and Interdisciplinary Studies journal (LLIDS).
Complete papers will be considered for publication. The papers need to be submitted according to the guidelines of the MLA 8th edition. You are welcome to submit full length papers (3,500–10,000 words) along with a 150 words abstract and list of keywords. Deadline 15 June 2024 https://ellids.com/call-for-papers/
Roderick Visiting Fellowships 2024 & 2025
The Roderick Centre for Australian Literature and Creative Writing seeks expressions of interest (EOIs) from researchers in the field of Australian literary studies to participate in a series of Roderick Visiting Fellowships. The Roderick Visiting Fellowship Program aims to attract outstanding researchers in the field of Australian literary studies to make a positive contribution to the research culture of the James Cook University. This contribution should include conducting one masterclass, as well as presenting seminars or delivering public-facing guest lectures. Roderick Visiting Fellows will join the centre for thirty (30) days. The Fellowship is valued at up to $20,000 which includes travel, accommodation, and administrative expenses plus a stipend to cover incidentals while staying at JCU.
The fellowships are available to any scholar from Australia or overseas who is actively working in the field of Australian literary studies. Please forward your expression of interest to Associate Professor Roger Osborne Roger.Osborne@jcu.edu.au before 31 March 2024.
Your expression of interest should include:
- Curriculum Vitae (CV), including details of degrees and qualifications; relevant positions held in the past five years; a list of publications, presentations, and achievements relevant to the application.
- Fellowship Proposal: In no more than two pages, indicate the ways in which you will contribute to the University research culture by drawing on your experience and track record. The proposal should also indicate a schedule for the visit to JCU. We are initially seeking scholars who could be in residence from 15 July 2024 to coincide with the launch of the Roderick Centre. Other periods in 2024 and 2025 are welcome.
- Two referee reports: The referee reports should address your experience and research capabilities, and an assessment of the value and viability of the fellowship proposal.
| ಒಡಲಾಳ Odalala (‘from the depths of one’s being’) is a new multi-format activation curated by Vishal Kumaraswamy, unfolding across Arts House during Dalit History Month.Comprising an exhibition, performances, film screenings and more, ಒಡಲಾಳ Odalala brings together Australian and international artists to examine histories of caste, migration, gender and sexuality through contemporary expression.Among the works of ಒಡಲಾಳ Odalala are two new major commissions: ALAM / مَلَ ع by Elyas Alavi, current Getrude Contemporary studio artist, and Caste-pital by Sajan Mani, the first Indian artist to be awarded the Berlin Art Prize.ಒಡಲಾಳ Odalala also features works by Priyageetha Dia, Jagath Dheerasekara, Yaseera Moosa, Tabitha Percy, Osheen Siva and Peter Waples-Crowe. ಒಡಲಾಳ Odalala 3 – 27 April Monday – Friday 10.30am – 4.30pm Saturday 11am – 4pm Free Arts House, Melbourne |
DRN2024 Drawing Repetition: Tracing Technology
11.00-13.00 (BST) 17 April 2024 [online]
Hosted by the Drawing Research Group at Loughborough University
Tracing Technology is the second in the series of online DRN events exploring drawing repetition. The panel brings together researchers investigating aspects of technology in relation to repetition within contemporary drawing practice. Tickets: https://buytickets.at/drawingresearchgroup/1207696
GLOBAL CALL FOR ENTRIES | 2025 TAOYUAN INTERNATIONAL ART AWARDS
“The Taoyuan International Art Award” (TIAA) was launched in 2020 and is organized by the Taoyuan Museum of Fine Arts, established in 2018. It aims to encourage cultural heterogeneity in contemporary art worldwide. The core mission of TIAA is to promote cultural diversity in contemporary art globally and to discover artistic propositions that embody modern viewpoints. Selected artists will receive support from the museum to realize their exhibition plans.
For the “2025 Taoyuan International Art Award,” the museum seeks new works presented to the public for the first time and have never entered government-organized competitions in Taiwan. The competition is open to participants of all nationalities, whether individuals or groups, and welcomes artists from all over the world. Submissions can be made online from 1 to 26 April, 2024, by registering on the official website https://tmofa-tiaa.com/ before the deadline. The detailed prospectus for the award is available on the website.
Asia Pacific Artistic Research Network – #APARN 2024 — Art as Research: Methods for Synthetic Reasoning
Hosted by The Faculty of Creative Media (MMU) in Cyberjaya Malaysia. 12 – 13 June 2024
The Asia Pacific Artistic Research Network (APARN) Special Interest Group of the Society for Artistic Research invites proposals for presentations at its upcoming 2024 symposium, Art as Research: Methods for Synthetic Reasoning. The symposium aims to explore how we create order and meaning from the world around us, encompassing both passive and active forms of reasoning. We invite proposals that explore how art can generate new knowledge, challenge dominant narratives, and envision a better future by engaging with synthetic reasoning methodologies, where the truth of propositions emerges from their interaction with the world and the generation of novel properties through philosophical simulations (artworks). With this focus, we invite proposals from diverse voices and perspectives, particularly from the Asia Pacific region, to share innovative research and practice, foster critical dialogue and collaboration, and especially explore the transformative potential of Artistic Research x Technology in creating liveable futures. Please submit a 300-word abstract (including title) and a short biography (100 words) by April 12 at the APARN website http://aparn.net
January 2024
Planetary Data Infrastructures call for contributions, ‘Making and doing transformations’ EASST-4S Amsterdam, 16-19 July 2024.
Convenors:
Estrid Sørensen (Ruhr-Universität Bochum)
Nancy Mauro-Flude (RMIT University)
Stefan Laser (Ruhr-University Bochum)
Steven Jackson (Cornell University)
“Planetary Data Infrastructures” a convergence (panel) that explores expanded engagements with networked infrastructures, intimate, concrete and speculative that help foster more response-able, aesthetic, cooperative, and sustainable planetary relations. We invite conventional and experimental formats in presentation abstracts (spoken word, performance, social sculpture, fictocriticism, poetry… ) For presentation at ‘Making and doing transformations’ EASST-4S 2024 conference Amsterdam, 16-19 July 2024. Abstracts Due: 12 February 2024: https://nomadit.co.uk/conference/easst-4s2024/panel/14242
Hughes, R., Fricker, A. Decolonising practice in teacher education in Australia: Reflections of shared leadership. Aust. Educ. Res. (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13384-023-00670-4
The RGS-IBG 2024 (London) has the theme ‘mapping’ – very relevant to network members. More info here: https://www.rgs.org/research/annual-international-conference/chairs-theme
New book: All Mapped Out by Mike Duggan
An exploration of how maps impact our lives on social and cultural levels. This book takes readers on a journey through the fascinating history of maps, from ancient cave paintings and stone carvings to the digital interfaces we rely on today. But it’s not just about the maps themselves; it’s about the people behind them. Discover how maps have affected societies, influenced politics and economies, impacted the environment, and even shaped our sense of personal identity. Mike Duggan uncovers the incredible power of maps to shape the world and the knowledge we consume. This is a unique and eye-opening perspective on the significance of maps in our daily lives. https://reaktionbooks.co.uk/work/all-mapped-out
Call for submissions: online panel Our Zoopolis: Reconceptualising Coexistence in More-than-Human Cities at the EASA2024 conference in Barcelona.
A conceptualisation of Western cities needs to be “undone” to recognise the agency, ethics and values of multispecies natures within more-than-human places. This panel asks: How can anthropology contribute to understanding multispecies coexistence towards realising just and sustainable cities? The full panel description is here: https://easaonline.org/conferences/easa2024/programme?utm_source=news&utm_medium=sendy&utm_campaign=EASA2024_CFPan_Accepted#14761. Please follow the links to submit a paper online. The deadline for paper proposals is 22 January 2024.
Call for papers: Global Maritime Flows and Local Implications: A Worldwide Taxonomy and Glossary of Port City Regions
The open-access journal Ocean and Society from Cogitatio Press is welcoming article proposals for its upcoming issue, “Global Maritime Flows and Local Implications: A Worldwide Taxonomy and Glossary of Port City Regions,” edited by Mina Akhavan (TU Delft), Carola Hein (TU Delft), and Yvonne van Mil (TU Delft). This thematic issue seeks to advance the conceptual, theoretical, and empirical discussion around the spatiality of port(s) and their hosting cities in different regions of the world. The aim is to contribute to the large body of literature by identifying the territorial typology of port cities starting from the global flows (commodity, passengers, and knowledge) that run through maritime and inland ports and create a complex ecosystem. Deadline for Abstracts: 15 April 2024 | Deadline for Articles: 15 September 2024. Authors interested in submitting a paper for this issue are encouraged to read the full call for papers here: https://www.cogitatiopress.com/oceanandsociety/pages/view/nextissues#PortCity
¡Les esperamos! ***ESPAÑOL ABAJO*** Liberatory Methods for investigating and generating non-capitalist / anti-colonial social power
This workshop is focused on privileging and strengthening the practices and methods used to create, value and recognize the experience/knowledge that is created through the lives and histories of people whose access to their own realities has been undermined by myriad forms of oppression, negation and gaslighting. We will look at how the persistent relationships among people, territory and non-human others have been devalued in Capitalist / Colonial systems and, as such, leaving the very existence of all life in peril. On the other hand, the persistence of relationships such as relationality, comunalidad, and non-capitalist economic systems have also been the first line of resistance, perseverance and creation of other ways of doing and being life. As scholars and activists, we have a responsibility to break away from hierarchical structures of knowledge creation and practice while embracing the many forms of knowing and being that are the majority forms of existence. Let us come together in this seven-week workshop to dignify hidden and untold histories while creating futures that embrace flourishing. More info: https://cambalache.noblogs.org/post/2024/01/16/716/
Environment and Society: Advances in Research – Volume 14 (2023)
This volume highlights flood and fire as compounding contemporary crises and responses to these phenomena that are transforming processes around the planet. More info: http://www.berghahnjournals.com/environment-and-society
Publication: Peggy Karpouzou at HJEAS, “Becoming-Mineral: Desert Timescapes and Post-Neoliberal Geontopower in Don DeLillo’s Point Omega” https://sciendo.com/article/10.30608/hjeas/2023/29/1/6
Ecoaesthetics and Ecosophy in China by Cheng Xiangzhan | Published: 9 October 2023 [ Environmental Humanities Series: 2 ] | Series Editors: Peggy Karpouzou and Nikoleta Zampaki
Call for submissions (ongoing): Journal of Ecohumanism. More info: https://ecohumanism.co.uk/joe/ecohumanism
Call for manuscript proposals: Brill Research Perspectives in Critical Theory. More info: https://brill.com/display/serial/RPCTS?contents=editorialcontent-67493
Call for papers: Australian and New Zealand Journal of Art
We seek original essays, dialogues, visual essays, and other texts that engage with artists, visual culture, exhibitions, critical debates, frameworks, and methodologies across art history, theory, curating, and practice in and across Australia and the Asia Pacific region. More info: https://aaanz.info/journals/anzja-call-for-papers/
Lucy Nicholas and Sal Clark (2023) ‘Gender, Sex and Freedom: Testing the Theoretical Limits of the Twenty-First-Century “Gender Wars” with Simone de Beauvoir, Shulamith Firestone and Luce Irigaray’, Paragraph, Volume 46 Issue 3, Page 354-371, ISSN 0264-8334 https://www.euppublishing.com/doi/full/10.3366/para.2023.0442
Call for submissions: Swamphen Journal Issue
We invite submissions from anyone (whether or not you attended the conference) responding to the conference theme. The 2023 ‘Recentring the Region’ conference was a collaboration between the Association for the Study of Literature, Environment and Culture, Australia and New Zealand (ASLEC-ANZ) and the Association for the Study of Australian Literature (ASAL). Submissions are now invited for ASLEC-ANZ’s conference-themed edition of Swamphen: a Journal of Cultural Ecology. Submissions close 15 February 2024. For more information about the journal and the special issue call for submissions, please go to: https://aslecanz.org.au/journal/journal-news/
Call for panel contributions: Body, intuition and perception in arts-based interventions in decolonial environmental STS epistemologies and pedagogies
Are you a scholar, artist or practitioner interested in the connections between the body, intuition and arts practice as a way to imagine decolonial environmental futures? If so, we invite your contributions to our panel at next year’s EASST-4S conference at Amsterdam. The body, perception and intuition can help scientific practitioners engage with the environment beyond Cartesian dualism separating mind from body. However, to achieve social transformation, we must reconnect with our collective sorrows and hopes in a world plagued by war and climate disaster. We are interested in several ways that intuition, embodiment and perception may guide environmental inquiry. For this panel, we seek traditional papers, artworks and other creative interventions to engage with ways of knowing often sidelined in the context of institutional scientific inquiry, namely, the body, intuition, and perception. We invite contributions that examine the role of intuition in creating a more emancipatory vision of a decolonial environmental STS. More info: https://nomadit.co.uk/conference/easst-4s2024/p/14251
Call for papers: 17th CCVA Annual Conference (Extra)ordinary living: aesthetics in contemporary China
This conference welcomes papers that can advance critical analysis and broaden multidisciplinary perspectives on the living and the ordinary in the fields of visual arts, performing arts, and design. Possible perspectives include but are not limited to: The living and the ordinary in contemporary arts; Design and innovations that redefine living; New methods and strategies to approach living in contemporary China, including experimental works that privilege sound, smell, tactile and kinetic experience; Theoretical and art-historical explorations of living in China; Artworks and design objects that examine living in rural contexts; Representations of living in underrepresented social groups, ethnic minorities, borderlands and other organisms. Please submit one single document (in English) with subject ‘CCVA Conference 2024’, containing 1) an abstract of up to 300 words; 2) a 100-word biography, contact information and any institutional affiliation by 1 March 2024 to ccva@bcu.ac.uk, Dr. Federica Mirra (federica.mirra@bcu.ac.uk) and Professor Jiang Jiehong (joshua.jiang@bcu.ac.uk). Participants from all career stages are most welcome.
Beyond Panic. The Others of the Climate Crisis”, held online on 13 February 2024, at 3-6pm (Rome time).
The event will be divided into a first hour of a workshop to deconstruct imaginaries and narratives on climate change-induced mobilities, held by Elena Giacomelli and Stefania Peca (University of Bologna), and a second part of the seminar with Andrew Baldwin (Durham University) and Mimi Sheller (Worcester Polytechnic Institute). If you wish to participate, please complete this registration form
https://forms.gle/MS15A6pVbw3SbCm98
Pattern and Chaos in Art, Science and Everyday Life: Critical Intersections and Creative Practice, edited by Sarah Horton and Victoria Mitchell.
This richly illustrated volume explores critical and visual practices through the lens of intersections between pattern and chaos. It challenges disciplinary boundaries, perception and communication, often referencing the in-between territory of art and science through experimentation and visual scrutiny. The contributions are organized into clusters of subjects that reflect the interdisciplinary terrain through a robust, yet also experimental, arrangement. These are ‘Pattern Dynamics’, ‘Morph Flux Mutate’, ‘Decompose Recompose’, ‘Virus’, ‘Social Imaginary’ and ‘Nothings in Particular’.
Call for Papers and Artistic Contributions: Journal of Arts and Communities
Special Issue: ‘Trans-disciplinarity in Disability, Art and Design. For full consideration by the special issue guest editor, Amanda Cachia, please submit an extended 1000-word abstract along with a one-page list of Works Cited for articles, and either the finished version or the work-in-progress with a brief one-page description for artistic contributions to acachia@uh.edu by Friday 2 February 2024. View the full call here: https://www.intellectbooks.com/journal-of-arts-communities#call-for-papers
COVA films on art
The films feature interviews with researchers from the Faculty of Fine Arts and Music and Faculty of Arts, Honorary Fellows, artists and graduate research students – all of whom participated in CoVA through their research and practices between 2018 and 2023. Many thanks to those who were interviewed as part of the filming process: Prof Su Baker, Dr Danny Butt, Dr Suzie Fraser, Chloe Ho, Dr Ryan Jefferies, Prof Natalie King, Dr Sean Lowry, Prof Ian McLean, Prof Norie Neumark, Dr Lisa Radford and Yhonnie Scarce, Dr Kiron Robinson, Genevieve Trail and Jen Valander. Watch the films here: https://sites.research.unimelb.edu.au/cova/home/research/dialogues/cova-films-on-art
The Healing: planetary health in times of climate change is an online community course curated by Corinna Burger de Oliveira (Guardians Worldwide) and led by seven amazing indigenous healing practitioners from Brazil, Kenya, Philippines and Chile.
The course will run for 6 weeks from March 6, every Wednesday at 19:30 GMT with participant led circles on Thursdays so you can meet and share with other likeminded people. Information about the course is available here: www.guardiansworldwide.org/healing
Book Discussion, The Efficacy of Intimacy and Belief in Worldmaking Practices
Virtual book launch and discussion of special interest to embodiment, practices, and material culture scholars. Hosted by “The Jugaad Project”. Jan. 19, 10am US EST Register at efficaciousintimacybook.eventbrite.com for event schedule, speakers, and meeting details.
September 2023
Calling for entries: Koorie Art Show 2023
The Koorie Heritage Trust (KHT) is calling for entries from First Peoples artists across Victoria. The annual Koorie Art Show is an open-entry, non-acquisitive award exhibition presenting the works of emerging, mid-career and senior First Peoples artists, designers and craftspeople. It showcases a wide variety of works, from illustration to painting, digital, textiles and more and highlights what is happening now in First Peoples art from across Victoria. Call for entries is now open and closes midnight, Sunday 1 October 2023: https://koorieheritagetrust.com.au/whats-on/events/calling-for-entrieskoorie-art-show-2023/
Phillips, P. (2022). One way to recycle aluminium/aluminum; Listening as forgetting as ecological remembering; be weed and unweed at the same time; just the once, lie down in the rain for a while. In P. Watts (Ed.), Earthkeepers Handbook: Heal the Man, Heal the Land. Ecoartspace. 145-146.
Phillips, P. (2023). Follow the water. In C. Bates & K. Moles (Eds.), Living with water: Everyday encounters and liquid connections. Manchester University Press. 176-188.
ANAT Q&A
The September Digest of The Australian Network of Art & Technology features the work of Sarah Jane Moore, especially during her time as an ANAT Synapse Resident. Sarah Jane discusses her work during the residency and her current projects. Read the interview: https://www.anat.org.au/qa-september/
Grant success: Doing decolonising in the science education curriculum: Stories of elaborations and collaborations at a regional Australian University
Simone Blom, Sarah Crinall and Arron Stevens have been awarded a Teaching and Learning Innovation Grant to capture and communicate the practice of decolonising the science education curriculum in progress. Where science knowledge development in the Australian educational context has traditionally been grounded in Western scientific principles silencing the knowledge of First Nations Peoples and non-Indigenous Peoples, we see the urgency in approaches as practices, staying curious as to how we go about teaching and learning Science Education at our regional university, and communicate our committing to attempting decolonising collaboratively and iteratively embedding respectful content foregrounding listening to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander staff and students and communities more broadly. Congratulations team!
Expression of Interest: Drawing residency
To further broaden the definition of drawing, in order to realise innovative forms and applications, Drawing Centre Diepenheim encourages artists to experiment and to explore the significance and influence of drawing on their artistic working process. The rural setting of Diepenheim, the large exhibition building (285 m2), two residence studios (160 m2) and nine artist gardens (12,000 m2) offer space for reflection, research and experimentation. The residency is for artists keen to experiment with drawing and exploring the significance and influence of drawing on their artistic working process. Preference is given to artists who form a relationship with the rural surroundings during the residency, and who involve the Diepenheim community. Artists are encouraged to involve the landscape, gardens, public spaces, archives, local residents and visitors in their research and explorations. EOIs close 21 September 2023: https://www.mondriaanfonds.nl/en/apply-for-a-grant/grants/residency/drawing-centre-diepenheim/
STAY HOME research blog
In 2022 Suzie Attiwill gave a keynote to the STAY HOME conference at the Centre for Privacy Studies in Copenhagen on her research project “Developing spatial design know-how for young people living in residential care”. Following the conference, Suzie was invited to publish a version of her talk on the STAY HOME project site. Link via: https://stayhome.hypotheses.org/author/suzieattiwill
Grass Grows in the Icebox
As part of the exhibition, Grass Grows in the Icebox, curated by Nathan Byrne and presented at Soft Projects, an artist-run gallery in Ypsilanti, Michigan, BAP a West Michigan Collaborative group consisting of Jacklyn Brickman, Kevin Abbott, and Kelsey Paschich acts as agents of The Department of Planetary Futures, Cryo Speculation Laboratory to present Frozen Fields: Unexpected Growth. The exhibition will be open from Saturday, Sept. 23 (opening reception 2-6 pm)- Saturday, Oct. 21 (closing reception 2-6 pm).
Beyond Drawing
Beyond Drawing was a group exhibition that included Kiera O’Toole, exploring drawing and including new and site-specific work by three Irish and three Dutch artists curated by Dutch artist and curator Arno Kramer. The show, at West Cork Arts Centre, Eire, invited a visceral engagement with drawing through an expanded field which opens up new possibilities.
A publication from the exhibition was designed by Oonagh Young, featuring an essay by writer and curator Caoimhín Mac Giolla Léith, alongside installation documentation of the works in the galleries at Uillinn, and was launched by Brian Fay on 31 July 2023.
Call for exhibition proposals: Off The Kerb Gallery, Melbourne
Off the Kerb welcomes applications from emerging, mid-career and established visual artists, street artists, illustrators, performance artists, curators, & creators for solo, group and curated exhibitions. Off the Kerb also supports independent launches and forums. Off the Kerb accepts proposals for large-scale projects & teaching programs. Off the Kerb welcomes applications from universities/institutions for Graduate shows. More info: https://www.offthekerb.com.au/about.htm
Footings
Group exhibition featuring Vicki Ames, Linda Banazis, Monique Bosshard Curby, Marian Giles, Dallas Perry, Perdita Phillips, Gail Russell, Tanya van Irsen. Nyisztor Studio, Palmyra, Western Australia. 16 September – 1 October 2023. More info: https://www.nyisztorstudio.com.au/exhibitions.htm
Expressions of interest: Weaving Water @ Yarun residency
Residency dates: 27 November – 8 December 2023. More info: https://weavingwater.net/
Crosby A and Vanni I (2023) On countermapping and codesigning with more-than-humans. In: Place A (ed.) Feminist Designer. On the Personal and the Political in Design. Cambridge MASS: The MIT Press, pp. 109–113.
Call for abstracts: ISEA conference 2024 – Everywhen
The 29th International Symposium of Electronic Art sets out to explore human perception of timescales and challenge our understanding of past, present and future in the days of singularity and climate change. Meanjin (Brisbane), 21-29 June 2024. Abstracts deadline: 16th October 2023: https://isea2024.isea-international.org/theme/
SCRIBBLED GEOMETRIES…
In Benjamin Sheppard‘s exhibition, hand-made spirographic experiments and their underlying geometries reflect on the order produced by chaotic systems. Born from the four-part rotary pivots of shoulder, elbow, wrist, with the ultimate release from the finger-thumb pince, these seemingly chaotic scribbles often coalesce to reveal tiny circular absences amongst curious accumulations of line. Constellations of absence and form evoke the cosmic while alluding to the self-similar relationships of other systems—be they of nature or culture. August 30th – September 16th, 2023. Five Walls gallery, level 1 / 119 – 121 Hopkins St Footscray.
Call for abstracts: CREATIVITY AS AN EXPERIMENTAL AGENDA conference
Louisiana State University. Dates: 15-17 Nov, 2023, online. Abstract Deadline: 05 October, 2023. More info: https://amps-research.com/teaching-2023-lsu/
PLANTING NEW PERSPECTIVES
Commissioned for the Tellus Project and Bundanon. First exhibited at Bundanon Siteworks, 26 November 2022 – 16 March 2023. The Tellus Art Project is a collaboration between UNSW Art and Design, the Sydney Royal Botanic Gardens Herbarium, Bundanon and Open Humanities Press. Aunty Deidre Martin is a proud Walbunja Elder of the Yuin nation. She is an experienced cultural guide to the region and operates her business, Bugiya Naway Buridja (yesterday, today and tomorrow). She has worked as a Discovery Ranger for NSW National Parks for over 20 years. Her email is: bugiyanawayburidja (at) gmail.com Dr Erica Seccombe is a visual artist based in the Canberra region, living in semi-rural NSW. She is a Senior Lecturer at the ANU School of Art and Design. Her interdisciplinary arts practice spans traditional lens-based imaging, print media and drawing, and experimental digital platforms using frontier scientific visualisation software. More info: http://www.ericaseccombe.com
The “Journal of Ecohumanism” is accepted for Scopus. Welcome to submit
your work: https://ecohumanism.co.uk/joe/ecohumanism
Call for papers: Art and The Public Sphere
This special issue of APS seeks contributions that interrogate and examine the relationship between art, exhibition making and queer practices as public acts. This issue seeks to open up a space to discuss the possibilities of bringing together social and queer practices in new and (re)imagined ways. Abstracts / proposals (300 words): 1 November 2023, Deadline for submission of final papers: 30 February 2024, Publications: July 2024. All proposals and queries should be directed to Chris Green at greech@edgehill.ac.uk
Play about place symposium
We would love to see you at Play about Place, a one-day symposium on how creative placemaking and experimental game design in public space makes campus life more inclusive and resilient. For: gamers, students, researchers, teachers, First Nations peoples, artists, designers, game developers, scientists, writers, landscape architects, producers, performers, players, musicians, urban planners, policy-makers, programmers, and more. Where: RMIT University, Garden Building, Bowen St, Melbourne 3000 When: 10am-4pm, Tues 3rd October 2023. Let us know if you’re interested in coming by booking via Eventbrite.
Call for Papers: Handbook of Sustainable Blue Economy
The global blue economy is an important part of the world’s economy, providing jobs and resources to billions of people around the world. However, it currently faces a number of challenges, from overfishing and pollution, to climate change and ocean acidification. In order to ensure a sustainable future for the blue economy, there is a need to develop strategies and policies that promote the conservation and responsible use of marine resources, while also providing economic benefits. There is, in other words a perceived need to make the blue economy more sustainable. Expressions of interest to contribute to the Handbook of Sustainable Blue Economy, initially consisting of a 200 words abstract with the title of the paper and the full details of the authors, should be sent to the ICCIRP team at: info@iccip.net. The deadline for abstracts is 30th October 2023. Full papers are due by 30th January 2024.
June 2023
Commoning Collective Care
Juliana España Keller is a guest artist at the international curatorial and artistic workshop Commoning Collective Care, which takes place in Córdoba, Spain, at the C3A Centro de Creación Contemporánea de Andalucía, Córdoba, from 15 to 17 June, 2023. Commoning Collective Care is a four-day intense seminar/workshop convened to collectively explore the different implications, practices, and artistic explorations of the ethics of commoning in a fragile and fractured world. The event is organized in conversation with the exhibition “Remedios: Where new land might grow” at C3A Centro de Creación Contemporánea de Andalucía, Córdoba, presenting works from the TBA21 Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary Collection.
New book: COVID-19 and the (Broken) Promise of Education for Sustainable Development: A Case Study from Postcolonial Pakistan
Authored by by Javed Anwar, Sher Rahmat Khan, Mir Zaman Shah, Seth Brown, Peter Kelly and Scott K. Phillips charts the emergence of the COVID-19 pandemic, and the impact that it has had on the lives of young people and their communities, education systems, the teaching profession, governments and NGOs in postcolonial Pakistan. A webinar to launch the book was chaired by Professor Peter Kelly of REDI. Full details of the webinar and publication and can be accessed via https://redi.deakin.edu.au/news-events/covid-19-and-the-broken-promise-of-education-for-sustainable-development-a-case-study-from-postcolonial-pakistan/?preview=true
Plebanski, M., Boer, J., Flanagan, K. L., & Wilson, K. (2023). I’m over 65 and worried about the flu. Which vaccine should I have? The Conversation, 31 May 2023, https://theconversation.com/im-over-65-and-worried-about-the-flu-which-vaccine-should-i-have-204810
Tending Breath -Mega Art Festival Best Short Film Award
Congratulations to Jacklyn Brickman for receiving the Best Short Film Award for Tending Breath, made in collaboration with Dean Taylor. Tending Breath can be viewed here https://vimeo.com/342057606
MYCO (II)
October (2023). The Greenhouse Regenerative Lab, Guaro, Andalucía, Spain. Curators Juliana España Keller and Emilio Mula. This curatorial experimental lab integrates creative propositions from transdisciplinary approaches to art-making. The artworks will take form from diverse disciplines and viewpoints that break from traditional forms of representation to trace the complex symbiotic and (intra)relationships of soil regeneration, water management and food security. This site-specific greenhouse space grows food for many in a cultural partnership with local farmers in the area of Guaro. The curatorial focus of this laboratory will enable selected artists to build on creative social engagement and critical artistic research through workshops, the dialogical as well as the exploration of on-site visual & performing art work and sculptural installation that will be exhibited in this (re)generative space. More info https://en.fundacionarboretum.org/proyectos-arboretum/greenhouse-regenerative-lab
Expressions of Interest: Barossa Women’s Artist Residency 2023
The Barossa Regional Gallery, supported by the Barossa Council and funding from the Barossa community, is pleased to launch the inaugural Barossa Women’s Artist Residency program, specifically inviting mid career and established female artists to apply. Subject to funding, the Residency may be across all artforms, be open to artists from Australia and overseas and be 4 – 6 weeks in length at a minimum. One artist will be selected to take part in the residency program. The residency must take place sometime between September 2023 and February 2024. Timing of the residency is to be determined between the residency recipient and the Barossa Regional Gallery. Expressions of interest close midnight June 30th, 2023. For more information visit https://barossagallery.com.au/expressions-of-interest-barossa-womens-artist-residency-2023/
Launch: Museum of Futures
Mel Rumble, Annie McKinnon, Amanda Keeling, and MFI member Claire Marshall have launched the Museum of Futures, an interactive exhibition that highlights the role we all play in creating different futures. The Museum of Futures utilises the power of art by combining collaborative foresight with the creative arts to create embodied experiences of the future for audiences. Narratives accompany each object, celebrating the powerful nature of stories and offering us insight into both the obvious and surprising unintended consequences of our actions. Find out more about the program via https://www.museumoffutures.com/about
Rethinking Interior Design
What does interior design have to do with urbanism and architecture? In this episode of ABC Radio National’s Blueprint for Living, Amaara Raheem talks to RMIT’s Suzie Attiwill about the ideological and technological forces that have shaped and constrained our understanding of interior design and obscured its dynamic engagement with the external, built environment. Listen to the program here https://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/blueprintforliving/blueprint-interior-design/102374814
Symbiotic Posthumanist Ecologies in Western Literature, Philosophy and Art
ROTA SOUND FESTIVAL
The art of ‘deep listening’ to plants can open up through the language of electronic music, ways to think about ways of being, which happens on completely different notation scales, vibrating textures, and tonal differences and this is so exciting for musicians about what we might learn from them by listening and responding. This live sound and performance work by Juliana España Keller & Alex Pepín contributes to understanding the sentience and symbiosis of other non-human life in a live immersive performance. November 2023, Murcia, Spain.
Melbourne Prize for Urban Sculpture
Artists practicing in expanded fields of sculpture, including public installation, new media, performance, sound-based and socially engaged practice are welcome to apply. Application is encouraged from artists at all stages of their practice, including First Nations people and artists from all genders and cultural, linguistic and diverse backgrounds. Deadline for submissions is 3rd July, 5pm. Entry forms and further info here https://www.melbourneprize.org/
Reframing sociologies of young people, education, work and identity in a ‘code red’ for humanity
What sorts of innovative/disruptive theoretical, conceptual and methodological work are demanded of those who do (broadly) sociologies of young people, education, work, and identities in the current and emerging crises of capitalism, the climate, forced migrations, and conflict and extremism (what the UN Secretary General has called a ‘code red for humanity’ (Guterres 2021)? This seminar rethinks some of the fundamental premises of how we research education, work and politics in these times of wide-spread crises. 5.30 pm—7.45 pm Monday 26 June 2023. Deakin Downtown, Level 12, Tower 2 Collins Square, 727 Collins Street, Docklands, Melbourne, and online (Zoom). Register here https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/reframing-sociologies-of-young-people-education-work-and-identity-tickets-631349582597?aff=REDIwebsite
ASAL & ASLEC-ANZ 2023 conference: Recentring the Region
A partnership between ASAL (Association for the Study of Australian Literature) and ASLEC-ANZ (Association for the Study of Literature, Environment and Culture – Australia and New Zealand), the 2023 ‘Recentring the Region’ conference turns attention to ‘the region’ in Australian literary studies and environmentally-oriented critical and creative practice. July 4 -7 2023, RMIT University and Deakin University, Melbourne / online. For more info visit https://www.regionsconference2023.org/
Landscape Research Group Research Showcase
Landscape Research Group is delighted to showcase another selection of speakers presenting a summary of their recent research projects, as recipients from our annual 2021 Research Fund, which explored the theme of Landscape, Virtue and the Common Good. Speakers are Dr Jane Russell-O’Connor and Dr Maebh Savage, Dr Annaclaudia Martini, Louis Braddock and Zuzanna Zgierska. 16 June 2023 at 16.00 BST / 17.00 CEST. Bookings for the online event from https://landscaperesearch.org/event/lrg-research-fund-showcase2/
Postdoc in Urban Inequalities at the Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research
The Department of Urban Development and Mobility (UDM) at LISER would like to strengthen its position in research on urban inequalities by recruiting an expert in urban sociology, urban geography or in other relevant social sciences. The expert is invited to engage with the ways in which political and economic governance systems at the local and national levels entrench inequalities in multiple dimensions (social, spatial, environmental). Deadline to submit applications: July 9th, 2023. The full details of the job are available here: https://jobs.liser.lu/jobs/detail/research-associate-post-doc-in-urban-inequalities-f-m-ref-23-21-272
Livingmaps Network event: Make Maps Not War
In this final event of the Frontline Cartographies programme, Livingmaps bring together a number of counter mapping artists who have been working with groups of refugees and asylum seekers, many of them from war torn countries.
The panel will present and discuss variety of media and methods used to explore experiences of displacement and re-settlement, related to war and its aftermath. Panelists include Phil Cohen, Alisa Oleva and Debbie Kent, Natalia Baryshovets, Jina Lee, and Sana Murrani. 21 June 2023, 18:00 – 20:00 UK time, online and in person. Bookings via https://www.pushkinhouse.org/events/make-maps-not-war?mc_cid=f800e11247
FLOW
In the context of the Climate Emergency, and timed with the end of the financial year, FLOW is an exhibition exploring what a better future looks like. As a medium of exchange, the word currency is derived from the word current, the origin of which was curraunt meaning flowing (c. 1300). Like thriving ecosystems, healthy economies depend on healthy flows of life sustaining resources. Examining the flow between money, politics, information and power, artwork in FLOW poses critical questions about financial flows, reminds us of the vital interconnections and interdependencies between all life, and shows the profound possibilities of economic systems based on respect and reciprocity. Participating artists Melissa Corbett, Rod Gray, Pam Kleemann-Passi, Linda Knight, Jo Lane, Carolyn Lewens, Jenny McCracken, Sarah Metzner, Paul Prato, Jen Rae, Bronwyn Razem, Louise Rippert, Adam Stone, Giselle Wilkinson. Creative Producer Deborah Hart. CLIMARTE Gallery, 120 Bridge Rd, Richmond, Melbourne, 31 May – 1 July 2023. Artist talk: What is the role of the Arts in a ‘wellbeing economy’? 17 June 2023, 2 – 4pm. More info https://climarte.org/project/flow/
BAJO EL OLIVO
Bajo El Olivo Creative Arts Residency is still accepting artistic proposals over the summer months. Visit for more info https://www.bajo-de-olivo.es/
Livingmaps Review 14: Critical Cartography and Higher Education
This special issue on critical mapping in higher education explores perceptions of urban spaces. This curated collection of articles delves into innovative perspectives on spatial relationships and power dynamics within cities. Access the journal here https://www.livingmaps.org/issue-14?mc_cid=8d8b214d61
Reconceptualising Early Childhood Education conference 2023
The conference theme “Pathways: Where we’ve been, where we are, where we want to go” reflects our recognition of the vital role of place in learning, acting, being, and becoming. Considering place as both the physical landscape within which we are engaging and as the historical and contemporary social, economic and political forces that shape our landscapes and our places within a landscape, meeting in the place of Manchester, England has specific resonances and entanglements. September 7-10, 2023, Manchester Metropolitan University •Manchester U.K. Registration and more info https://receinternational.org/conference-call-for-proposals/
Ediths Responsive Roundtable series
IJHAC Call for Papers: Spatial Humanities and the Global South
For a special issue on Spatial Humanities and the Global South, we seek articles that focus on geographies of the global south, especially from researchers who are based in the global south. As yet few spatial humanities projects are focused on the global south, and spatial humanities projects that are global in scope often underrepresented information about the formerly colonized world. A spatial humanities for the global south is, therefore, urgent decolonial and reparative work. We welcome submissions on any topics that pertain to these domains and that take advantage of digital methodologies from the social sciences, humanities, geography, computer and information science; archive, heritage, library and museum studies; or community engaged scholarship, volunteered geographical information, and citizen science. Deadline for submissions: 31st January 2024 Please see submission guidelines: https://www.euppublishing.com/page/ijhac/submissions Submissions should be sent to: ijhac@fcsh.unl.pt
The Geographic Indigenous Futures of the Salish Sea symposium
The Geographic Indigenous Futures Lab at the University of Victoria plans to hold a biennial symposium highlighting Indigenous relationships to land and place related to a specific geography or topic. We’re proud to have our first symposium focus on the lands and waters that our lab sits upon, and the nations who call these lands and waters home. The Geographic Indigenous Futures of the Salish Sea symposium will be held on July 6, 2023 from 9:00 AM to 4:00 PM Pacific Daylight time (UTC -07:00). The symposium will be held in a hybrid format, with in-person attendance (at the First Peoples’ House at the University of Victoria) and Zoom options available. Registration via https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfLTbcsaallfctP0jFggCeixJKbdPiNp1kIgMsJLGQarH0PUw/viewform
Conference: The Synthetic City: Potentials, Politics and Everyday Life
This conference puts forward the notion of ‘the synthetic city’ as a provocation for thinking through the potentials, politics, and everyday implications of these long-term and more recent developments in digitalising urban life. As the above definitions imply, we intend ‘the synthetic city’ to relate to both synthetic and synthesis: the former captures how AI and related digital technologies might imitate or replace human agency. We therefore welcome a range of contributions, exploring both the technologies as such, as well as the broader social, cultural and political contexts of the synthetic city. 6-7 September 2023, Dublin City University, Ireland. Registration via https://syntheticcity2023.wordpress.com/
Infrastructuring Urban Futures: The Politics of Remaking Cities
Open access. Editors Alan Wiig, Kevin Ward, Theresa Enright, Mike Hodson, Hamil Pearsall, and Jonathan Silver. Focusing on material and social forms of infrastructure, this edited collection focuses on cities across the global North and South. Considering public health crises and climate change, the book argues that paying attention to infrastructures’ past, present and future allows us to understand and respond to the current urban condition. Available from https://bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/configurable/content/book$002f9781529225648$002f9781529225648.xml?t:ac=book%24002f9781529225648%24002f9781529225648.xml
Everyday Oceans: Surfing, Swimming and Gardening
To mark World Ocean Day join ORCA members, Rebecca Olive and Fiona Hillary, for an immersive festival of short films highlighting the ordinary and profound impacts that everyday interactions with the ocean can have on our lives, and the responsibility we feel in safeguarding itss future. The program includes exclusive screenings from the team at Great Southern Reef, as well as breath taking short films from artists and researchers from Australia, Ireland, the UK and USA. Along with the films, a panel of experts, including special guest Gardening Marine Forests (2023) director Stefan Andrews, will consider relationships of human-ocean health and wellbeing and how our ocean interactions alert us to pressing issues affecting our marine ecosystems. A portion of profits from tickets will go to The Great Southern Reef Foundation. 29 June 2023, 5.30pm, Capitol Theatre, Melbourne. Tickets via Everyday Oceans
The University of Sydney Horizon Fellowships
The School of Geosciences is seeking exceptional Early and Mid-Career Researchers (<10 years post-PhD allowing for career interruptions) to join our School through the new University of Sydney Horizon Fellowships. These fellowships are tenure-track (continuing) positions at level B-C, transitioning to an ongoing research and teaching role in the School. We strongly encourage potential applicants to contact us to discuss areas of interest and alignment with our School’s priorities prior to submitting an application. Applications close 5th July, 2023. Link to University of Sydney webpage for details: https://www.sydney.edu.au/research/research-funding/research-fellowships/sydney-horizon-fellowships.html
Modes of Capture Dance Symposium
The Modes of Capture Symposium 2023 took place on 9th & 10th June on site at The Irish World Academy of Music and Dance at University of Limerick with some performance presentations at Dance Limerick. Jenny Roche convened the symposium and provided a forum for dialogue on capturing dancemaking processes, with a focus on approaches that encourage a deeper engagement with what we already know above the search for novelty and newness. Presenters included MFI members Anna Hickey-Moody, and Alys Longley. More info is available here https://lizrochecompany.com/whats-on/opportunity/modes-of-capture-symposium-2023
April 2023
CFP for Special Issue: Refusing to Remain Unseen: Excavating Ecologies of Devastation, Plunderage, and Precarity
Potential contributors should (a) send an abstract of 250 words that describes the proposed focus and content of the paper and (b) a short bio. Please send the abstract and bio by the 31st of July 2023 to both Editors’ e-mails. Full-length papers of approximately 5000-6000 words will be sent to both Editors’ e-mails by the 29th of February 2024. The language of submissions is only English. All submissions shall follow the latest guidelines of APA style referencing. Information can be found https://journals.tplondon.com/ecohumanism/announcement/view/60
CALL FOR PAPERS – Navigating boundaries: Architectures beyond human
We are now accepting proposals that tackle the dominance of anthropocentric approaches to architecture. These may include investigations into the position of humans within the environment, more-than-human architectures and posthuman studies. We welcome and encourage inter/multi/transdisciplinary approaches with links to spatial practice/architecture where these issues are addressed. Abstract Submission Due: 30 April 2023
M16 Artspace, Canberra AUS is accepting applications for the first half of the 2024 exhibition program
We are looking for innovative proposals that push the boundaries of traditional art forms and explore new artistic territory. We welcome proposals from all cultural producers, including artists, collectives, collaborators, writers, and curators at all career levels. Proposals for exhibitions could include painting, sculpture, installation, sound, performance, film, and video works; supported by talks, reading groups, artist interviews, writing, classes, and panel discussions. Deadline soon – Applications close Thursday April 20th 11:59pm AEST. https://www.m16artspace.com.au/2023-exhibitions-events/2023/2/24/2024-exhibition-callout
Invisible Winds is curated by Marnie Badham, Pia Johnson and Tammy Wong Hulbert and Madeleine Sherburn.
Invisible Winds explores the different moods of the wind and its impacts. How this element can be seen as destructive, a source of creativity and potentially productive. Invisible Winds features artists Vicki Couzens, Gretel Taylor and Gülsen Özer, Kent Morris, Pia Johnson, Philip Samartzis, Polly Stanton and Byron Dean, Christiaan De Beukelaer and Marnie Badham in collaboration with Tammy Wong Hulbert, Ai Yamamoto and George Akl.
Invisible Winds launches at CLIMARTE Gallery, Melbourne AUS on Wednesday 26 April, 6pm. On until May 27th. More info: https://climarte.org/projects/exhibitions/
Arteles is a resource for artist residency call-outs. Check out their site here https://www.arteles.org/
Underfoot: sTrAtA is an exhibition featuring Annette Nykiel, Perdita Phillips and Nien Schwarz, a long-standing trio forming part of a larger circle of seven Western Australian artists titled Underfoot.
sTrAtA follow on from Field Working Slow Making [ECU, Spectrum 2016] which expanded into We Must Get Together Some Time [IOTA21]. They practice slow making through long-term engagement with non-urban places and non-human worlds, contributing to the discourse of Western Australian field-based creative research. The exhibition encapsulates entangled stories: steamed, plied, fired, pigmented, stitched, filmed, walked, written, printed, narrated, recorded and performed. The artists explore WA stratigraphy, deep time and biota. They make unique, lively, and as Jane Bennett would say ‘vibrant things’ in their contribution to the complex fabric of contemporary making. Empirical knowledge, interdisciplinary research and their individual experiences working in WA’s mineral resource sector underpin sTrAtA’s making practices. Through textiles, prints and small sculpture, they explore WA stratigraphy, deep time and biota. Gallery 152, WA AUS, 1 – 23 April Underfoot: sTrAtA
Ladder Art Space, Melbourne AUS, now accepting exhibition proposals for a limited number of slots in the second half of 2023 and the first half of 2024
Ladder Art Space is situated close to Kew Junction, the Heart of Kew – a vibrant and busy shopping strip located in Melbourne’s inner eastern suburbs. Established in 2018, Ladder Art Space proudly exhibits the work of contemporary artists and designers in addition to offering art classes and workshops to the wider community. We aim to provide a friendly, professional and supportive environment to both new and established artists working in any media. Ladder Art Space is fully staffed, and artists are not required to gallery-sit.
At the moment the gallery comprises spaces on the ground level, which can be utilized separately, or as one total space. Each gallery space has good natural light as well as an adjustable lighting system. For more information: Ladder Artspace
Alt+Shift_ is a 12-person exhibition for the Concordia Intermedia Arts Graduating Class of 2023, taught by Juliana Espana Keller.
Embedding central themes of reflection, relationality, and transformation; Alt+Shift_ occupies space with process-based inquiries through a transdisciplinary assemblage of artworks. By populating the gallery with digital media, bio-materiality, sound, and robotics, these emerging artists reveal their unique methods of research-creation. This thematic proposes hybrid approaches with alt+shift-ing perspectives embedded within each work, emphasizing continuous renewal and re-imaginings within contemporary discourse. Some of these shifts are generated through memory and trauma, while others alternate on notions of embodiment and feltness. Landscapes are fragmented and re-envisioned as new ecologies of growth. Understanding the relation of ‘care’ affectively brings into view the curatorial relation between the individual and the greater collective. In each work, a hidden key function is revealed and materialized in the gallery space. The collective result is a rich network of transformation/s that enables curiosity through care-ful becomings. Visit the exhibition: https://altshiftspace.xyz/
Bunyip and the Stars by debut author and man Adam Duncan and illustrator Paul Lalo brings to life the bunyip, an animal from First Nations mythology that holds great fascination for children.
Age range 0 to 6. On a starless night Wumbirr leaves the safety of the campfire and is captured by the fearsome bunyip. Ngariin will need everything she has learnt about the bush and her Country to rescue her little brother and escape the bunyip. Part Sky Country creation story, part exciting adventure tale, The Bunyip and the Stars is the first in a series of five picture books featuring stories from Australia inspired by the National Museum of Australia’s new immersive play space for children – the Tim and Gina Fairfax Discovery Centre. Purchase the book here: Bunyip and the Stars
Dark Eden: Transdisciplinary Imaging. Paul Thomas, Edward Colless, David Eastwood, Chelsea Lehmann (Eds.). Featuring work by Nancy Mauro Flude.
This collection of essays evolved out of The Sixth International Conference on Transdisciplinary Imaging at the Intersections between Art, Science and Culture, held in Sydney and online (6-8 November 2020). Amid the backdrop of a global pandemic, social unrest and the unfolding 2020 US election results, the conference theme of ‘Dark Eden’ elicited a range of passionate discussion and debate regarding the fate and contours of image culture in what had been a dark year. Expanding on the conference themes, this publication features a selection of delegates who were invited to develop their presentations for this volume. The essays collected here include texts by creative arts practitioners, media artists, science and technology researchers, designers, curators, historians, critics and theorists who present new and innovative scholarship investigating the potentialities of the image and the fate and contours of image culture in times of ‘darkness’. Purchase book here: Dark Eden: Transdisciplinary Imaging
International Art Textile Biennale 2023 featuring the work of Linda Knight is now at Emu Park Art Gallery.
Exhibition dates: 15 April – 11 June 2023. In conjunction with the exhibition, the EPAG will be running a series of exciting Workshops, Presentations, and Discussion sessions. You can visit the Gallery if you require more details and dates: https://emuparkartgallery.com.au/
Cfp: Gender, Feminisms and the ‘Posts’: Contemporary Contestations, New Educational Imaginaries & Hope-full Renewals
This special issue of Gender and Education aims to explore the entangled relations of/between feminisms and the ‘posts’, and interrogates what these relations offer for rethinking gender and education research, theory, pedagogic practice, activism and praxis. It speaks into current concerns and debates around genders, identities and sexualities; into the renewal of feminism as a contemporary political praxis; into the proliferation of feminisms; and into the changing theoretical and methodological terrain of the ‘posts’. As such, the special issue aims to capture the multiplicities, divergences and contentions which characterise this moment and how they inform and influence gender and education, as well as looking forward to new educational imaginaries that current debates may enable or activate. For more information: Gender, feminisms and the Posts
Drawing in Relation: Agency and Affect
Online event. Organised by the Drawing Research Group at Loughborough University 19th April 2023 11 – 13.00 (BST)
Tickets are available here: Drawing in Relation
Pedagogies of Transition: Studies for the Future of Instituent Practices
Online event. For so long, we have been implicated in ongoing systemic and institutional crises. We understand these crises as political, economical, epistemological and ecological. As cultural workers we recognize a need to move towards structural change. In this series of gatherings we will share possibilities for epistemic shifts—some speculative, others involving very practical and concrete steps—towards undoing institutional working rituals. We share these conversations as a process of continuously composting knowledge that will contribute to our collective struggle. Discussion Metabolisms – 26 April. Zena Cumpston – Curator Emu Sky and CoAuthor of Plants: Past Present and Future.
Vanessa Machado de Oliveira – Professor and author of Hospicing Modernity: Facing humanity’s wrongs and implications for social activism
Melbourne (MADA) – 10am (AEST), UK (Goldsmiths) – 1am (BST), Vancouver – 5pm (PDT 25 April), Lima – 7pm (PET 25 April). Tickets: https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/pedagogies-of-transition-studies-for-the-future-of-instituent-practices-tickets-482065961267
Cfp: Local Cultures – Global Spaces: Communities, People, Place
Online event. The United Nations Human Rights and Habitat programmes connect how we live to where we live. The association is premised on an understanding of cultures, communities and society through the lens of place. It sees them as inherently interlinked, and mutually reinforcing. Examining this liminal state, the Local Cultures – Global Spaces conference questions this idea as it appears at the intersection of architecture and urban planning, cultural studies, sociology and human geography. Dates: 5-7 Dec, 2023. Abstracts: 15 July, 2023 (Round 1) | 20 October, 2023 (Round 2). More info: https://amps-research.com/conference/local-global/
Doctoral candidate position hosted by Aarhus University, DENMARK.
Project title: Young people and parents negotiating and policing gender through online bullying. Research fields: Digital youth studies, Sex/gender studies, educational and social psychology. Objectives: The project investigates bullying behaviour online, and analyses gender as part of such behaviour. Research aims suggested are: 1. To analyse and map the varying gender discourses involved in bullying on the platforms young people use. 2. To study the technological affordances assisting practices and normativity involved in bullying. 3. To study parental access to and potential interaction with these processes. 4. To investigate the entanglement of negotiating, policing and bullying with a particular focus on young people’s and parents’ potential agency. The candidate is expected to work with empirical research material, preferably involving the use of qualitative methodology, but is otherwise free to design the research project independently under the heading ‘Young people and parents negotiating and policing gender through online bullying’. Secondments: The host institution will be Aarhus University, Denmark. The project includes two planned secondments at (1) Webwise, Ireland, for 2 months (from month 12 in the project) and (2) Dublin City University, Ireland, for 4 months (from month 26 in the project). Enrolment start: The successful candidate is expected to begin his/her 3 year PhD degree programme (5+3 scheme) on 1 September 2023. Mandatory requirement at Aarhus University: Candidates must have completed a two-year Master’s degree (120 ECTS) no later than 31 August 2023. Enrolment: The position will be based at the Danish School of Education, Aarhus University. The candidate will be enrolled as a PhD fellow at the Graduate School at Arts, Faculty of Arts, Aarhus University, with the aim of completing a PhD degree at the Danish School of Education, Aarhus University.
In addition to the mandatory Training for Early Stage Researchers under the MSCA-program, the PhD fellow must complete the studies in accordance with the valid regulations for the PhD degree program, currently the Ministerial Order of 27 August 2013 on the PhD degree program at the universities: http://phd.arts.au.dk/applicants/thephddegreeprogramme/
Description of the graduate school’s PhD degree program: http://phd.arts.au.dk/applicants/phdstudystructure/
The PhD fellow will be affiliated with the PhD programLearning and Education.
Place of work
The PhD fellow will be employed as a PhD fellow at the Faculty of Arts, Aarhus University – terms of employment as determined by EU guidelines. The PhD fellow is expected to have the Danish School of Education as the primary workplace.
Cfp: Fiction Machines IV
In-person only. For this iteration of Fiction Machines we are interested in methods of fiction and personification within art practice research to engage with, and give voice to, more-than-human lifeforms and materials. In the symposium we ask: How have artists worked with voices entangled with the earth and materials, our technologies, instruments and waste? Beyond data, what rituals, affinities and subjectivities are emerging for relating to climate? How are non-human collaborations and speculative machines re-imagining the human and planetary? And what is at stake in personification and voicing – who is speaking for whom and is anyone or anything listening?
One-Day Symposium: Thursday July 20th 2023, Locksbrook Road Campus, Bath, BA1 3EL, UK. Please send proposals (200 words) for all papers/performances – outlining their aim and form – along with a short biography. For moving image submissions please provide an online screening link along with a short synopsis and biography. Please email all proposals to the symposium coordinators: Dr Charlie Tweed (c.tweed@bathspa.ac.uk) and Dr Andy Weir (a.weir@arts.ac.uk) by no later than Friday May 12th, 2023.
Mapping Meaning – “Photodynamic Gardening” with Trudi Lynn Smith
Mapping Meaning invites artists, activists, scientists, community members, and scholars from all disciplines and backgrounds to participate in a unique workshop. We are excited to experiment with the structure and location of our biennial gathering to pilot a shorter, public-facing workshop that will take place in the Hudson Valley, NY. This two-day workshop will experiment with plant-based photography, a dynamic image-making process engaging everyday ecologies. Through our time together we’ll focus on ideas for creating and restoring the places we inhabit, on plant selection and garden design for images and on emulsion-making and printing with plants. Workshop Dates: June 13-14, 2023
Final Event: June 15, 2023
Location: Hudson Valley, New York (Bard College Farm and Studio Kipp in
Rhinebeck). Please book by April 30th: Photodynamic gardening
Cfp: Society for Social Studies of Science conference – Closed Panels, and Making and Doing Presentations
We invite submissions for papers, closed panels, and Making & Doing sessions that align with the conference theme. We are interested in proposals that expand our understanding of how technology, knowledge, and science, understood to be contentious and contested ideas themselves, shape social, political, cultural, environmental, and economic dynamics. Deadline: May 26, 2023 (notification of acceptance on June 9). More info: https://www.4sonline.org/call_for_submissions.php
Symbiotic Posthumanist Ecologies in Western Literature, Philosophy and Art. Towards Theory and Practice. Editors: Peggy Karpouzou and Nikoleta Zampaki
More information: https://www.peterlang.com/document/1288773
Cfp: Recent Approaches to Environmental Humanities. Literary and Cultural Reflections on the Human and More-Than-Human World.
Dates: 17-19 November 2023
Format: online. More info: https://ecohumanism.co.uk/
Nordstrom, S. (Online First). Good, Bad, and Hopefully Not the God Trick: Technological Systems in Qualitative Inquiry. Qualitative Inquiry. https://doi.org/10.1177/10778004231163501
Martaleah Sandler is presenting at the Foundations in Art, Theory, and Education: Serious Play conference as a part of the panel Mindfulness in Art, Pedagogy and Practice April 14th 9am-10:30am chaired by Noah Phillips. In her presentation, Guided Underwater Breathholding With Dale Earnhardt, performing as the Archivist of the Center For Post-Capitalist History, Leah will lead participants through an interactive, satirical, guided meditation.
Martaleah Sandler’s work will be on view as part of the exhibition Experience Contemporary curated byJustin Luperat Casselberry City Hall in Casselberry, Florida until May 18th.
Vanni, I., & Crosby, A. (2023). Edge. Environmental Humanities, 15(1), 164–167. https://doi.org/10.1215/22011919-10216217
Vanni, I., & Crosby, A. (2023). Place-based methodologies for design research: An ethnographic approach. Design Studies, 85, 101168. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.destud.2023.101168
Vanni, I., & Crosby, A. (2023). Seedballs as Method. In O. Vodeb (Ed.), Radical Intimacies: Extradisciplinary Investigation in Making Things Public (pp. 195–218). Intellect Books.
Jonas Drechsel created a new narrative for a futures programme which could be a following up programme for the EU Erasmus programme, but more adressing creatives. The “slow mobility in culture”-programme challenges a lot of used futures / old assumptions. https://culturalfoundation.eu/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/IPH_V4.pdf
Distinguished Mexican, Magdalena Plebanski gave an SBS Español podcast: “Hispanics conquering STEM areas in Australia”, a podcast to celebrate women leading in innovation around the #DíaInternacionalDeLaMujer #8M. Tune in here: Hispanics conquering STEM
lynn mowson as part of Mowson&Mowson have their work feeler showing at Experimenta Life Forms
Experimenta Life Forms reveals how contemporary artists are exploring notions of life, at a time when technological change and new research findings are making definitions of ‘life’ increasingly difficult to pin down. What new life forms are emerging through technological and biological adaptation and invention? Are our definitions of life shifting because of new scientific discoveries? How do First Nation’s epistemologies influence ways of thinking and understanding life? How are notions of our place in the web of life changing now that research is identifying sentience in animals, plant-life, and perhaps soon in our machines? New England Art Museum, 1 April – 28 May 2023. More info: https://www.neram.com.au/event/experimenta-life-forms/
Karunsena, G., Gajanayake, A. and Udawatta, N., (2022). Wastewater management in the construction sector: a systemic analysis of current practice in Victoria, Australia. International Journal of Construction Management. DOI: 10.1080/15623599.2022.2118102
Katve-Kaisa Kontturi gave an invited presentation at PLANETARY FEMINISM: DECOLONIALITY, ECOLOGICAL THINKING, CREATIVE PRACTICE (Loughborough University, Institute of Advanced Studies) 17 March 2023.
The event that consisted of four transhemispheric roundtables celebrating Professor Marsha Meskimmon’s new book “ Transnational Feminisms and Art’s Transhemispheric Histories: Ecologies and Genealogies” (Routledge 2023). Recordings of the event are available at: https://www.lboro.ac.uk/research/ias/programmes/planetaryfeminisms/
Sarah Jane Moore and Linda Knight have a show Relation: Colonial Ecologies and Counter Mapping at No Vacancy Gallery, Melbourne.
Sarah Jane and Linda first met in 2016 and this exhibition interrogates the visual art tracings that transpire through sharing writing, thinking, mothering, gathering, walking, talking and feminising. ‘Relation: Colonial Ecologies and Counter Mapping’ inspires climate conversations, it maps counter narratives and it explores the possibilities of precious rivers, sacred urban spaces and safe, unnamed places. 11 – 22 April 2023. More info: Relation
Linda Knight had a show Mapping Extinctions at Brunswick Street Gallery, Melbourne.
Linda Knight’s Mapping Extinctions explored beyond-the-human timescale. Knight speculatively maps wildlife during geologic upheaval, taking as her starting point the devastating 2020 Australian bushfires. Managing to create dis-located drawings that reference botanical illustrations, she is also commenting on the ecological impacts of colonisation, specifically in relation to the devastation caused by bushfires, all the more common due to improper land management. The exhibition ran 31 March – 16 April 2023. More info: Mapping Extinctions
Linda Knight has been selected for the Creative Climate Awards 2023 with her work Mapping Extinctions.
The Human Impacts Institute’s 2023 Creative Climate Awards, a month-long festival of art and ideas that connect us to climate action for a just and liveable world. April 19th – May 12th Taipei Economic Cultural Office, East 42nd Street, NY. The launch Visit the Human Impacts Institute Creative Climate Awards page to learn more: Creative Climate Awards
On April 22nd the Creative Climate Award works will be projected onto Manhattan Bridge. Tickets to the in-person and online event: CCA Art Projections
Mapping Future Imaginaries 