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Call for Submissions for Special Issue of Arts: "New Articulations of Identity in Contemporary Aesthetics" - Free for Publication

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Posted by: Arts
Deadline: Fri, March 31st, 2023

Special Issue of Arts: "New Articulations of Identity in Contemporary Aesthetics" - Free for Publication

Dear Colleagues,

Over the last several decades, vibrant conversations have unfolded around existing constructions of identities—often seen as fixed, narrow categories—and a movement toward fluid and intersectional conceptions of the self and community, these discourses having greatly impacted both the theory and practice leading to a radical shift in contemporary aesthetics. Critical debates that destabilize fixed notions of identity have engendered new perspectives, particularly in work critiquing issues of essentialism, heterosexism, monolithic affiliation, and other culturally imposed limitations. This Special Issue seeks to magnify the questions of belongingness raised in contemporary art and generate a multicultural and interdisciplinary discussion that centers around visual practice as a crucial site of social and institutional commentary.

Approaches to this topic might take several forms, with specific interest in pieces grappling with the legacy of cultural trauma, “representational troubling” and the complex convergences of contemporary identities (queerness, gender, ethnicity, etc.) in new domains and across disciplines, fields, and visual media. We welcome observations regarding the possibilities, complications, and applications of identity across the spectrum of visual culture forms, as well as interpretations of artistic practice informed by critical frameworks such as post-blackness, post-Jewishness, liquid blackness, and Afro and Judeo-pessimism; contributions considering the complexities of identity and visuality from intersectional, comparative, and/or anti-essentialist perspectives are also welcomed. Additionally, contributors could consider the imaging of marginalized identities in relation to systems such as academia, the art market, and popular culture. Artists, curators, and other practitioners are invited to submit pieces for consideration, such as reflections on the impact of major exhibitions or series.

Prof. Dr. Derek Conrad Murray
Stacy Schwartz
Guest Editor

Guest Editor: Derek Conrad Murray, Professor of University of California at Santa Cruz and the former Editorial Board of Art Journal (CAA). For more inforfmation about Professor Murray,  https://havc.ucsc.edu/faculty/derek-murray

For more information on submission guidelines, please visit: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/arts/special_issues/New_Articulations_of_Identity_in_Contemporary_Aesthetics

For pre-submission inquiries, please email the Guest Editors: dcmurray@ucsc.edu and strschwa@ucsc.edu, and SI editor Sylvia Hao in Arts: sylvia.hao@mdpi.com

 

Posted on Thu, September 1st, 2022
Expires on Fri, March 31st, 2023

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