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Posted by: University of Otago
Deadline: Mon, August 31st, 2026

Call for Papers

Journal of Avant-Garde Studies (JAGS), Open Issue

Editors-in-Chief: Éva Forgács, Benedikt Hjartarson, Cecilia Novero, Sami Sjöberg

Published biannually by Brill

About the Journal

The Journal of Avant-Garde Studies (JAGS) is a peer-reviewed, interdisciplinary journal dedicated to the critical exploration of the experimental, the provocative, and the unclassifiable in the arts and literature. With a global outlook and a wide range of theoretical approaches, The Journal of Avant-Garde Studies examines avant-garde practices from the historical avant-gardes through the neo-avant-gardes and into the present, engaging both canonical figures and those marginalized or overlooked by existing histories.

The Journal of Avant-Garde Studies seeks to broaden and enrich our understanding of the vanguard by fostering dialogue across disciplines, geographies, and methodologies.

Scope of the Issue

For this open issue, the editors invite finished, original research articles on any avant-garde artist, movement, theory or practice, from any geographical or cultural context. Contributions are not limited to Europe and are especially welcome if from underrepresented regions, traditions, and perspectives.

The journal approaches the avant-garde not as a loose label, but as a historically and conceptually defined field shaped by practices, discourses, and institutions committed to rupture, experimentation, antagonism, and the rethinking of art’s social, political, and epistemic roles. Within this framework, the scope of the issue includes: 

Historical avant-garde movements of the late 19th and early 20th centuries Neo-avant-garde formations of the 1960s-1980s Post-1970s and contemporary practices that explicitly engage with, reactivate, critique or transform avant-garde paradigms.

While The Journal of Avant-Garde Studies welcomes scholarship on later and contemporary work, submissions must explicitly engage with the concept, history or legacy of the avant-garde, rather than modernism in a general or purely stylistic sense.

Possible Topics (Indicative, not Exhaustive)

Reconsiderations of avant-garde movements, groups, manifestos, and networks Global, transnational, and decolonial perspectives on the avant-garde Avant-garde practices beyond the visual arts and literature (performance, sound, film, media, architecture, design, fashion, etc.) Theories and philosophies of the avant-garde Gender, sexuality, race, class, and the avant-garde Political, social, institutional dimensions of avant-garde practices Archival discoveries, neglected figures, and alternative genealogies Neo-avant-garde and post-avant-garde debates Avant-garde strategies in contemporary art and culture Intersections between avant-garde practices and activism, technology, or popular culture Reception, criticism, and the afterlives of the avant-garde, including how audiences, markets, and cultural memory have interpreted and recontextualized avant-garde work over time.

 Submission Guidelines

Submissions must be original, unpublished, and not under consideration elsewhere Articles should be submitted as completed manuscripts by the deadline (August 31, 2026) Manuscripts should generally fall within the journal’s standard length (approximately 6,000-10,000 words, including notes and references) Please include an abstract (max. 100 words), up to six keywords, affiliation details, and an email address All submissions must comply with the journal’s style guidelines and will undergo double-anonymous external peer review Whenever possible articles should be submitted in English (the journal’s primary language of publication).

Detailed submission instructions and style guidelines are available on the journal’s page on Brill’s website. 

Peer Review

All articles published in The Journal of Avant-Garde Studies, including those in open and special issues, undergo a double-anonymous external peer review process.

Important Dates

Submission deadline for completed manuscripts: August 31, 2026* Anticipated publication: December 2026

*Please note: if you wish to submit an abstract first to check whether your article falls within the scope of the journal, please do so by mid-June, 2026. 

How to Submit

Manuscripts should be submitted via Brill’s online submission system for The Journal of Avant-Garde Studies. Please select "Open Issue" when prompted during submission.

For any questions about your manuscript, please contact Editor-in-Chief, Benedikt Hjartarson (benedihj@hi.is), University of Iceland. For any questions about submission via Editorial Manager (EM@Brill.com), please contact Brill’s EM support. All other matters can be directed to the publisher at BRILL, Masja Horn (masja.horn@degruyterbrill.com).

 

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Call for Articles

OTAGO GERMAN STUDIES (OGS), Vol. 33

University of Otago – Dunedin | Ōtepoti

New Zealand | Aotearoa

 

Daniel Spoerri: Collecting, Consuming, Conserving

Retrospective and Prospective Views

The editorial board of OTAGO GERMAN STUDIES invites submissions for a forthcoming edited volume dedicated to the life and work of Daniel Spoerri (1930–2024), the Swiss-born Romanian artist, writer, and provocateur whose multifaceted oeuvre has left a lasting imprint on European and international visual culture.

Best known as a central figure of Nouveau Réalisme and for his iconic “snare pictures” (Tableaux pièges), Spoerri’s practice extended far beyond object art. His work encompassed performance, poetry, publishing, culinary experimentation, and institutional critique. He founded restaurants as artistic laboratories, created gardens and sculptural environments, and established museums that blurred the boundaries between exhibition, archive, and lived experience. Among these are the Ausstellungshaus Spoerri in Hadersdorf and his collaborations with institutions such as the Naturhistorisches Museum Wien, where artistic and scientific modes of collecting entered into provocative dialogue.

This volume seeks to explore the breadth of Spoerri’s practice from retrospective and forward-looking perspectives. We welcome contributions that examine any dimension of Spoerri’s artistic, literary, and curatorial production, including but not limited to:

·      The aesthetics and philosophy of the Tableaux pièges

·      Spoerri’s poetry, publishing ventures, and textual practices

·      Food, restaurants, and the Eat Art movement

·      The Spoerri gardens and sculptural landscapes

·      Collecting, museology, and institutional critique

·      Collaborations with artists, writers, scientists, and museums

·      Archival practices and materiality

·      Spoerri within the contexts of Nouveau Réalisme, Fluxus, and European postwar art

·      Reception history and transnational networks

In addition, the volume explicitly aims to consider Spoerri’s relevance for contemporary debates. Long before such issues entered mainstream discourse, Spoerri addressed themes that resonate strongly today:

·      Environmental consciousness and ecology

·      Ethical eating and food politics

·      Waste, recycling, and material afterlives

·      Consumption and sustainability

·      The politics of collecting and exhibiting

We invite authors to reflect on how Spoerri’s practice anticipates or challenges current discussions in visual arts, literature, museum studies, and political thought.

Audience

The volume is intended for scholars and students of German and European visual culture, literature, art history, and interdisciplinary studies, as well as artists, curators, and readers interested in Spoerri’s eclectic and boundary-crossing work.

Languages

Chapters may be submitted in English or German. Contributions in other languages will be considered on the condition that authors provide a translation into either English or German prior to peer review.

Publication Format

The volume will be published as an open-access, peer-reviewed edited collection in OTAGO GERMAN STUDIES on the University of Otago’s Open Journal Systems platform. Publication is free of charge for authors and freely accessible to readers worldwide.

Timeline

            •           Abstract submission (300–500 words): May 31, 2026

            •           Notification of acceptance: June 15, 2026

            •           Full chapter submission: October 15, 2026

            •           Peer review completed: end of January 2027

            •           Final revisions: End of February 2027

            •           Online publication: March or April 2027

Please send abstracts and a brief biographical note (100–150 words) to Cecilia Novero, cecilia.novero@otago.ac.nz (ORCID: 0000-0002-7011-2548)

We look forward to contributions that engage critically and creatively with Daniel Spoerri’s enduring and evolving legacy.

Posted on Fri, May 15th, 2026
Expires on Mon, August 31st, 2026

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