CALL FOR PAPERS

Organisation/person name: 
the Wellington Collaboratorium
Work type: 
Freelance
Work classification: 
Writer
Job description: 

Essays are invited from writerss in arts-related disciplines on the topic of artistic collaborations and collective practices.

Authors are invited to interpret these issues broadly, and we welcome their treatment from a variety of different perspectives: the artist, the collective voice, the curator, the art critic, the art historian, or philosopher, cultural historian and critic. Examples of suitable topics include, but are not limited to: the nature or function of collectives in art; challenges in different artistic media facing collaborations; issues involved in forming, establishing, promoting collectives; the disenfranchisement of artists and the rise of collectiivism. We also welcome papers about particular artworks or art groups as a springboard for discussing larger issues about collaborations and collectives.

Abstracts should be 500 words, and if selected, final essays should be 2000-4000 words, in a style and format that makes them accessible to artists, art critics, curators and art historians, and written in a way to encourage serious and focused academic thought.

Abstracts and papers will be refereed blind by a member of the editorial advisory board. please direct all submissions and editorial questions to sondra.bacharach@vuw.ac.nz

Abstracts and papers should be prepared for blind referee and submitted in Word or Rich text Format, via email to: sondra.bacharach@vuw.ac.nz

Deadline for abstracts (500 words): 1 August 2010

Deadline for final papers (2000-4000 words): 1 November 2010.

 

Key skills sought: 

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This opportunity is: 
Unpaid
Salary low $: 
0
Salary high $: 
0
Closing date: 
Sunday, 1 August 2010
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