[oberlist] WEB# cfp: ArtLeaks Gazette No. 2

[Vladimir US]

Open Call: ArtLeaks Gazette No.2 (Deadline March 31st 2014)

http://art-leaks.org/2013/12/23/open-call-artleaks-gazette-no-2-deadline-march-31st-2014/


(An)Other Art World(s)? Imagination Beyond Fiction



Our first issue of the ArtLeaks Gazette was aimed at bringing critical  
awareness of the challenges and obstacles of the contemporary art  
system. While we considered this a necessary initial step in enacting  
meaningful transformations of this system, we now feel the need to  
move beyond exposure and breaking the silence into ways of engagement,  
or what does it mean to be agents of change in the art world today?

The question of engagement is not singular to the art world, as  
activists and peers continue to grapple with it in the wake of the  
post-Occupy challenges. Just as activits have re-claimed and organized  
squares, parks and streets for a life-changing experience, so cultural  
workers have occupied cultural spaces, have disrupted the business  
cycles of galleries and auction houses, and have organized alternative  
schools and conscious-raising workshops. Nonetheless, we all share the  
frustration that all this is ephemeral, temporary, that as we  
participate in something magical together, it inevitably comes to an  
end. While we have been successful at transforming small spaces for  
short periods of time, there is still much work to do in the way of a  
long-lasting and depth-reaching transformation of culture and society.

The main question that the second issue of the ArtLeaks Gazette  
addresses is: What are the conditions and possibilities of alternative  
art worlds? And because we ask about that which is yet to come, how  
can we engage and use our imagination, avoiding, at the same time, the  
traps of utopian thinking? In many ways, these questions are precisely  
related to the challenge of special and temporal limitations, of the  
continuity of building more engaged institutions, sustainable socio- 
political practices, something which we can come back to and extend.  
It seeks to bring together a host of proposals for practices,  
platforms, organizations and ask how we can push further beyond their  
being too local and temporary. One step towards this is recognizing  
the international character of the resistance, calling for a different  
way of making a critical art, of running institutions and of doing  
politics as people translate their aspirations and practices into a  
new cycle of struggles.

Therefore, we want to ask what process-based, long term paths can be  
followed to bypass the traditional curated exhibition / festival or  
gallery representation to allow for more challenging explorations? How  
do we navigate artistic practice within the rigid established  
structures in order to allow for positive change and growth? Today’s  
art world is far from being friendly to cultural workers. Using our  
own methods, many have identified successful tactics for navigating  
the existing system – although this system is becoming more and more  
unable to provide real support for creative production. How can art  
workers attain fair compensation without continuing to feed this  
broken system? How can they exercise their voices and power to develop  
other sustainable platforms and support the creative field? What  
experimental approaches to art education have been developed and are  
currently practiced? What new ways of unionizing precarious labor  
exist and could they be adapted to cultural workers?

We seek contributions that investigate models for communing within the  
context of art and education; examples of free schools and  
cooperatives based on skills sharing; analyses of economic relations  
inside the art academy that lead to precarity and ways to strike  
against the system of debt and expendable labor; strategies for  
undoing the highly competitive, individualist, market-driven values  
that the art system often produces and ways of making room for  
collective processes;  approaches for supporting art practices that  
remain disconnected from the art market and maintain an explicit  
critical position; ways of establishing new paradigms for  
redevelopment that do not displace artists, workers, local residents  
or industries but build a sustainable community of working people.

Our second issue of the gazette will begin to map these active agents  
and connect peers that have begun constructing in these directions and  
already established platforms – in other words we want to step back  
and look closely at what people are already doing/ have achieved and  
ways in which to fortify demands and critical structures. Our needs,  
passions, values and ideologies maybe diverse, however we consider it  
important to flesh out areas or overlap and dissonance, to map  
existing resistant communities, other economies and ways of  
organizing. This issue aims to bring into focus these various systems  
rather than create a composite, fixed structure, which we hope can  
lead to a different art world with the potential for collective  
evolution.

We welcome contributions in a variety of narrative  forms, from  
articles, commentaries, and glossary entries, to posters, drawings and  
films. The deadline for entries is the 31st of March 2013.  
Contributions should be delivered in English or as an exemption in any  
language after negotiations with the editorial council. The editorial  
council of Artleaks takes responsibility of communicating with all  
authors during the editorial process.

Please contact us with any questions, comments and submit materials  
to: artsleaks at gmail.com.

We will publish all contributions delivered to us in a separate  
section. However, we take full responsibility in composing an issue of  
the gazette in the way we feel it should be done.

The on-line gazette will be published in English under the Creative  
Commons attribution noncommercial-share alike and its materials will  
be offered for translation in any languages to any interested parts.




Vladimir US

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