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CFP: Journal of Curatorial Studies

Deadline January 01, 2021

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The Journal of Curatorial Studies seeks original research articles on the subject of curating and exhibitions, as well as case studies, interviews, and reviews of recent books, exhibitions, and conferences.

The Journal of Curatorial Studies is a new international, peer-reviewed publication that explores the increasing relevance of curating and its impact on exhibitions, institutions, audiences, aesthetics, and display culture. Inviting cross-disciplinary approaches from visual studies, art history, museum studies, critical theory, cultural studies, and other academic fields–the journal encompasses a diversity of contributions on curating and exhibitions broadly defined. By catalyzing debate and serving as a venue for the emerging discipline of curatorial studies, this journal encourages the development of the theory, practice, and history of curating, as well as the analysis of exhibitions and display culture in general.

Through investigations of current and historical exhibitions, display formats in the art context and cultures at large, individual curators and their oeuvres, and the political and theoretical issues influencing the production of exhibitions, the journal promotes a wide-ranging inquiry into what constitutes 'the curatorial.' While curating as a spatialized discourse of art objects remains important, in the current era organizing an exhibition involves a much more complex set of critical practices and self-reflexive methodologies that can have effects both locally and globally. This expanded cultural function of curating generates not only exhibitions for audiences to view, but also queries the nature of aesthetic experience, the authority of institutions, the formation of ideology, and the construction of knowledge. The readership of the Journal of Curatorial Studies includes scholars in curatorial studies, art history, and museum studies, along with gallery and museum professionals, independent curators and art critics, and cultural theorists interested in art and display.