[spectre] Fwd: CFP: Kunstlicht, Vol. 45, no. 3-4: Aesthetics of Non-Alignment

[Andreas Broeckmann]

From: Patsy Nagtzaam
Date: Apr 6, 2025
Subject: CFP: Kunstlicht, Vol. 45, no. 3-4: Aesthetics of Non-Alignment

Deadline: May 4, 2025

The upcoming issue of Kunstlicht, dedicated to political non-alignment 
and the aesthetics of non-alignment, asks: How are contemporary artists 
and art practitioners engaging with an imaginary of the NAM today? How 
is the domain of contemporary art contributing to the materialisation of 
non-aligned worldmaking aspirations? And how can modern-day contemporary 
art practices and modes of collaboration within art and culture be read 
in the context of the NAM [Non-Aligned Movement, founded in 1961] and 
non-alignment more generally? ...

We invite scholars, writers, artists, and creative or cultural 
practitioners from all stages in their respective practices, to submit 
ideas for articles, reviews, visual works, or other forms of 
contributions that are compatible with the printed form, to consider 
rediscovering historical events, aesthetic objects, and other 
Non-Aligned artistic and cultural practices in order to explore their 
relation or contribution to the political project of Non-Alignment, and 
their effectiveness, shortcomings and the problematics they embodied or 
pose(d).

We are interested in exploring questions of: What are the living 
legacies of Non-Alignment? What does/could non-alignment mean in our 
current political climates? (How) Can non-alignment, both as a movement 
emerging from a specific historical context and as a concept that 
possibly exceeds it, help us conceive of alternative forms of political 
existence, resistance, and liberation rooted in solidarity and 
friendship, including those made possible through artistic and cultural 
praxis? And what are some examples of present-day aesthetic expressions 
and practices that can be considered activations of unfulfilled 
non-aligned visions and aspirations?

We look forward to receiving your submissions together with your CV or 
portfolio by not later than May 4, 2025. For academic articles and 
written pieces, we invite you to submit an abstract of not more than 300 
words. For visual or other more experimental submissions, we invite you 
to submit a proposal that does not exceed 1 A4 page. You can send in 
your proposed contribution to redactie at tijdschriftkunstlicht.nl using 
‘Aesthetics of Non-Alignment’ as the subject line. All writers and 
contributors will be notified about the selection process before the end 
of the month. The issue will be published towards the end of 2025.

For further information and the full CFP: 
https://tijdschriftkunstlicht.nl/call-for-papers-aesthetics-of-non-alignment-kunstlicht-vol-45-no-3-4/


Reference / Quellennachweis:
CFP: Kunstlicht, Vol. 45, no. 3-4: Aesthetics of Non-Alignment. In: 
ArtHist.net, Apr 6, 2025. <https://arthist.net/archive/47192>.