Call for Papers: INDEX JOURNAL, Issue No. 5, LIQUID TIME

Call for Papers
Issue No. 5 LIQUID TIME

But are not all facts dreams as soon as we put them behind us?
— Emily Dickinson

To restage or reconstitute archives of art and exhibitions is not to calcify history but to register its fluidity. That’s how the past survives—by being liquid time.

INDEX JOURNAL invites historians of art (including artists and curators) anywhere in the world and at any stage in their career to submit essays that consider the act of restaging. For this issue, we are particularly interested in exhibition histories and practice-led inquiries into restaging from the global south and southern hemisphere more broadly.

The concept of liquid time is informed by the Polish philosopher and sociologist Zygmaunt Bauman and his book Liquid Modernity (1999).

Papers should be no more than 7,500 words and in accordance with the Chicago Manual of Style (Notes and Bibliography). Submit to editors@index-journal.org. If you have a proposal please feel free to contact the editors well before the deadline to discuss.

Only completed papers considered.

Submissions due 4 March 2023

Image:   Joaquín Torres-García, América Invertida (Inverted America), 1943, ink on paper, 22 x 16 cm
INDEX JOURNAL is an independent peer-reviewed art history publication based in Melbourne, Australia. The journal presents original scholarship by art historians and theorists from all specialisations, treating the art of the past with the same urgency as it does the art of the present. For each issue, INDEX JOURNAL invites a guest editor to raise a polemic—in the form of a single proposition— that calls for pressing art historical attention.

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