CALL FOR ENTRIES
This coming issue’s submission call is very direct. It is broken down into three sections:
I LOVE TO WE
ANITWAR SURVEY AND ANALYSIS
THEORY.
We are at the end of some cycles of resistance while others continue; the globalization movement has peaked for now, we also realize the serious limitations of counterculture.
Thus with no illusions, we are given a new opportunity to clearly address the enormous crisis that we face. With a fresh-face for experience we can frame questions and histories that will help inform the new cycle of resistance we have yet to imagine. We also know that by assuming that the crisis is already upon us, we are a step ahead it the game by acting now instead of worrying about when it will arrive.
Submission proposals are due by February 20th.
If you would like to participate in the Anti-war overview tell us right away.
Please mail us at [email protected]
Submission proposals need be no longer then a paragraph or so of description.
Section One: I LOVE TO WE
The Journal is looking for articles theorizing or describing art and cultural projects with a radically transformative intent. We are looking for projects that privilege maintenance over spectacle, regeneration over intervention, regionalism over trans-nationalism and altruism over strategic thinking. We are interested in finding projects that involve one or several constituencies or can be classified under the aesthetics of doing and caring and loving. Descriptions of long-term committed projects are welcome, as are articles that talk about self-organized economic models and articles that normalize our dreams. Bring it on!
Section Two: ANITWAR SURVEY AND ANALYSIS
We are seeking a range of respondents for a survey of the West Coast (CA, OR, WA) that examines individuals and collective's active responses to the "Global War on Terror". By providing space for people to present and reflect upon what they have done, we hope to help envision tomorrow’s resistance today. If you have initiated or participated in an activity generated in response to this, our current predicament, please write to the JOAAP for the survey form. What are you up to in Weed? How are you smashing the war machine in Seattle? What kind of blockading is happening in Bend? Sitting-in in Santa Barbara? Arguing for anti-war art in Aptos? Dropping out in Drain? If you wish to participate (and please do) in this open-survey please contact us immediately and we’ll send you a list of questions. We are also seeking short pieces that provide an analysis of current forms of anti-war activism
Section Three: THEORY, CRITIQUE AND ANALYSIS
We are seeking essays that productively theorize, criticize and analyze contemporary radical cultural production.
In this section, we hope to directly support culture produced to confront or circumvent the issues facing us today (global warming, environmental racism, war, economic injustice etc…) buy publishing essays that either broadly or specifically analyze or give language to contemporary resistance and invention.
To that end, we seek projects that squarely identify key concepts involved in these issues: the spirit of these essays should be as in a gift to others to better understand or to create tools which we can live by.
Essay topics include but are NOT limited to:
0. Countering the propaganda of fear (as articulated by government and media, e.g. in relationship to issues of immigration, the war on terror). Responding to depression or paralysis as a tool for or political/cultural movements.
1. Envisioning tomorrow’s world today through what today is already here (This is an idealistic question seizing the moment. Global warming is real. How do we create from it in the here and now.)
2. Discussing/critiquing/analyzing web 2.0 as political tool. Flash animations, social networking, etc.
3. On the individual and collective responsibilities (ethics) of political artists.
4. The aesthetics of solidarity- what does mutual aid look like and how is it built?
5. Normalizing counter-hegemonic assumptions- how to shame bad things and support good things.
6. When to employ inflated or dramatic or scurrilous rhetoric.
7. Something on the nature of most “political culture” as created by movements organizations not having the pizzazz worthy of a museum exhibition… and how that’s great.
8. Academia and the Fine Art World- when are these institutions collectively useful and not just personally rewarding?
9. Something critical of the space between the anarchist moment and the nature of mass media.
10. An essay exploring the distance between state-side activism and wars overseas.
11. Forgetting your personal stake or voice in a global movement and just joining the fight, anyway you can
12. We are looking for essays that explore the relationship between fine-art practices and anti-war action.
Additionally we are interested in printing something regarding Los Angeles’ historic Mayday 2005 LA march and general strike. We are also interested in printing something that analyzes art production under the NEA versus in a way to highlight distinctions between that period and the even more neo-liberal model of art today.
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