Stedelijk Studies #15: Audiences for Contemporary Art Museums

This peer-reviewed academic journal published by the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam will be on "Audiences for the Contemporary Art Museum," focusing on global and intercultural perspectives, how the continuities and dissonances in the audience shape the museum and artistic work, how do our unwieldy times affect expectations, hopes, and future projects concerning audiences? What awaits us on the horizon? [...]

First and foremost, we would love to get your submissions, but also knowing that you are spread all around the world with wonderfully diverse networks--as academics, artists, authors, curators, directors, facilitators, gallerists, and researchers-- we would like to kindly ask you if you can please forward our call to your networks.

We invite artistic, creative, critical, innovative, or scholarly contributions from around the globe.

Please spread the word! The submission deadline is September 2, 2024.

Museums are or can become a “third space”, enabling connections outside of home and workplace. They have formed the site of highly diversified (artistic) practices, collections, and narratives while carrying the potential to address and engage with different audiences. These different kinds of audiences encounter museums that, over the last decades, have significantly diversified their presentation formats: white cubes, black boxes, event spaces, theatres, auditoria, multifunctional spaces, meeting, roundtable, and debate areas, workshop and educational spaces, open archives, and open depots.

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This issue of Stedelijk Studies focuses on the topics of inclusion, diversity, absences, and presences as well as participation in its broadest sense, with regards to audiences for the art museum. We invite contributors from around the globe to respond in artistic, creative, critical, innovative, or scholarly manner, and in a format that fits the digital journal Stedelijk Studies, that reflect on how one engages with the audience, within diverse geographies, cultures, and/or communities along with their unwieldy realities. These can be economic and political tensions, wars, ecological disasters that consider, amongst others, demographic challenges, migratory realities, social inequalities, and intolerance.

Topics could include, but are not limited to, see on: https://stedelijkstudies.com/call-for-research-stedelijk-studies-15/#av_section_2

Process

All accepted submissions are subject to scholarly or artistic peer review, and all contributors must be open to receive such feedback and work collaboratively toward a final version. As a way to open up the peer-reviewed process further we will compensate published submissions with a fee of 400 EUR (excl. VAT).

Submission

Please send abstracts and artistic proposals (max. 300 words and optionally max. 5 images) and CV (merged in one PDF file) to stedelijkstudies [at] stedelijk.nl by September 2nd 2024.

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The Stedelijk Studies Journal is a peer-reviewed academic journal published by the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam. [...]