Call for Research
Stedelijk Studies Journal #13: “Museum-ing: Research in Practice”
Submission deadline: September 12, 2022
Stedelijk Studies Journal #13: “Museum-ing: Research in Practice”
Submission deadline: September 12, 2022
The foundation of the traditional museum is its object collection, which informs its history and defines the institution as a social and political entity. While the museum persists across societal developments, the basis of its research initiatives often relies on traditions of the past. The transformative methods offered by twenty-first-century art-based research that challenge how objects relate to their institutions could render the museum a more innovative realm of experience.
Our call for research for issue 13 of the Stedelijk Studies Journal seeks out such explorations of “Museum-ing”, wherein art-based research is an act or practice of being with the museum creatively. We direct this call to artists, theorists, curators, and scholars whose art-based practices of research address new and old ways of putting one’s work in conversation with the museum—the building, the phantasmatics of the institution, the potency and history of the artworks located therein. We look for submissions that think around and through the museum and propose “museum-ing” as a strategy to examine, prod, and speculate on the historical, present, and future interstices of knowledges and methodologies. What are the potentials for art-based research to transform the concept of “the Museum” into “museum-ing,” and what possibilities does this shift present?
AnnaMaria Pinaka, “untitled” (part of series Thirsty Pig), 2022. Ink and watercolors. Photo by AnnaMaria Pinaka.
AnnaMaria Pinaka, “untitled” (part of series Thirsty Pig), 2022. Ink and watercolors. Photo by AnnaMaria Pinaka.
The Stedelijk Museum has already started addressing these questions by bringing artistic practitioners into the museum’s curatorial and research teams. We work together with artists, scholars, and other creatives to transform the basis of research from Western art history to a broader understanding of histories of art in curatorial and collection practices within our own walls and across digital space. To further develop this environment in which intellectual and artistic labor are equally valued, the Stedelijk Studies Journal has made it part of its process to incorporate peer-reviewed artistic practices. Consequently, our call for research welcomes knowledge transmissions in all its forms: from scholarly writing to the full range of artistic media. The editors of issue 13 seek contributions that add thoroughly researched, idiosyncratic perspectives to current debates, particularly those that leap into the speculative.
Stedelijk Studies Journal issue 13 will be published in Summer 2023.
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 (excl. VAT).
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 5, 2022.
Stedelijk Studies Journal is a high-quality, peer-reviewed academic journal published by the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam. The journal comprises research related to the Stedelijk collection, exploring institutional history, museum studies, and current topics in the field of art and design.
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