[Air-L] Call for Contributions: Surveillance/Art Edited Collection

[sava saheli singh]

Call for Contributions
Edited collection: Surveillance/Art: A Creative Address of Surveillance
Logics
Edited by Susan Cahill, with Julia Chan, Stéfy McKnight, and sava saheli
singh

Deadline for proposals: May 15, 2022

This edited collection brings together a selection of creative, critical,
and scholarly works that speak to each other in their engagement with art
and surveillance.We invite artworks, art writing, and scholarly writing
that address a range of topics associated with surveillance. Specifically,
we are interested in contributions that situate art in relation to the
logics, beliefs, and value systems that enable and justify the applications
of surveillance as a system and technology of social control (Browne 2012;
Maynard 2017).

Our definition of surveillance is broad: we think of it as the social,
technological, cultural, political, and historical structures that dictate
the will and capacity to monitor which people are free to move, settle, and
live, and which people are not. We see these structures as working in
conjunction with colonial-capitalism, white supremacy, and
cis-heteropatriarchy, and are interested in creative works and writing that
critically think through these intersections. We situate this collection in
relation to broader scholarship that discusses the implications and
histories of surveillance in relation to race, gender, class, sexuality,
and ability (for instance, works by Browne 2015; Dubrosky and Magnet 2015;
Kafer and Grinberg 2019; Khan et al. 2022; Monahan 2017; Saltes 2013).
Proposed contributions to this edited collection can engage with any
historical periods and geopolitical spaces.

Importantly, this collection forefronts art practices as generative and
integral participants in historical and contemporary understandings of
surveillance. Art and creativity are broad terms, and can refer to a number
of mediums and disciplines. For this collection, we focus on mediums of art
that would be conventionally associated with visual art galleries and
museums: painting, sculpture, drawing, printmaking, film and video,
installations, site-specific art, performance, and photography (if you are
not sure whether your work fits with our call, please do not hesitate to
reach out). With these works, we are interested in contributions that
critique surveillance structures, counter-surveil the agents and systems of
surveillance, and present them to audiences in ways that denormalize these
structures to reveal the often invisible and unquestioned logics that
govern them. In this way, we encourage contributions that position art as a
creative methodology, a way to think about artistic and critical
interventions that trouble, reveal, challenge, and resist surveillance
structures and larger understandings of them.

Once assembled, the edited collection will be submitted for publication to
a scholarly press, which will involve the peer-review process.

Submission guide and timelines:
Please send submissions and any questions to art.surveillance at gmail.com.

All submissions should be sent by May 15, 2022, and include a 100-word bio
per contributor. For artworks, please send a 250-word artist statement and
up to 5 images. For written pieces, please send a 500-word abstract. All
attachments should be in pdf form, except for images, which should be in
jpg form. If the artwork is in video format, please send a link as part of
your submission.

We will respond to submissions by June 15, 2022. For accepted pieces, full
versions will be due December 01, 2022. Format and structure of artwork
contributions will depend on the specifics of the medium and reproduction.
Full versions of written pieces will be 5000-7000 words, including notes
and references.

References
Browne, Simone. 2012. “Race and Surveillance.” Routledge Handbook of
Surveillance Studies, eds. Kirstie Ball, Kevin Haggerty, and David Lyon,
Routledge.
Browne, Simone. 2016. Dark Matters, Duke University Press.
Dubrosky, Rachel E. and Shoshana Amielle Magnet, eds. 2015. Feminist
Surveillance Studies, 2015.
Kafer, Gary and Daniel Grinberg, eds. 2019. “Queer Surveillance,” special
themed issue of Surveillance & Society 17, 5.
Khan, Sheila, Nazir Ahmed Can, and Helen Machado, eds. 2022. Racism and
Racial Surveillance, Routledge.
Maynard, Robyn. 2017. Policing Black Lives, Fernwood Publishing.
Monahan, Torin. 2017. “Regulating belonging: surveillance, inequality, and
the cultural production of abjection.” Journal of Cultural Economy 10, 2:
191-206.
Saltes, Natasha. 2013. “‘Abnormal’ Bodies on the Borders of Inclusion:
Biopolitics and the Paradox of Disability Surveillance.” Surveillance &
Society 11, 1/2: 55-73.

link for this info:
https://akimbo.ca/listings/call-for-contributions-surveillance-art-edited-collection/