Open Call - Issue IV: Architectures of the South - Ellipses Journal for Creative Research

Arts Research Africa and Wits School of Arts are excited to announce the Open Call for Submissions to Issue IV of the Ellipses Journal of Creative Research.

We are honored to be working with Guest Editors Catalina Mejía Moreno (Central St. Martins, UAL) and Huda Tayob (University of Cape Town) in a special focus which aligns with work being led by them with The Space for Creative Black Imagination, via the Department of Art History, Theory, and Criticism at the Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA).

The title of this Issue IV will be Architectures of the South: Bruising, Wounding, Healing, Remembering, Returning, and Repairing.

Editors Mejía Moreno and Tayob state:

"For this issue of […], we are inviting submissions which speak to spaces and site-specific objects across geographies of the south. We are interested in how material, visual, sonic or textual pieces which turn and return to traces of “bruising”, “wounding”, “healing” “remembering”, “returning” and “repairing” might enable us to comprehend entangled relationships between bodies, the built environment and wider ecologies. Bruising and wounding of bodies (whether human or otherwise) and land are the visual and physical surfacing of violence and trauma, or manifestations of inflicted harm. While the immediate impact might be highly visible, the longer term effect of trauma is no less significant, even if at times less visible. 

Issue IV: Architectures of the South questions what is at stake for architecture and spatial practice to think from the south as an embodied location of knowledge and power. We argue that to critically and ethically engage with the South, we need to engage with the epistemic and methodological foundations of how we understand spatial discourse of the South in the first place as viewed through a racialised, classed and gendered bodies. We recognise that this often involves looking across disciplinary boundaries, and associated ways of seeing and working..."

Read more and submit via: http://www.ellipses.org.za 

Deadline: 1st December 2021