Open Call for experimental essays Metode Vol. 3 in collaboration with Lofoten International Art Festival 2024

How have artists, curators, philosophers, and art theorists used local heritage for current critiques? How can this tendency be historized and theorized? Which projects are forgotten forerunners in the arts-based turn to local heritage? How do contemporary art practices negotiate between art, cultural and/or natural heritage to provide ethical remedies for the challenges that lie ahead? Throughout the 20th Century, artists and architects have often looked to the past to engage with contemporary concerns. During the last two decades, practitioners in the arts field have increasingly engaged with local history, regionalist situatedness, peripheral areas, remote figures and events, and local material histories in order to explore the interdependency between local contexts and global entanglements—underpinned by a renewed interest in the relation between ethics and aesthetics.

How have artists, curators, philosophers, and art theorists used local heritage for current critiques? How can this tendency be historized and theorized? Which projects are forgotten forerunners in the arts-based turn to local heritage? How do contemporary art practices negotiate between art, cultural and/or natural heritage to provide ethical remedies for the challenges that lie ahead?

Throughout the 20th Century, artists and architects have often looked to the past to engage with contemporary concerns. During the last two decades, practitioners in the arts field have increasingly engaged with local history, regionalist situatedness, peripheral areas, remote figures and events, and local material histories in order to explore the interdependency between local contexts and global entanglements—underpinned by a renewed interest in the relation between ethics and aesthetics. 

The online platform Metode are proud to announce the Call for Papers for Volume 3 «Currents:  Regenerating pasts for the not yet». The volume is a collaboration between Metode and Lofoten International Art Festival 2024 (LIAF). Special issue editors the third volume are Kjersti Solbakken (curator of LIAF 24) and Ingrid Halland (editor of Metode).

The online journal platform Metode publishes essays in the fields of art and architecture. The essays are developed through experimental, intellectual co-creation, and collaborative methods. The journal’s open, in-depth peer review method aims to offer theorists and practitioners a discursive platform for generating original and compelling critical thinking on art, architecture, design, and aesthetics that challenge conventional academic publication formats and disseminations. 

In order to apply to be a participant in Currents, submit either a full essay draft or a comprehensive project description for your essay by 7 May 2024 to [email protected].