Special Issue Call for Papers: Journal of Illustration
Special Issue Call for Papers: Journal of Illustration
‘Illuminating the Non-Representable’
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In 2020–23, illustration researchers were brought together by Hilde Kramer from the University of Bergen to explore and analyze meaning-making in images in online and in-person symposia, workshops and exhibitions. The endeavour has been supported by the Norwegian Artistic Research Programme.
Asking how illustration in an expanded approach may communicate profound human issues typically considered unrepresentable, this initiative explores representation and the narratives of ‘us’ and ‘the others’ in the contemporary world through illustration as a starting point for cross-disciplinary projects. Works developed should afford contemplation of illustration as an enhanced, decelerated way of looking and drawing as a process for understanding – a way of understanding the other as much as expressing one’s own needs (McCartney 2016). The output has been artistic research through strategies and theories of illustration across media and materials, often unconventional ones.
The three main symposia were ‘Transposition as Artistic Practice’ (online 2020), ‘Materiality, Space and Embodiment’ (hybrid in Istanbul 2021) and ‘Illustration and the Non-Representable’ (in person in Falstad, Norway 2023). You can find more information, context and documentation of the works pursued and talks given to date here and at Illuminating the Non Representable website here.
Volume 10 Issue 2 of the Journal of Illustration will gather papers, visual essays and other resulting reports. Submissions from those who have already participated in any capacity and those who are inspired by the themes are encouraged to submit.
DEADLINES
Initial manuscripts or expressions of interest (300-word abstract): 12 November 2023
Final submissions: 30 January 2024
Distribution to coincide with an event at Grafill in Oslo: September 2024
Guest Editor:
Jaleen Grove (jgrove@risd.edu)
Submission procedure:
To submit an article, please follow the 'Submit' button on the journal page here>>
https://www.intellectbooks.com/journal-of-illustration