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No Storage   Help | Kunstlicht’s Online Curating – special online edition

No Storage   Help Kunstlicht’s Online Curating – special online edition On 7 November, 19:00 - 20:00 CET Part of distant.gallery festival. No Storage   Help, foregrounds online exhibition projects and curatorial practices that engage with the instability and precarity of their environments. By exploring the potential of these digital environments processes of optimisation and commodification turn into spaces for ...

Call for Papers: (OUTER) SPACE(S), Kunstlicht Vol. 47, no 1/2

Ancient astrological practices – ranging from horoscopic astrology and divination, to the observation and interpretation of planetary movements, and the structuring of human calendar systems according to celestial cycles – attest that human history has always been infused by the cosmic. Whether by helping us measure time, establish cyclical rhythms, develop mapping practices, or by leading us to more fundamental ...

VOL. 46 1/2 Online Curating

Editorial Note Kunstlicht Collective Editorial Introduction Annet Dekker Full Stack Fabulator (or the Promethean Curator) Denise Twaithes Online Focalisation, Stretched Time, and The Curatorial Imaginary: The Case of MHHK – an Interview With Ricardo Liong-A-Kong Floris Paalman Platform Curating as Interference. A Brief History of Online Interventions in the Corporate Digital Sphere Marialaura Ghidini Blue Ocean: Iterative Manifestations Carly Whitaker ...

CLOSED | Call for Papers | AESTHETICS OF NON-ALIGNMENT, Kunstlicht Vol. 45, no. 3-4

Deadline Extended! New Deadline: 18 May 2025 A pub quiz question in a small town on the Croatian coast asked: “Which of the three fathers of the Non-Aligned Movement does NOT have a square named after them in Zagreb?”[1] (Un)Surprisingly, it is Yugoslav communist politician Josip Broz Tito whose name is omitted. Following the fall of Yugoslavia, former Yugoslav states ...

DRUK 2024 Book Fair at Paradiso Amsterdam

Come find us this Sunday 24 November at DRUK 2024 book fair at Paradiso Amsterdam! ✨ Doors open at 12:00 until 16:00 We are very excited and honoured to be amongst all these great publishers. The annual book fair hosts more than 100 Dutch and Belgian exhibitors and has talks throughout the day. Don’t miss it and get your tickets ...

CLOSED | Call for Papers | ONLINE CURATING, Kunstlicht Vol. 46, no. 1-2

Guest editor: Annet Dekker Deadline: 5 September 2024 Published: April 2025 We are excited to present our open call for the first issue of 2025 called ‘Online Curating’ guest edited by dr. Annet Dekker. Online curating challenges traditional models and methods for presenting, accessing and distributing art in relation to the use of space (from white cubes to online spaces) ...

CLOSED | Call for Papers | THE SWAMP POTENTIAL, Kunstlicht Vol. 45, no. 3-4

Guest editors: Suzie van Staaveren and Robbie Schweiger Deadline: 15 April 2024 Published: November 2024 We are thrilled to announce the call for papers for the upcoming issue of Kunstlicht dedicated to the ecological and discursive potential of swamps within artistic practices and design cultures. Recent projects, such as Turba Tol Hol-Hol Tol presented at the Chilean Pavilion at the 59th Venice ...

Two Launch events for BETWEEN THE STANDING AND THE INCLINED

SAVE THE DATE ✨ 20 January 2024, 3-5 pm at Casco Art Institute, Utrecht 21 February 2024, 7-9 pm at Framer Framed, Amsterdam. Registration link will follow. Coming up on 20th of January 2024 and on the 21st of February are the two launch events of Kunstlicht Vol. 44, N. 4: BETWEEN THE STANDING AND THE INCLINED: STRUCTURES SUPPORTING CHANGE. Each ...

Nosetalgia online event for World Taste & Smell Day

Join us for an online event organised by Kunstlicht dedicated to celebrating the World Taste & Smell Day. This event will feature contributors from the Nosetalgia issue, including artists, perfumers, and scholars, engaging in captivating discussions about the intersection of smell and nostalgia, and how olfaction bridges the gap between memories and emotions.  When: Thursday, September 14, 2023, 6:00 PM ...

CLOSED | Call for Papers | Reverberant Ecologies: On the Relational Impact of Sonic Practices, Kunstlicht vol. 45, no. 1

Guest editor: Manuela Zammit Deadline: 31 August 2023 Published: February 2024 “From the continuous flow and punctuations of the audible, a range of capacities and potentialities may be found. In particular, the shifting flows of vibrancy and reverberance that often shape our interactions with the world and with others…” Brandon LaBelle, Sonic Agency:  Sound and Emergent Forms of Resistance. We ...