Social Movement Cultures: call for writing

(thanks, Theodore)

Dear Friends and Colleagues,

You are receiving this invitation to submit writing (details below) because either we know you or have met you in our travels, read your writing, or you were referred to us.

We (Dara Greenwald and Josh MacPhee) are organizing a show for Fall 2008 at Exit Art in New York City, Incendiary Veins: Social Movement Cultures 1960s to Present and will be publishing an accompanying exhibition catalog. Because we can’t pretend to comprehensively cover the vast field of the art, culture and media of social movements, we are hoping multiple contributions from personal perspectives can add to a more complex understanding of this history and present.

We are looking for short anecdotes of experiences with the intersection of art/culture/media and social movements. Perhaps it was a poster, a street performance, or even a dance party at a protest that transformed the way you experienced politics and your engagement with collective social transformation. (There are many other ways people experience the cultural aspects of social movements, so please don’t be contained by these examples…)

This is not an open call but if you know someone who might be a great contributor to this text please send them our way. We are especially hoping to get more contacts for people outside of the USA.

Very best,

Dara and Josh

Invitation to Submit

DEADLINE: March 1, 2008

Notification of Acceptance: End of March 2008

We are currently accepting submissions of 500-800 words in length about a memorable experience you had with the intersections of art/culture/media and social movements. We are looking for first hand experiences, short personal narratives to include in our upcoming exhibition catalog about the cultural production of social movements since the 1960’s. The exhibition opens in September 2008 at Exit Art in New York City.

The catalog will consist of two or three in-depth framing essays, images of cultural artifacts from social movements (posters, photos, film stills, etc.), and these short personal accounts from a diverse range of experiences dispersed throughout. The catalog is being published by AK Press and Exit Art and will be available by September 2008.

Unfortunately we cannot publish all submissions nor can we pay people whose texts are selected, but we hope you will submit in an effort to understand and communicate more deeply about the important cultural work of social movements.

We hope you will consider submitting to this collection.

Submit texts by email to: dara@daragreenwald.com