Call for contributions: Rebento Journal no. 18 - The waves of visual artist collectives in Brazil: from emerging to peripheral

Issue No. 18 of the Rebento Journal (DeArtes/PPGA -IA-Unesp) opens a call for articles, essays, interviews, manifestos, critical narratives of processes, visual essays, translations and reviews about the practices of artist collectives in Brazil, with focus on the Visual Arts – and on their dialogue (or friction) with international, contemporary or historical artistic practices, as well as with political discourses and practices. In agenda: 1) the rise of the so-called collectives of artists in Brazil, between the end of the 1990s and the beginning of the 2010s, a phenomenon marked both by "collaborative practices" linked to anti-globalization activism (and their strategies of media "visibility" of political struggles ) and by the collaboration of these groups of artists with social movements; as well as the theoretical conceptualization of the collective-form and its association with new professional categorizations (prescribed by institutions and other agents of the circuit), such as "young artist" or "emerging artist"; 2) the dissemination on a mass scale and generalization of the collective form after June 2013 (historic milestone to be discussed), encompassing all types of spontaneous activity, of subordinate and peripheral origin, carried out in small groups – specifically cultural activities (from slam poetry to contemporary art), militants (in general linked to progressive agendas), social assistance (from psychological support to the distribution of lunchboxes), educational (from popular preparation courses to graffiti workshops), or, in general, the provision of creative services (from graphic design to haircut) in a precarious work regime. Also of interest are analyzes on the "normalization" and incorporation into everyday language of the term collective to designate cultural-associativism in general; 3) the historically broader phenomenon of the grouping of artists and the collectivization of visual artistic work – from modern to contemporary art. This mapping could include "pre-collective" Brazilian artistic and performance groups (such as 3NÓS3, A Moreninha, Visorama, Casa 7, for example), in their relationship with the contemporary collective-form (as consolidated internationally since the 1980s). Papers must be submitted to the journal's platform (http://www.periodicos.ia.unesp.br/index.php/rebento/about/submissions#onlineSubmissions), from June 19 to July 30, 2023.  The release of issue 18 of Rebento Journal is scheduled for December 2023. Submissions with different themes will be inserted in the continuous demand articles.