CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
POIESIS: A Journal of the Arts and Communication, Volume 14, 2012
THE WORK OF ART AND THE WAY ART WORKS
Deadline: December 31st, 2011
In Honour of Paolo Knill on the Occasion of His 80th Birthday
Paolo Knill, the founder of the European Graduate School, is a pioneer in developing ways for the arts to work in the lives of contemporary individuals and communities. He has taken the psychological framework in which art is understood within the arts therapies and turned it towards a recognition of the centrality of the work, not the subjectivity of its maker. His concept of “decentering” emphasizes both the radical separation of the alternative world of the imagination from the concerns of the everyday and, through subsequent “aesthetic analysis,” the importance of works of art for our experience of life. Art is not self-expression, but it has an undeniable effect on the person or community which receives it. Achieving this “effective reality” is the responsibility of all those who work with the arts to help bring about change; it is our “aesthetic responsibility.”
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In this special issue, we invite members of the EGS community and others to reflect on the work of Paolo Knill as well as on the place the arts may have within our experience. Can the work of art still play the central role which it did in traditional cultures or has what Walter Benjamin called the elimination of the “aura” of the work in the “age of mechanical reproduction” rendered it impossible for art to give meaning and value to life? Does the “age of digital reproduction” in which we now live intensify this process or open up new possibilities for artistic creation? In what ways can we reinvent the arts so that they have a connection with our lives? Heidegger once wrote, Das Werk wirkt (The work works). How can the work work for us today?
For this special issue of POIESIS, audio/video format contributions will once again be considered for publishing in tandem online at egspress.com
Article submissions: Steve Levine, Editor-In-Chief
If your article is already written, we’d like to see an excerpt. If it currently exists only in your mind, send us a proposal.
Excerpts should be between 300 and 500 words. They should be accompanied by an approximately 200-word overview of the themes and content explored in the article. They should also be accompanied by a 50-word author’s bio.
We prefer material that has not been previously published elsewhere; however, exceptions are occasionally made.
We are also open to publishing book reviews.
Please send excerpts and proposals to editor@egspress.com
Poetry submissions: Shara Claire, Assistant Poetry Editor
Please send no less than three and no more than five poems via email (.doc, .rtf or .pdf formatting) to shara@egspress.com Please put the words “POIESIS Poetry Submission” in your subject heading. ALSO send identical hard copy submissions via snail mail, attn: Shara Claire to the address on the Contact page. Please include a 50-word bio with your submission.
Artwork submissions: Kristin Briggs, Art Submissions Co-ordinator
Artists! Please send low-resolution samples of your artwork (less than 2 MB, max 4 images). Website links are preferred as submissions for audio/video formats over FTP or emailed files if possible. Description of the works should include the title, medium, dimensions and date. Please indicate if you have a website and also include a 50-word artist’s bio. Please include the words "ART SUBMISSION" in the subject heading of your email. All these things can be sent by email to egspress.design@yahoo.com.
Thank you for submitting! There is no fee to submit your work. Please note, however, that all submissions are accepted on a volunteer basis: unfortunately, POIESIS is not in a position to financially compensate its contributors at this time.
