Contributors from diverse disciplinary backgrounds are invited to submit articles, reviews or interviews that address this theme through a high variety of possible angles and art forms.

 Topics may include (but are not restricted to):

 – Artistic strategies in response to censorship and violations of human rights in contexts worldwide.

 – Art as a tool of dialogue and conflict resolution.

 – The conditions of artists to reflect and influence their local political situation through art.

  Art’s potential to promote cultural diversity, intercultural cooperation and understanding.

 – The political conditions of artistic expression under neoliberalism and neoliberal urbanization.

 – Artistic strategies of decolonization.

 – Artistic strategies to challenge geopolitical, economic, cultural or historical master narratives.

 – The emergence of new art scenes and regions in contemporary art; its consequences for art and politics and for the possibility of art scenes to rewrite the contemporary art map/ the concept of contemporary art.

We accept submissions continuously, but to make sure you are considered for the upcoming issue, please send your proposal/ draft, CV and samples of earlier work to submissions@seismopolite.com within November 16, 2014.

 Completed work will be due November 26, 2014. All articles will be translated into Norwegian and published in a bilingual version.