Future Issues
Journal Art and Politics of Identity
Call for Proposals
Call for papers for volume 32
Urban Art as Contextual Art: Spaces, Relationships and Forms of Conservation
Date of publication
January 2025
Deadline for Submission of Proposals
2024, 27 of September
Coordinators
Laura Luque Rodrigo (University of Jaén)
Sandra Gracia Melero (University of Zaragoza)
Abstract
In recent years, the subject of context art, which goes beyond artistic contexts, has begun to be addressed. Ardenne, Claramonte, and even Bourriaud, when he defined relational art, have dealt with context art in particular. Other authors such as Isidro López Aparicio, María Jiménez Sequeiros, Fabio Ernesto Manosalva, or Amalia Belén Mazuecos Sánchez, among others, also include it in their writings, as well as in their works.
However, there is no consensus that provides a clear definition of what context art or contextual artist is, much less when it comes to applying it to specific works and artists. On the other hand, what and how many are the contexts of art? Since every work of art has several contexts, what characteristics must it fulfill to be called Context Art? Specifically, is urban art a context art, all of it or just a part of it, and what happens with virtual contexts? Sometimes the works are moved to spaces other than where/for what they were created, how does this affect their capacity for transmission? is there a decontextualization? All these epistemological questions generate, in turn, many others specific to the professional practice of Art History and Conservation-Restoration: how to study the context of a work from an objective point of view, how to capture it in a cataloguing card, how can it be conserved? However, this subject is open to other disciplines such as sociology, anthropology, etc.
On the other hand, with respect to urban art, there is a clear definition provided by the Urban and Public Art Group of the GE-IIC. It is a type of artistic manifestation that occurs spontaneously in the urban space and dialogues with the city. However, in recent years the term is being phagocytized by public muralism. This monograph will accept proposals that deal with both urban art and muralism, but please specify and use the terms correctly, for which we recommend the publications of the members of the aforementioned group.
Keywords
Context art; socio-political; aesthetics; technique; virtuality; urban art; action art; ephemeral art
Lines of Research
Some of the lines of research that the Journal Art and Politics of Identity suggests are:
- Analysis of the concept of context art itself.
- Urban art as context art vs. The contexts of urban art.
- Face-to-face context vs. Virtual context.
- Conservation and cataloguing. The challenge of context.
- Decontextualizations.
- Action art and contextual ephemeral creations.
- Creative praxis in contextual and relational art and the figure of the spectator.
