Caribbean InTransit is about to embark on its SEVENTH ISSUE of open access publications, with Volume 1 now available in print as a compilation of the first four issues. Volume 1 includes Issue 1: “The Politics of the Visual and the Vocal”, Guest Edited by Dr. Patricia Mohammed; Issue 2:”Location and Caribbeanness”, Guest Edited by Dr. Honor Ford-Smith; Issue 3:”Arts for Social Change”, Guest Edited by Dr. Toby Jenkins; and Issue 4: “Cutting Edges: New Media and Creative Entrepreneurship”, Guest Edited by Dr. Keith Nurse and Alanna Lockward. Vol 2 Issue 5: “The Book of Promises” featuring the 3rd Haiti Ghetto Biennale, Guest Edited by Sterlin Ulysse and Barbara Prezeau and Vol. 2 Issue 7: “Antithesis/Synthesis: Fine Arts & Cultural Heritage” Guest Editors, Dr. Mimi Sheller and Dominique Brebion. We encourage departments and libraries to purchase copies.
Caribbean InTransit launches into 2022 with several opportunities on the horizon and new mechanisms in place. In 2021, we celebrated 10 years, launched Vol. 3, Issue 6 on “Antithesis/Synthesis: Fine Arts & Cultural Heritage. In celebration of our first decade we hosted the inaugural #IAMaCHANGEMAKER panel series with five stimulating panels. This year, Caribbean InTransit is focused on developing its experimental platform through: i) introduction of its mobile application, ” Meeting Place by Caribbean InTransit”, ii) the fourth Caribbean InTransit arts festival iii) welcoming new members to our Editorial Team and Board Collective. We welcome you to join us by becoming a member, a partner or a contributor to our publications.
CALL FOR PAPERS: ISSUE 7
The concept of Caribbean Intransit is to provide a creative meeting place for Caribbean artists to share their thought-provoking ideas and works within a community of cultural producers, students, scholars, activists, and entrepreneurs. The Caribbean Intransit platform functions as a point of access for these individuals and groups, who in turn will then be able to use these resources as socio-political tools for progressive change within the Caribbean and its multiple diasporas.
Each issue of Caribbean Intransit showcases the views of a range of artists, academics and entrepreneurs concerning a particular theme. Participants are invited to submit works and connect with other contributors through response to their work. In this way, we hope to build a community invested in networking and creating new spaces for growth. We aim to identify community, artistry and entrepreneurship as modes of transition and connection for the Caribbean and its Diasporas.
CARIBBEAN INTRANSIT Vision:
To foster a community of research and entrepreneurship related to artistic endeavors emerging from Caribbean cultural expressions of identity
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(Dis)-Ease: Status of the Artist. Caribbean InTransit: Vol. 3 Issue 7.
DEADLINE April 15, 2022
In the fiction of our reality of the global pandemic of COVID-19, the artist has found himself/herself particularly dis-located. However, while old norms are de-familiarized creating an extensive sense of dissonance for most of society, the state of dis –ease for the artist is familiar. It is a continuous dis- ease with the norms of society that has in fact often produced the artist and fuels his works. It is distress, disgust, distrust of societal values, ways of thinking and seeing that fires his vision. It is dis-location, dis-aster and dys-topia that produces his/her visions for utopic production. Crisis can thus often be a valued space for the artist as creative impulse, an affective respsonse is potentially, theoretically, at its height in this moment. The affective response is meaningfully channeled. Nonetheless, the practical safety nets that can help to absorb the shock of this moment of rampant dis-ease are more often than not, absent, especially for Caribbean arts practitioners.
This issue of the Caribbean InTransit journal grapples with the notion of dis-ease- the physical malaise produced by bacteria; the dismantling of the status quo caused by acute social disease of systemic racism and other social atrocities; dis-ease as a paradoxical space of creativity and productivity for the artist; the social safety nets of legitimization, formalization and professionalization of the artist in society where health and life insurance, loans and other services are lacking. Ultimately, this issue seeks to document and produce potential roadmaps for dis-ease as a productive crisis.
Caribbean Intransit invites the following submissions for Volume 3: Issue 7 on (Dis)-Ease: the status of the artist
– Professionalisation of the artist
– Dis -ease and the de-colonising of the institution
– Black Justice: Repatriation, Reparation and Revolution
– Diversity, Equity and Inclusion through Art and the Art Curriculum
– Arts/ Creative Entrepreneurship in the age of Dis-ease
-Dis-ease: Access to finance
- Blockchain, NFTs and Communities of Value in the Caribbean
- Collectives, the Tribe and Communities of Value in addressing Dis-ease
– The New Curriculum: Decolonial realities
– Activism of Dis-ease
– (Dis)-ease: Disruption as Productivity
– Visual Agendas, Programming/ Public- Private Partnerships for the Professionalisation of the Artist
SUBMISSIONS
We welcome 4000-5000 word essays, in English, Spanish or French. Artwork, music, dance, poetry, mas or junkanoo designs or any other artistic expression with blurbs in English, French, Spanish, Dutch, dialect or creole are welcome as well as films in any language with subtitles in English. Fiction or non-fiction writings in English or dialects will be accepted. Writings in dialect should be accompanied by a translation of terms. Research papers on visual or vocal modes of expression as well as interviews of contemporary artists in English are also welcome.
ALL Submissions should be accompanied by the following in one document in this order:
*Name
* Professional affiliation
* Contact information
* Title of Attached manuscript
* keywords, at least 3 (essays only)
*an abstract of not more than 150 words (essays & interviews only) *a biography of not more than 60 words
* A professional photograph of yourself (optional)
Essays, Interviews and Reviews:
Text including endnotes must be in Microsoft Word format (double-spaced, in a readable font) and images in jpg. format. Titles in the body of the text should be italicized with section titles in bold. All essays must have accurate bibliographies. MLA format should be used. Video/sound clips can be sent via e-mail or on CD/DVD.
Word limits for various submissions are as follows:-
Academic papers: 7500 words
Reviews: 3000 words
Profiles/Essays on Artists and Art Work: 1000-1500 words
Upcoming Events/Releases/Shows or highlights from arts organizations: 100-250 words
Submit your work via the Submissions tab on our website.
http://www.caribbeanintransit.com/submissions/submit-work/
Any queries should be emailed to: to caribintransit@gmail.com
DEADLINE: APRIL 15TH 2022
Please see our Submissions Guidelines on our website for more information
GUEST EDITORS: TO BE ANNOUNCED SOON!
