SUBMISSIONS
EDITORIAL COMMITTEE
Jill Bennett, Felicity Fenner, Lindsay Kelley, Veronica Tello and Laura Fisher. Sustainability Consultant: Jodi Newcombe.
INTERNATIONAL ADVISORY COMMITTEE
T.J Demos (University College London)
William L. Fox (Director of the Center for Art + Environment at the Nevada Museum of Art in Reno, Nevada)
Ian Garrett (York University/Director of the Center for Sustainable Practice)
Natalie Jeremijenko (New York University/Director of the Environmental Health Clinic)
Sacha Kagan (Leuphana University Lüneburg/Founder of Cultura21, Network for Cultures of Sustainability and the International Summer School of Arts and Sciences for Sustainability in Social Transformation)
Adrian Parr (University of Cincinnati)
We invite submissions from curators, researchers, academics and creative practitioners.
PURPOSE
Our intention is to develop a resource that will be of value to all those interested in public art, including specialists and the broader community. The database entries are concise but designed to go beyond the short profiles readily available on other sites. To that end, we have developed a template and guidelines (downloadable below) designed to elicit key information regarding the sustainability (as conceived within the particular project), legacy, engagement and circumstances of an artwork’s production. Recognising that public art is not always well served by bureaucracies, entries may also record useful information on external constraints and how these were negotiated.
SCOPE
We are looking to achieve expansive coverage and are open to suggestions for inclusion (geographic remit is global). Generally, we interpret public art as a creative art form produced for non-gallery contexts (exceptionally, it may include gallery exhibitions with an explicit external engagement focus). We define “eco-sustainability” to signify an evident interest in ecological, sustainable and/or environmental concerns. It is not our intent to ‘police’ the definition of eco-sustainable public art: we are keen to include work that challenges definitions and expectations. As a general indication, we are interested in substantial work that actively engages with its environmental context (rather than in work that merely represents or symbolises an environmental concern).
SUBMISSION and REVIEW PROCESS
Submissions are peer-reviewed. Each submission should focus on a particular public art project, which must be proposed to the Editorial Committee in advance. Contributors are welcome to profile their own work, either by evaluating their own project or by referencing a larger study or thesis written by them on the same subject. We also invite academics that research and teach in this area to encourage student submissions. We are happy for the template to be used for course assessment exercises and can confer with lecturers regarding the process by which a batch of entries from a class can be peer reviewed/considered for inclusion in the database.
Submissions are to be emailed to alison.groves@unsw.edu.au titled: Curating Cities Database: Submission
Documents for Authors:
Curating Cities Database Template
Curating Cities Sustainability Evaluation Framework