C Magazine welcomes writing on contemporary art and culture that is lively and rigorously engaged with current ideas and debates.We accept pitches for features, artist projects, reviews and columns. The theme for our Autumn 2021 issue is Maps.
As interpretations, maps reveal as much about the people who created them as they do about the things they detail. This issue asks: What counts as a map? What do maps do? How can we challenge our assumptions of what they’re for and how they operate? How have maps been used to colonize, divide, and commodify, and how are they being used to unravel such empires? How are artists involved in counter-cartography?
How do maps index (or fail to) the passage of time—changes of seasons, inhabitants, ownership, use? How do maps chart experience, public opinions, emotions, memories, silence? What does it mean to map ethically? How can maps speak for those who can’t speak for themselves? What’s the contemporary map-maker’s obligation to clarity, legibility, accessibility? How is mapping a tool for witnessing, wanting, world-building?
Feature, column, and review pitches accepted on a rolling basis until May 1, 2021. We suggest pitching before then to avoid disappointment.
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Deadline: 1 May 2021