Stedelijk Studies Journal #13: “Museum-ing: Research in Practice”
Submission deadline: September 12, 2022
The foundation of the traditional museum is its object collection, which informs its history and defines the institution as a social and political entity. While the museum persists across societal developments, the basis of its research initiatives often relies on traditions of the past. The transformative methods offered by twenty-first-century art-based research that challenge how objects relate to their institutions could render the museum a more innovative realm of experience.
Our call for research for issue 13 of the Stedelijk Studies Journal seeks out such explorations of “Museum-ing”, wherein art-based research is an act or practice of being with the museum creatively. We direct this call to artists, theorists, curators, and scholars whose art-based practices of research address new and old ways of putting one’s work in conversation with the museum—the building, the phantasmatics of the institution, the potency and history of the artworks located therein. We look for submissions that think around and through the museum and propose “museum-ing” as a strategy to examine, prod, and speculate on the historical, present, and future interstices of knowledges and methodologies. What are the potentials for art-based research to transform the concept of “the Museum” into “museum-ing,” and what possibilities does this shift present?