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Proposals are due by midnight AEDT 12 January 2025.
un Magazine 19.1: Resonant Imaginaries and Sound Clashes: contemporary – political – disruptive – polyrhythmic. Guest edited by Lucreccia Quintanilla.

un Magazine 19.1: Resonant Imaginaries and Sound Clashes: contemporary – political – disruptive – polyrhythmic is interested in profiling non-Western sonic epistemologies, modes of listening, presenting and understanding sound based practice and experimentation. This issue looks to capture the political, disruptive, polyrhythmic, intersecting, clashing and working concurrently in a contemporary artistic context.

Prompts:

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• collective listenings, solidarity, agency and amplification.
• ‘Your sound installation is bleeding all over my sculpture!!!’ – Clashes in the white cube.
• Field recording and crediting ecological collaborators. Do trees, water, bugs, birds, the wind and thunder mind our meandering about with expensive recording equipment?
• Phonetic connections – cross oceanic relationships and language.
• ‘WILL YOU F’N SHUT UP!!!!? I am TRYING to deep listen!! 🩴’ Delvings into the ongoing resonance of influential sound practitioners and thinkers on contemporary artistic practice.
• Affect, Effects and Echolocations – site specific sound practices.
• Interdisciplinary collaborations – compositions for installation and performance.
• Sensory articulations – deafness and sonic practice.
• Beyond the Boiler room: DJing as artistic practice – Is this a thing? Asking for a friend. 🐚

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This application form is your proposal of what you’d like to contribute to un Magazine 19.1. You will be asked to submit a short pitch, a contributor bio, and examples of previous work. 

We recommend familiarising yourself with what un Magazine publishes to help with your proposal.

If successful, contributor fees are set roughly between $200 and $900, depending on the length and format of the contribution. If your application is successful you will have around 4-6 weeks turnaround to produce your final contribution for publication, and it is expected that you are prompt for the timeline of our print production. Additional mentorship support is available for emerging contributors.

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For inquiries regarding un Magazine applications please contact un General Manager, Audrey Jo Pfister, at [email protected] Proposals are due by midnight AEDT 12 January 2025

Late or incomplete submissions may not be considered.