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=='''Open Call for Papers and Artistic Contributions to The Global Encyclopaedia of Informality in the Arts'''==


<big>'''Open Call: The [[Global Informality Project]] invites submissions to the Informal Art Hub with a prospect of a volume on Informal Art for the UCL Press [https://www.uclpress.co.uk/collections/series-fringe Fringe series:]'''


*Art that operates in fringe sites/spaces
The Global Informality Project invites submissions for the '''Global Informality in the Arts Encyclopaedia volume''' that will examine the role of informality in artistic media, practices, creative labour, and cultural production. It will bring together artists, academics, and cultural practitioners to explore how informal networks, unwritten rules, hidden practices and informal power shape cultural production across different contexts.'''<br>


*Art embodying fringeness
An interdisciplinary research initiative since 2014, [[Global Informality Project]] is associated with the FRINGE Centre supported by the UCL School of Slavonic and East European Studies and the UCL Press FRINGE series. The three volumes of ''The Global Encyclopaedia of Informality'' are in open access and available to download at https://uclpress.co.uk/book-series/fringe/.''<br>
 
*Art that is made using fringy techniques


We welcome proposals of entries to the Encyclopaedia (papers and artistic contributions) exploring themes related to visibility/invisibility, subversion, resistance, post-humanity, decolonisation, self- and environmental care and many others. This is an opportunity to shape the future of the Informal Art field. The Encyclopaedia book proposal will be prepared by the editorial team, led by Dzmitry Suslau and Diana Kudaibergen, on the basis of the 2026 inaugural conference, a co-creation by the UCL and Pushkin House.''<br>
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Any existing link to the work/artefacts/ exhibitions/ private spaces, galleries and museums/video and visual material/archives, transmedia that you would consider informal (please explain why you think your submission fits in).
We seek to assemble a collection that captures the spirit of ambivalence: artistic visualisation of the invisible; verbalisation of the non-verbal; art as a by-product of life, rather than intended production; artful responses to formal constraints; performative artefacts and practices that resist archiving.
We are looking for documentation of completed visual art projects that relate to themes of informality. Through this archive, we want to explore the artistic approaches that can contribute to our understanding of informality.
The Global Informality Project (GIP) is an interdisciplinary research project led by the FRINGE Centre with support of the UCL School of Slavonic and East European Studies. It explores the social and cultural complexity of informal practices and structures from a global perspective since 2014. Through its comparative and ethnographic investigations, the project explores practices of resilience, resistance, subversion; multiple moralities and relationships with social norms emerging in cultural production all over the globe in response to the challenges and constraints of the contemporary world.
While the focus of the Global Informality Project is on unwritten rules, open secrets and hidden practices, the prospective volume will embrace artwork that questions or supersedes our ability to categorise clearly, associated with tensions of decolonisation, trans practices, post-humanity, digitalisation, migration, care of self and the planet; as well as conceptualise informal art.
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Please contact us via at [[informalart2024@gmail.com]] with an expression of interest. Your preliminary submission should include:
<big>'''Watch The Global Informality in Arts themes brainstromed at https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=global+informality+in+arts'''</big>
 
*'''Name of the Artist'''


*'''Name of an entry (if any)'''
We welcome expression of interest from scholars, artists, and practitioners working on the loosely-defined as 'informal' themes.<br>


*'''Four hi-resolution images to be hosted directly on in-formality.com – you must indicate who holds the copyright for these images'''
*'''Deadline for abstract submissions:''' This is an ongoing project, do send us an expression of interest and state the deadline that would work for you.<br>


*'''Date and Venue of Exhibition (if relevant)'''
*'''Abstract length:''' 250 words.<br>


*'''Location/link to the website (if available)'''
*'''Formats accepted:''' Conceptual entries, artistic performances, completed artworks (please include images as separate files).<br>


*'''Short description (not exceeding 100 words)'''
*'''Submission email:''' [mailto:informalart2024@gmail.com informalart2024@gmail.com].<br>
Expression of interest should include the title of the proposed paper or artistic contribution, an abstract, and a short biography (100 words).


*'''Email subject containing the phrase: "Expression of interest, volume 3, and keyword of your submission"'''
For further information about the project, please browse [https://www.in-formality.com the Global Informality Project].<br>


The project team runs a self-nominated system of deadlines, so please suggest a deadline that is realistic for you to prepare your final submission.
We look forward to receiving your submissions (samples below)!
We offer no payment for submissions, as the hub will be in Open Access.
Below you can see submissions towards this project here.




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NO TALKING // NO READING // NO DRAWING''' © 2019 by [[Art|Simon Farid]]''' is licensed under [https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/?ref=chooser-v1 '''CC BY 4.0'''] / [https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/?ref=chooser-v1 Attribution 4.0 International]
NO TALKING // NO READING // NO DRAWING''' © 2019 by [[Art|Simon Farid]]''' is licensed under [https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/?ref=chooser-v1 '''CC BY 4.0'''] / [https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/?ref=chooser-v1 Attribution 4.0 International]
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'''The Informal Museum (2024)'''
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The project emerged from research into informal vending practices and related production networks on Istanbul´s streets. The gained knowledge was then transferred into the museum context, dealing with creative and flexible strategies of art production and how these might enable a more open and participatory form of museum. By editing architectural sections of the venue, the drawings first break with the form of the museum before adding new „informal“ ideas. It´s not their intent to musealise informality, but to create awareness of social groups which are excluded from museum institutions and the art scene.</big><br>
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<big>'''Author''': Helen Hümmer</big><br>
<big>'''Venue''': Pera Museum, Istanbul, Türkiye</big><br>
<big>'''Gallery''': [[The_Informal_Museum_(2024)_-_Gallery|The Informal Museum (2024)]]</big><br>
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'''As Beru (2024)'''
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The photos attached were taken during the Kazakh custom named As Beru (literally: giving out the meal). It is given to show respect and remembrance of one's ancestors. The host invites guests who are familiar with their ancestors. Usually, guests are people from the same village, colleagues, and other relatives. From the perspective of informality, the host family organizing the event establishes its status and power among other members of the community. This is demonstrated through organization and leading the event ([[As Beru - Gallery|Picture 2]]) and through financial investments ([[As Beru - Gallery|Picture 3]]). The event also involves financial donations (bata) for local religious leaders (imam) ([[As Beru - Gallery|Picture 4]]).</big><br>
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<big>'''Artist''': Madi Zhakupbayev</big><br>
<big>'''Date and Venue of Exhibition''': 16 June 2024; Dolon Village, Beskaragay District, Abay Region, Kazakhstan</big><br>
<big>'''Gallery''': [[As_Beru_-_Gallery|As Beru (2024)]] </big><br>
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Latest revision as of 22:31, 6 April 2026

Open Call for Papers and Artistic Contributions to The Global Encyclopaedia of Informality in the Arts

The Global Informality Project invites submissions for the Global Informality in the Arts Encyclopaedia volume that will examine the role of informality in artistic media, practices, creative labour, and cultural production. It will bring together artists, academics, and cultural practitioners to explore how informal networks, unwritten rules, hidden practices and informal power shape cultural production across different contexts.

An interdisciplinary research initiative since 2014, Global Informality Project is associated with the FRINGE Centre supported by the UCL School of Slavonic and East European Studies and the UCL Press FRINGE series. The three volumes of The Global Encyclopaedia of Informality are in open access and available to download at https://uclpress.co.uk/book-series/fringe/.

We welcome proposals of entries to the Encyclopaedia (papers and artistic contributions) exploring themes related to visibility/invisibility, subversion, resistance, post-humanity, decolonisation, self- and environmental care and many others. This is an opportunity to shape the future of the Informal Art field. The Encyclopaedia book proposal will be prepared by the editorial team, led by Dzmitry Suslau and Diana Kudaibergen, on the basis of the 2026 inaugural conference, a co-creation by the UCL and Pushkin House.

Watch The Global Informality in Arts themes brainstromed at https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=global+informality+in+arts

We welcome expression of interest from scholars, artists, and practitioners working on the loosely-defined as 'informal' themes.

  • Deadline for abstract submissions: This is an ongoing project, do send us an expression of interest and state the deadline that would work for you.
  • Abstract length: 250 words.
  • Formats accepted: Conceptual entries, artistic performances, completed artworks (please include images as separate files).

Expression of interest should include the title of the proposed paper or artistic contribution, an abstract, and a short biography (100 words).

For further information about the project, please browse the Global Informality Project.

We look forward to receiving your submissions (samples below)!


Organising Committee Global Informality Project

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NO TALKING // NO READING // NO DRAWING (2019)

The Invigilator Research Network (IRN) is an evolving group of visual artists who work as gallery guards, while using their jobs as sites of performance. Produced by this partially anonymous UK network of 16 guards, the 2019 exhibition examines the informal practices contesting the existing rules for invigilators. This contemplative collection of drawing and writing when on duty explores the degree of privacy and freedom at the workplace. Such practices have no collective name: they are less universal than individual doodling at meetings, but more consolidated, even if by word-of mouth, as practices of secret resistance to the gallery management culture. Identifying these semi-covert, knowingly overlooked, or unacknowledged informal practices is a step towards the conceptualisation of the transgressive, bottom-up performances of self-expression by invigilators in art galleries and museums across the United Kingdom.


Author: Invigilator Research Network

Venue: Transforming Finance Conference 2019 by People's Private Equity, University of Greenwich, London

Link to the work: https://invigilatorresearch.org/nodrawing/

Direct link to the catalogue: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1BJ6JGFF1ToKBiSF7QKA8qFlADehnQC-m/view

Gallery: See more

Further reading: Mathur, S. and Singh, K. eds., 2017. No Touching, No Spitting, No Praying: the Museum in South Asia. Routledge

NO TALKING // NO READING // NO DRAWING © 2019 by Simon Farid is licensed under CC BY 4.0 / Attribution 4.0 International

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The Informal Museum (2024)

The project emerged from research into informal vending practices and related production networks on Istanbul´s streets. The gained knowledge was then transferred into the museum context, dealing with creative and flexible strategies of art production and how these might enable a more open and participatory form of museum. By editing architectural sections of the venue, the drawings first break with the form of the museum before adding new „informal“ ideas. It´s not their intent to musealise informality, but to create awareness of social groups which are excluded from museum institutions and the art scene.


Author: Helen Hümmer

Venue: Pera Museum, Istanbul, Türkiye

Gallery: The Informal Museum (2024)

As Beru - Coverpage.png

As Beru (2024)

The photos attached were taken during the Kazakh custom named As Beru (literally: giving out the meal). It is given to show respect and remembrance of one's ancestors. The host invites guests who are familiar with their ancestors. Usually, guests are people from the same village, colleagues, and other relatives. From the perspective of informality, the host family organizing the event establishes its status and power among other members of the community. This is demonstrated through organization and leading the event (Picture 2) and through financial investments (Picture 3). The event also involves financial donations (bata) for local religious leaders (imam) (Picture 4).


Artist: Madi Zhakupbayev

Date and Venue of Exhibition: 16 June 2024; Dolon Village, Beskaragay District, Abay Region, Kazakhstan

Gallery: As Beru (2024)

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