ARTMargins invites researchers and practitioners to critically reflect on what we call the "thickened global margin," encompassing art practice in historical, geographical as well as philosophical or theoretical post-peripheries. We are interested in full-length articles (maximum 8000 words), review articles (max. 3000 words) as well as short reviews of books and exhibitions (1000 words).

We are also interested in articles that reflect on the legacies of modernism and the historical avant-gardes in different parts of the world.

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Sven Spieker, Editor
Octavian Esanu and Angela Harutyunyan, Associate Editors

The newest journal from the MIT Press, ARTMargins will foster awareness and conversation about contemporary art in an expanded field of practices that engage current global socio-political transformations. Within the fabric of a present moment characterized by different, and often incompatible, temporalities and agendas, ARTMargins wants to locate transnational commonalities and trajectories that connect, or divide, different regions of the world, bringing together artistic practices from (post-) transitional zones, while at the same time questioning the logic of transition itself: today the entire world is a margin in transition.

ARTMargins invites artists, curators, and critics who operate under the conditions of neo-liberal capitalism to critically reflect on what the editors call the “thickened global margin,” encompassing historical, geographical as well as philosophical or theoretical post-peripheries. The first issue of ARTMargins investigates, among other things, Armenian modernism and postmodernism (Angela Harutyunyan; Vardan Azatyan); the question of contemporaneity in art (Octavian Esanu); and the post-Socialist condition in the work of Thomas Hirschhorn (Anthony Gardner). Issue #2 is devoted to artist networks in South America and Eastern Europe.