Critical Communion: Call for Submissions
Critical Communion convenes critical responses based upon mutual participation, sharing, and intimacy. These short-form works are image and text-based and will be published slowly and irregularly. The brief nature of the responses is meant to extend the work past itself; can we read all writing as a prompt? Can we understand texts not as immutable declarations, but rather as documentation of thought and process, reflective of the ways we grow, change, and evolve?
The Chart is accepting short texts, images, poetic and experimental responses to the published texts in this series and/or to the following prompts: What are the sustained or new urgencies of your world(s)? What needs to be built or destroyed? What revelations or rebirths are underway? What practical shifts must we make now to realize a sustainable and just future for all? If these are the wrong questions, what should we be considering instead?
Submissions and ideas will be reviewed on an ongoing basis. Writers will be paid for published works. For more information, to submit, or to think through an idea, please email jenna@thechart.me.
Open Call for Pitches & Submissions
The Chart accepts submissions from artists and writers for exhibition reviews, essays, artists’ reflections or studio notes on their own practice, interviews, conversations, and experimental formats that demonstrate curiosity, nuance and generosity in thinking, and intellectual rigor.
The Chart is especially interested in publishing dynamic work that offers expansive insight on ideas of power, access, decolonization, secrecy and surveillance, work on/from the periphery, capitalist resistance, acts of cultural care, and prefigurative thinking in all realms of the art world. We are eager to work with artists and writers whose perspectives expand conversations around race, sexuality and gender identity, disability, class, nationality, and status.
We generally prefer to receive pitches before finished pieces when possible, but will also accept finished pieces which you are open to editing with us. The Chart is excited to work with artists and writers on their work to develop a strong point of view, position, or thesis for the work submitted — if you have an exciting idea that fits within our scope but are unsure about putting it in words, let’s talk!
Please ensure there are no obvious conflicts of interests or biases where possible. That said, we welcome works in which close relationships and various forms of intimacy might reveal fresh ways of looking and understanding. We also want to note that, since objectivity is a myth that upholds patriarchy and racism, submitted works should acknowledge the writer’s point of view and perspective in some way.
We will do our best to respond to all submissions. Thank you in advance for your patience!