"We must mobilise everything [we] can find in terms of intellectual resources in order to understand what keeps making the lives we live and the societies we live in profoundly and deeply anti-humane."
         — Stuart Hall
Journal of Visual Culture is an international refereed journal that welcomes compelling, critically engaged contributions that explore and expand trans-disciplinary global visual cultures.


The August issue of Journal of Visual Culture is out!

  • The JVC Palestine Portfolio, a themed section of 48 contributions, running to 250+ pages, in solidarity with Palestine/Palestinians
 
  • Neta Alexander and Tali Keren’s ‘Paper, Glass, Algorithm: Teleprompters and the Invisibility of Screens’
 
  • Juliette Singh in conversation with Chase Joynt on ‘The Nest’, radical materialities, and interracial alliances
 
  • Georgina Kleege’s ‘The Art of Touch: Lending a Hand to the Sighted Majority’, and
 
  • Katarina Korola’s ‘Blue Like the Mediterranean: The Work of the Monochrome in The Atlas Group Archive’ 
 
The JVC Palestine Portfolio is an incredibly powerful, heartfelt, heart-wrenching, life-affirming and hopeful polyphony of reminiscences, art works, graphic designs, scholarly texts, critical writings, briefings, visual activism, petitions, and mobilisations. Thanks to Sage, it is free to access, and is available to download (and circulate widely, if you’re so inclined) on the Sage site (https://journals.sagepub.com/home/vcu) 
 
Contributors are: Larissa Sansour, Rashid Khalidi, Mazen Kerbaj, The Mosaic Rooms, Strike MoMA, Ariella Azoulay, Danah Abdulla, Rounwah Adly Riyadh Bseiso, Hanan Toukan, Zeina Maasri, Yoav Galai, Adrian Lahoud and Jasbir K. Puar, Distributed Cognition Cooperative (Anna Engelhardt and Sasha Shestakova), Evyn Lê Espiritu Gandhi, Firas Shehadeh, Sami Khatib, Léopold Lambert/The Funambulist, Tina Sherwell, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Rochelle Davis and Dan Walsh, Lina Hakim, Ariel Caine, Nida Sinnokrot/Sakiya, Yara Sharif, Visualizing Palestine, Nada Dalloul, Simone Browne, Rehab Nazzal, Lila Sharif, Oraib Toukan and Mohmoud M Alshaer, Mark Muhannad Ayyash, Omar Kholeif, Oreet Ashery, The Palestinian Museum, Kareem Estefan and Nour Bishouty, Ghaith Hilal Nassar, Kamal Aljafari, Nicholas Mirzoeff, Palestinian Feminist Collective, W.J.T. Mitchell, Dar El-Nimer for Arts and Culture, Jill H. Casid, Macarena Gómez-Barris, Stephen Sheehi, Susan Greene, Sunaina Maira, and Shourideh C. Molavi and Eyal Weizman.
JVC’s 20th anniversary celebrations!
 
2021-22 marks the 20th anniversary of Journal of Visual Culture! To celebrate, we’re organizing a series of monthly events, on the 20th of each month. Please join us! 
 
20th September 2021 (6pm-8pm BST) on Pause.Fevour: Reflections on a Pandemic, our recently published collection (edited by Tom Holert, Manca, and Marquard Smith), in collaboration with Harum Farocki Institut, Berlin. Confirmed contributors to event: Alexandra Délano Alonso, Daniel A. Barber, Sara Blaylock, Katarzyna Bojarska, Lina Hakim, Laura U. Marks, Hana Noorali and Lynton Talbot, Bahar Noorizadeh, Plastique Fantastique, John Paul Ricco, Dave Beech, Death Class, Janine Francois, Lina Hakim, Dean Kenning, Margareta Kern, Joel McKim, Philip Miller and Marcos Martins, Andreas Philoppopoulos-Mihalopoulos, Juliet Jacques, Pil and Galia Kollectiv, Isobel Wohl, and Andrea Luka Zimmerman. To register: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/book-launch-pause-fervour-reflections-on-a-pandemic-tickets-165201017691
 
20th October 2021 (6pm-8pm, UK time): on The JVC Palestine Portfolio (the themed section of August’s issue). Chaired by Hanan Toukan. Contributors to be confirmed.
 
20th November 2021 (6pm-8pm, UK time): on Trans Visual Cultures, with contributions from Cyle Metzger and Kirstin Ringelberg recent themed issue on trans art and visual cultures, chaired by JVC Board Member, Jill H. Casid. 
 
20th December 2021 (6pm-8pm, UK time): on ‘testimony as environment’, a forthcoming themed issue, guest edited by Eray Cayli. Contributors to be confirmed. 
 
20th January 2022 (6pm-8pm, UK time): Journal of Visual Culture, the next 20 years! 
 
20th February 2022 (6pm-8pm, UK time): on ‘reparations’, a forthcoming themed issue, guest edited by Adrienne Huard and Gabrielle Moser. Contributors to be confirmed. 
 
Keep a close eye on our website, Twitter feed, and Instagram account for updates to our invigorating programme of forthcoming activities!

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Pause. Fervour. Reflections on a Pandemic is our joint publication initiative with the Harun Farocki Institut. With over 45 contributions, this collaboration that sought to respond to our current global social and sanitary crisis, will now appear in book form, co-edited by Manca Bajec, a member of the JVC Editorial Collective, and Tom Holert, co-Founder and co-Director of the Harun Farocki Institut. To download a copy of the publication please click on the image above or visit the archive. 

​Contributors:
Danah Abdulla
Elisa Adami
Alexandra Délano Alonso
Edinson Arroyo
Arts Catalyst with Gary Zhexi Zhang, and Valeria Graziano, Marcell Mars, and Tomislav Medak (Pirate Care)
Oreet Ashery
Nika Autor
Daniel A. Barber
Jordan Baseman
Dave Beech
Sara Blaylock
Katarzyna Bojarska
Kimberly Juanita Brown
Eray Çaylı
Teresa Cisneros
Tom Corby
David Dibosa
Death Class
Ruth Ewan
Alessandra Ferrini
Janine Francois
Lina Hakim
Juliet Jacques
Helene Kazan
Dean Kenning
Margareta Kern
Lana Lin and H. Lan Thao Lam
Yve Lomax
Laura U. Marks
Shannon Mattern
Jordan McKenzie
Joel McKim
Vladimir Miladinović and
Stephenie Young
Philip Miller and Marcos Martins
Hana Noorali and Lynton Talbot
Bahar Noorizadeh
The Partisan Social Club
Andreas Philippopoulos-Mihalopoulos
Pil and Galia Kollectiv
Plastique Fantastique
Amit S. Rai
​John Paul Ricco
Vanessa Schwartz
Jelena Stojković
Jon Thomson and Alison Craighead
Atej Tutta and Valeria Cozzarini
Isobel Wohl
Andrea Luka Zimmerman