A visual, journal practice: Journal of Visual Art Practice, twenty years on

ABSTRACT

This editorial introduction marks the 20-year anniversary of Journal of Visual Art Practice. It sets out the vision of the newly established editorial team, who took up the editorship of the journal at the start of 2021, which happened to be the journal's 20th year. The article sets out the editors’ commitment to an international and diverse approach, which also recognises the rich history and archive of the journal. At its core, the journal remains steadfastly focused on visual art practice. Thus while cognisant of shifting trends and modalities of academic publishing and research, the editors renew the journal's ethos and practical undertaking in presenting the best in new visual art practice research.

KEYWORDS:

• Global art practice
• journal practice
• visual art practice

Notes on full page images, in order of appearance

(1) Manghani (2013) You are so good as to have a theory about me which I don't at all fill out [preparation], pencil on wall.

(2) D’Souza (2019) Migrant Car, installation view of temporal exhibition/production space and documentary video installation in Grünerløkka, Oslo as part of osloBIENNALEN.

(3) Birkin (2019) SLIP, paper slips in situ at Tate Exchange.

(4) Walter van Rijn (2021) Journal Journeys.

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Notes on contributors

Jane Birkin

Jane Birkin is Research Fellow attached to the Data Image Lab at Winchester School of Art, University of Southampton. Her research functions at the intersection of text and image, combining media culture, photo theory and techniques of the archive, with her art practice often emerging as film or performance. Her first book Archive, Photography and the Language of Administration was published by Amsterdam University Press (2021). She has performed and exhibited widely, including at Tate Exchange, Tate Modern (2019).

Ed D’Souza

Ed D’Souza is Professor of Critical Practice at Winchester School of Art, University of Southampton (UK). He is Editor of Journal of Visual Art Practice. His books include India’s Biennale Effect (2016), Barcelona Masala: Narratives and Interactions in Cultural Space (2013) and Outside India: Dialogues and Documents of Art and Social Change (2012). His work has been exhibited widely including Bergen Kunstall 3,14 (2019), osloBIENNALEN (2019), India Habitat Centre (2019), Tate Exchange, Tate Modern (2018) and Kochi-Muziris Biennale (2014).

Sunil Manghani

Sunil Manghani is Professor of Theory, Practice & Critique at Winchester School of Art, University of Southampton (UK). He is Editor of Journal of Visual Art Practice, and Managing Editor of Theory, Culture & Society. His books include Image Studies (2013), Zero Degree Seeing (2019); India’s Biennale Effect (2016) and Farewell to Visual Studies (2015). He curated Barthes/Burgin at the John Hansard Gallery (2016), along with Building an Art Biennale (2018) and Itinerant Objects (2019) at Tate Exchange, Tate Modern.