text/ure : new issue coming soon

text/ure asks scholars and makers to consider how surface relates to their investigations into spaces, places, and objects.  How do the haptic and other non-visual senses interrelate to shape meanings or insights into an object, monument or building?  Beyond surfaces, text/urecontemplates the processes of art making itself, questioning the relationship of medium, materiality, application, and temporality. Lastly text/ureengages with the written word (in the physical and digital realm) and may shed light on the role of semiotics and word play “interweaving” in the structure of the everyday world as well as a fine art context.   

Possible subjects will include (but are not limited to): phenomenology, object oriented ontology, new materialisms, and the study of the everyday; investigations of architecture, the built environment, and ruins; the study of systems and transmissions; the processes of artmaking, the materiality and role of medium; interplay of text and image in artworks; digital interfaces, the materialization of “error,” “the glitch”; textiles; and material culture. 

Previous issues of SEQUITUR can be found here.

Founded in 2014, SEQUITUR is an online biannual scholarly journal dedicated to addressing events, issues, and personalities in art and architectural history. SEQUITUR engages with and expands current conversations in the field by promoting the perspectives of graduate students from around the world. It seeks to contribute to existing scholarship by focusing on valuable but oft-overlooked parts of art and architectural history.

If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact the SEQUITUR editors at sequitur@bu.edu.

We look forward to receiving your proposals.

 Sincerely,

The SEQUITUR Editorial Team

Alison, Kimber, Lauren, Bailey & Defne