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Call for papers, vol.2, issue 1 (June 2025)

INTERMEDIAL CONNECTIONS : Impurity in the arts

Issue’s editor: Fátima Chinita

The impurity of the arts – advocated by Richard Wagner, André Bazin, Dick Higgins (1965), Lúcia Nagib & Anne Jerlev (2014), W.J.T. Mitchell (2017), among other commentators – seems to be a given. If the arts are impure and have always been interconnected, intermediality has always existed. This recent state of the art cartography has been expertly made by Ágnes Pethő (2010 and 2015). The superiority that some commentators may still perceive in some art forms is no longer dependent on their purity, but rather the opposite. Nowadays the artistic scene begets new formal and sensorial artistic configurations in what, according to Deleuze and Guattari’s concept, seems to be a truly rhizomatic way.

The art forms have become chaotic and heterogenous, destabilising the traditional territory of all media, open to all interrelationships and points of entry, calling forth new uses and variations. Indeed, the acceleration of contemporary society triggered an experimental impetus of hedonistic contours that translates into a multiplication of forms, meanings, and sensations. Ongoing technological development contributed to this. If, for Lars Elleström (2010), art forms are qualified media since they are meaningful clusters of procedures determined by historical, cultural, and social conventions; on the other hand, the theorist also contends they also have a technical aspect to them, relying on a mediator to show their form and content. 

In this issue of the journal RHINOCERVS, we are particularly interested in case studies or theoretical rationale on art forms as media and their varied and profuse connections, beyond the dual relationships that set the minimum condition for intermediality (i.e., an interrelation between artforms). 

For information concerning the subject, see the eponymous conference website (2024): https://intermedialconnections.estc.ipl.pt

For instructions on how to submit, access the journal’s website:  https://journals.ipl.pt/rhinocervs/index