An exhibition is (like) a catalogue, (like) a text, (like) a system of signs, (like) a film, (like) a script, (like) a gesture, (like) a ritual, (like) a shopping mall for culture, (like) a discourse, (like) a narrative, (like) an essay, (like) scenography, (like) another world, (like) a spatial media, (like) theatre, (like) an environment, (like) a designed object, (like) an artwork, (like) gesamtkunstwerk, (like) a problem space, (like) a learning arena, (like) a community of matters of concern, (like) a vehicle for participation, (like) a research communication platform, (like) a gathering of commons, (like) immersive encounters that engage the viewer’s body, senses, and emotions.

Depending on what an exhibition aims to achieve and the processes it seeks to instigate, an exhibition might resemble many things. Its institutional (or non-institutional) contexts, as well as the knowledges and practises it involves, shapes and engenders ways of acting, thinking, sensing and making.

This Open Call invites participants to explore issues and approaches related to exhibition as method through their own artistic, academic, curatorial, or architectural research practices. We invite scholars and practitioners to engage with an idea, theme, hypothesis, or challenge and explore it in their own unique way, enabling a transparent exchange of ideas across disciplines. We welcome all forms of artistic research, alongside more traditional written formats, whether historical or theoretical.

We seek experimental essays that are intellectually rigorous, visually compelling, methodologically innovative, and grounded in thorough primary research. We encourage a cohesive research framework driven by co-creation, where theorists and practitioners work closely together in the conceptualization, writing process, and visual experimentation. We encourage co-writing and collective working methods. Most importantly, we are looking for participants who are interested in in-depth development of their ideas and experiments, with feedback and co-working in a creative community over an extended period.

About Metode

The online journal platform Metode publishes essays in the fields of art and architecture. The essays are developed through experimental, intellectual co-creation, and collaborative methods. The journal’s open, in-depth peer review method aims to offer theorists and practitioners a discursive platform for generating original and compelling critical thinking on art, architecture, design, and aesthetics that challenge conventional academic publication formats and disseminations. We invite artists, designers, and architects to unite with scholars from the humanities to explore creative and risky ways of assembling knowledge through words and works.

Metode was launched in 2022 with generous support from the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and is run by ROM for kunst og arkitektur: Ingrid Halland (founder and editor-in-chief), Gjertrud Steinsvåg (ROM`s director), and Solveig Tjetland (editorial assistant).