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Open Call

Issue #5 / Autumn 2025

Theme: Duration? Dur(action)!

Guest Editors: PÁR-A-GEM

Submission deadline: April 30, 2025

The idea behind the notion of duration is an action that prevails in time. Action also has an open meaning, but it is always linked to time and space. It is from these presuppositions that we understand the notion of performance.

A hybrid territory which, like so many other forms of artistic practice, has now found shelter in exhibition spaces, a kind of "domus" where it is safe.

For this reason, following the premise of Claire Bishop's latest book, "Disordered Attention", we have moved from an 'event time' to an 'exhibition time'. This change is not entirely new but has become more pronounced in our current era of temporal compression. The spectator questions this notion of time by moving freely within the space, allowing them to no longer view what is occurring in another space (such as the stage or screen). Instead, they share the same space with the action. We recognize that we should not make broad generalizations, and the performative possibilities in an exhibition context do not rule out others. What we present here as predominant is not exclusive — it is simply one of many possibilities.

You might consider exploring the music of Éliane Radigue or Pauline Oliveros, the films of Béla Tarr or Wang Bing, and the operas of Philip Glass. These examples are integrated within the concept of "event time," and remain significant.

With this call, we seek proposals - we encourage RC expositions - that openly position themselves in the tension between performative temporalities. The hybridity of action must be maintained through the various possibilities we propose for participation: first and foremost, artistic practices, particularly those associated with "time-based art." This encompasses all forms that engage with temporality in their work and address the critical issue of our time without time, transcending disciplinary boundaries.

HUB is an online multimedia publication. We recognize its limitations, so we encourage participation that involves rhizomatic extensions of the expositions' content, allowing it to manifest in the real world. This is a key issue for this call: How can we avoid being trapped by an online framework that prioritizes speed and immediacy — an approach that has extended its influence over all aspects of reality? We aim to critically engage with this framework while maintaining a vital connection to the real world.

We understand that this situation has resulted in widespread impatience. Additionally, we recognize that performative action is inherently tied to the concept of duration. This can be interpreted in several ways: first, as elongated time that manifests as antagonism. However, there are numerous other forms of performative action and their durations to explore — potentially as many as we wish.

Kant said that the sublime was the immeasurably great, and Fredric Jameson introduced a new notion: the techno-sublime, which has to do with the immeasurably small. We fail as humans in both cases and cannot resolve the issue. Nevertheless, we have managed to make approximations to this irreducibility. The temporalities we aim to explore in this issue will be situated within the interval between two incommensurabilities. In other words, all of them.

We want to be surprised. Surprise us.

Without this expectation of meaning, it would not be worth it, and we know it is.

Open Call

Issue #6 / Spring 2026

Theme: Varia

Editors: Filipa Cruz, Manuela Bronze and Orlando Vieira Francisco.

Submission deadline: October 20, 2025

HUB receives open-themed articles aligned with its research areas on a continuous base.

Submissions received by October 20 will be reviewed for the Spring Issue to be published in May next year. Articles received after that date will be considered for the following Spring Issue.

How to Submit your Proposal

Articles will be published using the Research Catalogue (RC). RC is an artistic research platform that allows each author to adopt the type of media and visual structure that best suits the research objectives and process.

Read the Submissions Guidelines for more information

To submit a proposal to HUB, author(s) must:

• 1. Register a full acccount in the RC
  When you register an account in the RC, you will start with a basic account. You must upgrade to a full account by logging in, and clicking “Request Upgrade”, to be able to create expositions*. This process may take a couple of days to be completed.
  * Exposition is the name of custom-designed webpages created in the RC. This term is a synonym for what we call a paper or an article.
• 2. Create an exposition
  On your RC Profile Page, click on the “Create Exposition” button and choose an editor type to start creating your article (we recommend choosing between graphical or block). Once you do this, you will be asked to fill in some information regarding your submission (you can change that information later). After that, you will be able to create the exposition itself. Please be aware that for every entry (content or media), you must provide a corresponding license (RC uses the Creative Commons).
• 3. Submit for review to HUB
  When you exposition is finished, go to your Profile Page and access the exposition menu in the right bottom corner. Click on "Submit for Review" and select the HUB — Journal of Research in Art, Design and Society. Confirm by clicking on the "Submit" button.

Watch the RC video tutorials to learn how to use the platform. For more information, access the RC quick start guide or the RC extended guide.