Description: Discipline is a Melbourne-based publisher and contemporary art journal edited by Nicholas Croggon, David Homewood, and Helen Hughes.
Published by Third Text Publications and Discipline. With essays and dialogues led by Verónica Tello, Dylan A. T. Miner, Zoe Butt, Edgar Alejandro Hernández, Rolando López, Carla Macchiavello, Walter D. Mignolo, Rachel O’Reilly, and Ruth Simbao; and contributions from Jennifer Biddle, Katherine Carl, Fernando do Campo, Chandra Frank, Srdjan Jovanović Weiss, Angela Mitropoulos, James Nguyen, Salote Tawale, and Jean-Sylvain Tshilumba Mukendi. Copyediting by Nicholas Croggon, Helen Hughes, and Jennifer Sijnja.
Future Souths, initiated and introduced by Verónica Tello, is the culmination of an online dialogical project that began in 2017. Future Souths is written by eighteen authors from the Americas, Australia, Asia, South Africa and Europe, radically reconsidering the geo-spatial bases and biases of contemporary art history and discourse. It proposes a fluid, collective, contingent re-consideration of key art concepts from embodied and geo-located vantage points, perspectives, and experiences of the south. The
(reviews) At a moment when dominant conceptual and economic frameworks (capitalism, nationalism, and the prison industrial complex) from the global north are collapsing under their own weight, Future Souths inspires us to discard familiar geographical and temporal vocabularies. Essays and dialogues among artists, scholars, and activists offer alternative models for new conceptual pathways, evaluate the productivity of “weak” histories, offer methods for politically resistant collectives, and insightfully in