The second issue of Static, the online journal of the London Consortium, seeks to explore the loaded term ‘trafficking’. We aim to use the term in its widest possible sense to include the movement of humans, ideas and commodities. Our intention is to look at its negative associations, e.g. smuggling, exploitation, victimisation, and prostitution but equally reflect on potentially positive implications, e.g. movement and exchange of cultures and ideas.

Are we allowed to contaminate the term with a positive meaning? Is trafficking restricted to a political, sociological and anthropological framework? What is the impact of trafficking on culture?

We welcome contributions in English or any other European language, in the form of analytical essays and articles, interviews, art projects, photographic images, etc.

Deadline 10th January 2006.

For submission and further inquiries for Static Issue 02-Trafficking please write to:

Irini Marinaki
Konstantinos Stefanis
static02_trafficking@hotmail.co.uk

About Static:

Static is the web resource of the London Consortium, a unique collaboration between the Architectural Association, Birkbeck College (University of London), the Institute of Contemporary Arts, and Tate.

Aiming to initiate interdisciplinary intellectual debate about paradoxes of contemporary culture, Static presents contributions from an international team of academics, artists and cultural practitioners.

The materials, assembled for each issue around a theme, include analytical essays and articles, interviews, art projects, photographic images, etc. Static will welcome feedback, argument and commentary from scholars, artists and other readers, and will be regularly updated in order to communicate the most recent and relevant ideas and interpretations on the chosen topic.

For submission guidelines and to view the first issue on Play and Violence please visit: http://www.static.londonconsortium.com

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