Cultural Practices
Open Call: A Cultural Practice Postcard From….

What does it mean to be practicing in the cultural and creative industries? How do we understand practice and the many forms, acts, spaces, and relationships that make it possible? What does it look, sound, and feel like to be involved in Cultural Practice today?
Drawing on these questions, the Cultural Practices Magazine aims to build a global picture of Cultural Practice, its objective is to create a live repository of practice that sheds light on the sector in this moment and from around the world. With this call for submissions, we ask you to send a postcard, a digital message from your site of practice. It can be a short video, a sound recording, or series of images with a short message. Each entry will be available on the Cultural Practices Magazine website as part of a new feature which we will launch in early 2022. We welcome entries from anyone working in, with and against the Cultural Sector - museums, art centres, cultural centres, galleries, theatres, festivals, music venues, bloggers, or Civil Society Organisations. For example, are you:
Conserving or practicing with objects
Designing or building an exhibition or set
Working on budgets and project management
Staging or managing a gig
Repairing or developing a building
Protesting and challenging practice
Couriering objects
Co-ordinating and commissioning for a gallery shop
Working on a public installation
Facilitating a workshop or consultation
Digging in a community garden
Leading a guided tour
Taking part in a festival
Directing a play
Cleaning down spaces and making them ready for the public
Moving and caring for artefacts in a store
Managing or assisting at a venue
Producing a film
Trying to figure out “the digital” in your institution
Building new connections
The list, we hope, will be long, insightful and show the multiple, hidden practices that make the cultural sector possible - a love letter to the sector if you will.
Guidelines for Submissions
For this call we will accept short videos, digital sound recordings and small groups of digital images.
Please note: if your recordings or images feature individuals other than you, please ask for permission before submitting. We cannot accept entries featuring the faces of children under the age of 16.
With each submission send a 50 word introduction to your practice accompanied by:
Name:
Practice:
Institution and Place: (e.g.. Centre name and city/territory)
Date: (optional)
Video Submissions
Up to 5 minute continual, uncut/unedited recording from a fixed position in landscape mode on a smartphone or other mobile recording device in any of the following formats: mp4, Quicktime, AVI, MOV. Background sound and talking relevant to the practice is welcome, but no Voice Over or introduction please.
Sound Recording
An image of your practice and a 2-3 minute continual, uncut/unedited recording on a smartphone or other mobile recording device in mp3 format. Background sound is welcome, but no VoiceOver or introduction please.
Image
3-5 digital images in jpg format (300 dpi if possible) that records a piece of practice undertaken on one day.
Please submit your entries to: culturalpracticemagazine@gmail.com
We look forward to hearing from you!