CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: The Muse Magazine — Issue 04 (2026)On “Site and Stance”

The Muse multi studios announces the fourth issue of The Muse Magazine, an interdisciplinary publication dedicated to critical writing, visual culture, and contemporary artistic discourse from Sudan and beyond.

This issue explores “Site and Stance” as both a conceptual and political framework—asking how artists, researchers, writers, and cultural practitioners produce knowledge through practice, and how geography, memory, institutions, conflict, and everyday life shape artistic positions.

At a time when Sudan continues to undergo profound political, social, and cultural transformation, this issue seeks contributions that engage with art not merely as representation, but as a system of knowledge, resistance, and critical imagination.

We welcome submissions from artists, curators, critics, architects, urban practitioners, researchers, and writers working across disciplines.

Themes include

Art as knowledge
Institutional critique and funding politics
Writing, and visual historiography
Art in public space and everyday life
Authorship, conceptual practice, and contemporary Sudanese art

Formats may include critical essays, research texts, interviews, visual essays, personal reflections, artistic projects, photography, and experimental editorial formats.

Submission deadline: 30 June 2026
Languages: Arabic & English
Email: themuse.sd@gmail.com

Join us in rethinking Sudanese visual culture through critical inquiry, artistic practice, and collective knowledge-making.

Submission Guidelines

Submissions are open to artists, curators, critics, researchers, architects, urban planners, writers, and cultural practitioners interested in visual culture, from Sudan and beyond.
Priority will be given to topics originating from Sudan or directly engaging with Sudan (contributors do not need to be Sudanese nationals).
Submissions may include:
- Critical essays
- Research papers
- Interviews
- Personal reflections or narrative essays
- Visual essays
- Artistic documentation
- Photography
- Experimental or hybrid editorial formats
This magazine strongly prioritizes interdisciplinary and research-based contributions.
Submissions must include original work or research.
Images and archival materials, where applicable, must be properly and clearly credited.
This fourth issue of The Muse Magazine will be published primarily online.

How to Submit

If you are a writer, researcher, artist, or someone engaged with arts and culture, and have previous experience or attempts related to the proposed context, you may submit your contribution via email to: themuse.sd@gmail.com

Please include:

Your complete text or proposed project
All accompanying visual materials
A short biography

Submissions are open to contributors of all nationalities and disciplines, provided the proposal aligns with the themes of the issue.

Submission Period: 16 May 2026 – 30 June 2026

Contribution Requirements

Original and unpublished articles or projects are preferred.

Participation is voluntary. No financial compensation is offered.

Critical Contributions

Maximum: 2,000 words
Images: 6–8 images

Artistic Projects

Maximum: 500 words
Images: 10 images

Articles

Maximum: 1,500 words
Images: 6–8 images

Note: Contributions may be submitted in either Arabic or English. All accepted contributions will be translated accordingly. Please attach your biography and all relevant supporting materials with your submission.

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