Citations

Introduction

In the last five years, the politics of citation, rooted in critical race thought, has generated cross-disciplinary scholarly debate. Notably, it has found itself mobilised more recently in relation to global calls for the decolonisation of the curriculum. While institutions and individuals have at times promoted tokestic empty gestures, numerous scholars and visual practitioners have been engaging with this field of knowledge in care-driven, innovative and resistant ways. We construct citational practices as transdisciplinary, expansive, emancipatory, subversive, generative, emotional, political, spatial, sensory, performative, utopic, conflictual, dialogic, ecological, technological (to name some!). In this issue we wish to centre visual practices (in the expanded sense of the term) which dynamically challenge institutional and historical logics of what citation can and perhaps should be. Further, we wish to interrogate and nuance the right vs. wrong ethic which governs the binary of citing vs. plagiarizing, and unpack the motivations, intentions and implications which dictate who we cite, how we cite, why we cite them as well as those who are consistently left out of dominant disciplinary processual frameworks. How do artistic, curatorial, architectural, spatial, cinematic, sonic, techno, gastro (and more!) practices help shape new directions for our conversations on citation?