CFP – Colonial Afterlives: Public Art and the Trans-Pacific World – Special Issue of Public Art Dialogue
Deadline: December 1, 2025. This special issue of Public Art Dialogue invites scholarly contributions (research articles, short essays, and artists’ projects) that examine the enduring visual, spatial, and ideological legacies of colonialism in public spaces across the Pacific world. It seeks to explore how imperial legacies forged transoceanic connections that continue to shape the public sphere through means including but not limited to monuments, architecture, civic rituals, theater, dance, street art, and performative acts. Recent scholarship on the effects of the Spanish Empire in Latin America and Southeast Asia, particularly in engendering political and cultural exchange, provides an important starting…