The KISMIF Convenors welcome abstracts pertaining to the following topics, taking into account the KISMIF 2026 theme – DIY Cultures, Crisis and Critical Imagination:
- New spheres, platforms, processes and territories of cultural, artistic and musical production mediated by emerging digital technologies and participatory methodologies.
- Inter and transdisciplinary approaches to different forms of crisis, intersecting (bio)politics, new social movements, gender, cultures of resistance and collective imagination.
- The role of social networks and the platformisation of culture and the arts in confronting crisis and forging pathways of resistance.
- Specific contexts of independent artistic-cultural creation (cinema, music, documentary, and street interventions) in relation to emerging dynamics of production, consumption, and dissemination addressing various forms of crisis challenging the world today.
Recent developments in social theory in artistic and musical fields, and on local, translocal and virtual music scenes in contexts of instability.- Artistic and cultural production in the Anthropocene: the central role of (eco)feminism and DIY environmental practices in building sustainable futures.
- Environments, atmospheres, sounds and interdisciplinary perceptions around DIY musical cultures: music in cities, musical and post-musical cities.
- Artistic-musical-cultural productions as forms of resistance, social resignification and construction of alternatives in contexts of uncertainty.
- Typologies of tangible and intangible cultural heritage: global processes of museification and artification in times of cultural crisis.
- Theoretical and methodological challenges in the study of artistic and cultural differences in the face of contemporary political crises.
- Sustainable spaces for musical-artistic consumption-creation in contexts of climate emergency.
- Subcultures, post-subcultures, cultural and artistic scenes, and ecosystems in times of profound social transformation.
- Importance of social spaces and physical/virtual territories in alternative scenes and DIY cultures at local, translocal and digital scales.
- Citizenship, youth, aesthetic-political artivism and new forms of social, cultural and spatial (re)production in contexts of instability.
- Archive and memory as tools for socio-historical reinterpretation and reinforcement of critical imagination in times of war and widespread conflict.
- Reappraisal of the social, cultural and economic value of arts and culture in an era of global crisis.
- DIY cultures, resistance and artistic-social contestation in relation to social exclusion, austerity and climate change.
- Youth, cities and countercultural resistance/resilience in social, musical and artistic practices.
- Democratization of technology as an individual and collective identity affirmation in articulation with political, environmental and cultural activism.
- City, aesthetics, (super)diversity and gentrification: resistance and spatial justice strategies in cultural urbanism.
- Transitions towards economic and environmental sustainability in DIY youth scenes and new sustainable subcultures.
- Feminism, critical design and digital work as political and interventional strands in crisis contexts.
- Politics, intervention and artivism in the study and practice of the arts in peripheral or marginalized territories.
- Cultures and arts of sustainability and their relationship with processes of resilience and preservation of social and tec
hnological diversity. - Gender, migrations, diasporas, refugees and artistic/musical movements as cultural dimensions of inclusion and sustainability in a time of global crisis.
- Sociological forms of contemporary migrations and their relationship with artistic spaces and cultures of resistance to exclusion, austerity and environmental threats.
- DIY cultures, care work and practices of ‘caretizenship’.
- Undoing the genre(s): subjectivities, (cis)systemic ruptures and artistic-musical manifestations in relation to economic and environmental threats.
- Extremism and populism and the role of youth cultures and the arts in the constitution of (r)existences.
- The revolutionary role of fashion and music in actions of resistance in relation to global crisis.
- New social movements, on local, regional and virtual scales, and emerging artivist processes.
- Cultural heritage, artistic-musical development strategies and historical reparation in the Global North and South.
- Digital arts, artistic co-creation and broad dynamics of cultural participation involving citizens, social innovators and institutional stakeholders.
- Arts, inclusion, music, well-being, mental health and quality of life in crisis contexts.
- DIY cultures and creative participation as a response to political, social, economic and cultural crises.
- New collaborative aesthetic-political social movements and social justice.
- Festivals, events and festivalisation of culture as material and symbolic infrastructures of mobilization.
- Challenges and imagined futures in the design of policies for the arts, culture and music in times of uncertainty.
