Open Call for Essays: CHECK-IN 2024

Fourth edition of CHECK-IN
By A&M

Each year, CHECK-IN serves as a mid-year review of developments, shifts and trends in modern and contemporary art, from the vantage of Southeast Asia.

Featuring first-hand accounts, dialogues, observations and analyses, it is an inclusive anthology of voices from the region and across the diaspora. 

We believe this will facilitate greater understanding and appreciation of the inherent diversity and constant innovation in the art scene to share with the wider global art community.

CHECK-IN 2024 is the fourth edition of this annual publication and we are now looking for essay and interview proposals that consider the following themes:

1. Artist and Audience Development
Initiatives aimed at fostering community and critical engagement in the arts

2. Business Practices
Market analysis and observations of novel/ sustainable business models.

3. Beyond Southeast Asia
Spotlight on transnational artistic and curatorial practices and their connections with the region.

4. Holding Space
Insights on experimental modes of exhibition-making, institutions, residencies, art media etc. 

5. The Road Ahead
Projections into the future of art ecosystems.

To get a good idea of the content we are looking for, please refer to CHECK-IN 2023 and CHECK-IN 2022.

If you would like to write for CHECK-IN 2024, please prepare a single PDF, giving your full name as the file name. 

• an indication of the theme you are proposing to write for

• an abstract/proposal of 150 words in English 

• a representative image can be included if desired, with caption

• a brief biography of 100 words

Click here to complete a Google Form, where you will also upload the PDF.

Important Dates

• 18 February 2024, 11.59pm (GMT+8) – Submission of abstract/proposal

• 25 February 2024 – Notification of acceptance by A&M

• 3 March 2024 – Notification of acceptance by writer

• 29 March 2024 – Submission of writing and images

• 5 April 2024 – Changes, if any, to be conveyed to writer 

• 19 April 2024 – Submission of final writing

If you have any questions, please email us at info@artandmarket.net.