Writer callout
“Do you get it?”
46:2 | Wirltuti / Spring (August – November 2026)

Artlink invites writers to submit an Expression of Interest for publication “Do you get it?”

As global crises escalate, issue 46:2 focusses on wit, humour, and satire in contemporary art as a means to subvert, unsettle, and criticise… and to have a good laugh. The writing will also explore the ethical and paradoxical nature of comedy in art, who’s telling the joke and how, and where we might find shared punchlines as our collective humanity is being interrogated from all sides. In the seriousness and complexity of such precarity, can we afford the joke at all?

We encourage inventive responses to the theme and welcome a range of formats: scholarly (or witty) essays, critical (or ironic) reviews, (provocative) interviews and co-authored submissions. Artlink highlights writers and artists, curators, and collectives working in Australia and the Asia-Pacific within a global context. We commission articles between 800–3000 words for print and digital publication.

Please use the form below to submit your 150 words (max) Expression of Interest. 

Key Dates:

22 March 2026
EOI submissions close

7 – 10 April 2026
All submissions notified; successful EOIs contracted by Artlink's editorial team.

31 May 2026
Writer’s Deadline. All content due (text, images and image captions).

Submit your EOI here.

EXPERIMENTAL ART: Rattling the Archive  
46:1 Parnati–Kudlila / Autumn–Winter (April – July 2026) 
Guest Editor: Sasha Grbich, in association with Adelaide Contemporary Experimental (ACE), Flinders University Museum of Art and Griffith University Art Museum.

Experimental Art has been historically aligned with radical, speculative and creative acts that challenged conventional art practices, institutional critique and museum collecting. Now that experimental art is—arguably—comprehensively institutionalised and many of Australia’s cultural institutions are approaching their fiftieth year, questions of how to hold and remember experimental art arise. Given how its archives and histories have formed, can we use experimental art as a critical tool to challenge, reconsider and develop our art institutions and practices? And what can we learn from experimental (often immaterial) art of the recent past? 

Artlink publishes three thematic magazines annually (in print and digital formats), which are responsive to current art world topics and big ideas. We welcome expressions of interest for articles and editorial suggestions. Note that writers are commissioned 3-4 months ahead of print issue landing dates (1 April, 1 August and 1 December), and for reviews while an exhibition is still current. Artlink periodically offers an open call out for submissions; join our mailing list to stay informed.