OPEN CALL

AWC Journal is an annual, interdisciplinary publication that examines the intersections of art, war, violence, resistance, and solidarity. Emerging from the work of The International Coalition of Cultural Workers in Solidarity with Ukraine (antiwarcoalition.art), it investigates the entanglements of infrastructures, systems, and power structures in times of war, crisis, and transformation. By bringing together diverse perspectives, the journal uncovers hidden mechanisms of oppression while fostering new conceptual frameworks for understanding contemporary realities.

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Mycelium [Грыбнiца] as Editor-in-Chief proposes to focus on the theme Decolonisation. It emerges from our shared concern that the term is too often used as a metaphor, stripped of its political urgency, and increasingly appropriated by right-wing populist agendas. Following Eve Tuck and K. Wayne Yang’s seminal statement that “decolonisation is not a metaphor”, we insist that decolonisation must be understood as a set of material and structural processes.

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Colonial dependencies are organised and reproduced through specific infrastructures — logistical, extractive, military, and cultural — which often remain intact long after the formal end of colonisation. We understand infrastructures expansively, as complex material systems with political, economic, and affective dimensions. They can operate as mechanisms of domination, as described by Bani Brusadin in The Fog of Systems, but they can also become means of transformation and solidarity.