CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
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This series on the many manifestations and meanings of Ground has dug into questions around how we (humans) situate ourselves in the world and in relation to each other, to our pasts, and to the more-than-human – materials, systems, species.
As we conclude the last of the Ground conversation series, we invite you to submit works of art, design, media that build on the themes that we’ve explored through each of the seven panels:
Material Grounds, which focused on deep consideration of the ground’s physical matter;
Working Grounds, which engaged the embodied practice of work as it relates to the physicality of the ground;
Ancestral Grounds, which focused on the connections of indigenous communities to the material of the ground – including the stories and myths that it continues to tell;
Archival Grounds, which focused on the ground as witness and material testimony to both human deeds and non-human forces;
Shaky Grounds, which focused on geophysical uncertainty and geopolitical instability;
Othered Grounds, which focused on the body and its relationship to the ground, specifically those bodies that negotiate the ground outside what have been deemed “normative” frameworks; and
Broken Grounds, which focused on grounds “broken” by processes of extraction, contamination and disturbance – as embedded in systems of capitalism and colonial violence.
Whether as a response to a specific theme engaged in the series, or the series as a whole, or a new ground of inquiry that we’ve not yet traversed through this program, we are soliciting works of art, design, media that can make a meaningful contribution to the conversation we have begun. We leave all possible prefixes to Grounds open and up to you to interpret in order to continue to crack open the multiple meanings and manifestations of Ground. Submissions will be evaluated by a panel of critics for selection into our online exhibition.
Please use the form below to apply. Submissions may be at any level of specificity – from general interest to realized concept.