DEADLINE: MAY 25th
SUBMISSION: FREE
CONTRIBUTORS FEE: 100€
SUBMISSION: FREE
CONTRIBUTORS FEE: 100€
Anticamera is a space for dwelling, an ante-chamber leading to multiple possible paths for thought, research and exploration.
Anticamera is a six-monthly online publication with a biennial theme — a space to gather thoughts and critical reflections on visual art’s relationship to culture, politics and daily life, and an open source archive of resources.
Every six months, contributors will be selected through an open call for proposals, both for written contributions, which can be research based (essays, articles, academic papers) or creative (poetry, prose), and for artworks (photography, illustration, video, mixed media hybrids). The selected writers will have three months to produce their piece, during which the selected visual artists will work alongside our team to curate the online display of their projects. Artists can submit a completed or ongoing body of work.
During this time, contributors are encouraged to share relevant resources (such as research material and references, both visual or text-based) through a specially created profile on the platform Are.na.
The collected contributions will result in:
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A six-monthly online publication
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A biennial print publication, collecting the four chapters of issue #01
The research resources, as well as the final publication, will remain available to the public online as open sources.
Selected candidates will be paid 100€ for their contributions.
ISSUE #01 : About the Body — Through the Body
01.1. Body Politics: Making Subjectivities (Apr 2022-Sep 2022) CALL NOW OPEN!
01.2. Lived Bodies: Affect & Effect (Nov 2022-June 2023)
01.3. Other Bodies: Nonhuman Existence (July 2023-Feb 2023)
01.4. Virtual Grounds: Disappearing the Body (Mar 2023-Sep 2024)
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
BODY POLITICS: MAKING SUBJECTIVITIES
Image-making technologies have always been entangled in the making and unmaking of body politics: the institutional and cultural practices and policies which exercise power over bodies, regulating the degree of social or individual control exerted over them. Powers at play include government laws and regulations, the requirements of labor and individual intimate negotiations.
Keywords:
BODY POLITICS: MAKING SUBJECTIVITIES
Image-making technologies have always been entangled in the making and unmaking of body politics: the institutional and cultural practices and policies which exercise power over bodies, regulating the degree of social or individual control exerted over them. Powers at play include government laws and regulations, the requirements of labor and individual intimate negotiations.
For the first issue of our biennial theme, we seek written and image-based works which critically reflect on photography’s role in the enforcement of body politics and/or in engaging against the oppressive effects of institutional and interpersonal powers. How do images contribute to the making of body politics, and how could they be used as a means to subvert and reclaim control and self-determination over the body?
Keywords:
Labor
Body capital
Regulated bodies (geopolitical/social)
Uneven geographies
Power
Mobility (gatekeeping, migration, access)
Social & individual identity
Class, sex, gender, race
Warfare
HOW TO APPLY
Before submitting, please check the keywords of the issues that will follow! You might find your work fits more specifically with an upcoming issue rather than the current one.
WRITERS
1. For essays, articles and research based contributions:
ARTISTS
- Pdf with an extract of 5-15 images from the project
Submissions that do not adhere to the required submission guidelines will not be taken into consideration.
Before submitting, please check the keywords of the issues that will follow! You might find your work fits more specifically with an upcoming issue rather than the current one.
All submissions must be sent by May 25th 2022 (12.00 CET), to info@ardesiaprojects.com, email object ANTICAMERA 01.1 NAME SURNAME, through a zip file containing the following:
WRITERS
1. For essays, articles and research based contributions:
- Abstract (max. 300 words) and bibliography, for a max .2,000 words final piece
- CV including previous publications (if any)
2. For creative writing, prose or poetry:
- Proposal (max 300 words)
- CV including previous publications (if any)
ARTISTS
- Pdf with an extract of 5-15 images from the project
- Project statement (250 words max)
- Videos have to be included with a link for viewing
Submissions that do not adhere to the required submission guidelines will not be taken into consideration.
Download the PDF with the open call info here
TIMETABLE & OTHER INFO
DEADLINE FOR PROPOSALS: May 25th (12.00 CET)
For the time being, our budget allows us to select a total of 6 contributors, who will be paid a fee of 100€.
DEADLINE FOR PROPOSALS: May 25th (12.00 CET)
NOTIFICATION OF ACCEPTANCE: June 10th
FINAL HAND-IN: September 14th
PUBLICATION: October 2022
For the time being, our budget allows us to select a total of 6 contributors, who will be paid a fee of 100€.
We will be working to increase our budget for the following issues.
What is ANTICAMERA?
Anticamera is an online and printed publication with the aim of gathering critical perspectives on a given theme by curating content developed by writers and visual artists.What is the outcome of the project?
The four chapters will be published digitally every six months, and will be collected in a print publication at the end of the two years.Why are there two themes to the open call?
Anticamera has a biennial theme (the first edition’s: About the Body - Through the Body), divided in four specific chapters in order to prompt in-depth critical thinking from multiple standpoints. The four chapters of the first issue are Body Politics: Making Subjectivities; Lived Bodies: Affect and Effect; Other Bodies: Nonhuman Existence; Virtual Grounds: Disappearing the Body. Open calls for contributions for the four chapters will be launched every six months.
What is ARE.NA, and why are the selected contributors encouraged to use it?
Are.na is a platform for connecting ideas and materials. Users can upload materials in a digital folder resulting in a digital open source library.Getting started with Are.na: https://vimeo.com/318041294
Our aim is to build, in time, a collectively created archive of relevant resources which can span from academic papers to poetry, gifs and photographs, memes and paintings - anything that can feed creative critical thought on the selected themes.
Selected contributors are encouraged to share any relevant research material they find inspiring. The uploaded material does not have to be authored by the contributors.
Artists: what mediums can be submitted to the open call?
All forms of visual media are accepted. Artists: can I submit the same project for more than one open call?
Whilst we encourage you to read the chapter’s theme carefully and to consider which of the upcoming chapters is most suitable for your work, applicants are allowed to re-submit the same project for following calls. Artists: can I submit an ongoing body of work?
Yes, you can submit either a completed or an ongoing body of work.Artists: in case I am selected, will the 5-15 images I submitted be the final ones inserted into the publication?
Not necessarily. Once selected, you will be working with our curatorial team to select, edit and plan together how to display the work online. This means that images can be added, subtracted or substituted, depending on the curatorial choices made together. Writers: can I submit a completed article/poem/prose piece, instead of a proposal?
Yes. If you have a written piece which is already in line with the open call’s theme, you can submit the completed piece. Writers: can I submit material that has already been published elsewhere?
No. The material has to be unpublished.info@ardesiaprojects.com