With the Open Call Being in Relation: Art as Ecology, APRIA is looking for your work. What does it mean to create with the understanding that an artwork can be regarded as an ‘ecology’? How can we create ‘collectively’ while acknowledging our ever-evolving hybrid identities and artistic practices and our relationship with the unknown?
How can we create ‘collectively’ while acknowledging our ever-evolving hybrid identities and artistic practices and our relationship with the unknown?
For this year’s Open Call, APRIA is asking what it means to create with the understanding that an artwork can be regarded as an ‘ecology’, a heterogeneous meshwork of co-constitutive forces, and always exists due to relationships—with audiences, makers, histories, spatiality, temporality and experiences to name a few. This sym-poiesis or ‘making-with’* – redefines these relationships as enactive, multiple, co-producing, reciprocal, symbiotic or in other ways yet to uncover. The relationships weave between things, species, images, humans, objects, and affects, grounding artistic practices in a dynamic interaction of redistributed authorship among multiple creators, environments, audiences, technologies and the unknown.
* Haraway, Donna J. ‘Symbiogenesis, Sympoiesis, and Art Science Activisms for Staying with the Trouble’. In Arts of Living on a Damaged Planet., 25–50. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2017.
APRIA is seeking contributions that embody these acknowledgements, document their negotiations, and challenge the presumed singularity of artistic production. Are you working on these or related ideas in your research? Then this call is for you!
How to submit?
The deadline for sending your submission to contactapria@artez.nl is 22 January 2024. See the APRIA website for the instructions on how to submit.
As a curated digital platform, APRIA embraces various voices from multiple identities, perspectives, approaches, cultures, and experiences.
