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Eruption of Consciousness

Series: Life Is a Festival

Eruption of Consciousness explores the invisible landscape of the human mind through layered gestures, energetic colors, and rhythmic movement. Rather than depicting recognizable forms, the painting invites viewers into a space where memory, emotion, conflict, and celebration coexist.

Hidden forms emerge and disappear according to the viewer's perception, making the work an active dialogue between the painting and the observer. As part of the Life Is a Festival series, it suggests that human existence is an ever-changing celebration of contradictions, where creation, destruction, memory, and hope continuously reshape one another.

Acrylic on Canvas

Artist: Gautam Pal

We are sharing several current opportunities and program updates from ELSEHERE and STRATUM Journal.

Entangled Garden | New York Experimental Arts Festival 2026

Our four-day experimental arts festival will take place October 8–11, 2026, at Le Petit Versailles in New York City. The open call is currently available for moving image, live performance, installation, sound / hybrid, and site-responsive proposals.

STRATUM Journal

STRATUM continues to develop as an open-access journal of art, culture, and the humanities. Current opportunities include

Submit to STRATUM, Issue 003: Commons, and the

STRATUM has been growing quietly, and we wanted to share a few updates with you.

Over the past few weeks, we have been refining the STRATUM website and building a clearer journal structure around it. STRATUM began as an editorial space for artists, writers, researchers, and cultural practitioners whose work moves between categories. That spirit has not changed.

What has changed is the structure around it.

We have added and clarified several journal pages, including About the Journal, Aims & Scope, Editorial Board, Peer Review Policy, Publication Ethics, Author Guidelines, Open Access Policy, Current Issue, and Issues Archive. These pages help STRATUM become more transparent, more readable, and more sustainable as an open-access journal for art, culture, and the humanities.

Our aim is not to make STRATUM narrow, closed, or inaccessible. We are not interested in reproducing the kind of academic gatekeeping that makes many important forms of knowledge feel…

STRATUM Journal of Art, Culture, and the Humanities is now accepting submissions for Issue 003: Commons.

We encourage members of the ELSEHERE Community to apply.

This issue invites essays, criticism, reflections, and other text-based contributions on shared life, collective space, care, belonging, exclusion, and the fragile conditions of the common.

There is no fee to submit.All submissions are reviewed individually, and only selected contributors will be contacted for publication.

Deadline: August 25, 2026

Submit via portal

Open Call: Casablanca Research & Production Residency 2026

ELSEHERE × Yasmine Laraqui Studio Residency is now open for applications.

This residency invites artists, filmmakers, curators, writers, and artistic researchers to spend time in Casablanca developing projects across research, production, material experimentation, and contemporary cultural practice.

The program is organized across two spaces in the city: Mers Sultan, a residence and research environment, and Palmier, a professional studio for making, experimentation, and production.

Through the ELSEHERE partnership, selected applicants may receive a reduced community rate, priority review, a dedicated curatorial session, a permanent digital artist profile, and potential editorial visibility through STRATUM Journal.

2026 available sessions:

Conversations, criticism, and editorial features documenting contemporary artistic practice across disciplines.

Over the past few weeks, STRATUM Journal has continued to expand its growing archive of artist interviews, essays, criticism, and interdisciplinary discourse.

Recent publications include:

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Đurđija’s multidisciplinary practice transforms field recordings and overheard voices into profound cultural inquiries. From wartime Yugoslavia’s radio static to New York subway arias, this conversation explores how the act of listening maps the hidden hierarchies of our world.

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Yasmine Laraqui’s multidisciplinary work transforms the image into a live sociological experiment, exploring the fluid mechanics of human belonging under platform capitalism.

Alongside these features, STRATUM continues to publish essays, criticism, artist writing, and long-form editorial projects that help create a more durable public record around contemporary artistic work.