ELSEHERE Community

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

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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.

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