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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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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:

A ball has its own logic.

It moves. It repeats. It escapes. It rolls out of line. It refuses to stay still long enough to become only one thing. We are looking for artists, thinkers, movers, makers, and rule-breakers who want to work with the ball not only as object, but as force, symbol, memory, game, control system, absurdity, repetition, choreography, pressure, play, delay, or drift.

Dance is not only what appears under stage light.

It is also what the body remembers, what time leaves behind, what discipline reshapes, what longing survives, and what life continues to carry long after performance ends.

For this special call, we want to shift the focus.

Away from spectacle alone. Away from applause as the only measure. Away from the finished image of dance as something polished, distant, and complete.

Instead, we want to look again at the dancer as a human being.

At the body behind the performance. At memory, pain, devotion, fatigue, tenderness, contradiction, humor, survival, and daily life. At what remains when the curtain falls, and at what was always there before it rose.

✨ELSEHERE Artist Open Call 🆓

Free to apply. Rolling review. Global.

Apply to enter our curatorial + editorial pipeline.

This is how we discover artists for STRATUM, features, interviews, and future projects.

What this can lead to (when aligned):

Chinese New Year is not just a holiday. It is texture, distance, color, sound, and the kind of memory that returns before you do.

Stories of Chinese Lunar New Year, a special edition that gathers works and writing that reimagine the season through objects, places, and feeling.

Banana Slips

A banana peel often exists only in a fleeting, overlooked moment:consumed, discarded, stepped on. It is a trivial residue, and the starting point of an accident. A loss of bodily balance, a rupture in order, a deviation from an intended path.

Banana Slips takes the banana peel as an entry point to invite artists to attend to things and moments that appear insignificant yet actively intervene in reality:failure, absurdity, embarrassment, risk, misuse, slipping, or subtle disruptions of everyday order.

The banana peel is both object and metaphor, a trace left after consumption, a bodily reaction that precedes rational thought, and a site where systems reveal themselves through minor cracks.

We are interested in how artists misread, magnify, dismantle, or redefine this image, transforming it into works with contemporary relevance and critical depth.