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THEMATIC CALL
#What the Ball Are Your Doing?
June 20, 2026
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.
EDITORIAL & PROFILE
ELSEHERE Artist Open Call
December 9, 2026
ELSEHERE is opening a free Artist Open Call to invite artists, researchers, and cross-media makers into our curatorial and editorial field. We are building a long-running ecosystem that supports practices across bodies, image, sound, installation, performance, writing, and hybrid forms. If you are building a practice with a strong method and a clear aesthetic direction, we want to meet you.
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THEMATIC CALL
#What the Ball Are Your Doing?
June 20, 2026
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.
EDITORIAL & PROFILE
ELSEHERE Artist Open Call
December 9, 2026
ELSEHERE is opening a free Artist Open Call to invite artists, researchers, and cross-media makers into our curatorial and editorial field. We are building a long-running ecosystem that supports practices across bodies, image, sound, installation, performance, writing, and hybrid forms. If you are building a practice with a strong method and a clear aesthetic direction, we want to meet you.
PARTNER & EXCHANGE
NYC Partners Open Call: China–USA Dance Exchange Intensive (Fall 2026)
March 20, 2026
ELSEHERE is assembling NYC based partners for a two week international exchange intensive in Fall 2026 (Aug–Sep window, dates TBC). The program centers on studio practice, method exchange, and cross cultural dialogue within the NYC dance ecology. This is both a teaching and artistic exchange, designed to support future collaboration beyond the initial program.
THEMATIC CALL
#Stories of Chinese Lunar New Year
March 3, 2026
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.
THEMATIC CALL
#Banana Slips
March 15, 2026
A banana peel is a minor residue, easy to miss, yet it can trigger imbalance, interruption, and deviation from the intended path. Banana Slips invites artists to begin from that small rupture, attending to failure, absurdity, misuse, risk, embarrassment, slipping, and subtle disruptions of everyday order, and to translate the image into work with contemporary relevance and critical depth.
THEMATIC CALL
#Works That Will Not End
March 18, 2026
The piece that stayed with you long after the premiere, the deadline, the upload, the rejection. The work that keeps returning in your body, your memory, your hard drive, your notes. The thing you moved on from, but that never quite moved on from you.
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