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For work that asks different questions.
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CURRENT CALLS

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Expression of Interest

Online Panel: Can Passion Sponsor You?

Dec 13, 2026

The panel focuses on what actually happens after art school: unstable work, unrelated jobs, immigration pressure, changing careers, sustaining a practice alongside paid work, and the quieter feelings that often accompany this period — anxiety, envy, hesitation, uncertainty, and self-doubt.

Online Panel: Can Passion Sponsor You?

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Online Group Exhibition

#Terms and Conditions Apply

Jan 5, 2027

Terms and Conditions Apply is a proposed online Group Pavilion curated by ELSEHERE for The Wrong Biennale 8. The exhibition looks at the systems that increasingly determine how we enter, participate, move, work, communicate, and belong.

#Terms and Conditions Apply

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Expression of Interest

STRATUM Journal Advisory Board and Peer Review Network — Expression of Interest

Oct 31, 2026

A call for scholars, artists, curators, editors, and cultural practitioners to support STRATUM Journal’s growing advisory and peer review network.

STRATUM Journal Advisory Board and Peer Review Network — Expression of Interest

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Festival Program

New York Experimental Arts Festival 2026 | Entangled Garden

Aug 15, 2026

In the middle of New York’s concrete logic, an outdoor garden becomes a site of artistic resistance, experimentation, and encounter. Entangled Garden is a four-day experimental arts festival where moving image, live performance, installation, sound, and site-responsive practice unfold in active relation to one another, to the site, and to the people who enter it.

New York Experimental Arts Festival 2026 | Entangled Garden

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EDITORIAL & PUBLICATION

Commons | Issue 003 | STRATUM Journal of Art, Culture, and the Humanities

Aug 25, 2026

The third issue of STRATUM Journal approaches Commons as a shared ground beneath our feet: something we step onto before we know who has made it, who has cared for it, and who may still be kept at its edges. It begins with the question of what it means for something to be held among many hands, carried across different lives, and kept open without becoming fully possessed.

Commons | Issue 003 | STRATUM Journal of Art, Culture, and the Humanities

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PARTNER & EXCHANGE

ELSEHERE x Yasmine Laraqui Studio Residency | Casablanca Research & Production Residency 2026

Dec 1, 2026

ELSEHERE and Yasmine Laraqui Studio invite artists, curators, filmmakers, writers, and researchers to apply for the Casablanca Research & Production Residency. Located across two interconnected sites in Casablanca, the residency offers time, space, and production support for practitioners developing projects.

ELSEHERE x Yasmine Laraqui Studio Residency | Casablanca Research & Production Residency 2026

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THEMATIC CALL

#What the Ball Are Your Doing?

Jun 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.

#What the Ball Are Your Doing?

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THEMATIC CALL

#Re-position: Returning the attention to the dancer

May 22, 2026

On April 29, International Dance Day, ELSEHERE invites submissions for Re-position, a special open call dedicated to dance as lived experience, embodied memory, and human presence.

#Re-position: Returning the attention to the dancer

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EDITORIAL & PROFILE

ELSEHERE Artist Open Call

Dec 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.

ELSEHERE Artist Open Call

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PARTNER & EXCHANGE

NYC Partners Open Call: China–USA Dance Exchange Intensive (Fall 2026)

Mar 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.

NYC Partners Open Call: China–USA Dance Exchange Intensive (Fall 2026)

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THEMATIC CALL

#Stories of Chinese Lunar New Year

Mar 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.

#Stories of Chinese Lunar New Year

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THEMATIC CALL

#Banana Slips

Mar 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.

#Banana Slips

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THEMATIC CALL

#Works That Will Not End

Mar 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.

#Works That Will Not End

BEFORE YOU SUBMIT.

Eligibility, costs, and deadlines vary by opportunity.

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Read the full call.

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Prepare the requested materials.

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Use the specified submission route.

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