Anticamera is a space for dwelling, an ante-chamber leading to multiple possible paths for thought, research and exploration.
Anticamera is a six-monthly online publication with a biennial theme — a space to gather thoughts and critical reflections on visual art’s relationship to culture, politics and daily life, and an open source archive of resources.
Every six months, contributors will be selected through an open call for proposals, both for written contributions, which can be research based (essays, articles, academic papers) or creative (poetry, prose), and for artworks (photography, illustration, video, mixed media hybrids). The selected writers will have three months to produce their piece, during which the selected visual artists will work alongside our team to curate the online display of their projects.
During this time, contributors are encouraged to share relevant resources (whether visual or text-based) through a specially created profile on the platform Are.na.
The collected contributions will risult in:
- A six-monthly online publication
- A biennial print publication, collecting the four chapters of issue #01
The research resources, as well as the final publication, will remain available to the public online as open sources.
ISSUE #01 : About the Body — Through the Body
01.1. Body Politics: Making Subjectivities (Apr 2022-Sep 2022) CALL NOW OPEN!
01.2. Lived Bodies: Affect & Effect (Oct 2022-Apr 2023)
01.3. Other Bodies: Nonhuman Existence (Mar 2023-Sep 2023)
01.4. Virtual Grounds: Disappearing the Body (Oct 2023-Apr 2024)
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
BODY POLITICS: MAKING SUBJECTIVITIES
DEADLINE: MAY 15th
SUBMISSION: FREE
CONTRIBUTORS FEE: 100€
Image-making technologies have always been entangled in the making and unmaking of body politics: the institutional and cultural practices and policies which exercise power over bodies, regulating the degree of social or individual control exerted over them. Powers at play include government laws and regulations, the requirements of labor and individual intimate negotiations.
For the first issue of our biennial theme, we seek written and image-based works which critically reflect on photography’s role in the enforcement of body politics and/or in engaging against the oppressive effects of institutional and interpersonal powers. How do images contribute to the making of body politics, and how could they be used as a means to subvert and reclaim control and self-determination over the body?
Keywords:
Labor
Body capital
Regulated bodies (geopolitical/social)
Uneven geographies
Power
Mobility (gatekeeping, migration, access)
Social & individual identity
Class, sex, race
Warfare
HOW TO APPLY
Before submitting, please check the keywords of the issues that will follow! You might find your work fits more specifically with an upcoming issue rather than the current one.
All submissions must be sent by May 15th 2022 (12.00 CET), to info@ardesiaprojects.com, email object ANTICAMERA 01.1 NAME SURNAME, through a zip file containing the following:
WRITERS
1. For essays, articles and research based contributions:
– Abstract (max. 300 words) and bibliography, for a max .2,000 words final piece
– CV including previous publications (if any)
2. For creative writing, prose or poetry:
– Proposal (max 300 words)
– CV including previous publications (if any)
ARTISTS
– Pdf with an extract of 5-15 images from the project
– Project statement (250 words max)
– Videos have to be included with a link for viewing
TIMETABLE & OTHER INFO
DEADLINE FOR PROPOSALS: May 15th (12.00 CET)
NOTIFICATION OF ACCEPTANCE: May 25th
FINAL HAND-IN: September 4th
PUBLICATION: End September/Beginning October 2022