Call for Submissions: BODIES | Deadline December 06, 2021
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PITCH YOUR STORY BY DECEMBER 06, 2021
We are seeking contributors for CreatedHere Magazine Issue 19: BODIES, curated and edited by Amy Ash.
This issue is dedicated to BODIES: the physicality of the creative process, as well as concepts of access, agency, and belonging that are linked to our physical selves.
Our bodies are sensory receptors to the rest of the world. As artists - whether performers, musicians, or makers - we use our bodies to carry out our creative work, sometimes with large labouring actions and other times with small delicate movements. Often our bodies know (or remember) exactly what to do, even when words may fail. How does your body impact your creative process? What does your body remember?
Navigating the world can be an entirely different experience based on the body you inhabit. Throughout history, certain bodies have been marginalized, oppressed, and overlooked due to their appearance or the ideas they represent. Others have been arbitrarily privileged. How do you navigate the world? And who is the (art)world built for?
Although the physical distance between human bodies has increased out of collective care, we understand our bodies to be more connected now than ever— to one another as well as the larger ecosystems we inhabit. And, in kinship, we bestow the word “body” upon other meaningful sites, as in: bodies of water or bodies of land. How can we share space with more-than-human bodies so that we all can thrive? Where does one body end and another begin?
This issue discusses the ways in which we use our bodies to make artwork, and, more broadly, how we experience the world through, or as a result of, our bodies.
We are seeking:
Stories that highlight the body’s contribution to creative practice— making by hand, muscle memory, dance, endurance etc.
Artistic and critical explorations of physical and sensory experience: embodiment, physical/human geography, experiential learning, physical labour
Contemplations about more-than-human/poetic bodies: fruiting bodies, bodies of water, celestial bodies, bodies of land etc.
Research-backed discussions surrounding bio-art, technology, wellness, and the body
Artistic accounts of bodies undergoing change or embellishment: age, identity performance, dysphoria etc.
Art-making practices that engage or celebrate the body
Critical discourse on accessibility, inclusion, and social equity
Research and artistic explorations at the intersection of the body and identity
We are open to any and all ideas that creatively fit this theme within the scope of visual art, craft, or design in New Brunswick. Only complete submissions will be considered. Please click HERE for the submission checklist and full details on how we select featured artists.
With thanks to the Sheila Hugh Mackay Foundation and the New Brunswick College of Craft & Design for funding our contributor fees, we offer payment of $50-$250 depending on contribution size.