Art Calls Bodies and Borders: Ecologies of Consent
Opportunity Description
International Deadline: June 30, 2025 – Bodies and Borders: Ecologies of Consent investigates the intersection of bodies, ecology, and agency through the lens of permeability and protection. Drawing from Elvia Wilk’s assertion that health hinges on the regulation of what enters and exits the body’s borders, this exhibition explores how consent is navigated within biological, political, and ecological systems.
Women Eco Artists Dialog (WEAD) in collaboration with The 109 Gallery invites work that addresses the ethics of bodily autonomy, the fluidity of borders, and challenges rigid classifications of self and other. The exhibition invites viewers to consider how bodies; human, animal, vegetal, and microbial, are sites of negotiation, resistance, and transformation in an era of ecological precarity.
Exhibition October 1, 2025 – January 31, 2026
- Online Exhibition Published on our Kunstmatrix gallery page
- Additional option to show in a Physical Exhibition at The 109 Gallery in Chickamauga, GA.
- Published Catalog of Exhibition
- Art & Science Panel: date TBD
- Other Artist Talks | Film Screenings | And Engagements: dates TBD
ELIGIBILITY
Open to performance art, 2D & 3D works, and work that addresses the theme and focus of Bodies and Borders: Ecologies of Consent. Open to individual artists and collectives.
JUROR
Beverly Naidus’s art life has straddled the socially engaged margins of the art world, collaborations with activist groups, and community-based art projects. Much of her work deals with ecological and social issues that have adversely affected her and those around her. Remediation and reconstructive visions are key concepts that guide her work. Her primary forms are public installations, digital projects, and artist’s books that explicitly gather stories from visitors. She has shared her work in city streets, in alternative spaces, university galleries and major museums. Her work has been written about in many books and journals and has developed an international audience. After exciting chapters in New York City and Los Angeles, including fruitful periods in Minnesota, Halifax, Nova Scotia and western Massachusetts, she has made a home in the Pacific Northwest since 2003.
ENTRY FEE
Submission is free to WEAD members whose annual dues are paid by June 30. For artists who are not WEAD members, the submission fee is $45, which includes a year’s membership to WEAD, and is also due June 30, 2025.
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Notification: By August 5th
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Focusing on women’s unique perspectives we collaborate internationally to further the field and understanding of ecological and social justice art. To provide information regarding the ecoart and social justice art fields to artists, curators, writers, art and public art administrators, educators in art and ecology, cross-disciplinary professionals and others.
To facilitate international networking among artists working with ecological and social justice issues. To further the fields of, and the understanding of environmental and social justice art.
Women Eco Artists Dialog
2327 5th Street
Berkeley, CA 94710
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