Open Call for Performance Artists to Participate in a Group Exhibition

Ausstellungs-/ Projekte Einsendeschluss: ### Fr., 29.08.2025 - 23:59 ### Ausschreibende Organisation / Auslober / Kontakt Name Center for Peripheries E-Mail centerforperipheries@gmail.com Homepage centerforperipheries.com ### Teilnahmebedingungen Teilnahmeberechtigt alle Örtliche Begrenzung keine The artist collective Center for Peripheries invites performance artists of Indigenous or African descent (with significant cultural ties to the African continent) to submit performance proposals for the group exhibition “Off the Precipice,” opening November 2026 at Kunsthalle Exnergasse, Vienna (Austria). *** From Cuba to Albania, from former Yugoslavia to Afghanistan, from East Germany to Syria, there live generations of people whose sense of reality shattered from one moment to the next: a major shift in their country’s political reality transformed every aspect of their daily life. Curated by the artist collective Center for Peripheries, OFF THE PRECIPICE is a project that explores this shift from different perspectives, bringing into an exploratory relation various occurrences around the world. When the values you were meant to hold dear, the art and culture you were embedded in, and the rules that governed your everyday become obsolete, what happens to your sense of self? This dialectic of the past and the present still lingers in places across the world, like a ghost that has unfinished business; in more scientific terms, it is a historical rupture, a moment in which time is reset, where things are defined by a before and an after, two realities forever tethered to each other. Center for Peripheries invites artists who come from or live in a context where such a rupture took place to explore its echoes, and offer perspectives on this idea of a tethered existence, where a past reality is also a parallel one. They will be invited to each create a “decentralized” spatial installation, a term we introduce to effectively mean a collection of artefacts working together to tell a story through different spatial constellations. *** Provided by the organizers: An artist fee of 400,- Euro Accommodation in Vienna for the duration of the setup and opening Travel fee of up to 250,- Euro