Open Call: Decolonial Practices - contribute to collective research

For our collective research project Decolonial Practices, we invite artists, cultural workers, researchers, social practitioners, and others to join a a pop-up community to connect, challenge ideas, and collectively search for where the common might emerge.

This project, developed by with artist-facilitators Yara, Khashayar Najafizadeh, and Neele Schlette, in collaboration with Professorship Image in Context (Hanze) and SIGN project space.

Through this open call, we invite you to propose contributions for upcoming events and a zine publication.

Events
The events will take place at SIGN, where you can realise your contribution in many forms: performance, music, rituals, panel discussions, exhibitions of existing work, film screenings — and things we cannot yet imagine. A fee is available for selected event contributions.

Zine
Alongside this, we are developing a zine reflecting on our research process and realised events. You can contribute texts, visuals, fragments and other formats.

Research lines
The project explores three research lines:

Queer Identity - Queerness as an expansive, intersectional space — beyond gender and sexuality — connected to body politics, racialisation, ableism, mestizaje and collective belonging.

Displacement - Working through embodied and artistic methods (such as cooking, collective writing and participation) to question dominant ways of producing knowledge, and to explore memory, migration, and being in-between.

Land / Space / Place - Explores the multivocality of place through layered experiences of landscapes rather than singular narratives. It reflects on land use, development and appropriation, and foregrounds situated knowledges to imagine alternative ways of inhabiting and relating to place.

These themes are approached through a decolonial lens — unlearning dominant narratives and making space for marginalised knowledge and practices.

How to contribute
We offer space to realise your contribution alongside the presentation of our research at SIGN project space. Join us to create, exchange, and imagine new ways of being and relating.
 

• Deadline: 19 April
• First event: June 2026

For any questions or curiosities, you’re welcome to write to us

To apply, please fill in this Google form