Deadline: 9 February 2024
The Atlas of Uncertainty invites visual artists to explore gateway neighbourhoods in Accra, Nairobi, and Johannesburg.
Spanning diverse artistic mediums—from photography and drawing to painting, sculpture, printmaking, digital art, mixed media, textile art, and ceramics—the Atlas aims to cultivate diverse artistic responses that transcend traditional exhibition boundaries and normalise the multifaceted, informal, and transitory dimensions of these cities.
This project seeks to unsettle the fixity and hierarchies in conventional atlases, challenging national narratives and the mechanical calculations of demographic theory.
Project Themes
- The changing nature of urban socio-political space. This includes the meaning and dimensions of citizenship and political community, and engagement.
- The refashioning of urban space including the repurposing of the built environment, the nature and role of urban institutions (social, political, economic) and modes of conceptualising ‘the city’.
- Transforming moral and familial economies including kinship structure, social capital, gender and generational roles, and forms of obligation and emancipation.
- Epistemics and engagement
Benefits
- Artists recieve $2500 (USD) for artist commission paid in two installments
- Works displayed at Atlas of Uncertainty Johannesburg exhibition in Q1 2024
- Artists maintain ownership over their works but agree for the piece/s to be loaned to the exhibition for its full duration
- Participation in a digital multi-city creative community
- Works showcased in the physical and digital Atlas
Eligibility Criteria
- Artists must be based in Accra, Nairobi or Johannesburg
- Applicants must be over 18 years’ old
- Applicants must be able to create the commissioned piece within the timeframe provided
- Applicants must specialise in one of the following media; photography, drawing, painting, sculpture, printmaking, digital art, mixed media, textile art, and ceramics.
For more information, visit Atlas of Uncertainty.
