Submission Guidelines
All submissions should include a short biography (no more than 250 words) and links to your work/website if relevant.
For art/performance:
Please include a short description of the work (no more than 250 words) and/or vimeo links, images, and links to your website. For performance pieces, please consider how they would be adapted to site specific spaces, such as hallways, staircases, lecture theatres or bathrooms (for example) as well as traditional dance spaces as these will be limited. Please list any technical requirements in your submission.
For film:
Film submissions can be up to 120 minutes. Please include links to short films up to 20 minutes and trailers and synopsis for features. Please list any technical requirements in your submission, including the format of your work.
For papers/talks/panels/workshops:
Please submit the abstract of the paper of an equivalent summation (no more than 300 words!) along with your bio and other links. For panels please propose a description of the topics covered and bio’s and links of the panellists you would like to include. Standard panels will consist of three speakers (15 minutes each) and a chair, and will be 90 minutes long. For workshops please submit a summary of the workshop as above and include your technical requirements and any materials, volunteers or space specifications you might need.
There are a number of honorariums available for non-institutionally supported artists/speakers. Will we do our best to arrange accommodation for overseas artists/speakers.
Please email imagesoftomorrow@protonmail.com with your submission or any questions.
This anti-conference, conference challenges us beyond the limitations of looking back without also looking forwards. Turning into the unnerving unknown that is 2017, we ask how we can prepare for it, have a say in what that tomorrow looks like and who it prioritises? The last twelve months have seen the fruition of a new wave of extreme right-wing political and ideological power in the West. In such a moment of dejection and exhaustion, we need images of tomorrow. I/Mages of Tomorrow will culminate in a caucus of action, moving from the theoretical to radical practice, from the imaginary to the tangible, from community to sustainable movements.
I/Mages of Tomorrow encourages proposals whose biology actions change rather than presenting it. We welcome submissions from activists, artists, academics, community organisers, scientists and tech-creators. Calling for artworks, papers, performances, films, rituals, panels, discussions and sharings that de-centre fascist oppression and hold ground for visions that move forwards.
DEADLINE: Midnight 5th March GMT
Please read the submission guidelines below.
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Inter-generational conversations or collaborations looking back and looking forwards and/potentially a death of the stagnant archive.
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Future families/Radical parenting: how are we and can we organise family structures in ways that foster children who can thrive in the unknown futures that await them, especially as black and brown bodies?
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Out of the diaspora, what does blackness mean when it does not exist as a minority, or as the main commonality between oppressed peoples?
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Indigenous first, what does an indigenous narrative sound like when it is not being filtered through translations by aid organisations, charities or journalists?
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Moving illegally: what are the real risks of illegal anti-systemic activism, what are the benefits and how can privileged bodies move to protect those that have been illegalised?
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Mental health, surviving burnouts, creating resources and community.
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Rituals, paganism, idolism, magic, crystals, voodoo, juju, Santa Ria, astronomy, tarot, runes, all that good stuff.
Submissions topics may include but are not limited to:
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Where do people of colour stand in solidarity with one another, what are the ways and challenges for Afrodiasporic, African, South Asian, South East Asian and other non-white marginalised groups to stand together and build separatist or integrated futures?
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Disability as anti-systemic superpowers and a world beyond ableism, “diversity” and quotas.
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Beyond gender: how are gender binaries being envisioned, enacted, challenged and fucked up? Where do trans movements meet feminism on the margins and where does gender meet activism in the mainstream?
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Alien sex: radical sex practices that subvert and resist, empower and heal, including self-love, pleasure politics and asexuality, cosmic orgasms and interstellar play parties.
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Queer, black futurisms; images of future civilisations, ecosystems, art projects, technological revolutions, evolutions, devolutions, dys/utopias, departures and journeying.
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Climate radicalism: queer relations to nature, earth, ecosystems, animalia and explorations of a world without humans, or without human life as we know it.