OPEN CALLS
BIODIVERSE FUTURES
Speculative Design
Until April 2024
Biodiverse Futures is a residency aimed at exploring more-than-human, community-driven ecological futures through collaborative play, storytelling and design. Drawing on Queer Ecology, and framed around a collaborative, speculative storytelling game, Strange Strangers in Strange Lands, the residency will allow for interactions between community biodiversity activists and creative practitioners; designers, artists, writers, and architects. Over a number of weekends, we will work together to make-believe fictional worlds and possible futures, and materialise them in the here and now, through artefacts, performances, and other engagements, culminating in a symposium and festival.
The residency is open to any creative professionals, community activists, and anyone with an interest in queer ecology, more-than-human futures, and speculative practice, and will take place on weekends throughout the year.
VIDEODROME
Videography & Performance
Ongoing
Videodrome Barreiro is a series of events presenting experimental films, video works, and multimedia performances at Unreal Cities Gallery in Barreiro. Inspired by and taking its name from the 1983 David Cronenberg film, Videodrome aims to present works that are experimental, challenging, unusual, probing the relationships between the perceptions of self and reality, embodied existence and desire with the moving image and networked and social media.
Unreal Cities Gallery invites submissions from filmmakers, videographers, visual artists and performers of experimental and transdisciplinary video, audio and performance based works and works-in-progress.
GENERAL CALL
All Media
Ongoing
This is a general open call for artists, designers, performers and any other interested creative professionals to present artworks, performances, films and workshops at Unreal Cities Gallery. We will consider any proposals, but particularly those that have a focus on speculative urbanism and ecology, design practice, that consider the more-than-human and the relationships between the biological and the artificial, and that present diverse, outsider and marginal perspectives on these and other topics.
This is an ongoing open call; please get in touch at any time with a proposal or enquiry.