01 May Call for Artists – Bodies and Borders: Ecologies of Consent
Bodies and Borders: Ecologies of Consent investigates the intersection of bodies, ecology, and agency through the lens of permeability and protection. Drawing from Elvia Wilk’s assertion that health hinges on the regulation of what enters and exits the body’s borders, this exhibition explores how consent is navigated within biological, political, and ecological systems.
“Whether one is speaking of relating well with humans or nonhumans, in the variety of ways in which we relate ( sexually, intimately-but-not-sexually, as food, fuel or material “resources”), we are talking about sustaining one another.”
-Kim TallBear
“The achievement of health is premised on the ability to control what enters and exits the body’s borders.”
– Elvia Wilk
CALL FOR ARTISTS
Women Eco Artists Dialog (WEAD) in collaboration with The 109 Gallery invites work that addresses the ethics of bodily autonomy, the fluidity of borders,
and challenges rigid classifications of self and other. The exhibition invites viewers to consider how bodies; human, animal, vegetal, and microbial, are sites of negotiation, resistance, and transformation in an era of ecological precarity.
Open for Applications April 15, 2025
Submission Deadline June 30, 2025
Exhibition October 1, 2025 – January 31, 2026
Artist Talk & Panel Discussion TBD
Online Exhibition Published on our Kunstmatrix gallery page
Additional option to show in a Physical Exhibition at The 109 Gallery in Chickamauga, GA.
Published Catalog of Exhibition
Film Screening TBD
Open to performance art, 2D & 3D works, and work that addresses the theme and focus of Bodies and Borders: Ecologies of Consent. Open to individual artists and collectives.
Open to All women-identified artists, non-binary, and trans-identified artists.
Juror: Beverly Naidus
Curator: Leah Dalton
$Free for WEAD Members
$45.00 Non WEAD Members
This includes a one year membership with WEAD (Women Eco Artists Dialog) and has accompanying benefits, such as; being a part of our membership Artists directory, Newsletter member highlights, Artist Engagements and Talks, Member Exhibition opportunities, and more.
WEAD (Women Eco Artists Dialog) requires that you be a paid WEAD member ($45 fee) in order to be eligible to be juried. Payment is due by August 1st.
Link To Apply & Submission Guidelines: EntryThingy
for more information visit the109.com or weadartists.org