FREE ENTRY / Arts of the Working Class - Open Call #2: Transfiguration

Belief systems – religious, ideological, or capitalist – shape our understanding of reality and the values that we hold. Value attachment is central to transfiguration. It determines what we cherish, what we relinquish, what we pray to, and what we transform into new forms of meaning. While capitalist commodification has displaced spiritual and collective practices, attachments to alternative beliefs, rituals, and ways of being continue to emerge in the cracks of this system, resisting imposed hierarchies of worth. 

This issue seeks to explore how transfiguration happens through belief, from spiritual practices to radical ideologies, delving into the mystical, the transformative, and the unexpected, interrogating the role of beliefs and rituals in shaping personal and collective transformation. And how capitalist society is built on the ranking of beliefs and how this legitimizes forms of marginalization and oppression.