FREE ENTRY / Arts of the Working Class - Open Call #4: Relationships

This call invites contributions that explore the frictions and synergies of belonging –  belonging, no matter how enduring or how intensely. We aim to move beyond static identities and fixed categories, viewing relationships as active, ever-evolving processes, between solidifying and melting into air.

Relationships are not goods to be accumulated to assess our value in life, or to nest in the face of fabricated scarcity. We, therefore, plead for confrontation instead of ghosting: how can we otherwise dismantle the structures of class, race, and gender that are embedded in relationships without ruining dinner? What practices of kinship can help us imagine new ways of relating to each other beyond vertical hierarchies? Is friend-zoning simply another name for interdependency, as we have yet to learn the labor of compenetration? Are you lonely, or do you just want to be alone?

To close the year, we turn inward to examine the bonds…