FREE ENTRY / Mophradat - New Agents Open Call

During these harsh and precarious times, and with the colossal impact it is having on the Arab world and its diaspora, navigating how to be an art professional today comes with immense vulnerability and confusion. Nevertheless, collectivity, imagination, and hospitality are still resources available to tap into and assume as realities are reshaping, and relationships being reinvented. Mophradat’s program, New Agents, formalizes this experience and creates a frame in which a group is formed and brought together to try to harness their energies, desires, and tools, and mold them into a proposition to be realized and shared publicly.

Through this open call, Mophradat will compose a group of six people from across art fields whose practices are singular, future facing, and committed to public engagement. What the participants also share is that they come from territories whose pasts are formed by overlapping cultural references and conditions, their present tainted by…