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Manifest - DISQUIET
Manifest - DISQUIET

Sun, 24 Sept

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Fee: $40 / Prize: Cash + Exhibition

Manifest - DISQUIET

Discipline: Multi-Discipline. IDISQUIET is a call for works of art about the strange, the uncanny, the abject, the revolting, the unsettling, and the things that frighten us.

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24 Sept 2023, 11:30 pm

Fee: $40 / Prize: Cash + Exhibition

About the event

“The things you see in images like these aren’t brandishing a chainsaw or baring a mouthful of fangs, but something about them feels completely terrifying anyway. It’s not just scary, it’s wrong, like you’re seeing something that should not be.”

– Sean T. Collins, “All Hail the Monumental Horror Image’

What are the signs that something is wrong?

There is a moment before we react to danger where we register, subconsciously, that something is off. That we have reason to be afraid. The source of our disquiet can be obvious, symbols we can name as horrific: teeth, viscera, a body open in unnatural ways.

When the image lacks obvious violence, but instead depicts something familiar made unfamiliar/untrustworthy, or vice versa, our horror simmers before exploding because the fear is harder to name—a room where the edges don't come together correctly, a face held in an expression incongruous to the moment, a chemical…

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