Migrations

Migrations ■
due date 2025-04-28 // 22 day(s) left for submission
show 2025-05-13 > 2025-05-27
show address Lancaster Institute for the Contemporary Arts (LICA) | Lancaster University | Lancaster. LA1 4YW | England | United Kingdom
submission address Sait Toprak & Gerry Davies | Lancaster Institute for the Contemporary Arts (LICA) | Lancaster University | Lancaster. LA1 4YW | England | United Kingdom
open call file Migrations
description
Movement and mobility are features of developed organisms, they are also means by which creatures, including we, orientate ourselves in and across the world. Today people and populations shift and change location for opportunity or leave under pressure. Archaeology tells us that pre-history saw radiating flows from Africa toward new lives East and West. And our futures will be rich with new Migrations.

While there remain few migratory peoples today, the migratory movement of critters, of birds, land animals and sea creatures continue. Migrations mysterious and essential, large and small: wildebeest move for pasture, zooplankton up for food and down for safety, but sand dunes migrating, who knew?

Artists are migrants. We live, move, work, communicate and trade within flows of migrating information. Geographically and digitally our ideas and work travel. In the street, on the kitchen table or a screen, in the studio or workshop, we encounter each other. You are coming the other way with something new; I take it up, pass it on. Whether actual or virtual, migrants exchange, collaborate and offer aid, ideas and support through shared mobility and movement.

We offer the idea of Migrations freely and in the plural. Interpret it as human, animal, mineral, biological, geographic, gendered, geologic, spiritual or cultural. The effect might be close or far, the scale, visibility and impact global, local or microscopic. Over to you now!

curator Sait Toprak, Gerry Davies
info saittoprak01@gmail.com
info instagram.com/migrations_mail_art_project
maximum dimensions 210 x 297 mm | 8.3 x 11.7 in