New Ground: Art and Belonging

How your creative practice and perception of the world have changed since emigrating?

ODRA Platform announces its third open call for the /essays section. We invite contributions exploring how your creative practice and perception of the world have changed since you moved abroad. We want to hear your voice, whether you are an artist, a curator or a researcher.

Questions you can raise in an essay:

— Have you blossomed creatively or was emigration and the related bureaucracy a big struggle that limited your flow?

— How do you feel in the circumstances of uncertainty?

— What role do creativity and work play in your life now? Has your attitude towards the art world changed in any way?

— Have you been able to find and set up your new studio? Where do you work now and how does this space influence you?

— What role does your community play for you now? Have you found new like-minded people, or managed to maintain old connections across the distance?

— Are you learning a new language? Has it started to shape your work or thinking, and if so, how?

— Does your work now speak to a different audience than before? Who do you imagine reading or seeing it?

— Has memory or nostalgia for the place you left become part of your practice?

— Has your sense of time or pace of working changed since the move? Do you work faster, slower, in different rhythms?

— Do you see this move as temporary or permanent?

— Do you experience loneliness or do you feel integrated into your new cultural environment, or still somewhere in between?