open call: zero material

Are you an artist specialising in conceptual or visual arts based practice? We will be selecting one artist to create a new body of work, with the opportunity to present it to a public audience in Spring 2027.

We are looking for an artist whose practice engages with materials, systems, or processes — someone curious about working with what already exists, and interested in how diasporic experience shapes the way things are made.

You might be early in your career or further along — what matters is a genuine engagement with the questions the programme is asking.

The manifesto

In an age of scarcity and excess, what forms of art making remain relevant?

zero material recognises that each material, whether tangible or intangible, carries its own agency that awaits to be exercised creatively — informed by diasporic experience, it proposes unorthodox approaches like hacking, smuggling and piggybacking as artistic practice.

The artwork may take the form of a gesture, a situation, an infrastructure, a digital trace, a collective action or even an administrative process — the materiality that already penetrates and accumulates in our everyday lives.