IMPACT25 Countercrafts—On Practices of Resistance, Repair and Reworlding

IMPACT25 Countercrafts—On Practices of Resistance, Repair and Reworlding

When artistic practice engages with social realities, it reveals its particular strength: it is always both a part of the present day and a utopian force that reaches into the sphere of the imaginable. 

In times of deepening inequality, narrow discourses and authoritarian attacks on democratic achievements, there is a need for spaces in which counterstrategies can be developed and tested, affects negotiated, and complex perspectives made visible. Art creates spaces of resonance for practices of resistance, repair, and reworlding, in order to challenge dominant narratives and foreground personal ideas of belonging and the future.

How can art be used as a tool that we can literally take into our own hands? Which models for resistant practices exist and can be shared with others? Is it possible to build bridges between places, resources, and existing infrastructures, in order to form connections in novel ways?

This call for proposals welcomes projects that are rooted in artistic, scientific, social, activist or technological fields and whose authors would like to engage in open exchange with other international participants regarding their respective approaches.

IMPACT25 sees itself as a transdisciplinary symposium for strategies for dealing with the future. This is where practices and blueprints from the arts, sciences, urban space, architecture and other fields of research come together. This year’s edition unfolds in two phases: the first two days will be open to the public, inter alia with brief presentations of the selected invited projects, followed by two days of closed sessions devoted to the exchange of ideas.

Details of the public programme will be online shortly. The online application form and further information on the call for proposals can be found here.

Closing date: July 2, 11:59pm, CET.

Participation: To participate, you can submit your contribution through the call for proposals. If selected, you can share and discuss it with other international experts during IMPACT25's assembly (with remuneration). Travel costs will be covered and local accommodation will be provided.

Contact: Juliane Beck, impact [​at​] pact-zollverein.de