Open Call: Decolonial Practices Project Following our successful introduction event (8-2-2026) , we invite artists, cultural workers, researchers, social practitioners, and others to join a collective project at SIGN Project Space (in collaboration with professorship Image in Context, Minerva Art Academy Groningen).

This project, developed together with artist-facilitators Yara, Khashayar Najafizadeh, and Neele Schlette, creates a pop-up community to connect, challenge ideas, and collectively search for where the common might emerge.

We invite you to propose contributions for upcoming events and a zine publication.

The events will take place at SIGN, where you can realise your contribution in many forms: performance, music, rituals, panel discussions, exhibitions of existing work, film screenings — and things we cannot yet imagine. A fee is available for selected event contributions.

Alongside this, we are developing a zine reflecting on our research process and realised events. You can contribute texts, visuals, fragments, and other formats.

The project explores three research lines:

Queer Identity
Queerness as an expansive, intersectional space — beyond gender and sexuality — connected to body politics, racialisation, ableism, mestizaje, and collective belonging.

Displacement
Working through embodied and artistic methods (such as cooking, collective writing, and participation) to question dominant ways of producing knowledge, and to explore memory, migration, and being in-between.

Land / Space / Place
Explores the multivocality of place through layered experiences of landscapes rather than singular narratives. It reflects on land use, development, and appropriation, and foregrounds situated knowledges to imagine alternative ways of inhabiting and relating to place.

These themes are approached through a decolonial lens — unlearning dominant narratives and making space for marginalised knowledge and practices.

→ We offer space to realise your contribution alongside the presentation of our research at SIGN project space.

→ Deadline: 19 April
→ First event: June 2026

Join us to create, exchange, and imagine new ways of being and relating.
For any questions or curiosities, you’re welcome to write to us at: decolonialpractices@gmail.com

→ To apply, please fill in this form:   https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSd9bQxpSaQOz7U0JR4eS9blWhfXm4ygR-CgoyBjnV8Y79rzug/viewform?usp=dialog