Skin in the Game is a group exhibition, screening, and risograph poetry collection, exploring what it means to put your body—your real, pulsing, breakable body—on the line. In love. In labor. In protest. In performance.
The works in this show will speak from the surface of the skin and the space just beneath it: the site of contact, vulnerability, memory, and commitment.
We are currently accepting submissions from artists, filmmakers, writers, performers, poets, and interdisciplinary creators. We’re especially interested in work that engages somatic and surreal processes—work that treats the body as both map and threshold. Pieces may lean into vulnerability, trace pain, track sensation, or reflect states of transformation.
You might be working in movement, sound, moving image, sculpture, text, or something that refuses to stay in one category. We welcome both tender and feral approaches—work that speaks from love, grief, protest, performance, memory, or metamorphosis.
We are especially interested in:
- embodiment as resistance or risk
- somatic memory, wounds, and healing
- surreal or speculative approaches to self-mapping
- clothing, fabric, or veils as material containers for the body
- gestures of intimacy, care, rupture, resistance, or emotional exposure
- the body as archive, battlefield, altar, or document
This is not a metaphorical call for neat ideas dressed in flesh. This is a call for the messy, the tender. Artists who are living their questions. Work that holds a pulse. Presence and exposure. The body as archive. The body as question. The body as offering.
Submission Categories
Short Film & Video Art
Runtime: Up to 15 minutes
Main screening on Friday, October 24
Submission fee: $15 ($10 students)
Installation, Visual Art, & Sculptural Work
For gallery display. The venue is small and best suited for 3 to 8 works.
Please outline technical and spatial needs.
Submission fee: $25 ($20 students)
Sound / Performance / Movement
Live or embodied pieces will be programmed for Saturday, October 25.
Submission fee: $25 ($20 students)
Concrete Poetry for Risograph Publication
Bad Saturn will publish a curated collection of concrete, visual, and somatic poetry in conjunction with the exhibition. Please submit up to 2 poems or 2 pages total, formatted to fit 5.25 x 8 inches, portrait or square. Accepted work will be printed via risograph and released during the show.
Submission fee: $15 ($10 students)
Key Dates
- Submission Deadline: Friday, August 1, 2025 at 5pm EST
- Notification of Acceptance: September 1, 2025
- Installation: Thursday, October 23, 2025
- Main Screening & Opening: Friday, October 24, 2025
- Performance Night: Saturday, October 25, 2025
- Gallery Exhibition Run: October 24–30, 2025
- Deinstallation: Thursday, October 30, 2025
How to Apply
Please include the following in your submission:
- Artist Info: Name, contact, short bio (100 words max)
- Upload Your Work:Film/Video: Vimeo or YouTube link (with password if needed)
- Installation/Sculpture: Up to 5 images or sketches with dimensions and materials
- Sound/Performance: Written description with duration, tech needs, and samples if available
- Poetry: Up to 2 poems or 2 pages total (PDF). Work must be sized no larger than 5.25 x 8 inches, portrait or square. Include layout notes if applicable.
- Project Description: A short description (200–300 words) about how your work engages with Skin in the Game and its themes of embodiment, risk, and transformation
- Submit Payment: Multiple entries are allowed and encouraged. We accept Venmo and PayPal. Work will not be reviewed until payment is received.
We have a limited number of sponsored entries available for those with financial need. To request a fee waiver, email michelesaintmichel@gmail.com with a brief note.
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Tunnel Visions
Submitted by Alma Moos on
Biography
Alma Moos-Nuñez is a visual artist born and raised in New York City and is currently based in Vienna. The artist received her BFA from the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, and is at present working towards a diploma at The Academy of Fine Art Vienna. Alma Moos-Nuñez works primarily with video, drawing, and sculpture, using her own body, the conditions of the home, and the boundaries of both of these spaces, as central points of reference for the work.
Sysnopsis
Tunnel Visions is a non-narrative short film that describes internal and external perceptions of the body through sight, time, and scale. The body itself is juxtaposed against its movement through the world: it is not only the constant of your own body as a landscape and an architecture in itself, but also its stillness in the face of constant motion, the world continues, and the body is a living/dying thing that sits on trains and drives cars: every touch is so slow and the trees move by too fast. The film begins and ends with long sequences of trees moving quickly as seen through the window of a train. The trees come in and out of focus and themselves become abstracted by the speed of the train passing, at once clear the viewer is moving past them, and at other times it appears as though the greenery is simply a shifting image not moving one way or the other, simply changing. Between these sequences appears the body as seen through two illuminated tunnels. The limbs and bodies at the end of these tunnels are abstracted through their closeness and isolation from the larger body. The concept of the film is loosely inspired by two dichotomous therapeutic practices attempting to achieve the same or similar outcome: the first directs one in the face of anxiety, dissociation, and panic attacks to focus on one part of the body that touches something tangible and external, for example, the bottom of your feet and the rug they press against; the second practice looks to do the opposite; one should focus all thought away from the part of the body that feels disassociated from the whole and imagine cars going by or the birds in the sky. Both practices attempt recenter, and refocus thoughts so as to bring oneself out of the previously mentioned states of anxiety, dissociation, and panic.
Link
https://youtu.be/ISfVLGUO5oc
Hi, Alma
Submitted by Marcos Ortega on
Hi, Alma
This is just the comments section. To submit your work you have to do it through this link: https://forms.gle/Nyo9Y1q189vC1Cbt8
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