NYC Open Call for Experimental Film, Installation, Performance, and Artist Book Pages

Jouissance is an international open call for experimental film, installation art, performance, and printed works. This NYC-based exhibition and publication opportunity is designed for artists working at the charged intersection of sensory experience, embodied cinema, erotic intensity, and psychic pressure.

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What We’re Seeking

• Short Film Submissions (up to 14 minutes)
• Installation Proposals wall-based, sculptural, sensory, hybrid
• Live Performance Proposals for April 4
• Scanned Pages and Poems for Art Book Publication by Bad Saturn Press

Focus Areas in the Gallery multisensory work, scent-based installations, haptic or olfactory environments, radical printed page experiments, repetitive structures, desire-driven forms, and embodied or psychic threshold states. Expanded cinema and installation film pieces with economy of space in mind.

Multiple entries allowed on single application. Due Feb 1st, Midnight EST!

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Exhibition Theme: Pleasure, Pressure, Release

We’re seeking work operating at the edges: tension, ache, insistence, refusal to resolve. We’re interested in submissions shaped by:
• the body at or beyond a threshold
• desire or compulsion as structure
• repetition, duration, or excess as formal engines
• sensory or olfactory activation
• relational, erotic, or psychic intensity
• moments where meaning thins and something charged emerges