NOSYMMETRIES / 2025-26

NOSYMMETRIES / 2025-26
Deadline for open call 17/6/2025
IDENSITAT + La Capella Centre d’Art (Barcelona)

NOSYMMETRIES is an artistic research project exploring the intersection of the concepts of social inequality, violence, and care. These issues, fueled by politics based upon threats and fear, accelerated by contemporary capitalism, directly impact upon rights, identity, gender, race, and class.

The project focuses on critical imagination and social creativity from diverse perspectives which challenge artistic and cultural practices linked to social justice and the degradation of democratic values.

Since 2024, Idensitat, as part of the Concentric programme at La Capella Centre d’Art, has deployed artistic practices impacting on social and cultural contexts. For the years 2025-2026 Idensitat is proposing the formation of a working group composed of seven people, selected by a public call. The group will set up an artistic investigation aimed at producing a personal or a collaborative project, combining research, production, and the socialisation of processes. Nosymmetries has been conceived as a space for sharing methodologies and knowledge, and for implementing ideas which address the degradation of transcultural diversity, the loss of rights, and the neocolonisation of democratic values.

During July, September, October, and December 2025, and January 2026, monthly meetings will be held with invited guests. These sessions will combine presentations, workshops, and group activities which aim to share experiences and knowledge, as well as supporting participants in defining their individual or collective proposal. Once the scheduled sessions have been finalised, the resulting productions will be presented in a collective exhibition open at La Capella Centre d’Art in March 2026.
Artists who wish to take part in this working group will be compensated and must submit a research and production proposal for an artistic project related to the programme’s theme. Idensitat will participate in this process, and will mediate throughout its various stages, with the aim of bringing critical imagination together with social creativity. The invited guests and La Capella Centre d’Art will collaborate in the programme.

Artists participating in the open call will be required to communicate a working methodology and an awareness of themes of social inequality, violence, and care, fueled by the politics of threat and fear.

SESSION SCHEDULE
July 14th and 15th – Workshop with Marwa Arsanios
September 9th and 16th – Working group session + guest session
October 14th and 28th – Working group session + guest session
October 29th – presentation of the process (open house)
November 18th – Working group session
December 2nd and 16th – Working group session + guest session
January 13th – Working group session

WHO IS THE CALL AIMED AT?
Open to artists interested in joining the working group, who are willing and able to commit to the following terms: to attend the monthly sessions; and to complete the proposed creative process.

RESOURCES OFFERED
– 1,500 euros in fees (taxes included).
– Production costs for the finished project will be covered up to a maximum of 500€. The budget will be evaluated between the organisation and the working group, taking into account the project’s rationale.

DOCUMENTATION TO BE PRESENTED
The proposal must be submitted digitally using the provided form, completing all fields and attaching the following documentation in a single PDF document (maximum 8 gigabytes):

• Proposal: Written document defining the applicant’s position on the proposed working themes, as well as the basic guidelines for project development. This may include working methodologies and possible formalisation methods. (Maximum 2 pages)
• Portfolio: A C.V. and a selection of up to two previous projects or work, contextualised with text and images to facilitate understanding. If necessary, web links can be added as supplementary material.
• Motivation: Short text that answers the question: What is your motivation for participating in this working group and the scheduled sessions?
• Contact information: Full name, telephone number, email address, and postal address.

> ACCESS TO THE REGISTRATION FORM
Project written in English, Spanish or Catalan.

SELECTION CRITERIA
A member from Idensitat, another from La Capella Centre d’Art, and one of the project’s guests will participate in the selection process. The selection criteria are:
– The quality, clarity, and viability of the proposal.
– Its consonance with the proposed theme.
– And a commitment to participate in person in the working group and in the scheduled sessions

TERMS AND CONDITIONS
Selected participants will be provided with a fee and production support in accordance with the commitment to adhere to the established programme and to present results in the final exhibition. Selection implies acceptance of the commitment to participate in group meetings, workshops, and presentations part of the programme.

Submitting applications to this call implies acknowledgment and acceptance of these rules.

The selected projects will remain property of the creator(s). IDENSITAT and La Capella Centre d’Art, as collaborating organisations in the NOSYMMETRIES project, may reproduce and disseminate all or part of the programme’s results with online or printed publications, always citing the respective creators and collaborating agents. IDENSITAT will archive all documentation resulting from this call and from the development of the project as a whole. Whenever the resulting work is made public, the creators of the projects (artists and working group) must cite: NOSYMMETRIES, a programme promoted by IDENSITAT and La Capella Centre d’Art.