Buckle up! ELIA Biennial 2026 is GOING OFF CENTRE...I'm excited for this one and all the out-there ideas it will bring to ArtEZ University of the Arts in Zwolle NL next November. The Call for Contributions is now open. 📢 📝
The ELIA Biennial 2026 is ɢᴏɪɴɢ ᴏꜰꜰ ᴄᴇɴᴛʀᴇ 🌀 Hosted by ArtEZ University of the Arts in Zwolle, NL, from 18 – 21 November 2026. In volatile times, no centre is fixed or permanent. ELIA Biennial 2026 invites us to explore the act and art of decentring while embracing the tension this brings. Across four days of workshops, experiments, panels, performances, presentations and artistic interventions, we will reposition the art school not by restoring a lost centre, but by reforming as a body of knowing: a living, breathing whole that resists being bricked in by definitions, dogmas, or hierarchies. The Call for Contributions is now open 📣 Calling all artistic practitioners, performers, philosophers, researchers, educators, students, pedagogues, admin staff, technicians, leaders and makers! We invite you to explore what forms of knowledge, practice, art and paradoxes emerge when we decentre dominant narratives, disrupt habitual hierarchies, and shift our attention toward the marginal, the local, the peripheral. Read the full call and visit https://lnkd.in/eJhnNpkP Deadline: 16 January 2026 [elia, biennial, Zwolle, conference, call, open, art education, ArtEZ]