OPEN CALL
Deadline 12 JUN 2025
FOOTNOTES is an experimental media art project in public space that explores the hidden, marginal, and supplemental narratives embedded in the urban environment. Drawing inspiration from the function of a footnote as a secondary voice, a source, a fragment, or a whisper, this exhibition invites artists to intervene in public space with works that act as annotations to the city’s dominant stories.
“Footnotes” are traditionally relegated to the margins, but they often carry crucial meaning — hidden context, sources of authority, or counter-narratives. In this exhibition, the city is the main text, and the artworks are its footnotes: fragments that question, complicate, or quietly undermine the dominant narrative. The title thus speaks to both form and politics — an aesthetics of the peripheral, and a politics of the overlooked.
Each artwork functions like a footnote in a larger, often unreadable text: the city itself. These works draw attention to what is usually ignored or suppressed, such as hidden histories, invisible labor, and ecological traces. Artists explore the overlooked stories, marginalized voices, and alternative narratives within the city’s history, offering alternate readings and critical commentary on the visible structures of power.
Instead of monumental gestures, FOOTNOTES favors subtlety, intimacy, and discovery. It encourages passersby to look down, pause, listen differently, and read between the lines of their environment.