CALLING Artists & Writers.
open calls, questionnaires, research projects & residency opportunities
We look forward to seeing what work you propose for our opportunities, which are open to anyone, and everyone who wishes to enter, the only restriction is your imagination!!!
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Open calls for artists, writers, and creators
Or submit via CuratorSpace: https://www.curatorspace.com//opportunities/detail/mentoring-opportunity/8662
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photo from Jenna Fox
Open call for Artists & writers
Issue 66
for our next online exhibition and publication themed
Accumulation
HAUS-A-REST is now accepting submissions for our next issue of the online zine and our Instagram gallery. We welcome work in any form, visual art, photography, digital media, collage, painting, sound pieces, video stills, poetry, essays, fragments of text, short fiction, experimental writing, and beyond.
Accumulation: Between Archive and Excess
Accumulation has long been a driving force in art, literature, and culture. To accumulate is to gather, layer, and preserve, but also to risk being overwhelmed. Artists and writers have returned to this theme again and again, fascinated by the way repetition and excess can both illuminate and obscure meaning.
In art history, accumulation has been a method of critique and creation. Arman, one of the key figures of Nouveau Réalisme, created his “accumulations” in the 1960s by encasing heaps of everyday objects, gas masks, clocks, toys, in resin or plexiglass, transforming consumer detritus into monuments of modern life. Andy Warhol’s silkscreens repeated images of Marilyn Monroe or Campbell’s soup cans until the aura of the original dissolved into commodity spectacle. Yayoi Kusama’s obsessive dot patterns and installations, endlessly repeated, dissolve individuality into infinite excess. Similarly, Hanne Darboven’s monumental wall works, made of calendars and handwritten sequences, embody time itself as a relentless accumulation of marks.
In literature, accumulation emerges as a stylistic technique: Gertrude Stein’s loops of repetition, James Joyce’s sprawling catalogues, and John Ashbery’s proliferating associations turn language into a living accumulation of sound, rhythm, and thought. More recently, writers like Anne Carson and Ben Lerner have explored the layering of fragments, voices, and references as a form of accumulation that resists neat closure.
Yet accumulation also has a darker side. The obsessive drive to collect or preserve can tip into pathology. Compulsive hoarding, now recognized as a psychological condition, exemplifies how the act of saving, originally protective or sentimental, can spiral into overwhelming excess, threatening the very space of life. Artists such as Christian Boltanski and Song Dong (Waste Not, 2005) have staged this tension, presenting piles of clothes, objects, or personal effects as haunting monuments to memory, survival, and compulsion.
Accumulation also mirrors the digital age: endless feeds, data storage, image hoards, and archives without limit. Contemporary artists working online often grapple with the impossibility of curating or filtering the flood of material. Accumulation becomes both the condition of creation and its critique.
At its core, accumulation asks vital questions:
When does collecting become obsession?
When does memory preservation become clutter?
How do artists navigate the line between archive and overload, ritual and compulsion, meaning and noise?
Accumulation is therefore not only an artistic strategy, but also a human one. It speaks to desire and anxiety, possession and loss, creativity and illness. To accumulate is to leave a trace—but also to risk being buried under what we keep.
Please make sure your work reflects the theme and has context .
Submission Guidelines:
Send up to 3 works (images, texts, or both).
Texts can be short or long: poetry, essays, micro-texts, or experimental writing all welcome.
Please include your name, a short bio, and (if applicable) your Instagram handle or website.
Submissions should be sent to: [insert email here]
Deadline: [insert deadline here]
Selected artworks will be published on our Instagram gallery @haus_a_rest and in our upcoming online zine.
Who Can Submit?
This call is open to artists across all visual media (painting, photography, sculpture, digital art, etc.) and writers working in poetry, fiction, nonfiction, or hybrid forms. We encourage experimental, boundary-pushing work that brings fresh perspectives to the theme.
Submission Guidelines
For Artists:
Visual Art: Painting, sculpture, photography, digital art, mixed media, installations, etc.
Specifications: Up to 3 high-quality images, (if you are accepted, we will request high-resolution images of the work JPEG or PNG, minimum 300 dpi) – film-based work as a Vimeo or YouTube link only
Description: A brief description of each work (200-300 words) detailing the concept, medium, and how it relates to the theme
You must have an active Instagram account so we can tag you which is set for public view.
For Writers:
Genres: Short stories, essays, poetry, experimental writing, and cross-genre works
Length: Up to 1,000 words for prose; up to 3 poems
Format: Word document only
Synopsis: A brief summary of the piece (50 words) explaining how it connects to the theme.
Terms and Conditions
All submissions must be original works created by the applicant.
Selected works will be featured in an online exhibition and/or a publication. By submitting, you grant us the right to display, publish, and promote your work as part of this project. Typically, the works are online for six months, but this is not guaranteed.
Artists and writers retain all rights to their work.
We look forward to your submission.
Image courtesy of @jennafoxartist
PLEASE NOTE - WE COPY EXACTLY WHAT YOU SEND US, SO IF LINKS DON’T WORK, IT IS BECAUSE IT HAS NOT BEEN SUBMITTED PROPERLY.
Submissions can be sent via CURATORSPACE LINK BELOW
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Feel free to get in touch via the form below with your ideas & questions …
Good Luck! 🍀
from the editors
Nichola and Jenna
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We are always looking for good quality pieces of writing, be a story,
critique, poem, prose, spoken word, music, or other written work.
*** Haus-a-rest upcoming themes***
October 2025 - Issue 65 - Memorabilia
November 2025 - Issue 66 - Accumulation
December 2025 - Issue 67 - Addiction
January 2026 - Issue 68 - Small Acts
Follow our social media for more updates and open calls: @haus_a_rest
Enter your ideas on one of our social media platforms and use the #HAR, and if your idea is selected, you will be our featured artist.
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OPEN CALL - FOR ART RESIDENCY
We are seeking a multimedia artist to be a resident for at least three months on our art zine to write or film guides each month. The guides can be written pieces or short videos, and would offer tips and tricks for using different materials, processes and ideas for making. The residency would be for three months across three issues, with the opportunity to write additional pieces.
This is a great opportunity for an artist to be our resident 'expert' to write short tips, tricks and guides as a residency opportunity.
They could be top ten tips, short guides or videos. The artist would be featured and could show examples of their work to demonstrate the guide.
This role can be expanded as we value initiative and creative thinking, so you can really own this and use this platform to promote your knowledge and ideas.
Deadline: 12th September 2025
Apply here: https://www.curatorspace.com//opportunities/detail/open-call--for-art-residency/9689