Apophatic Art Practice and Research

Connecting with the ineffable in times of flattening

Project / Editorial Team

  • Merel Visse
  • William Franke
  • Ryan Woodring
  • Béatrice Machet
  • Sarah Travis
  • Enaiê Azambuja
  • Sarah Tarkany
  • Peter Kline
  • Kythe Heller
  • Cailtin Gilson
  • Chelle Stearns

Making

Opening

The first round of the call was completed on May 1. Please join, especially if you're only discovering this now — there's no such thing as too late. Contact us at apophaticart@gmail.com.

Download the CFP [PDF]

Our first Call for Proposals resulted in an exceptionally rich and diverse range of submissions, spanning scholarly-artistic papers and projects that center on poetry, memoir, essay, painting, sculpture, installation, textile work, weaving, collage, digital prints, audiovisual and video work, generative platforms, and multimodal and ritual practices. Many submissions bring these creative and artistic methodologies into dialogue with apophatic approaches to ineffability, and several combine practice-based inquiry with academic research papers, literary criticism, or autoethnographic writing.