Open Call No. 6 by Solitude & ZKM

Planetary Glitch

Curated by Mary Maggic

Against the background of climate change, rising sea-levels and the chemical alteration and industrialization of the planet, this call asked for new open–source strategies for undoing the trap of this planetary shift. Curator and juror Mary Maggic invited artists, designers, (bio)hackers, technologists, storytellers, writers, healers and shape-shifters to hand in pleasure tutorials, witchcraft and alchemy, collective coping mechanisms, online networks of care, information emancipation, training exercises, and other formats. Over 180 artists submitted ideas, five were chosen for web residencies: