Call for artists! Asia Art Archive, Hong Kong - "ON TIME"

Taking cues from Fanon’s line that “every human problem cries out to be considered on the basis of time” (every human problem? and on the basis of time??), LIKE A FEVER is looking for work that explores connections between time and the problems we face today—even, and maybe especially, the ones we’ve become numb to.

How have present crises shifted your relationship with, or understanding of, time? How might different conceptions of time lead to more radical social visions? What “ordinary” practices have helped you move with integrity through these precarious times? How might archives—with their multiple registers of time (yeah yeah yeah, Faulkner: “The past is never dead. It’s not even past.”)—attune us to overlooked possibilities for intervening in the present?

LIKE A FEVER hopes to receive unruly, untimely, undisciplined interventions—essayistic, poetic, visual, some combination of the above—that still manage to clarify the stakes of our present moment. And, as always, work that is at once obsessive, moody, and oriented towards cure.

Application Instructions

Please email your pitch, along with a CV and writing samples, to Managing Editor Paul C. Fermin at paul@aaa.org.hk by Monday, 22 July 2024. Please use the subject line “ON TIME, [Your Name].”

Selected pitches will receive an honorarium of HK$3,125 (US$400) to develop a piece of around 1,000–4,000 words; and will be notified late July, with a view towards developing the pieces for publication beginning early October.