凤凰 Feng Huang: Exhibition Open Call

Vox Populi’s Curatorial Residents for “An Endless Meeting,” CAO Collective 离离草, are hosting an open call for their fall exhibition. CAO Collective is co-directed by hú-tu (huiyin zhou & Laura 嘟嘟), an artist duo with backgrounds in social practice and anthropology. If you are a Philadelphia based-artist with a current or past connection to collective work in the city, this open call is for you!

“We propose to curate through Fenghuang — a composite, relational figure from Chinese cosmology often mistranslated as "phoenix” — as a framework for working with grief, dream, and transformation. Unlike the solitary bird of heroic burning, Fenghuang is feng and huang held together: a body constantly reimagined through fragments, care, and continual encounter. Associated with the south and with Fire, Fenghuang carries a quiet resonance with the Global South, diasporic movement, and queer ways of living relationally — a homecoming and an unlearning at once. To curate through this figure is to gather collectives into a cosmology that is not linear but circular, less shaped by rupture than by tending: where legacy and hope are not only preserved but permitted to bloom, degenerate, and return — where rebirth unfolds not through spectacle, but through the slow, burning grace of coming together again and again.“

Requirements

Participating Artists and/or Collectives should be:
- Philly-based or have a strong Philadelphia connection
- Can physically participate in installation/deinstallation of their own work or make advance arrangements if not
- Has a history of working in community with others or collaborative practice

Application Instructions

Submit by August 17, Monday via Vox Populi’s Slideroom