This themed issue of KAPSULA is being produced in partnership with SAVAC (South Asian Visual Arts Centre), the only artist-run centre in Canada dedicated to developing and promoting contemporary art by South Asian and diasporic artists. Over its 22 years of operation, SAVAC has worked without a gallery space, opting instead to work in collaboration with artist-run centres, venues, organizations, etc. to host its programming. Taking into consideration SAVAC’s signature “spaceless” model, writers are asked to engage with SAVAC’s archives in tandem with the theme, and consider topics such as:

- The significance of location and/or belonging to South Asian and diasporic artists
- The aesthetics of lost, invisible, or unreachable places
- The creation of alternative spaces through collaborative engagements
- Building alliances through art practice
- The act of reclaiming space in contemporary art
- Recognizing micro-communities that exist within wider communities
- Marginalized spaces as sites of empowerment and resistance
- SAVAC’s place in relationship to Canada’s wider artist-run ecology

Writers are welcome to reflect on the theme in connection to any artist, work, exhibition, video program, or collaboration SAVAC has supported during its history. Staff will be available to aid selected writers in accessing archival material upon request.

An archive of SAVAC’s past programs, including screenings, workshops, events, and exhibitions can be found at http://www.savac.net/past-programs/

Submit abstracts, finished texts, and project proposals by e-mail to submissionskapsula.ca by midnight on June 15th, 2016.

Selected writers will be offered a modest honorarium for their work. Final articles should be 2,000 words or less.

Visit https://www.savac.net/kapsula-spaceless-place/ for the full call and submission guidelines.