Open Call for Artists (All Mediums) - B*O/D&Y Exhibition, London

This exhibition is concerned with the body and the glitch, and with the point at which one begins to fracture into the other.

B*O/D&Y explores the entanglement of body and glitch through contemporary art practices, focusing on moments when systems cease to operate in seamless continuity.

Within this framework, the body is understood as more than the human form. It extends into environmental and ecological systems, mechanical infrastructures, and social structures of power. The body is both material presence and constructed subject, shaped and regulated through processes of discipline, organisation, and control.

The glitch refers to interruptions within these systems. It appears as error, repetition, delay, or breakdown, moments when expected function is suspended or diverted. Rather than being understood as failure, these moments reveal thresholds within systems, exposing their limits, tensions, and points of collapse.

The exhibition turns toward what such disruptions make visible. Fragmentation, malfunction, looping, and stasis become sites of attention, where systems begin to behave differently and reveal alternative logics of structure and time.

These conditions are not resolved or corrected. Instead, they are sustained, repeated, and allowed to persist. Instability becomes rhythmic. Incompletion begins to form structure. Within this space, art is approached as a site where things are permitted not to fully resolve.

WHAT WE ARE LOOKING FOR

We welcome submissions across disciplines and expanded practices, including but not limited to painting, digital print, sculpture, installation, performance, sound, moving image, interactive media, and interdisciplinary practice.

We are particularly interested in works that engage with systems, embodiment, technological or social breakdown, error, repetition, malfunction, or alternative forms of perception and organisation.

We welcome proposals of all scales and production methods. What matters is not medium or resolution, but the conceptual proposition and its relation to the themes of the exhibition.

CURATORIAL APPROACH

B*O/D&Y is developed as a curatorial and research-led exhibition rather than a commercially driven presentation.

The exhibition is structured as an inquiry into how bodies and systems fail, loop, interrupt, and reorganise themselves. Works are not treated as isolated objects but as part of a wider field of relations, tensions, and conceptual resonances.

Curatorial decisions are guided by dialogue between material practice, theoretical reflection, and spatial composition. The aim is to construct an environment in which works can coexist, interfere, and generate new readings through proximity.

KEY DATES

Please note that we will be releasing two rounds of individual media features across SPIRA9’s official social media channels in the lead-up to the exhibition. Artists who wish to be considered for inclusion in these early features are advised to submit their work by the relevant deadlines below.

First Press Release Date: 19 June 2026
Submission Deadline for Inclusion: 16 June 2026, 23:59 (BST)
Second Release Date: 3 July 2026
Submission Deadline for Inclusion: 30 June 2026, 23:59 (BST)
Final Submission Deadline: 10 July 2026, 23:59 (BST)