Open Call for Zine | Soma

OPEN CALL for ZINE

Soma (plural somas or somata)
The corporeal body, as distinguished from the psyche or soul and the pneuma or spirit.

In Vedic traditions, Soma also refers to a drink that is said to grant immortality. 

Rummān Collective would like to invite artists to submit artworks to be considered in their first zine, centered around the theme, Soma.

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The zine will focus on scanning not only as a means to convert a document or picture into digital form — but as a means to capture the essence of a transitory moment in a physical object, by tethering it to material form. 

In unearthing the scan of a brief moment in the later context of the present, or in the future, we attempt to extract its irredeemable significance to us. 

This act of excavation not only allows us to re-visit an intangible, past occurrence that is lost within a spatiotemporal context, but it enables us to re-write and re-narrate the past through the scan; an object that is rooted in its tangibility and perpetual presence in the now.

Through this flat, fixed portrayal in the nature of a scan, and through its renewed interpretations, we reach some conclusion through its physical existence. 

In the words of Shakespeare;
So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,
So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.

Deadline: 13 March 2021

For any questions regarding submission, please email us at submissions@rummancollective.org