The Forgotten In-Between: Collection 5
There are many ways to imagine it, to perceive it in our day-to-day, or even to feel it in our very being: living life in the hyphen, tales of Persephone or Charon, physical places, story and memory, and the transitional metaphysics of space, time, and imagination. Liminal spaces are all around us, a part of us, and we pass through them regularly, but lest we stop and think about them, they are often forgotten or deliberately ignored: the forgotten in-between. In our fifth call for submissions, we propose taking the time to slow down, to pause in limbo and consider these transitory places and phases of our human experience, to explore the very state that takes us from where we were to where we are going.
Physical Locations
  • Bridges
  • Stairways
  • Airport lobbies
  • Doorways
  • Hallways
  • Queues and lines
  • Emergency shelters & transitional housing
Lifecycle Transitions
  • Change in career
  • Being engaged
  • Getting divorced
  • The teenage experience
  • Liminal love
  • Preliminal rites (or rites of separation)
  • Liminal rites (or transition rites)
  • Postliminal rites (or rites of incorporation) 
Rites of Passage
  • Graduation
  • Wedding
  • Retirement
  • Dokimasia
  • Religious rites of passage: 
    • Baptism, Bar and Bat Mitzvah, Confirmation, Hajj, Sanskara, etc.
Transformation 
  • Pregnancy
  • Mental health 
  • Doctor patient relationships 
  • Chronic or terminal illness
  • Grief 
  • Psychological liminality - new ideas, self growth, new perspectives 
Metaphorical & Metaphysical
  • Eternal cycles of nature: death and rebirth
  • Creativity as the liminal space between imagination and creation
  • Cultural liminal spaces (emigration, immigration, mixed-race heritage, etc.)
  • The space between the storyteller and the audience
  • Reading fantasy (leaving our world to jump into another)
  • Ghosts - “repositories for lost souls”
  • Changing planes
  • Liminal fantasies
Deadline : March 1st, 2025
To submit your work for consideration in this fifth collection, we require a digital copy of the work as well as an artist's statement be sent to [email protected]. The artist's statement should describe the relationship between the submission and the topic selected for this collection. We invite contributions from all artists, but once a submission period closes, a selection of submissions will be made by a panel of cross-disciplinary artists.  The chosen pieces will be featured in Co-Ex's online art gallery.
 
Collaboration is strongly encouraged but not required. Work from all creative mediums is welcome: sculpture, painting, drawing, performative arts, music, written work, textile arts, ceramics, mixed media, prints, digital art, short films, and most anything else you can imagine.
 
If you have an idea for a project but need help making it happen or want to collaborate but do not have a collaborator, feel free to reach out--maybe we can help! To encourage collaboration, we have included a contact form below. Drop us a line if you're hoping to collaborate with someone, and we will try to connect artists with one another.