Open Call for Contributions | Exhibition Library

Overview

Opening in Spring 2027, the Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality will present 'Breathing with An Other,' an exhibition featuring artworks by Simone Leigh, Chitra Ganesh, Rebecca Belmore, and Cassils that explore embodiment, interdependence, and the many ways we come into relation with one another. As part of this exhibition, the Exhibition Library brings together a growing collection of artworks, publications, archival materials, ephemera, writing, and other contributions that invite us to think across histories, communities, and forms of knowledge.

The Exhibition Library

Located within the exhibition space, the Library will gather writing and creative responses developed in conversation with the exhibition’s themes and artists. Extending the exhibition beyond the gallery, the Library will serve as a site of collective study, reflection, and exchange—bringing together different forms of research, storytelling, and knowledge production. Rather than a static archive, it will remain an evolving space for encountering, sharing, and building knowledge together. The Exhibition Library approaches the gallery as a living site of inquiry, inviting visitors and contributors to encounter, add to, and transform the materials gathered within it. Through their contributions, participants are invited to “breathe with an other”: to enter into relation with different forms of knowledge, experience, and creative practice, and to consider breath as a practice of exchange, care, and collective meaning-making.

Eligibility

The Exhibition Library welcomes contributions from undergraduate and graduate students, faculty, artists, community members, and writers across disciplines and backgrounds.

Key Dates

• Submission deadline: 2027-01-29
• Exhibition opens: Spring 2027

Submissions

We invite submissions in a variety of forms, including but not limited to: critical essays and research-based writing, theoretical and reflective essays, reading.