minor movements open call ^27.11.25

"the weak...are usually strong in numbers, their agency being far from heroic, their ethical qualities are precariously unbalanced and hybrid, their gender – a trouble, and their origins – unholy."
— Ewa Majewska

Art historian Carla Macchiavello has noted how "strong myths"—particularly narratives of heroic resistance—can obliterate other histories and possibilities in art history. Ewa Majewska's concept of "weak resistance" offers a perspective that values practices oriented toward survival rather than victory, that operates through persistence rather than force, and that begins not with triumphant claims but with small gestures.

These are the histories and practices we want to bring into focus: those that don't fit into tidy narratives of transformation, that don't respond to perpetual urgency or dramatic change as the only legible forms of resistance or history. "Risky practices, of a deeply ambivalent character" (Majewska) and that which becomes possible when we attend to what is immediately at hand rather than focusing on horizons of spectacular change.

~^The Call

Mundos habitables seeks essays, visual essays, archival materials, manuals, and other experimental forms related to minor movements.

We invite artists, curators, researchers, community practitioners, and collectives to respond to such questions as:

- What are the weak histories, weak resistances, micro-gestures, or microbial entanglements that constitute your practice, or that you recognize as part of its inheritance?

- What are the micro-gestures of care, the everyday adjustments, the maintenance and repair that sustain your practice but rarely appear in institutional narratives?

- How might ecological processes—seasonal changes, migration patterns, lunar phases—offer models of non-heroic temporalities for documenting cultural work?

We welcome proposals that experiment with form, embrace the non-methodical, the speculative, and that make visible the ongoing work of accompaniment that sustains our practices.

~^Publication

Three projects will be selected for development, publication, and presentation in 2026. Selected projects will receive editorial support, translation into Spanish, and presentation at sala de lectura (in Lima or online).

Each work will be published as a limited-edition fanzine (100 copies)—a format that honors the DIY, ephemeral, and anti-institutional circulation practices aligned with minor movements. Contributors will receive 25 copies to sell or give away; the remaining 75 copies will stay with sala de lectura in Lima for sale and distribution.

~^How to Participate

Send to saladelecturalima@gmail.com:

Proposal of maximum 300 words

Brief bio or description of your practice (whatever you consider relevant)

Up to 5 images, if relevant

Final works can be up to 5000 words. Proposals accepted in Spanish or English.

Deadline: December 14, 2025