Open Call: Feel Before Meaning

NotYetArt (NYA) & Black Brick Project are pleased to present the open call for “Feel Before Meaning,” a public exhibition to be held at Black Brick Project gallery for one week in August. The exhibition focuses on painting, sculpture, projection installation, new media art, and multidimensional forms of artistic practice.

Taking Susan Sontag’s critique of “over-interpretation” in Against Interpretation as its point of departure, the exhibition invites viewers to temporarily suspend the pursuit of meaning and return instead to the sensory, formal, and bodily experiences that artworks evoke.

Feel Before Meaning does not reject meaning. Rather, it attends to the moment before meaning takes shape: how light, sound, material, space, atmosphere, and emotion act upon us before language does.

This open call welcomes works that establish a perceptual relationship with viewers through form, material, sound, light, space, the body, or atmosphere. Artists working across all media and forms are encouraged to apply.