ELIA Biennial 2026 Is Calling You to Go Off Centre!

The Call for Contributions is now open for ELIA Biennial Conference 2026: Going Off Centre! The upcoming Biennial will take place from 18 – 21 November 2026 in Zwolle, Netherlands, hosted by ArtEZ University of the Arts.

We call on artistic practitioners, performers, philosophers, researchers, educators, students, pedagogues, admin staff, technicians, leaders and makers to ‘go off centre’.

We invite you to explore what forms of knowledge, practice, art and paradoxes emerge when we decentre dominant narratives, disrupt habitual hierarchies, and shift our attention toward the marginal, the local, the peripheral.

Seeking forms of Community, Counterculture, Courage, and Criticality, we look to you for alternative methodologies and modalities, moments of failure and resistance, that move us towards new possibilities of a shared becoming as a body of knowing. We welcome a wide variety of formats, including academic papers, artistic and performative interventions, creative poster presentations, experiments, and workshops.


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Deadline: 16 January 2026

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For any questions, feel free to reach out to ELIA Conference Manager Janja Škerget at janja.skerget@elia-artschools.org.