In September 2026, Kapish will host, at Time is the new space, a month long program exploring the blurry boundaries between sex work, gendered labor, care, and artistic practice. This program aims to be political, sassy, joyful, and emancipatory, welcoming complexity, contradiction, humor, tenderness, rage, camp, and pleasure.
The intent comes from long term artistic and political research around sex work as labor, intimacy as work, and the ways certain bodies are historically expected to care, please, perform, serve, or endure. We approach sex work with a broad lens, including its overlaps with domestic work, emotional labor, service work, and artistic labor.
We are looking for artists whose practices move within these porous zones. Artists who represent sex work, care, or gendered labor. Artists who work from lived experience. Artists who question value, visibility, intimacy, desire, autonomy, and joy. Interpretation of the theme is intentionally open.
All formats are welcome. The project is structured around an exhibition, one or more performance nights, a workshop day, and a film screening.
Practical information:
Location: Time is the new space, Rotterdam
Dates: full month of September 2026
This is a paid opportunity. We will apply for funding as soon as the curation is made and share income from ticket sales.
Priority will be given to artists based in or near Rotterdam, but applications from other locations are welcome.
How to apply:
Send an email to squish.aubane@gmail.com titled “Application Blurry boundaries Your name” before the 1st of March 2026.
Your email must include:
1) A single PDF with:
• a general artistic statement or bio written in the third person, 500 to 800 characters (no CV or list of exhibitions and grants)
• your interpretation of the theme, 400 to 900 characters
• a project or artwork proposal, 500 to 900 characters
• whether you consider or have considered yourself a sex worker
• the city where you are currently based
• your name and artist name if different
• a link to your website or professional social media page
2) 3 to 5 jpeg or jpg images or mp4 videos related to your proposal
3) 3 to 5 jpeg images or mp4 videos of other artworks
Incomplete applications or applications not following the required format will be ignored.
We will contact you with the results by the end of March 2026.