AMP: Artists' Meeting Place and Resource Collective

from Franklin Furnace

Dear Artists,

SoMad invites your submissions for the fourth annual Mad World, an event and exhibition of experimental film, fine art, and performance exploring ecological crises through an intersectional environmentalist lens, opening on April 18, 2026.

This year’s theme understands environmental collapse not as a distant abstract condition, but as something shaped by systems of power: colonialism, borders, racial capitalism, and extractive industry. We are interested to see your work that considers how land, bodies, and movement are governed, and how other ways of knowing and caring could reconfigure our relationship to the earth and to one another.

Our theme has been informed by intersectional environmentalism, a framework established by Leah Thomas, and rooted in the intellectual and political work of Black feminist scholars and organizers, including the Combahee River Collective and Kimberle Crenshaw’s theory of intersectionality. This lineage understands social justice and environmental justice as inseparable struggles, and insists that ecological harm must be read through overlapping systems of race, gender, class and colonial power.

We are drawn to practices that foreground Indigenous, diasporic, queer, and culturally inherited knowledge systems, not as symbolic references, but as living tools for survival, relation, and networks of care.

Link to submit: https://linktr.ee/somad.nyc?lt_utm_source=lt_share_link#539764476