Our world is falling apart quietly. Human civilisation has reduced the plant, a four-million-year-old life form, into three things: food, medicine, and wood. In our relentless and ever-intensifying obsession with obtaining a higher volume, potency, and variety of these three things, we have devastated plant ecology to an extent that millions of years of natural disaster could not. Hope Jahren, Lab Girl
Charlotte Squire, The Old Gods & the New (2024); photo: Miyuki Kasahara
CAMP members are invited to submit work in response to this call out and brief. Works will be selected based on criteria, including the response to the brief and the overall coherence of the exhibition. The exhibition will take place in the exhibition space at the Levinsky Building, University of Plymouth in October 2026.
The curatorial team are looking for works that respond to the brief and welcome submissions in all media including moving image, photography, print, sculpture, painting, text based work or performance. See the contextual and thematic material on the web page (link below). We are happy for you to submit new or existing work. If you propose unrealised work, please give as much detail as possible on the application form.
Submission deadline: midnight 12th August 2026
Full exhibition call out, contextual materials, details of How to Apply, and link to the Application Form, and Equality and Diversity Monitoring Form can be found here:
https://www.camp-membership.org/before-after-fragments-of-origin/