Squish Movie Camp

DOUBLE OPEN CALL!

1) Blurry Boundaries - September 2026 - Time is The New Space (Rotterdam)
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.

2) Lace stories - 2026 - Rotterdam (date and location to be defined)
This film screening will be part of an exhibition focusing on wedding symbolism and rituals, understood as cultural scripts, choreographies, and systems of meaning. The interpretation of the theme is intentionally open, inviting poetic, critical, humorous, or speculative responses. The project engages with questions of labor, tradition, gender roles, self representation, and the deconstruction and reappropriation of normative rituals.