Open Call

Open Call: Third Space Is a Verb

The Li Tang Gallery is currently accepting submissions for an online group show – Third Space Is a Verb.

Diaspora is often understood as a condition of in-betweenness, a space located between cultures, geographies, and identities. This exhibition’s open call challenges that assumption. It proposes that identity is not a fixed position, but an active process that is constantly constructed, negotiated, and performed through everyday gestures, language, memory, and material practices.

Here, the third space operates as a condition in which artists become active producers of new cultural identities. Hybridity becomes a method, not a label. Belonging is sculpted rather than inherited. This open call invites artists from across the world who approach identity as something always in flux, moving, shifting, and responding.

We are interested in works that move beyond representation and instead function as sites of making, through experimentation, resistance, translation, and transformation, where identity is not described as a condition, but enacted.

Deadline  July 15, 2026