Museums 2026 – Call for Submissions for Afterlives (Issue #11)

What does it mean to be alive? To be dead? To exist in a state beyond?

An afterlife can be a refusal, it can be the archive’s inability to forget, the museum’s struggle to unmake itself, the artifact that resists its own display. An afterlife can be a haunting, a presence that insists, a structure that lingers past its collapse. An afterlife can be a release, an object freed from the logic that once defined it, a collection finding life in new hands, a museum breaking apart to make space for something unimagined.

Submission Deadline: January 5, 2026, 11:59 PM (CST)

Submission Link: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdjlnJZYMnaMP7GCEKtt-Y5U7B654xSBF4ASmT84AwUvlwtzw/viewform?pli=1