Expanding Horizons Fund

For creators who break the brain, bend the rules, and leave us stuck on loop wondering, “WTF did I just experience?”

The Expanding Horizons Fund backs bold creators making the unthinkable real. This is for the rule-breakers, the absurdists, the subversive provocateurs expanding the limits of what creativity can be. We’re funding mindbending, visceral, and revolutionary projects that shatter expectations and burrow deep into your psyche - because the future doesn't come politely.

Eligibility

24th June 2026 UPDATE:
Image poster with new rules: https://t.me/planetarycouncil/1748
Approval requires a minimum of 🦩🦩🦩 three flamingos.
Qualifying flamingos include:
🦩 irony
🦩 satire
🦩 cynicism
🦩 absurdification
🦩 surrealism
🦩 mind blown
🦩 reality structure questioned
🦩 never seen before
🦩 should not make sense, but somehow does
🦩 it feels illegal
18th January 2026 UPDATE:
I'm not a gatekeeper.
I'm open for business.
I'm accepting your project under these trust based principles.
(I self identify myself as a hacker - breaking rules for fun and profit - I also believe in morality, trust, ethics - these rules are trust karma vibes based)
REQUIREMENT 1: Get inspired by the spirit of this fund. WOW mindblowing impact. Go beyond, off the charts
REQUIREMENT 2: Spread the word. Expand. Grow. Invite at least 1 of your favourite artists. And / or a friend. And / or someone who should know about it. Good opportunity to reconnect with old and / or make new friends.
REQUIREMENT 3: Mutual marketing support. At least 1 social media shoutout, something like "my project is on Artizen, including the WOW category".
You can even say it's run by Mars / Marsita who has music project: https://artizen.fund/index/p/marsita-the-ultra---memories-from-base-reality
Who is representing Labour Union of Higherdimensional Shapeshifters: https://artizen.fund/index/p/labour-union-of-higher-dimensional-shapeshifters
(you see, example of cross marketing and mutual support)
The spirit of the initial version remains valid:
We fund projects that delight in the surreal, the subversive, and the wildly unpredictable. If your work challenges the status quo, disorients the audience, or sparks a scandalous kind of awe, you're in the right place.
To qualify for this fund, projects must meet the following eligibility requirements:
- Must be original, experimental, and mentally destabilizing in the best way possible.
- Must evoke a strong “WTF?” reaction - stick in people's heads, rent-free.
- Must challenge conventional norms without crossing lines of harm or consent.
- No violence, no coercion, no bad karma. Burn and blow things up only with care.
- Must be legal or at least “punishable by a fine means legal for a price.”
- Use of shock, satire, performance, and spectacle is encouraged - bring the weird.
- Medium is open: performance art, installations, media hacks, guerrilla theater, and more.

Projects (78)

49 submitted · 24 funded · 5 curated

Project	Status	Raised
😌 Being-Verse | a Meta-Death 💀	funded	$19,591
Remembering to Forget	funded	$9,097
Gaia Sound Temple	funded	$5,056
W8W Creative Hub	funded	$86
FutureZoo	funded	$215,046
subcult	funded	$145,111
Mango Magic Movement	funded	$28,679
Solar clean water	funded	$765
Feynman WTF	funded	$123,572
International Artists Project	funded	$462
FREERIDERS	funded	$12,909
A New Musical Traumedy: BEHIND THE MASK	funded	$19,558
NAIA GO	funded	$5,557
Marsita the Ultra — Memories from Base Reality	funded	$500
Voices of the Land	funded	$19,991
The River Project	funded	$10
Labour Union of Higherdimensional Shapeshifters	funded	$360
The Dreams That Stuff Is Made Of	funded	$10
Dreamscaping Territories	funded	$7
Wild Voices: Conversations with AR animals	funded	$42,361
ENTERTAINMENT EVOLVED	funded	$30
The Gathering Portugal 2026	funded	$10
Cinemetropolis	funded	$0
Little Ugly	funded	$0
TUNER	curated	$87,139
CL-057 Inner Alchemy	curated	$5,569
Gut Instinct	curated	$19,590
The Muse	curated	$213
Hearse	curated	$2,261
Rhymes with the Times	submitted	$210
iContact, the tactile tech opera	submitted	$28,657
The Music Onboarding Machine	submitted	$13,499
DeSci Asia	submitted	$796
folk.gg - this machine kills copyright	submitted	$23,036
Re:IMAGINED	submitted	$1,215
Capitol Film Fest	submitted	$210
HOPE	submitted	$20,814
Women in climate change	submitted	$205
Neurodevelop: Neuromodulation for everyone	submitted	$1,790
🔮 The Oracle: The Earth's Guardian 🌱	submitted	$6,710
CL-072	submitted	$1,882
CALMA sound bank	submitted	$1,293
Butterfly ཐི༏ཋྀ󠀮 Effect	submitted	$2
PROOF OF EXISTENCE 2026	submitted	$0
30-Hour-Workweek System	submitted	$0
NextChain IRL Campus Education	submitted	$70
Live or Die	submitted	$0
TEENTOK - Future unlocked	submitted	$9,731
Akuya	submitted	$234
Dark Rooms – Immersive Experience	submitted	$0
The Eyes of Argus	submitted	$10
Piti Bonhomme Godron	submitted	$0
Ear of Dionysus: Listening as a Frontier Technology	submitted	$0
Decimate: A Virtual Landscape	submitted	$0
Abductive Pathways	submitted	$23,899
The Dream Seed	submitted	$10,762
MoneyFromTheFuture.com	submitted	$467
Rise Of The Witches	submitted	$153
Tune In Show	submitted	$269,534
Libp2p: The Internet Without Gatekeepers	submitted	$60
SITIO-FLORESTA-ESCOLA	submitted	$29,340
La Maison Passerelle, an Earth based Cultural Research and Invention Center	submitted	$258,788
UNI - Universal Language	submitted	$0
DeSci Onboarding Hub	submitted	$0
Building Bridges: An Inspirational Community for Collective Liberation	submitted	$10,133
CL-074	submitted	$32,443
Beyond Money	submitted	$170
heaven on earth	submitted	$0
Crystal Sovereigns	submitted	$3,381
seks	submitted	$454
The International Artists Project Documentary	submitted	$563
Mystic Escape: Next Generation of Dance Music	submitted	$1,642
Manure 2 Gold	submitted	$2,097
Altered Frequencies	submitted	$1,352
Voices of my Community: Anthology Project	submitted	$0
Singles Night At The Cold War Museum	submitted	$8,106
Hands of Hope Foundation	submitted	$0
Edge of Reality Stories	submitted	$2,542