Shadow Casters open call for the new edition of Wall Displays
(open to visual, new media and performance artists and researchers in Humanities)
ZA HRVATSKU VERZIJU PRITISNITE OVDJE!
(open to visual, new media and performance artists and researchers in Humanities)
ZA HRVATSKU VERZIJU PRITISNITE OVDJE!
Deadline: 10th of June 2013
Contact: bacaci.sjenki@gmail.com
Shadow Casters Wall Displays are equally addressed to random passers but also to the intentional readers: Wall Displays boxes are positioned in 8 location in the public space in the city of Zagreb.
This project is thematically focused on: the ephemerality of the everyday chain of events, micro and macro memory narratives linked to the area around the Wall Display boxes, transformation of the city, the questioning of the politics of remembrance, political acts and media presence in the public space.
Wall Displays are based upon docufictional approach to the listed thematic guidelines and they also develop hyper textual models of reading the city, alternative cartography, construction of the place of remembrance and tactics of constructing collectivity.
Wall Displays edition assumes integral author's concept within which every location out of 8 Wall Displays boxes is treated as a part of substantial whole.
This open call is open to visual and new media artists but also to researchers in Humanities (Ethnology, Sociology, Philosophy, Politology) as well as to interdisciplinary teams (Wall Display communicate equally through text and image). If the accepted proposition is based on the humanistic approach to the research of the city and candidate does not have background in design, the organisers will enable a collaboration with a designer.
This open call is also open to performance artist and the projects that rethink Wall Displays locations as a space for perfomative actions in the public sphere. In this case – Wall Displays edition is presented through the documentation of performed actions in the public space and are produced in collaboration with designer enabled by the organizers.
Application includes:
1. textual explanation of the concept and motivation (up to 1800 signs)
2. proposal sketches in jpg or pdf format
3. CV
4. Portfolio (optional)
Necessary documents (and further questions) should be sent by email until 10th of June 2013 to bacaci.sjenki@gmail.com and the email should be titled "Shadow Casters open call".
Wall Displays size: 100x70 cm
The authors of the selected projects will be contacted by 21th of June 2013. In case some of the selected authors are not based in Zagreb the conversation will be held via Skype.
The production of selected Wall Displays editions will be covered by Shadow Casters and all of the selected authors will be given honorarium.
Realisation plan for the selected edition is arranged individually with the Wall Displays project coordinator.
For authors living outside of Croatia/Zagreb it is possible to organise a preliminary fieldwork research lasting for a week. Organisers will cover accommodation expenses. For authors living outside of Zagreb Shadow Casters will cover part of travel expenses as well. During the period of finalisation of the project and the promotion of the edition, authors are obliged to be in Zagreb.
Wall Displays project coordinator: Bojan Mucko
Initial concept of Wall Displays project: Boris Bakal
Editors, authors and associates of previous Wall Displays editions: Barbara Blasin, Boris Bakal, Maja Blažek, Nikolina Butorac, Nikolas Defteros, Josip Horvat, Ana Janjatović Zorica, Maja Genc Kalogjera, Mihael Giba, Srećko Horvat, Dalibor Kiseljak, Iva Kovač, Maria Kyriakou, Bojan Mucko, Goran Novaković, Neven Petrović, Katarina Pejović, Tea Plepelić, Srećko Pulig, Željko Serdarević, Nives Sertić, Marita Stanić, Mare Šuljak, Vesna Vuković, Vanja Žanko.
