Image: Azahara Cerezo, Futurabilities, 2020, online action
OPEN CALL FOR ONLINE ARTISTIC INTERVENTIONS
DEADLINE: 24 OCTOBER 2021
PRESENTATION: 19-20 NOVEMBER 2021
Freiraum Festival invites young, emerging and established artists from around the world to contribute to the overall discussion on and to the exploration of new formats, with short, standalone works -video, sound, performance or other experimental formats- that will be presented as part of the online Summit.
ABOUT THE FREIRAUM FESTIVAL & SUMMIT
The Freiraum Festival & Summit is a collaborative event taking place simultaneously in the physical and digital worlds. Μore than 20 institutions around Europe join forces to explore, reflect and react to the recent global crisis, that has accelerated and uncovered the urgency of the challenges of our time.
In the Freiraum Festival, Freiraum Platform's thematic focus on the freedom and democracy in Europe today is seen through the systemic challenges that have been accelerated during the coronavirus pandemic: the informational and post-political crisis of democracy; social movements and emerging solidarities; and art in the new digital public sphere.
The Freiraum Festival programme is built on the intersection of the physical and the digital worlds, which are now, more than ever before, constituting our new public sphere. The festival format itself is an attempt to explore the tension and the emerging possibilities in-between the online and the offline. To that end, the live-stream will combine a mobile live-editing studio, a teleconference platform, and live connections from various locations. Spread around Europe, Freiraum member institutions organise local events addressing issues particular to their physical localities and audiences, while they also engage with global audiences in the 3-days online summit -a decentralised, live-streamed programme of talks, discussions and artistic interventions. There, they discuss critical issues connected to current circumstances, together with established thinkers from different disciplines, raising issues on the performative and the political, social movements, digital politics, algorithmic transparency, invisible infrastructures, politics of bodies and emotions, commons, feminism, digitisation, remediation and the new digital public sphere.
In the Freiraum Festival, Freiraum Platform's thematic focus on the freedom and democracy in Europe today is seen through the systemic challenges that have been accelerated during the coronavirus pandemic: the informational and post-political crisis of democracy; social movements and emerging solidarities; and art in the new digital public sphere.
The Freiraum Festival programme is built on the intersection of the physical and the digital worlds, which are now, more than ever before, constituting our new public sphere. The festival format itself is an attempt to explore the tension and the emerging possibilities in-between the online and the offline. To that end, the live-stream will combine a mobile live-editing studio, a teleconference platform, and live connections from various locations. Spread around Europe, Freiraum member institutions organise local events addressing issues particular to their physical localities and audiences, while they also engage with global audiences in the 3-days online summit -a decentralised, live-streamed programme of talks, discussions and artistic interventions. There, they discuss critical issues connected to current circumstances, together with established thinkers from different disciplines, raising issues on the performative and the political, social movements, digital politics, algorithmic transparency, invisible infrastructures, politics of bodies and emotions, commons, feminism, digitisation, remediation and the new digital public sphere.
IN THIS FRAMEWORK, THE WORKS SHOULD |
ART WORKS SPECIFICATIONS |
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- engage with the summit themes as mentioned above;
- be live or recorded; - take into account that they will be presented and experienced online on possibly multiple devices (computer screens, tablets, smartphones); - interact, if possible, with the online audience, that will be participating through zoom. Also: - Performative interventions may take into account that Freiraum members/partners can participate/contribute as participants in the performance. - Overall, artists are encouraged to experiment with mediums and formats. |
Duration: 1- 3 mins maximum
Suggested mediums: video, sound, performance or other - artists are encouraged to experiment with mediums and formats. Fee: the selected works will receive an honorarium of 150 euros. Production and technical support: the organisation will make efforts to assist the artists with technical aspects of their production. Minimum production costs may be covered, after discussion with the individual artists - however this is not guaranteed. Deadline for proposals: October 24 Submission: please use the form below Selection: by the Freiraum Curatorial Committee by October 29 Deadline for the final work - in case proposal is selected: 12 November |
