Category: Open Call

OPEN CALL for DEEP TRASH ITALIA#4 Carnivalism

Posted on December 15, 2014 by - Club Night, Open Call, Performance

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DEADLINE WED24DEC 2014
at Bethnal Green Working Men’s Club, London (Saturday 31 January 2015)

CUNTemporary is now accepting proposals for the fourth episode of the unique exhibition and performance club night “Deep Trash Italia”, recently nominated Live Art Associate UK by the Live Art Development Agency.

Calling for performances, performative lectures, dance, videos and interactive artworks to be shown on Saturday 31 January 2015. “DEEP TRASH ITALIA#4 Carnivalism” will take place at the East London venue Bethnal Green Working Men’s Club in support of Archivio Queer Italia – the first Italian platform for queer art, theory and activism.

We accept proposals by artists of any artistic background and nationality. We are also keen to hear from writers responding to the call either in a written form (theory, auto/biography, poetry or fiction) or through a performative lecture. A collection of texts from this and all other Deep Trash Italia exhibition/club nights will be published in 2015.

Coinciding with the start of the Carnival in Venice, this event’s themes may include, respond to, be affected by, but not restricted to:

  • Feminist reflections on “womanliness as masquerade”
  • How masquerade generates non-binary ideas of gender and sexuality
  • Carnivalism and the disruption of power structures
  • Sonic anarchies: mash-ups and appropriations as critique of neo-liberal culture
  • Subversive drag and anti-drag queens
  • Dissident travesties: strategies for subverting normative discourses
  • Neopaganism and creative synthesis in artistic practices
  • Reconsidering the sacred and the profane in contemporary artwork
  • Carnivalistic misalliances: working through contradictions and paradoxes
  • Non-sense and chaos as carnivalesque strategy

To apply please email Giulia Casalini at info@archivioqueeritalia.com with the heading “DEEP TRASH APPLICATION” and include the following information:

1)      Name and surname
2)      Place of birth (city and country)
3)      Place of residency (city and country)
4)      A written proposal (no more than 500 words) and, if available, images of the work
5)      Website of the artist/collective or portfolio
6)      Up to 5 high res images with credits (for press use)
We will aim to respond to all applications as soon as possible. Selected artists will be notified by Sunday, 28 December 2014. Deadline is Wednesday, 24 December 2014.

About Archivio Queer Italia
The Archivio Queer Italia (AQI) project was founded by Giulia Casalini (co-director of CUNTemporary) with the support of CUNTemporary in London. AQI is the first Italian platform for queer art, theory and activism. The two strands of this project consist of:

  1. The incorporation of a database to create a virtual archive of artistic, theoretical and activist expressions related to Italy.
  2. Creating spaces and mobile events for the display of such activities (e.g. art fairs, museums, institutions, street interventions).

Parallel to these activities AQI regularly publishes news on queer and feminist issues and lists events and activities taking place in Italy. AQI also organises “Teoremi”, a bi-annual itinerant performance festival against sexual and gender discriminations in Italy.

Contact information
info@archivioqueeritalia.com
www.archivioqueeritalia.com/
FB EVENT https://www.facebook.com/events/901230889911583/

Bollettino Archivio Queer Italia – 4 Ottobre 2014

Posted on October 4, 2014 by - Annunci importanti, Bollettino Archivio Queer Italia, Online Project Space, Open Call

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Archivio Queer Italia Bollettino 4 Ottobre 2014

OPEN CALL for “DEEP TRASH ITALIA is NOT FOR SALE”

Posted on October 2, 2014 by - Annunci importanti, Club Night, Fundraising, Mostra, Open Call, Performance

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DEADLINE SAT18OCT 2014

OPEN CALL FOR ARTISTS & WRITERS fundraiser night “DEEP TRASH ITALIA#3 is… NOT FOR SALE” at Bethnal Green Working Men’s Club, London (Saturday 29 November 2014)

CUNTemporary is now accepting proposals for the third episode of the unique exhibition and performance club night “Deep Trash Italia”: calling for performances, performative lectures, dance, videos and interactive artworks to be shown on Saturday 29 November 2014. “DEEP TRASH ITALIA is… NOT FOR SALE” will take place at the East London venue Bethnal Green Working Men’s Club in support of Archivio Queer Italia – the first Italian platform for queer art, theory and activism.

We accept proposals by artists of any artistic background and nationality. We are also keen to hear from writers responding to the call either in a written form (theory, auto/biography, poetry or fiction) or through a performative lecture. A collection of texts from this and all other Deep Trash Italia exhibition/club nights will be published in 2015.

This event’s themes are connected to capitalism and the value of money, commerce and production in society. Proposals may include, respond to, be affected by, but not restricted to:

  • Queer-feminist anarchism
  • Queer failures, alternatives to the dominant ideas of success, dethroning the serious
  • Art and post-fordism: branding, market and globalized art
  • Art and the commons: activism and socially engaged practices
  • Objects and the poetics of consumption
  • Non-capitalism and community-based economies
  • Zombies of capitalism: loss of identity and physical slavery
  • Invisibility and working conditions in capitalist societies
  • The socioeconomic implications of affective labour
  • Precarity, unpaid labour and the economic crisis
  • Controversial relations in colonial exploitations
  • The impact of advanced capitalism and biogenetic technologies on humans and environment
  • Pleasure and its discontents: disrupting the neoliberal body
  • (Homo)sexual consumption and technology
  • Can sex work or pornography resist the production-consumption chain?
  • No future: queer perspectives on family and (re)production
  • Subversive motherhoods
  • Mainstreaming subcultures and queer practices

To apply please email Giulia Casalini at info@archivioqueeritalia.com with the heading “DEEP TRASH APPLICATION” and include the following information:

1)      Name and surname

2)      Place of birth (city and country)

3)      Place of residency (city and country)

4)      A written proposal (no more than 500 words) and, if available, images of the work

5)      Website of the artist/collective or portfolio

We will aim to respond to all applications as soon as possible. Selected artists will be notified by Friday, 24 October. Deadline is Saturday, 18 October 2014.

About Archivio Queer Italia

The Archivio Queer Italia (AQI) project was founded by Giulia Casalini (co-director of CUNTemporary) with the support of CUNTemporary in London. AQI is the first Italian platform for queer art, theory and activism. The two strands of this project consist of:

  1. The incorporation of a database to create a virtual archive of artistic, theoretical and activist expressions related to Italy.
  2. Creating spaces and mobile events for the display of such activities (e.g. art fairs, museums, institutions, street interventions).

Parallel to these activities AQI regularly publishes news on queer and feminist issues and lists events and activities taking place in Italy. AQI also organises “Teoremi”, a bi-annual itinerant performance festival against sexual and gender discriminations in Italy.

Contact information info@archivioqueeritalia.com | www.archivioqueeritalia.com/

FB event https://www.facebook.com/events/1543609005872040

OPEN CALL for DEEP TRASH ITALIA Eurosex Edition

Posted on June 26, 2014 by - Annunci importanti, Club Night, Fundraising, Open Call, Performance

DEEP TRASH ITALIA EUROSEX EDITION

DEADLINE FRI11JUL 2014

OPEN CALL FOR ARTISTS: fundraiser night “DEEP TRASH ITALIA: Eurosex Edition” at Bethnal Green Working Men’s Club, London (Saturday 30 August 2014)

Due to the great demand that followed the first exhibition-club night “Deep Trash Italia”, CUNTemporary is now accepting new proposals for the second episode of this unique event: calling for performances, dance, videos and interactive artworks to be shown on Saturday 30 August 2014. “DEEP TRASH ITALIA: Eurosex Edition” will take place at the East London venue Bethnal Green Working Men’s Club in support of Archivio Queer Italia – the first Italian platform on queer art, theory and activism.

We accept proposals by artists of any artistic background and nationality. Themes may include, but are not restricted to:

  • the impact of TV & pop culture on sexuality
  • the sexual politics of “canzonetta” (pop song)
  • the influence of gossip on general knowledge
  • the agency of kitsch, camp and humour on culture and aesthetics
  • how pastiche challenges normativity, essentialism and originality
  • fashioning sexualities
  • feminism and the soft-porn generation
  • the influence of ethnocentrism on gender and heteronormativity
  • critique of nationalisms and their construction through the media
  • translating (or failing to interpret) cultural differences

To apply please email Giulia Casalini at info@archivioqueeritalia.com with the heading “DEEP TRASH APPLICATION” and including the following information:

1)   Name and surname

2)   Place of birth (city and country)

3)   Place of residency (city and country)

4)   A written proposal (no more than 500 words) and, if available, images of the work

5)   Website of the artist/collective or portfolio

We aim to respond to all applications as soon as possible. Selected artists will be notified by 15 July. Deadline is Friday, 11 July 2014.

 

About Archivio Queer Italia

The Archivio Queer Italia (AQI) project was founded by Giulia Casalini (co-director of CUNTemporary) with the support of CUNTemporary in London. AQI is the first Italian platform for queer art, theory and activism. The two strands of this project consist of:

1. The incorporation of a database to create a virtual archive of artistic, theoretical and activist expressions related to Italy.

2. Creating spaces and mobile events for the display of such activities (e.g. art fairs, museums, institutions, street interventions).

Parallel to these activities AQI regularly publishes news on queer and feminist issues and lists events and activities taking place in Italy. AQI also organises “Teoremi”, a bi-annual itinerant performance festival against sexual and gender discriminations in Italy.

Contact information  info@archivioqueeritalia.com | www.archivioqueeritalia.com/

FB event   http://www.facebook.com/events/640490796043965/640509659375412/

OPEN CALL per DEEP TRASH ITALIA

Posted on March 9, 2014 by - Annunci importanti, Open Call

Deep Trash Italia

DEADLINE FRI28MAR 2014

OPEN CALL for CUNTEMPORARY and ARCHIVIO QUEER ITALIA fundraiser night “DEEP TRASH ITALIA” at Bethnal Green working Men’s Club, London (Friday 2 May 2014)

Call for performances, video, artworks and other acts for the fundraiser club night “Deep Trash Italia”, in support of Archivio Queer Italia – a sister organization of CUNTemporary (London), the first Italian platform on queer art, theory and activism. This unprecedented event will take over the epic East London venue Bethnal Green Working Men’s Club on 2nd May 2014. Curated by Giulia Casalini.

The funds raised for this event will support Teoremi Performance Festival, 12-14 June 2014 (the first Italian festival against discrimination of sexual orientation and gender identity) organized by Archivio Queer Italia.

We accept proposals from Italian and non-Italian artists who want to show works around the theme of “Italianness”. Themes include, but are not restricted to: socio-cultural commentary, questions of identity, queer affects, critiques of nationalism, transgender, gender, homosexuality, pornography, minorities and marginalisation, critique of Catholicism, fetishism, racism, violence and the body.

To apply for the event please email Giulia Casalini at info@archivioqueeritalia.com including the following details:

1)    Name and Surname

2)    Place of birth (City and Country)

3)    Place of residency (City and Country)

4)    A written brief proposal (no more than 500 words) and, if available, images of the work

5)    Website of the artist or portfolio

We aim to respond to all applications as soon as possible. Selected artists will be notified by 30 March. Deadline is Friday 28 March 2014.