Call for visual, new media and performance artists for X Platform residency #2 @WASP, Bucharest
Open Call for visual, performance and
new media artists for the artist residency program
X Platform #2
Open Call for visual and new media artists – X Platform #2 Application period: July 9 – August 10, 2015 Deadline: Monday, August 10, 2015 for international applicants Wednesday, August 5, 2015 for national applicants Accepted applicants will be contacted throughout August 11 – 15, 2015. Residency and production period: August 24 – 27, 2015 for international applicants August 10 - 27, 2015 for national applicants X Platform exhibition week: August 28 – September 5, 2015 ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬
Preparatory to the 10th edition of the eXplore dance festival — Bucharest International Contemporary Dance and Performance Festival, Romania's main dance and performance event, 4Culture Association in co-production with Tangaj Dance, WASP – Working Art Space and Production and Life Long Burning kick start the second edition of X Platform — a residency program dedicated to the new generation of visual artists across Europe that supports the research and the production of interactive, new and trans-media projects.
This year, the platform is centered on the concept ”corporeality and limitation”, having Olivia Nitiș and Ciprian Ciuclea as curators. [more]
The works submitted should be in an advanced phase of the working process. The artists or the groups who initiated them will benefit of residencies at WASP – Working Art Space and Production for finishing and/or presenting them in premiere. We are looking for works in the field of interactive and participatory installations which put into question the relation between body and limits. We are searching for video, sound and concept environment installations in which the body is capable of generating another type of experience but also installations in which the body can be immersed in a disruptive reality/experience. The call is also open for performance art. The project will materialize during August 28 – September 5 in a group exhibition of the resident artists. The first edition of X Platform took place in 2014 and offered residencies for 12 young artists from Bucharest, Timisoara, Amsterdam and London with different backgrounds from architecture to painting, performance or computer based art. The artists had one month to explore and develop individual or collective installations at WASP – Working Art Space and Production, coordinated by Marilena Preda-Sânc, Ciprian Ciuclea, Jan Eugen and Cosmina Chituc. The exhibition for X Platform 2014 was curated by Olivia Nițis and took place in the period of September 14 – 20, 2014.
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The application should contain: ✓ application form completed and signed http://tinyurl.com/p5dmn63 ✓ CV (mandatory) and portfolio (selection of projects – maximum 5 pages pdf) ✓ other attachments relevant for the application – maximum 5 pages pdf (detailed description of the project, photographies, documentations, drawings etc.). * You can also send video and sound materials in the limit of one sample in DVD video, mp3 or mp4 format – maximum 2 minutes. Materials should be sent via wetransfer, myairbridge or dropbox. All the documents have to be sent by e-mail until August 10th, 2015 to contact@waspmagazine.com with tangajdance@gmail.com in CC, with the subject X Platform#2 Application. Click [here] for additional guidelines and requirements. ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ X Platform is a cultural program in co-production between 4Culture, WASP — Working Art Space & Production, Tangaj Dance and Life Long Burning, with the support of the Culture 2007 — 2013 programme. Partner: Experimental Project. A cultural project financed by: AFCN – The National Cultural Fund Administration and The Ministry of Culture.
WASP is an alternative private house for contemporary dance, visual art experiments, underground contemporary theatre makers, and the multimedia addicted | A 500 sqm former communist factory transformed in a space for production, developement and research in the field of contemporary performing arts | 2 studios: White box și Black Box, art exhibition space and a Media Lab
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67 – 93 Ion Minulescu Street Flaros Factory, E body, 2nd Floor Bucharest, Romania contact@waspmagazine.com
