Artist Open Call – This is not boring!
THIS IS NOT BORING!
7pm-1am, Saturday 2nd July, 2016
A Digital Potlatch: a night of creative gift giving, artistic improvisation and sharing.
Coastguard Studio, 91 Clarendon Road, The Strand, Southsea, PO4 0SA
Artist working in any field are invited to contribute to a digital potlatch taking place at Coastguard Studio,
Southsea on 2nd July 2016.
If you are interested in the principles of “radical” inclusion, self-reliance, self-expression, community
cooperation, gifting, de-commodification, and leaving no trace – then One Thousand Plateaus offers you an
open platform for digital arts, performance and media, a temporary autonomous zone in which to play.
Live arts, performance, music, audio visual, video, spoken word, installations, psycho-geographers, cyber
artists, hackers, interstitial architects, laptop artists, kinetic sculptors, painters, photographers and theatre
makers – are all welcome to contribute to this open call.
Its digital because we are immersed in technology but it doesn’t mean you must be using technology to
contribute. We only ask that you address the theme:
b/order crossings; unreal boundaries that refuse to melt in the heat of (de)territorialisation, a line of escape
from an institutionalized apparatus of capture.
You maybe a solo artist, part of a group, a loose collective, student or professional. You can exhibit a work in
progress, an existing piece or something you have developed for the event. There are no rules other than you
must be willing to work collaboratively with the other artists contributing to the event.
One Thousand Plateaus will provide: curation, stage management and event marketing. Where possible we will
provide technical support, equipment and materials to support you. There is likely to be a PA in both rooms as
well as a multiple video projector installation in the main room. However, there is NO budget and the principle
of self-reliance means you should come prepared with whatever specialist materials or resources you need to
stage or exhibit your artwork. The focus of the event will be very much on exploring the “Immersive Use of
Space” and we are especially keen to work with performers who break down the boundaries between audience
and stage or artists who subvert the ideal of gallery space.
If you are interested in this open call then please email your ideas to: dr.lighthouse@one000plateaus.com