[rohrpost] Call For Entries/ Einladung zur Teilnahme:TRANSIT LOUNGE 2009– MOVING WHILE STANDING STILL

[miriam mlecek]

Call for Entries: TRANSIT LOUNGE 2009

 

Deadline: Monday 13th October 2008

 

The
Australian-German collaborative residency program for interdisciplinary art and
international exchange, TRANSIT LOUNGE, is calling for submissions to
the 2009: Moving while standing still project.

The ongoing experimental
project TRANSIT LOUNGE, which began in 2006, evolved through several
different modes, continually exploring the potentials of interdisciplinary and
cross-cultural collaboration. Since its inception, TRANSIT LOUNGE has
been a partner event of transmediale – festival for art and digital culture
held annually in Berlin, one of Europe’s largest and longest running media art
festivals. 

For the 2009 edition, TRANSIT
LOUNGE has set a specific thematic focus: MOVING WHILE STANDING STILL. TRANSIT LOUNGE, as a group of artists
from the south, is in a unique position to respond to the theme of the transmediale 09: Deep North. The
curators have drawn this theme together with what has been the underlying
question of their own project since its inception – the notion of transit- to
ask: 

 

What happens when
     inter-continental movement becomes difficult? What then, when
     escape from (or to) home becomes impossible? 

 

It
is on this intimate level that implications of reconfigured global
relationships brought about by climate change become the inspiration for TRANSIT
LOUNGE 09. Here, limitations on global travel that are likely to ensue due
to changes in availability and the rising of resources, plus subsequent shifts
in political and social environments become the inspiration for the development
of a series of rules restricting interaction between participating artists. TRANSIT
LOUNGE 09 becomes a trans-national residency project where everyone stays
home – an intense exploration of local contexts directed through communication
with physically distant collaborators.

 

TRANSIT LOUNGE 09 is a series of four
overlapping online conversations, between artists located in Berlin and artists
located in Australia. Dialogue includes textual conversation, yet focuses on
the exchange of audiovisual media in its variety of forms. With participants
drawn from diverse backgrounds, issues of translation and miscommunication
naturally emerge. Magnified by the nature of digital communication, nuances of gesture
and body language are lost, while time differences undermine the utopia of
instant global communication. 

 

Launching in November 2008 and running through to February 2009,
conversations begin with the particular reflections on the conference and project
themes of the curators, who actively participate in the first phase of the
conversation before passing this role to a new artist. Each of the artists
involved will participate in the conversation for one month, with a two-week
overlap when new artists arrive and previous participants complete their
interactions.

 

Inline with the limitations of our potential futures – artists will be
imposed with limitations. This will take the form of being restricted to
communicate via a particular medium (sound, text, image, video) of the artist’s
choosing. These cross-continental dialogues must take place utilising the
open-source platforms provided. Artists will be required to develop a set of
rules as well as a “translation” of their work into physical space at transmediale.09
in Berlin’s Haus der Kulturen der Welt.

 

Please
be aware that the project requires a full commitment during the time of your
participation. You will be
expected to make regular submissions and develop a cross-continental collaborative
presentation during the week of the transmediale.09.

 

TRANSIT LOUNGE invites artists based in Berlin and Australia to
participate. Send us:

A short
     description of your ideas and aims as part of the TRANSIT LOUNGE
     09 project (no more than 1 A4 page)Samples of 3 previous
     works – either documentation or the work itself
     (preferably URIs to material available online, however DVDs, CDs, file
     attachments will be accepted)An artist CV (no more than 2
     A4 pages)Your contact
     details (email address, phone number)

 

Files
should be submitted in the following formats: PDF, RTF, QuickTime MOVs,
MJPEG2000, MPEG4s or AVI, WAV, AIF, MP4 or MP3, TIF or JPEG. For net.art or
other interactive/ hybrid works – please contact us or advise of the format
when submitting.

 

 

Please
submit your application by: Monday 13th October 2008.

 

Please
email your applications to: transit at transitlounge.org

 

For
more Information: www.transitlounge.org

 

Somaya
Langley             somaya at transitlounge.org

  ph: +61 (0)401 025 224 (Australia)

 

Miriam
Mlecek                miriam at transitlounge.org

  ph: +49 (0)151 12964404 (Germany)

 

 

TRANSIT LOUNGE 09 is supported by the Australian Embassy in Berlin.
Transit Lounge 
c/o Program Galerie
Invalidenstrasse 115
10115 Berlin

GERMANY


 


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