[spectre] Low Lives 3 - International Call for Proposals - Deadline: March, 20, 2011

[Jorge Rojas]

Dear friends and colleagues,

Now entering its third year, Low Lives is an international exhibition of
live, networked performance-based works transmitted via the internet and
projected in real time at multiple venues throughout the U.S. and around the
world. Low Lives 3 promises to be the farthest reaching to date with over 20
presenting partners in the United States, Mexico, Spain, Trinidad & Tobago,
Germany, India, Tanzania, Brazil and Japan.

Low Lives examines works that critically investigate, challenge, and extend
the potential of performance practice presented live through online
broadcasting networks such as Ustream. tv or Livestream.com. These networks
provide a new alternative and efficient medium for presenting, viewing, and
archiving performances. Low Lives is not simply about the presentation of
performative gestures at a particular place and time but also about the
transmission of these moments and what gets lost, conveyed, blurred, and
reconfigured when utilizing this medium. Low Lives embraces works with a
lo-fi aesthetic such as low pixel image and sound quality, contributing to a
raw, D.I.Y. and sometimes voyeuristic quality in the transmission and
reception of the work.

Artists working in any media are invited to submit proposals for
performance-based works. All proposals will be reviewed by a jury made up of
curators and directors from the following institutions:

*Low Lives 3 Presenting Partners**
Utah Museum of Fine Arts (UMFA) (Salt Lake City, Utah) www.umfa.utah.edu
Real Art Ways (Harford, Connecticut) www.realartways.org
The Performance Art Institute (San Francisco, California)
www.theperformanceartinstitute.org
the temporary space (Japan) www.thetemporaryspace.com
Portland Institute for Contemporary Art (PICA) (Portland, Oregon)
www.pica.org
On the Boards Seattle, Washington) www.ontheboards.org
Obsidian Arts (Minneapolis, Minnesota)- www.obsidianartscenter.org
Mindpirates (Berlin, Germany) www.mindpirates.org
Mascher Space Co-op (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) www.mascherdance.com
Living Arts (Tulsa, Oklahoma)- www.livingarts.org
La Perrera (Oaxaca, Mexico) www.laperreraoax.com
LAP!_Laboratório de Ação & Performance (Espírito Santo, Brazil)
www.labperformance.tk
Konic Thtr (Barcelona, Spain) www.koniclab.info
Fusebox Festival (Austin, Texas) www.fuseboxfestival.com
Elon University (Elon, North Carolina) http://org.elon.edu/art/
DiverseWorks (Houston, Texas) www.diverseworks.org
Diaspora Vibe Gallery (Miami, Florida) www.diasporavibe.net
Co-Lab (Austin, Texas) www.colabspace.org
Chez Bushwick (Brooklyn, New York) www.chezbushwick.net
Center for Performance Research (CPR) (Brooklyn, New York) www.cprnyc.org
Attakalari Centre for Movement Arts (Bangalore, India) www.attakkalari.org
Aljira, A Center for Contemporary Art (Newark, New Jersey) www.aljira.org
Alice Yard (Port of Spain, Trinidad & Tobago) www.aliceyard.blogspot.com
Simba Theatre Art International at Village Museum (Dar es Salaam City,
Tanzania)

*This list includes Presenting Partners who are confirmed as of 2/16/11.
Additional Presenting Partners may be added before the event date.

*To view the International Call for Proposals, please visit:*
http://www.lowlives.net/index.php?/contact/news/2/

Low Lives on Facebook<http://www.facebook.com/?ref=home#%21/pages/Low-Lives/161802270536773>

Call to Artists on
Facebook<http://www.facebook.com/pages/Low-Lives/161802270536773#%21/event.php?eid=190755877612479>

*Note:* In an effort  to include as many new artists as possible, artists
who participated in Low Lives 2 are not eligible to participate in Low Lives
3.
Artists who participated in the first installment of Low Lives (2009) are
eligible to submit a proposal.

Please feel free to share this information far and wide.

Best,

Jorge Rojas
Artist/Independent Curator
www.lowlives.net
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