[spectre] FIELDS - 1st-round Call for Proposals (Riga 2014)

[Rasa Smite]

Hello, on Spectre list!

while we are still in Transmediale, we would like to announce first  
round call for forthcoming exhibition project FIELDS, which we -  
Raitis Smits, Armin Medosch and myself are co-curating for Riga 2014 -  
European Cultural Capital programme

deadline for 1st round proposals - May 31, 2013!

best,
Rasa

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FIELDS

Call for Participation

Fields starts from the assumption that the changing role of art in  
society is one where it becomes a critical interloper in patterns of  
social, scientific, and technological transformations. The range of  
practices which were once subsumed under terms such as media art,  
digital art, art and technology, art, and science have experienced  
such growth and diversification that no single term can work as a  
signpost any more. Fields is about mapping those expanded fields of  
artistic practices which are contextual seedbeds for ideas and  
practices aiming at overcoming the crisis of the present, inventing  
new avenues for future developments by bringing together traditionally  
separated domains. Fields is about new ecological and transversal  
trends in art, outlining potential future trajectories for  
multifarious types of activities that merge politics, technology,  
ecology, gender, semiology.

Which Fields act as catalysts and underpin those artistic practices  
which offer the greatest potential for social change towards more  
imaginative and sustainable ways of living? Which pre-cursors in the  
last 30-40 years did exist and what can we learn from those often  
untold stories? Areas that we will be looking at include but are not  
restricted to

* real fields, fields as in agricultural fields, works relating to  
fields, food growing, water, seeds, plant ecologies and  
communications; eco-activism, agro-socio-political projects
* field as metaphor, semiotic field theories and meta-field theories;  
work as decoding and recoding of cultural patterns of social use of  
images;
* electromagnetic fields: and their experimental epistomologies  
(quantum field theory); notion of relational field (Burnham 1968); the  
epistemological implications of quantum theory in art
* gendered fields, field as a psychological relation, psychological  
and psycho-analytical field theories
* field theories of perception
* social field theories, theories of masses and of emotional  
'contagion'; relational field theories, notion of culture as a  
relational field

If you have an art or artistic-research project that fits one of those  
categories or where you feel that it extends this concept, please send  
a short description to: fields at rixc.lv

This is a first round call, the deadline is 31st of May, 2013.

In 2013 we aim at organising a number of workshops and event,  
beginning with Transmediale 2013, where the initial matrix of Fields  
gets jointly developed. This work is a step to the launch of the final  
exhibition Fields from May 15 to August 03 as part of Riga Culture  
Capital 2014, at Arsenals Exhibition Hall of National Art Museum in  
Riga. Fields is co-curated by Armin Medosch, Rasa Smite and Raitis  
Smits, and will get produced by RIXC in collaboration with a growing  
number of networks and partners.

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