<font style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="2">Dear Spectres,<br>
<br><b>Low Lives</b> is pleased to announce that we have partnered with <b>Occupy with Art</b> and <b>The Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics</b> to launch a new program called <b>Low Lives: Occupy!</b> </font><br>
<span><br> On March 3rd, 2012, Low Lives:
Occupy! an international platform designed to enable artists, audiences,
and presenters in alliance with the Occupy movement to support the
occupation, will transmit live performances, actions, and happenings
online as they occur in real time around the world. Participating
artists, artist collectives, Occupy groups, and presenters worldwide
will expand the reach and visibility of the Occupy protests by
broadcasting to an international community and audiences. </span><br><b></b><b></b><br><div class="gmail_quote"><span>
Over the past 4 years Low Lives has developed a platform that invites
and enables artists, audiences, and presenting venues to "plug in and
participate" from anywhere an internet connection exists. This
technological platform brings a history of supporting artists’ full
creative freedom to imagine new worlds and is now offered to artists
interested to present work in solidarity with #OWS. Online documentation
of the live event will allow Low Lives: Occupy! to inspire online
audiences into the future.<br> <br> <br> <b>Artist Eligibility:</b><br>
</span><span>• </span><span>Low Lives: Occupy! seeks projects including, but not limited to,
performance art, public actions and interventions, happenings, acts of
protest and civil disobedience, taking place in both real and virtual
spaces. <br> </span><span>• </span><span>All artists, artist collectives, individuals, and
groups in solidarity with the Occupy protests are invited to submit
proposals. <br></span><span>• </span><span>Artists who have participated in previous Low Lives projects
are eligible to participate. <br> <br> <b>Co-Presenters:</b><br> • Low
Lives: Occupy! invites any person, group of people, and presenters to
“plug in and project” the broadcast in their homes, venues, building
facades, and other public spaces for their local communities<br> •
Technical support is provided in advance of the event date to facilitate
Co-Presenters preparation and to coordinate overall production <br> • No fee to participate<br> <b><br> Presenting Partner and official NYC venue:</b> <br> Hemispheric Institute of Performance & Politics<br>
New York University, 20 Cooper Square, Fifth Floor, New York, NY<br> <a href="http://Hemisphericinstitute.org" target="_blank">Hemisphericinstitute.org</a> <br> <b><br> Presenting Partner and Online location: </b><br> Occupy With Art - <a href="http://Occupywithart.com" target="_blank">Occupywithart.com</a><br>
<br> <b>Important Dates:</b> <br> February 6: Submission deadline<br><span> February 10: Submitting artists/Individuals/</span><span></span>Groups notified<br> March 3: Low Lives: Occupy! 6:00pm – 10:00pm EST<a href="http://www.lowlives.net/" rel="nofollow nofollow" target="_blank"></a><br>
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<b>Note</b>- the Low Lives 4 Networked Performance Festival is scheduled for
April 27 - 28, 2012. A separate call for proposals will be issued
January 30 2012.<br><br></span><span>For details visit <a href="http://www.lowlives.net/" rel="nofollow nofollow" target="_blank">www.lowlives.net</a></span><br><span> <br>
<br> <b>About Low Lives </b><br> Founded in 2009, Low
Lives is an international platform for live performance-based works
transmitted via the internet and projected in real time. Low Lives
examines works that critically investigate, challenge, and extend the
potential of performance practice presented live through online
broadcasting networks. These networks provide a new alternative and
efficient medium for presenting, viewing, and archiving performances.
Low Lives offers local and global audiences a contextual frame from
which to consider live performance in both the physical and virtual
space. <br> <br> The platform celebrates the transmission of ideas
beyond geographical and cultural borders, and opens multicultural and
intergenerational dialogue through visual language, new technologies,
and contemporary expressions. Low Lives is about both the presentation
and transmission of performative gestures from a particular place and
time. Low Lives produces an annual Networked Performance Festival. For
more information, visit <a href="http://www.lowlives.net/" rel="nofollow nofollow" target="_blank">www.LowLives.net</a><br> <br> <b>About Occupy With Art</b><br>
Occupy With Art (Formerly Occupennial) is an affinity group of the Arts
& Culture working group. We are artists, writers, curators, and art
professionals lending our skills to produce art, cultural events and
projects, with a particular focus on OWS itself as a social art process.
We work with organizations and artists that require a focused team to
facilitate their projects. We produce art projects, large-scale events,
and exhibitions. Our website, <a href="http://www.occupywithart.com/" rel="nofollow nofollow" target="_blank">www.occupywithart.com</a>,
serves as an information hub for current and past art-related
activities in the OWS movement. We are committed to building
relationships within OWS and with outside arts organizations.<br> <br> <b>About Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics</b><br>
The Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics is a
collaborative, multilingual and interdisciplinary network of
institutions, artists, scholars, and activists throughout the Americas.
Working at the intersection of scholarship, artistic expression and
politics, the organization explores embodied practice—performance—as a
vehicle for the creation of new meaning and the transmission of cultural
values, memory and identity. Anchored in its geographical focus on the
Americas (thus “hemispheric”) and in three working languages (English,
Spanish and Portuguese), the Institute's goal is to promote vibrant
interactions and collaborations at the level of scholarship, art
practice and pedagogy among practitioners interested in the relationship
between performance and politics in the hemisphere. <a href="http://www.hemisphericinstitute.org/hemi/" rel="nofollow nofollow" target="_blank"><span>www.hemisphericinstitute.o</span><span></span>rg/hemi/</a> <br>
<br><br>Wishing you all a great 2012!<br> <br> </span>Jorge Rojas<br><span style="color:rgb(153,153,153)">Founding Director</span><br><a href="http://www.lowlives.net" target="_blank">Low Lives</a><br>
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