CURRENT
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CALL FOR PROPOSALS TO ART + RESEARCH EVENT IN 21–23 May 2024
city is sound, city is quicksand
– voicing imaginaries and dissonances
With this open call we welcome proposals for city is sound, city is quicksand – voicing imaginaries and dissonances, the third art + research event organized by the City as Space of Rules and Dreaming research project[i] (enabled by Kone Foundation 2021–2024) at Hietsu Pavilion in Helsinki on May 21–23, 2024. The event focuses on spaces, voices and practices of uncertainty and potentiality in urban landscape.
VENUE & TIME
May 21–23, 2024 in Hietsu Pavilion (Address: Hiekkarannantie 9, Helsinki)ABOUT City is a space of several intersecting and conflicting interests, practices, and orders. It is an aesthetic, political, legal, material, architectural, imaginary, virtual, and discursive space in which various dissonances and incompatible forces play their role. The city is very much also our/their space. It channels freedom, needs, actions, and desires of those inhabiting it.
The city is sound, city is quicksand – voicing imaginaries and dissonances focuses on spaces, voices and practices of uncertainty and potentiality in the city. We invite practitioners and scholars, artists and researchers to come and share their insights and practices through any or many of the following fields: city, urban space, urban environment / spatial, visual, sonic, performative practices in arts / artistic research, architecture, aesthetics, law and legal theory and practice, cultural geography, or other – around questions such as:
How can the discourses and debates on distribution of sensibilities and politics of city practices (incl. practices of theories) be rethought from a spatial point of view? How to allow new spaces and positions to emerge and act differently from what the prevailing orders, norms and roles suggest? Can diverse encounters and clashes within a multiplicity of agents, human and more-than-human, trigger the opening-up of positions and spaces for reorganization, and if so, how?
Join us in discussing how urban space is formed and shared, and what kinds of processes, practices, structures and spaces of disagreement and controversy, as well as inclusion or marginalization are there? What kind of fractures, escape lines and dreams are hidden in the ‘normativity’ of urban space? What kinds of spaces of shadow, noise, potentialities, and dreams are there?
We cordially welcome 1) proposals of artworks, 2) talks/presentations, and 3) workshops.
Welcome to make and take space for gestures and voices polemic and playful, incredible, and concrete. To dare, do, say!
IMPORTANT DATES
Submission deadline: 29.3.2024Notification of acceptance: 12.4.2024
CONTACT FOR FURTHER INFORMATION
(INQUIRIES FOR FULL CFP + HOW TO SUBMIT)cityissoundcityisquicksand@gmail.com
Hietsu Pavilion
sound
verb
to echo, to seem, to voice, to announce, to scale, to plunge
adjective
logical, healthy, sturdy, solid, firm, valid
1: free from injury or disease ≈ exhibiting normal health
2: deep and undisturbed ≈ a sound sleep
3: free from flaw, defect or decay ≈ a sound design
4: based on juridical reasoning, or legally valid
5:showing good judgement or sense ≈ soundly adverb
noun
as in strait
≈ a narrow body of water between two land masses
“Sound.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster,
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/sound. Accessed 10 Feb. 2024.
quicksand
synonyms
entaglement, mesh(es), morass, net, noose, snare, trap, web
1: sand readily yielding to pressure
≈ a deep mass of loose sand mixed with water into which heavy objects readily sink
2: something that entraps or frustrates≈ lead poor people into consumerist quicksand
–Robert Wright
“Quicksand.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster,
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/quicksand. Accessed 10 Feb. 2024.
[i] The first of the two art + research events organized by the City as Space of Rules and Dreaming took place in the context of Academy of Fine Arts (KuvA) Research Days 2022: Spaces of Exception, Exceptional Spaces was part of the ‘Artistic Research and City Space’ section on December 12-13, 2022. The second, City is a Thin Line (city is no contour) took place by the seashores of Helsinki (10 artworks bus tour) and Villa Lill Kallvik in Vuosaari (symposium), on May 18–19, 2023.
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