EXPERIMENTICA14 CO-EXISTENCE HAS NEVER BEEN EASY 5–9 November 2014 CHAPTER, CARDIFF, UK www.chapter.org
Holly Davey, If Only I Could Remember, Experimentica13. www.hollydavey.com. Photo: Warren Orchard
Established in 2001, Experimentica is an annual five-day Festival in Cardiff, Wales, UK. Experimentica hosts a dynamic programme of live art, performance and interdisciplinary projects and offers a significant platform for UK and international artists to produce or introduce their work. Experimentica is an opportunity for artists at all stages in their career to present challenging, experimental works within an open, supportive and artist-focused environment. Works in progress are positively welcomed. Experimentica can be entertaining, dangerous, confusing, life-affirming, playful, provocative, witty, engaging, irritating and everything in between. Submission, via these guidelines, is open to all and will be selected by the Experimentica team at Chapter. You can find documentation of last year’s festival here: youtube.com/chapternoise Tim Bromage, Experimentica13. Photo: Warren Orchard
OPEN CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS The 2014 call for submissions is now open. This year’s festival takes its title from the 2009 science fiction thriller ‘District 9’ (directed by Neill Blomkamp), a multi-layered allegory that explores our attitudes to outsiders. The title is not a theme but we hope will be a starting point in which participants can explore how we co-exist. Every year, Experimentica selects a range of artists from an open call for submissions. Selected artists will be invited to develop their proposal for a performance or presentation to take place during the festival. We welcome applications from all over the world but please note that travel costs should not exceed £750.00 for any one application. Where costs are likely to exceed this please indicate on your application so that we can research additional sources of funding from the outset. Applicants should be engaged in the creation of experimental live performance, sound, film and video, installation, dance and theatre. They might also write poetry or prose and be keen to test their work in a new way that engages with the festival and its wider context online, in print, through radio or other broadcast means. If you have an idea that you would like to test out; a fully realised work that you would like to show for the first time, or a performance that you have shown before but would like the chance to bring it to new audiences, we would like to hear from you. If you would like to colonise a space at Chapter – or elsewhere in Cardiff - or share ideas and critical feedback with other artists or host a talk or event, we would like to hear from you. If you are an artist who would like to take part we actively encourage you to stay for all five days of the festival so that you can make the most of your time here. Alongside the opportunity to see works by many other artists, this also includes our daily peer-to-peer dialogue and performance review, talks and presentations hosted by our artist-curator team and social events.
Kerrie Reading performance, part of an Experimentica13 commission with Mike Pearson & Heike Roms. Photo: Warren Orchard
HOW TO APPLY TO EXPERIMENTICA — ARTISTS If you would like to submit a proposal for Experimentica you will need to supply us with the following information: 1. Name, address, telephone number(s) and email contact; 2. A proposal outlining the work that you want to show at Experimentica. This should be no more than 500 words; 3. A short CV no more than 2 sides of A4; 4. A guideline to your budget, how much you are applying to Experimentica for (this should be no more than £1,000.00 excluding travel and accommodation which is allocated separately); 5. An indication of any additional specialist equipment that you might require above and beyond the budget; 6. An indication of how many performers and/or technical assistants you include so that we can plan our budgets accordingly; 7. An indication of your availability between 5 and 9 November 2014; 8. Supporting material. We receive a high number of applications each year so please be selective about what you send – think about what best represents your practice and that you feel would be most appropriate to the festival. Visual material can be submitted in the following ways: - Via link(s) to your website, Vimeo, YouTube or other website. Please send a password if one is required; - DVD, Blu-Ray disc or USB stick; - CD: Save images as full colour RGB files and make sure that they are of a sufficient resolution (300dpi). Images should be saved as JPEGs and labelled in a folder with your name. Do not send more than 12 images and please do not send original artworks as we can’t be held responsible if anything happens to them; 9. A SAE for the return of your material. Please address your entries to: Experimentica14, c/o Catherine Angle, Chapter, Market Rd, Cardiff CF5 1QE, UK or email visual.arts@chapter.org If you have any questions or need advice about what to include in your proposal, please email visual.arts@chapter.org Nicholas McArthur & Robert Molloy-Vaughan, The Dancing Plague of 1518, Experimentica13. Photo: Warren Orchard
Deadline for submissions midday on FRIDAY 6 June 2014 Market Road, Cardiff CF5 1QE, UK +44 (0) 29 2031 1050 www.chapter.org
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Cian Donnelly, Strawberry Necklace, Experimentica13. Photo: Warren Orchard