AFFECT – Program for Collaborative Artistic Practices
OPEN CALL AFFECT 2016 PROGRAM FOR COLLABORATIVE ARTISTIC PRACTICES IN BERLIN
Agora is pleased to announce the launch of the third edition of AFFECT – Program for Collaborative Artistic Practices, initiated in 2014 by Agora Collective e.V. in Berlin.
A hybrid between an educational program and a thematic artists’ residency, the 2016 edition offers a diverse curriculum of workshops growing out of the research and practice of 7 invited Berlin-based facilitating artists and curators.
During each module participants are invited to collectively explore a topic and develop a set of practices and research methodologies around a central subject over the period of one month in the city of Berliin. Collective exercises, urban explorations and site visits, readings and discussions culminate in the co-generation of a final public event.
AFFECT 2016 Program modules by Judith Lavagna, Diego Agulló, Lorenzo Sandoval, Thelma Bonavita, Sarah M. Lewis, Kinderhook & Caracas (Sol Calero & Christopher Kline).
Program modules AFFECT 2016:
# 1 WHILE WE WORK: A Temporary State of Affairs
May 2 – 28
Departing from the interest in reconsidering “the exhibition” as a critical medium and a creative process beyond its conventional forms, WHILE WE WORK takes on a creative context in mutation that witnesses different momentums of work and labor. This workshop intends to explore which roles artists take on as cultural producers, the merging of artists as curators and the interweaving of those ‘junction-makers’ in search for performative expression. Structured towards active frameworks, case studies and research methodology, Lavagna proposes to conceive an exhibition together with selected Berlin-based artist as a final event which will investigate the context of Agora’s new space.
*Read more and apply! http://agoracollective.org/affect/module-1/
#2 THE ARTISTIC MISSION: Dismantling professionalism in a for-profit economy?
June 1 – 29
A collective investigation on what is the role of art in the given economy, the workshop will provide the participants with a frame to problematize together the way they access the professional structure. A mutual practice of self-examination on what is the purpose of making art, which value system operate behind their professional practices, and what are the tactics and strategies to infiltrate to and affect the professional structure from within. The purpose is to understand the constitution of the political body as the fundamental matter of social transformation within the realm of our everyday life actions.
*Read more and apply! http://agoracollective.org/affect/module-2/
#3 The Institute for Endotic Research: Reading Bodies
Facilitated by Lorenzo Sandoval
July 4 – 31
This workshop facilitated by Lorenzo Sandoval is focused on researching about the relationships between body and text. The participants will approach libraries, archives and its potential performativities. An exploration of the everyday life and the immediate surroundings focusing in the body – as object and subject, as medium and device, as a place of inscription where reading is a never passive writing gesture, and as mediators who have the ability of activating their political agency. As output of the workshop Lorenzo Sandoval proposes the construction of a negotiated library made of inner “s(h)elves.
*Read more and apply! http://agoracollective.org/affect/module-3/
Facilitated by Thelma Bonavita
August 1 – 27
For this workshop, Thelma Bonavita invites participants to compose and perform an experimental radio station culminating in a final exhibition. The participants will transform Agora´s new space into a functioning base to explore its meanings, matter and entanglements. The purpose of this collective experience is to produce and explore the notion of a common space, where the primary framework is the body and the mind, working together to create a sound environment of ideas in movement – as if one could materialize the act of thinking.
*Read more and apply! http://agoracollective.org/affect/module-4/
September 5 – 30
If we think of scarcity as the driving force of an economic model then, given today’s incessant inundation of information, what is becoming increasingly scarce is the attention we are able to pay and command. How does this scarcity affect, jeopardize or enhance the experience of working collectively? Utilizing a set methodology we will leverage imagination to more deeply engage with each other and elements around us by attempting to create an ecology of attention. We will switch roles, rotate authorship, view, observe, explore proposals put forth, and collectively edit and perform our generated material.
*Read more and apply! http://agoracollective.org/affect/module-5/
#6 CONGLOMERATE: One-Shot Sacrifice
October 4 – 29
CONGLOMERATE acts as a TV Network based at Kinderhook & Caracas, a Berlin-based project space run by Sol Calero and Christopher Kline. CONGLOMERATE invites the participants to develop a short “TV Special” based on the theme of “Sacrifice” – which connotations can range from the esoteric to the everyday. Through workshops, group presentations and discussion, CONGLOMERATE will work with participants to create a single, final, one-shot (non-stop) scene composed of various set elements, props, actors, miniatures, costumes, sounds, etc, to be featured in the frame of a final Wrap Party within the created sets.
*Read more and apply! http://agoracollective.org/affect/module-6/
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The program of AFFECT is initiated and hosted by Agora Collective e.V.
Agora is a member of CAPP: COLLABORATIVE ARTS PARTNERSHIP PROGRAM, a cross-European network of institutions supported by Creative Europe – Culture Sub Programme between 2015/2018 under the flag of “Art in social and community contexts”.
AFFECT 2016 premiers the new production possibilities inside Agora’s 2200m2 experimental project space in the Kindl Complex in post-industrial neighborhood of Neukölln. The current context of transformation and redevelopment of the former factory area with the creation of a Center for Contemporary Arts and Agora itself will be part of the experimental arena for the upcoming participants. Emphasis of AFFECT 2016 will be placed then in the production and presentation of the final event.
Practicalities / How to apply
Modules from May to September are now open for participation. You can apply to one or more of the AFFECT modules by filling in the application form in our website. Applications are reviewed on a rolling basis, and selected participants will be notified within twenty days upon application. We accept applications until 30 days before each module begins.
Each group accomodates 15 people. AFFECT is based on an interdisciplinary approach; some of the main fields of interests for the development of the program are: Visual Art – Film – Sound and Music – Dance/Choreography – Theoretical Practices – Philosophy – Writing – Architecture – Curation – Performance – Creative Science Crossovers – Ecology – Political/Social Activism – Web Programming – Design – Innovation – Animation – Technology.
If you have further questions about the program or the application process, please contactaffect@agoracollective.org
Know more about the program, team and spaces in our project website and APPLY!
www.agoracollective.org/affect/apply
affect@agoracollective.org
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