CONGLOMERATE: One-Shot Sacrifice (TV Special)
Deadline: september 29, 2016
AFFECT is a Program for Collaborative Artistic Practices initiated by Agora Collective e.V. in Berlin, currently in its third edition.
A hybrid between an educational program and a project-based artist’s residency, the 2016 edition consists this year of a curriculum of 7 topics growing out of the research and practice of 7 Berlin-based international artists and curators.
Each module takes the form of a month-long participatory workshop revolving around a central research question supported by a series of activities proposed by the leading facilitators. Participants will have the opportunity to collectively delve into the proposed research question, bringing in their own sensibilities, practice and experience.
Collective exercises, urban explorations and site visits, readings and discussions will pave the way towards the co-generation of a final public event to be presented at the end of each module.
AFFECT 2016 is facilitated by: Judith Lavagna, Diego Agulló, Lorenzo Sandoval, Thelma Bonavita, Sarah M. Lewis, and Kinderhook & Caracas (Sol Calero and Christopher Kline).
CONGLOMERATE: One-Shot Sacrifice (TV Special)
Facilitated by Kinderhook&Caracas, directed by Sol Calero, Ethan Hayes-Chute, Derek Howard, Christopher Kline and Dafna Maimon
October 4 – 29
Kinderhook & Caracas is a Berlin-based project space run by Sol Calero and Christopher Kline founded in 2011. The initiative is named after their hometowns in Venezuela and New York. For 2016, it will forego its normal exhibition schedule to focus on a single year-long project entitled CONGLOMERATE.
CONGLOMERATE acts as a TV Network based at Kinderhook & Caracas, and is directed by artists Sol Calero, Ethan Hayes-Chute, Derek Howard, Christopher Kline and Dafna Maimon. The network will create a wide range of original content which is formulated into episodes.
For AFFECT´s October Module, CONGLOMERATE invites the participants to develop a short “TV Special” based on the theme of “Sacrifice”.
The connotations of “sacrifice” can range from the esoteric (human or animal sacrifice) to the everyday (the sacrifices made when collaborating). In broader terms, sacrifice applies to the human condition and what we are all willing to give up to form a better society, or more sustainable relationships.
The notion of sacrifice has become increasingly relevant in regards to the current refugee crisis (the west asking itself what it’s willing to sacrifice, or refugees themselves being forced to sacrifice the lives they’ve built for safety or a better opportunity for their families).
Sacrifice can also be thought of as a privilege, as it presupposes that there is some excess to sacrifice, and it’s always tied into an economy between dependent agents and their flux.
Through workshops, group presentations and discussion, CONGLOMERATE will work with participants to create a single, final, one-shot (non-stop) “TV Special” composed of various set elements, props, actors, miniatures, costumes, sounds, etc.
The end result will be the symbiotic flow from one segment to another manifested in a 3-5 minute clip. The project is formatted so that both individual and collective efforts are given equal space, yet rely upon each other to exist, and this tension/relationship creates a model to consider an “affectful” way of working. The constraints of collaboration, and using only one shot will be determining factors in the content and dialogue.
The frame of the final event on the 29th October 2016 is a Wrap Party at Agora´s new venue within the created sets which will feature a looping screening of the final one-shot scene.
More info: http://projects.agoracollective.org/affect/module-6/
AFFECT at AGORA
Mittelweg 50,
12053 Berlin
www.agoracollective.org/affect
Coordination & Communication affect@agoracollective.org
