CALL FOR PROPOSALS
*Artistic Research | Performing Heterotopia study circle invites proposals
for workshops, interventions, presentations, performances and experiments
on the theme of*
*Disorientations*
Artistic Research | Performing Heterotopia
Winter Symposium
5 – 8 March 2020
University of Wrocław, Wrocław, Poland
We invite artists and researchers from all fields to take part in our
artistic research circle, a migratory non-hierarchical group of international
participants. We welcome participants from all geographical, artistic,
cultural and academic contexts and backgrounds, both outside and within
universities and other institutions.
The circle is developed within the framework of Nordic Summer University,
which consists of thematic study circles that meet twice a year on a
three-year cycle. Our 2019–2021 cycle is called *Artistic Research |
Performing Heterotopia* and this winter symposium will be the third of six
symposia taking place during this time period. The circle aims to share
ways artistic research can explore, experiment with, critique, create and
perform heterotopias, which are spaces, temporalities and practices that
disrupt the continuity and the norms of ordinary reality. We hope not only
to engage with heterotopic concepts, but to *be* a heterotopic space.
*Theme*
In our winter symposium we would like to explore heterotopic states of
disorientation, being lost, spaces of ambivalence and ambiguity, times of
shifts and crossings. We are interested in transitions, impermanence,
states of flux, transformative spaces and fugitive moments. We would like
to know how to stay in-between. We would like to reflect on being on the
way, to go on a journey whose arrival point is unknown.
We are interested in interpretations of these states both within the
process of artistic research or practice and in wider social, political,
philosophical and other contexts. We would like to explore spaces, states
and situations where our familiar strategies and knowledges are suspended.
We want to examine times and places where not-knowing and uncertainty are
the guiding principles. We would like to ask how these states, spaces and
temporalities manifest themselves in our realities and how artistic
research responds to and engages with them.
We encourage work in progress, incompleteness and unfinished work, partial
and fragmented efforts, lost or missing elements, especially when they
reflect on real or imaginary, everyday or socio-political liminal spaces
and transitional states.
Proposals for workshops, interventions, presentations, performances and
experiments could engage and depart from ideas and concepts surrounding
- states of not-knowing, uncertainty and doubt
- situation, times and places where our existing knowledges are
challenged and put into question
- times and spaces of shifts, transitions, transformations, crossings
- being in-between, liminal and discontinuous states, edges and
boundaries
- passages, impasses, happy accidents, failed experiments, unwanted
discoveries, wrong turnings and unforeseen avenues
- states and places of waiting, expectation, empty time and wasted time
- being on the way, getting lost, not knowing the destination
We encourage experimentation and collaboration, and especially alternative
formats of participation beyond individual presentations. We welcome
proposals for discussion or reading groups, conversations, workshops, walks
or excursions, and other possible and impossible formats. We also welcome
site-specific proposals engaging with the past or present of Wroclaw.
On one of the symposium days we plan to hold an evening event of
performances or other artistic interventions, and we encourage applications
specifically for this part of the programme.
*Format*
We welcome proposals for presentations of artistic research in various
formats including: indoor and outdoor experiments, workshops,
demonstrations, collaborations, performances, presentations or excerpts of
on-going work. We also welcome more traditional, theoretical reflections
and short papers. Participants are encouraged to form constellation
presentations with other members. We aim to allocate each
presentation/performance a 30-minute time slot.
*To submit a proposal please send*
1. A written proposal as a Word document: no more than 350 words.
This text should include your title, your presentation proposal, its format
and the facilities you need (e.g., technical equipment).
*and*
2. A short bio: no more than 200 words.
If you would like to attend the winter symposium *without presenting*,
please email a short statement explaining your interest in the topic and a
short bio (no more than 300 words in total). Priority will be given to
those wishing to perform or present.
*Applications must be sent via email to the coordinators Elina Saloranta
and Alia Zapparova *[log in to unmask]
*The deadline to submit proposals is 1 November. *
The programme will be published on our website
<http://nordic.university/study-circles/7-artistic-research-performing-heterotopia/>
in
January 2020.
*Important dates*
Deadline for proposals: *1 November *
Applicants informed of outcome: *10 December *
Deadline for registration and payment: *10 January *
Arrival: *5 March *
Departure: *8 March *
*Registration and fees*
Independent/freelance/self-financed artists and students: €80
Those funded by institutions: €160
Baltic and Polish residents: €25
Residents of low-income countries (see list
<https://wellcome.ac.uk/funding/guidance/low-and-middle-income-countries>):
€25
Local participants who don’t need hotel accommodation: €10
In addition to the registration fee, participants need to pay the Nordic
Summer University’s *annual membership fee*. The membership fee facilitates
the existence of the Nordic Summer University, which is a volunteer-based
organisation. There are two rates:
Annual membership fee (for those funded by institutions): €25
Reduced annual membership fee (all others): €10
The *registration fee* includes most lunches and dinners. Moreover, the
Nordic Summer University will organise and pay for basic accommodation for
all participants who are willing to share a double room (except for local
residents). Both the registration fee and the membership fee must be paid
online in advance of the conference. Details about registration and payment
will be provided on acceptance.
The Nordic Summer University is a nomadic, academic institution, which
organises workshop-seminars across disciplinary and national borders. Since
it was established in 1950, the Nordic Summer University has organised
forums for cultural and intellectual debate in the Nordic and Baltic
region, involving students, academics, artists and intellectuals from this
region and beyond.
Decisions about the content and the organisational form of the Nordic
Summer University lay with its participants. The backbone of the activities
in the Nordic Summer University consists of its thematic study circles. In
the study circles researchers, students and professionals from different
backgrounds collaborate in scholarly investigations distributed regularly
in summer and winter symposia during a three-year period.
The Nordic Summer University is committed to the principle of
sustainability. At our symposia we offer vegetarian/vegan food only and aim
towards zero waste. We thus invite members to bring their own reusable
coffee cup and water bottle to the symposia and to consider carefully the
carbon footprint of their travel choices.
http://nordic.university/study-circles/7-artistic-research-performing-heterotopia/winter-2020-disorientations/
For more information www.nordic.university
Elina Saloranta and Alia Zapparova
Co-ordinators of Nordic Summer University Circle 7 *Artistic Research |
Performing Heterotopia*
Nordic Summer University
c/o Foreningerne Nordens Forbund
Snaregade 10A, 3.
1205 Copenhagen K
http://nordic.university/
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