Call for Submissions: Rituals and Rites Exhibition

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS

Last chance to apply to Rituals and Rites exhibition!

Don't miss the chance to explore new perspectives on how supernatural powers, part of the mythologies and folklore, of multiple cultures and cosmogonies, can be used today as a tool to examine “human nature” cross-cultural contexts as well as investigating the societal, evolutionary and psychological significance of ritual and rites process and form with regard to understanding what constitutes ‘human nature’ today.

Deadline to apply: 25th November

For any inquiries please email: chiara@artcoreuk.com

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LAUNCH EVENT

Rituals and Rites exhibition launch

13th December 6-8pm at Artcore

Artcore warmly invite you to Ritual and Rites exhibition launch.

Rituals and Rites aims to explore new perspectives on how supernatural powers, part of the mythologies and folklore, of multiple cultures and cosmogonies, can be used today as a tool to examine “human nature” cross-cultural contexts as well as investigating the societal, evolutionary and psychological significance of ritual and rites process and form with regard to understanding what constitutes ‘human nature’ today.

The exhibition features works by artists who are examining the key categories of magico-religious belief and practice used by anthropologists (including myth, ritual, witchcraft and shamanism), as well as surveying theories regarding the continued importance of ritual and rites in a contemporary, globalised world with regard to topics such identity, shamanism, new magic and folklore.

Rituals and Rites encourages originality and challenges the norms with regard to the way we approach this topic as well as engaging critically with the way that we think about contemporary rituals and cultural difference, and to reflect on the kinds of cultural biases that we all employ when thinking about social, cultural or ethnic groups different to our own.

Come to join us to see innovative and critically informed works exhibiting for the first time in Artcore gallery.

Free
Thursday 13th November, 6-8pm
Book now at https://bit.ly/2FCzMl8.

For more information about the venue, please go to http://www.artcoreuk.com/ 

CFP: Alchemy in Sound and Nature

In a Strange Garden-Alchemy in Sound and Nature

National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth 15/16^th March 2019

Call for Papers, pieces and performers: Deadline 20^th December 2018

In a Strange Garden comprises a one-day symposium, exhibition of rare alchemical texts and an experimental electronic music concert (Friday March 15^th) and concert (Saturday March 16^th) for artists and researchers of any or no affiliation, early career and practice-based researchers, sound artists, musicians and composers.

This is the second symposium of alchemy in sound art organised by Listen to the Voice of Fire and is looking for alchemically infused sound art investigations of Nature. You may take a very wide latitude of how you interpret this.   Theoretical, practical, historical and exploratory approaches rooted in, inspired by textual specificity are welcome as are more general overall approaches inspired and motivated by alchemy (or more accurately, hermeticism).

In a Strange Garden seeks to generate approaches, musical ideas and discussion around these themes with view to developing an audio/text later in the year.

Themes of interest include and are not restricted to:

• Historic and contemporary approaches to Sonic Mysticism
• Sound, alchemy and psychogeography
• Sound art and compositional responses to The Emerald Tablet
• Alchemy and soundscape ecologies.
• Alchemy in text/emblem/nature, sonification, algorithm and interactivity

Talks should be up to 20 minutes duration

Performances or fixed media (presented in person) can be up to 20 minutes duration

Proposals for experimental electronic performance are sought for concert  held on the evening of Friday 15^th March at National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth

Indicative approaches: Cybernetics, Sound art, noise, soundscape, field recordings, data bending, psyche/drone, electroacoustic, no input mixing board, electronics including novel/hybrid/hacked instruments and /or new musical interfaces

Technical Details

Laptop/usb PowerPoint is available should you need it, please ensure you have the right connectors, PowerPoint is not obligatory.

Performers will have access to a small mixer and 2 channel active speakers and should ensure they bring all leads and peripherals.

Submission Details

Proposals for papers and presentations should be made by emailing 1 pdf document of your proposal, name, email contact, affiliation if appropriate and ensure you include active links to your music pages, duration of your performance/piece. Please indicate if you wish to present during the day and or the concert on Friday 15^th March.

Concert performance pieces of 15-20 minutes duration are welcome (please specify).

Email submission to: dir [at] aber.ac.uk

Please use the email subject: SOUND

Deadline for submission is 20^th December 2018

NB

All confirmed performers/presentations must be made in person. This is a non-affiliated project, and not in receipt of any public funding.  LVOF is not in a position to pay artists’ fees or make contributions to travel expenses.