Open Call: Before and After Silence
Preparation and Resilience in Times of Collapse
From where we are standing now, collapse, seemingly, is imminent.
The Ria Keburia Foundation would like to invite you to participate in a project that aims to explore the discipline of collapsology through multimedia art installations. The project is centered on an exhibition at the Porakishvili House Museum, with the potential for the works to be presented at partner institutions internationally. Additionally, the initiative seeks to foster ongoing collaborative opportunities beyond the initial exhibition.
With this project, we aim to explore the following questions:
– where does art fit in within a potential collapse?
– with the decay of our cultures, is there a possibility to continue with the contemporary cultural process in a way that is helpful to local communities?
– can a field that is global by design, one that aided in developing globalization and profited off of its consequences, adapt to the radical changes of a potential meltdown?
– can our contemporary cultural process, full of oversaturated images, restructure? Can it provide us with a better comprehension of how to adapt, change, and dissolve into a different mode of operating?
This is a conversation that can and should be carried out through media art. We believe that now is the perfect time to explore the different ways we could model our answers to these questions and make these issues more accessible. We are especially looking forward to interacting with artists that are very familiar with contemporary philosophy, science art, and/or open-source hardware and software. Most importantly, we are looking to focus on the limitations and critical aspects of technology that are themselves harbingers of collapse.
The submitted works or concepts may fall into one of two directions:
The project will involve one month of preparation and adaptation of submitted works, while the exhibition itself is currently planned late August. The group will meet in Porakishvili House Museum throughout the month – long period of preparation to create or adapt works to better match the theme of the project. We are planning on carrying out lectures and workshops by Giorgi Badzagua, a multimedia artist, as well as a reading group focused on “deep adaptation,” texts by Mark Fisher, Jean Baudrillard, and other texts that participants would like to offer the group for consideration.
Material costs will be provided to all participants.
Please keep in mind that the working language for this project, as well as all of the reading materials and talks it involves, is English. If you are not fluent in English, unfortunately, we will not be able to accommodate you with an interpreter.
To apply, please send the following documents to intc@riakeburia.com before midnight, July 30th (UTC+4):
The Ria Keburia Foundation would like to invite you to participate in a project that aims to explore the discipline of collapsology through multimedia art installations. The project is centered on an exhibition at the Porakishvili House Museum, with the potential for the works to be presented at partner institutions internationally. Additionally, the initiative seeks to foster ongoing collaborative opportunities beyond the initial exhibition.
With this project, we aim to explore the following questions:
– where does art fit in within a potential collapse?
– with the decay of our cultures, is there a possibility to continue with the contemporary cultural process in a way that is helpful to local communities?
– can a field that is global by design, one that aided in developing globalization and profited off of its consequences, adapt to the radical changes of a potential meltdown?
– can our contemporary cultural process, full of oversaturated images, restructure? Can it provide us with a better comprehension of how to adapt, change, and dissolve into a different mode of operating?
This is a conversation that can and should be carried out through media art. We believe that now is the perfect time to explore the different ways we could model our answers to these questions and make these issues more accessible. We are especially looking forward to interacting with artists that are very familiar with contemporary philosophy, science art, and/or open-source hardware and software. Most importantly, we are looking to focus on the limitations and critical aspects of technology that are themselves harbingers of collapse.
The submitted works or concepts may fall into one of two directions:
- Pre-collapse – preparing for possible disruptions. Establishing strong communities and frameworks. Studying the causes and symptoms of collapse. Offering locally adapted solutions for communities. Collapse-ready preservation, archival work (How will music and books remain available? How can information still be accessed and shared in an energy crisis?)
- Post-collapse – understanding how local and global art may be treated and used as a result of collapse. Finding ways for culture to be useful in times of collapse. Looking for ways to produce cultural artifacts while keeping in mind extreme supply-chain limitations. Potential non-technology-based utopian projects in reaction to collapse (meltdown, collapse as a positive. Solarpunk (And its criticisms)).
The project will involve one month of preparation and adaptation of submitted works, while the exhibition itself is currently planned late August. The group will meet in Porakishvili House Museum throughout the month – long period of preparation to create or adapt works to better match the theme of the project. We are planning on carrying out lectures and workshops by Giorgi Badzagua, a multimedia artist, as well as a reading group focused on “deep adaptation,” texts by Mark Fisher, Jean Baudrillard, and other texts that participants would like to offer the group for consideration.
Material costs will be provided to all participants.
Please keep in mind that the working language for this project, as well as all of the reading materials and talks it involves, is English. If you are not fluent in English, unfortunately, we will not be able to accommodate you with an interpreter.
To apply, please send the following documents to intc@riakeburia.com before midnight, July 30th (UTC+4):
- A detailed description and documentation of the submitted work (if completed) or a project proposal with materials you are hoping to use;
- your CV;
- Optional – if you already have a completed portfolio, you are welcome to attach it to your application. Please keep in mind that we are ready to engage with artists who have not had any prior exhibition experience.
Project is supported by Kopala Hotel