Bathing with Elephants and other Exotic Reveries Call for submissions Vitamin S, CoLab and THE EDGE co-lab-orate to bring new perspectives to borrowed visions. Set amongst the Civic theatre foyer rooms (Safari & Taj Mahal) depicting ‘romantic images of the east’ ‘Bathing with Elephants and other Exotic Reveries’ mixes genre and technology like a kitchen-whizz in a Bombay spice shop. Performance technologies are cross-bred by musicians, designers, theatre-makers, dancers and visual/performance artists to create their own unimaginable exotic beasts, new worlds and transcendent journeys. Like architects and artists of the old world before them, imagining exotic far-off lands and freely mixing fantasy with reality from the newly accessible scientific world, the artists of ‘Bathing with Elephants and other Exotic Reveries’ will inspire sumptuous futures based on new technologies and unrestrained. CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS Be the exotic adventurer you always knew you were. Take us on an incredible journey that no human has even been on before. Guided by new technologies and media, and an unstoppable desire for uncertainty, Vitamin S in collaboration with CoLab and THE EDGE want you to create a cross-bred exotic performance beast. Call it hybrid, cross-discipline, fusion, mongrel, whatever you like, we seek artists who will present us a vision of the future un-tempered by existing performance models. Inspiration for your proposition should consider the location specific venue – the below-ground-level reception rooms at the Civic Theatre. The Taj Mahal and the Safari Room are dripping with desire to bring audiences to new and exotic places. Your proposal should try to mix new technologies, interactive technology, and folk-truths to create a performance experience for the audience like a ‘ghost train’ of atmospheric performance spaces. This may include sound, light, 3d design, interactive technology, transmedia in order to envelope and emerse the audiences into an exotic or unconventional vision and performance experience. The performance season will be from January 26 to January 28 in the Civic Safari, Taj Mahal and their entrances. Budget A commission budget of $500 for each creator/project (8 spots available). A further $200 to contribute to materials. The profits from the box office (after expenses) will also be shared among the artists/performers from the commissions. Some access to a range of new and established technologies will come from CoLab at AUT and THE EDGE. You should explain how your idea can fit within this budget what resources you have, and what resources we can make available to you in order to carry the installation off. Marketing and publicity will be covered by the festival season.The season performances will be from January 26 to January 28 in the Civic Safari, Taj Mahal and their entrances. There will be a pack in and rehearsal time available within the performance spaces in the week leading up to the opening on 26 January Please contact drew [email protected] to submit any vision, proposal, or conceptual ideas. Once your vision, proposal, or concept has been received - we would like to arrange times to meet with you to discuss the project further. All submissions will be received up until the date September the 30th _______________________________________________ Ada_list mailing list [email protected] http://aotearoadigitalarts.org.nz/
