Richmond, Canada perioada: November 26, 2010 - January 23, 2011 Noxious Sector More often than always / Less often than ever
call for submission http://www.noxioussector.net/motalotn.html Noxious Sector Arts Collective invites submissions for MORE OFTEN THAN ALWAYS, LESS OFTEN THAN NEVER, a curated group exhibition scheduled to be presented at the Richmond Art Gallery (Richmond, BC, Canada) from November 26, 2010 to January 23, 2011. The project is conceived as an exploration of imaginary solutions to questions of improbability, inviting artists to engage with notions of impossibility, uncertainty and the imaginary. MORE OFTEN THAN ALWAYS, LESS OFTEN THAN NEVER invites artists from around the world to engage with notions of impossibility, uncertainty and the imaginary. Situated on the impossible side of probability, the project invites renderings of improbability, of disregarded possibilities, phantom conjectures, plausible insanities of one sort or another, all of which challenge standardized formulations of what is allowed, acceptable, logical or feasible. This is a call for imaginary solutions to real questions, however artists define the respective places of the imagination and reality for themselves. The curatorial process for the exhibition will also engage these themes, mobilizing UNRESOLVED METHODOLOGIES to problematize its own conceptual framework. As an artistic engagement with solutions of the imaginary, the curators have decided to consult with the father of 'pataphysical solutions - Alfred Jarry himself - holding a series of séances in order to determine the final selection of exhibiting artists. The séance here is conceived as a tentative time- machine of sorts, used to complete the 'pataphysical loop of imaginary and improbable renderings upon which this project is based. SUBMISSIONS: Submissions should include the following: 1. A brief artist CV (max. 3 pages); 2. A one-page statement relating your work to the theme of the exhibition; 3. Artistic support material: 10-15 digital images, clearly identified. Video and audio submissions should be limited to a maximum of 10 min. (total); 4. An identification list for support material (title, date, dimensions, running time, media). Please include brief project descriptions where appropriate, and clearly identify any technical requirements for the effective display of the work. Electronic submissions are encouraged. Text files should be sent as email attachments in PDF format. Images should be sent in JPG format (max. pixel dimensions 1024 x 768). Video and audio submissions, and any support material over 5 MB should be sent via a transfer service, or uploaded to a personal URL. Please do not send a general URL to your entire website. Submissions by regular mail will also be accepted - please contact us for post coordinates. Submissions and inquiries should be sent by to the e-mail address below. PROJECT STATEMENT: The French playwright, Alfred Jarry (1873-1907) is credited with the invention of 'pataphysics: the science of imaginary solutions. Among other demonstrations, Jarry's oeuvre included an instruction manual for building a time machine - a textual rendering that was convincing enough, at least, that scientists of his era took the time to disprove his proposition. A century later, science has evolved, and the artistic imaginary has too. No more is science subject to the simple parameters of truth and falsity. Instead uncertainty is the name of the game: probability, multi-dimensional theories of resonance patterns, strings and branes and virtual anti- partner particles, imagined into existence for the simple reason that otherwise the theories themselves - the scientific explanations of the universe - would make no sense. Despite the resultant uncertainties, there are plausible ways to extend such forms of inquiry. One method of this sort is that of probability - a calculated statistical placement of possibility that registers the likelihood of any given situation as a number between 0 and 1. A probability of greater than 1 invalidates a theory, for such a number indicates a statistical occurrence of MORE OFTEN THAN ALWAYS - not only a veritable impossibility but also an existential redundancy. With a probability of less than 0, the inverse occurs - a statistical occurrence of LESS OFTEN THAN NEVER - and a consequent illogic of imagined, nonsensical constitution. And yet, as the evolved imaginary knows, sometimes things do happen this way - or if they don't one might nevertheless imagine them to - brought into existence as an impossible probability itself. Importantly, while the scientific imagination frames the uncertainty of the real, it is the world of the imaginary to which such reality is accountable. Probability does not govern the world of the imagination - indeed the imagination alone has the potential to defy probability, creating impossible solutions to the uncertainties of improbable being. data limita: 11/06/10 Kontakt: Noxious Sector a formalized forum for informality Canada noxi...@noxioussector.net http://www.noxioussector.net sursa:artservis -- Moldova Young Artists Association "Oberliht" http://www.oberliht.org.md . . . . . . . . . . . http://idash.org/mailman/listinfo/oberlist portal informational pentru arta si cultura din Moldova information gateway for arts and culture from Moldova _______________________________________________ oberlist mailing list oberlist@idash.org http://idash.org/mailman/listinfo/oberlist
