Shadow Casters - Polymedia Voyage, Call for Applications

[anna balint]

        shadow casters <shadow_casters at europe.com>

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CALL FOR APPLICATIONS

For performing, multimedia and visual artists, writers, Web designers,
system
thinkers, musicians, art historians, dancers, choreographers,
photographers,
filmmakers, architects and all interdisciplinary researchers


SHADOW CASTERS
- Polymedia voyage -

Authors: Boris Bakal, Katarina Pejovic, Pina Siotto
First phase:  Shadow Casters Workshop/Project
Ljubljana, International Performing Arts Festival EXODOS 2002
May 13-29, 2002

Shadow Casters is a project that unites various media and a diversity of
methods in a specific
exploration of a city. It begins as a workshop and, in the process that
comprises two phases,
develops into a complex system.

The first phase of exploration and building of Shadow Casters path /
structure / system will
take place in Ljubljana, Slovenia, from May 13-29, within the frame of
the 8th International
Performing Arts Festival EXODOS. During this time, the participants will
delve into the
exploration of Ljubljana, its revealed and unrevealed strata, its time
and space co-ordinates and
their cross-sections which are always determined by the point of view.


The tools and techniques used for this building are introduced through
the workshop and
include:

Urban performing
Reality recycling
Digital Video and Audio recording and editing
Inner/outer mapping
Urban dramaturgy
Web design
Dilating perception
Hyperstory-telling

The navigation of exploration is guided by questions such as:

How does a city settle in my inner world?
What does the border between public and private mean and where is it
located?
Is it possible to create a collective identity without damaging
individual identities?
Is there such a thing as a non-manipulative system?
Is there such a thing as the freedom of choice?

If you are to take on the task of a Shadow Caster, you will not find out
much more than this
before May 13.

On May 13, you will show up at noon at a designed place that will be
conveyed to you on
time.

There you will meet other Shadow Casters - guides and novices.
>From then on, you will spend two weeks living in apartments with other
members of the
Shadow Casters team.
You will do that even if you are a native of Ljubljana.

There will be a minimum of 7 and a maximum of 15 of you.
You will receive daily a set of information and instructions that will
be your navigation tools for
discovering and building Shadow Casters.
Although you will synchronise with others, it will be up to you to find
out your own combination
of elements given to you in the set.

If the words "manipulation" or "mystification" come to your mind while
reading this, perhaps you
should start reading from the beginning and then go on.

The selective and gradual introduction of information is there to allow
you to discover more, not
less.
You will start from the outside in order to create the inside by
yourself and with others.
The Shadow Casters guides might start the exploration / building process
as the conductors,
but they will be those who ask, search and build along with you.

You will go through all the phases of exploration and build-up of Shadow
Casters.
Apart from using your potentials as human biocomputers, you will acquire
and/or use the
knowledge in the computer and digital domain.
As working in these domains is the most efficient when each human is
paired with a machine,
you are welcome to contribute to the Shadow Casters equipment with
additional digital
camcorders, cameras, DAT recorders, MiniDiscs, laptops.

Your daily research schedule will last on the average 8 hours but you
might want to prolong it.

For your two-week Shadow Casters exploration / building you will pay a
fee of 200 EUR.
If, however, your financial means do not allow you to cover the fee,
there is a possibility for the
outside coverage of up to three fees. You should therefore specify this
in your statement.

The official language of the workshop is English, but Italian, French,
German and
Serbian/Croatian will also be available as communication tools.

You should send the application including your CV, some documentation of
your previous
works and a short text (not longer than 15 lines) on your particular
interest in Shadow Casters
to: shadow_casters at europe.com and exodos.lj at guest.arnes.si.
You should do this by April 11, 2002.
The applications will be revised by April 23.
If you are from Ljubljana (or from the vicinity), you might be invited
for an interview.

The second phase of Shadow Casters will take place within the frame of
the 9th edition of
EXODOS Festival in May/June 2003. As a Shadow Caster, you will then be
the guide / agent
provocateur / catalyst of the voyage for those who will embark on it as
visitors / voyagers /
casters.

SHADOW CASTERS
APPLICATION FORM


CONTACT

NAME:

ADDRESS:

CITY:

COUNTRY:

TELEPHONE:

E-MAIL:

BIOGRAPHY

DATE & PLACE OF BIRTH:

EDUCATION:

PROJECTS:

OTHER:

LETTER OF INTEREST

Using no more then 10 sentences, explain what is your interest and
motovation for the workshop.



EQUIPMENT

Any photo, video and sound equipment (especially digital) is welcome. If
you have any digital camera, digital camcorder, DAT recorder or
minidisc, you should bring it to the workshop. Inform us of which
equipment will you bring.



GRANT

Explain your financial situation, why you should receive the grant.




This form should be filled out in English and sent by April 11, 2002 via
e-mail to: shadow_casters at europe.com and exodos.lj at guest.arnes.si.

The candidates will be contacted by April 23, 2002.