Dear friends and colleagues, Now entering its third year, Low Lives is an international exhibition of live, networked performance-based works transmitted via the internet and projected in real time at multiple venues throughout the U.S. and around the world. Low Lives 3 promises to be the farthest reaching to date with over 20 presenting partners in the United States, Mexico, Spain, Trinidad & Tobago, Germany, India, Tanzania, Brazil and Japan.
Low Lives examines works that critically investigate, challenge, and extend the potential of performance practice presented live through online broadcasting networks such as Ustream. tv or Livestream.com. These networks provide a new alternative and efficient medium for presenting, viewing, and archiving performances. Low Lives is not simply about the presentation of performative gestures at a particular place and time but also about the transmission of these moments and what gets lost, conveyed, blurred, and reconfigured when utilizing this medium. Low Lives embraces works with a lo-fi aesthetic such as low pixel image and sound quality, contributing to a raw, D.I.Y. and sometimes voyeuristic quality in the transmission and reception of the work. Artists working in any media are invited to submit proposals for performance-based works. All proposals will be reviewed by a jury made up of curators and directors from the following institutions: *Low Lives 3 Presenting Partners** Utah Museum of Fine Arts (UMFA) (Salt Lake City, Utah) www.umfa.utah.edu Real Art Ways (Harford, Connecticut) www.realartways.org The Performance Art Institute (San Francisco, California) www.theperformanceartinstitute.org the temporary space (Japan) www.thetemporaryspace.com Portland Institute for Contemporary Art (PICA) (Portland, Oregon) www.pica.org On the Boards Seattle, Washington) www.ontheboards.org Obsidian Arts (Minneapolis, Minnesota)- www.obsidianartscenter.org Mindpirates (Berlin, Germany) www.mindpirates.org Mascher Space Co-op (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) www.mascherdance.com Living Arts (Tulsa, Oklahoma)- www.livingarts.org La Perrera (Oaxaca, Mexico) www.laperreraoax.com LAP!_Laboratório de Ação & Performance (Espírito Santo, Brazil) www.labperformance.tk Konic Thtr (Barcelona, Spain) www.koniclab.info Fusebox Festival (Austin, Texas) www.fuseboxfestival.com Elon University (Elon, North Carolina) http://org.elon.edu/art/ DiverseWorks (Houston, Texas) www.diverseworks.org Diaspora Vibe Gallery (Miami, Florida) www.diasporavibe.net Co-Lab (Austin, Texas) www.colabspace.org Chez Bushwick (Brooklyn, New York) www.chezbushwick.net Center for Performance Research (CPR) (Brooklyn, New York) www.cprnyc.org Attakalari Centre for Movement Arts (Bangalore, India) www.attakkalari.org Aljira, A Center for Contemporary Art (Newark, New Jersey) www.aljira.org Alice Yard (Port of Spain, Trinidad & Tobago) www.aliceyard.blogspot.com Simba Theatre Art International at Village Museum (Dar es Salaam City, Tanzania) *This list includes Presenting Partners who are confirmed as of 2/16/11. Additional Presenting Partners may be added before the event date. *To view the International Call for Proposals, please visit:* http://www.lowlives.net/index.php?/contact/news/2/ Low Lives on Facebook<http://www.facebook.com/?ref=home#%21/pages/Low-Lives/161802270536773> Call to Artists on Facebook<http://www.facebook.com/pages/Low-Lives/161802270536773#%21/event.php?eid=190755877612479> *Note:* In an effort to include as many new artists as possible, artists who participated in Low Lives 2 are not eligible to participate in Low Lives 3. Artists who participated in the first installment of Low Lives (2009) are eligible to submit a proposal. Please feel free to share this information far and wide. Best, Jorge Rojas Artist/Independent Curator www.lowlives.net
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