Dear Spectres!
It seems this fall will be busy -
Please see below an other Call for participants for an other
'Renewable' event in Latvia - AppleThink creative camp, which will
take place from September 13-15, 2012
Deadline for proposals - August 20, 2012
Welcome to Latvia - 'apple country'! :)
Rasa
http://renewable.rixc.lv
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Call for Participants!
APPLETHINK
Creative Camp in Aizpute, September 13-15, 2012
The AppleThink event takes place in Aizpute, Latvia, focused on
creative trans-disciplinary approaches to apples and their diverse
use after harvest. Artists, who once were exploring the boundaries of
the digital realm, are today investigating survival tactics and
resilience experiences that have been used in different times and by
different cultures. In the quest for a sustainable future these
emergent art practices are adapting, mixing and combining methods and
techniques grounded in historical and traditional cultures, with
emerging technologies, scientific research, and contemporary
practices in today's urban and rural communities.
Apples are one of the most harvest-rich, yet under-exploited
resources available in Latvia and other post-kolkhoz (collective
Soviet farms) countries. AppleThink event aims to re-approach our
'habitual' apples from a variety of different perspectives. The event
will bring together an international trans-disciplinary group of
participants, who will be sharing their knowledge and experience by
approaching apples as a 'real' resource of food and energy, as well
as as a cultural metaphor for fecundity and wealth.
AppleThink will start with a Helsinki event, where documentation will
be made at Malminkartano's public orchard event on 8th September,
including the gathering of apples to bring to Latvia. During the
following week from 13-15th September, the main AppleThink event, a
creative camp in Aizpute will explore the phenomena of apples. We
will start with the process of traditional fermenting, brewing,
juicing, and preserving, ending up with experimental investigations:
Can an apple be a transmitter of energy? How can one build a
'bacteria-battery' from apples-waste? How can apple-electricity
signals be interpreted through sonification and visualization? The
AppleThink event will also include presentations and discussions by
artists, curators, science researchers, and community activists who
will be discussing different survival strategies ranging from the
concepts of 'downshifting' and 'withdrawal', to the approach of
'resilience' and a 'techno-ecologies' perspective. The camp will end
with a local outdoor market together with local farmers, where the
artefacts created during the creative camp will be put out for
symbolic sale-exhibition.
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CALL for participation:
We are inviting applications for AppleThink creative camp
participants who are interested in trans-disciplinary collaborations.
We also welcome proposals for AppleThink workshops and presentations.
Please send your proposals or letter of intent to participate to
[email protected], and/or [email protected] (Rasa Smite).
DEADLINE: August 20, 2012
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The AppleThink event takes place in the framework of the European
partnership project 'Survival Kit'. The outcomes of the AppleThink
creative camp will be presented publicly during the Art+Communication
Festival conference titled 'Art of Resilience' that takes place in
Riga, October 4-6, 2012.
AppleThink is a collaboration between The Center for New Media
Culture RIXC, Latvian Contemporary Arts Center and Serde from Latvia,
as well as Pixelache Helsinki from Finland.
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