UPDATE: Deadline is extended to November 1st 2017 !
On Sat, Oct 7, 2017 at 9:02 PM, Zeljko Blace <[email protected]> wrote: > *Another SPORT is possible?!.** > > These are extraordinary times. Times of reinvention and mobilization. We > have to reinvent systems, time and pastime, mobilize bodies, communities > and structures. For decades, our sport systems have leaned towards > alienating industrialization and will not be fixed/updated on their own, > without our joint action. In the ecology of tiny systems, the micro-worlds > of exceptions, by branching out, multiplying, showing diversity and > resilience there is a place for solidarity and serendipity on a bigger > scale.What is the future for bodily social experience? Can personal > development and growth, Do-it-Yourself/with-Others cultures be the starting > points of a new way to self-organize athletes and sport systems? Can a > multitude of minorities combine into a non-normative driving force? What > are your ideas, concepts, visions, prototypes or models for the commoning > and co-creation of sport?___ > *paraphrasing “Another world is possible” > > > > > *OPEN CALL: SportCamp 2017(for 4-10 days around December 1st,at Timelab, > Kogelstraat 34, 9000 Ghent, Belgium)* > > > > *WHY: What can be the role of the artist-activist/athlete in the field of > sport? Can art/an artwork be a prototype for a different practice/system of > sport? Can artists provide visions, tool boxes and methods for new > directions and transitory developments? What happens when we bring the two > most prominent non-essential parts of society - contemporary art and sport > - together again? How are today’s sports different to the ancient times > when specializations and distinctions were less industrialized? If the > artist is an athlete or the athlete is an artist, what does that bring to > the field of sport or how does it change their relation?- The artists can > provide visions, imagine tools and methods for a new perspective on the > world and maybe new practices/roles/relations sport can fill? What can > sport bring to the art field? A sense of team-spirit, camaraderie and > belonging? Visibility and affective directness for the masses?- SportCamp > aims to be a place for cross-pollination, transgressing encounters and > exchange, linked to a social theme, and it is a follow up to Timelab > Springcamp 2013 and collaboration with Z. Blace, which now includes > collaboration with ccSPORT and other partners.WHAT: Timelab’s SportCamp > 2017 invites you to draw up concepts, exchange and develop ideas with other > thinkers and doers in a group of about 10 participants and a few invited > guests over several days.HOW: E-mail [email protected] > <[email protected]> with a short bio, background info and motivation > (max. one A4 of font size 11 + max. 2 media files) before 18th of October > 2017. After us processing your inputs, you will be provided with a > procedure and access to an environment for joint commoning, correlating and > matching for co-creation of proposals from shared ideas and/or concepts. > Decisions of acceptance and support will be based on a joint sense and > estimation of urgency, resonance with context, potential for sustainable > production in 2018. In ethical terms, we are guided by principles of > commoning and expect participants to join in P2P sharing, care and > collaboration. Food and lodgings will be provided by Timelab and economy > class transportation costs will be refunded by Timelab. For more info and > updates look up: http://call.Timelab.org/ > <http://call.timelab.org/> or http://call.ccSPORT.link/ > <http://call.ccsport.link/>WHERE: Timelab is a hotbed for makers, thinkers > and doers. It does this by providing time and space, tools and methods, in > a community of people co-creating through weekly operations and regular > workshops, with seasonal camps and thematic residencies. Timelab is located > in Ghent (Belgium). http://about.Timelab.org/ <http://about.timelab.org/>* > > > *Timelab is supported bythe Flemish Community and the city of Ghent* >
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