Submission: July 20, 2015
Registration: July 20, 2015
Language: English, German
Location: Flachau, Austria
Prizes: N/A
Type: Open
m20d is an architect and artist run non-profit organization and MELT is the theme of the third edition of the minus20degree in 2016. Melt will be a 3 days event featuring Installation, Video, Land Art …
We are calling for Installation, Video, Land Art, Per- formance and Sound Art to interpret the 2016 theme, MELT. Signified by the transience of snow, melt can be viewed as synthesis or amalgamation, bringing forth new forms vis-à-vis a process of alchemy. Flachau, as a former mining town with two blast furnaces, and the broader view of Austria as a tourism and steel-produc- ing nation bring additional local context to encourage interpretation. Melt may also be observed through a global lens, where age-old forces of melting are con- stantly brought to bare via recurring streams of migra- tion and a long standing history of shifting and merg- ing cultures; a process that on occasion also cultivates the enemies of any such melting. Melt provides further reference in connection to ever-warming alpine winters and the parallel threat of snow as a potentially dimin- ishing resource. Drawing from a multitude of percep- tions and perspectives, melt forms the base from which the m20d team intends to program the available space. Contributions should seriously and critically address melt, however, optimistic and humorous submissions are equally welcome. Performative interpretations are especially encouraged. m20d16 spans over three days in late January 2016 during which a multitude of disci- plines are to become entangled within the landscape as well as each other.
REQUIRED COMPONENTS OF PROJECT PROPOSALS:
• Name and contact details.
• Description of the project in writing (German or English, max. 500 words).
• Support material in the shape of sketches, photos, videos, linked media etc.
• Realistic financial calculation.
SUBMISSIONS BY 20 July 2015 at the latest by email as a PDF file to: submissions@m20d.eu
SELECTION METHOD: The m20d team, with the sup- port of an independent, international program advisory committee will make the selection. Selections will be made solely based on artistic merit. All programmatic decisions are made excluding recourse to legal action.
LOCAL VIEWING: Personal appointments with m20d team are possible. Contact via email to arrange: info@m20d.eu
ORGANISATION: m20d is an architect and artist run non-profit organisation operating in Flachau, Austria. Team: Theo Deutinger, Heinz Riegler, Eliza Mante, Stefanos Filippas, Ana Rita Marques.
Signified by the transience of snow, melt can be viewed as synthesis or amalgamation, bringing forth new forms vis-à- vis a process of alchemy. Flachau, as a former mining town with two blast furnaces, and the broader view of Austria as a tourism and steel-producing nation bring additional local context to encourage interpretation. Melt may also be observed through a global lens, where age-old forces of melting are constantly brought to bare via recurring streams of migration and a long standing history of shifting and merging cultures; a process that on occasion also cultivates the enemies of any such melting. Melt provides further reference in connection to ever-warming alpine winters and the parallel threat of snow as a potentially diminishing resource. Drawing from a multitude of perceptions and perspectives, melt forms the base from which the m20d team intends to program the available space.Contributions should seriously and critically address melt, however, optimistic and humorous submissions are equally welcome. Performative interpretations are especially encour- aged. m20d16 spans over three days in late January 2016 during which a multitude of disciplines are to become entangled within the landscape as well as each other.
