Submission: November 28, 2022
Registration: November 21, 2022
Language: English
Location: Global
Prizes: Please see details below
Type: Open
So how could we design A HOUSE FOR JIMI HENDRIX, THE HOUSE OF FREE FEELING ?
To attempt to move beyond our limits. To be those “arrows of longing” Nietzsche invited us to be. Are we up to the challenge ? We only have to try.
‘Yeah, well my arrows are made of desire
From far away as Jupiter’s Sulphur mine
Say my arrows are made of desire, desire
From far away as Jupiter’s Sulphur mines
Way down by the Methane Sea, yeah
I have a hummingbird and it hums so loud
You think you were losing your mind, hmm…’
“Voodoo Chile”
Hey, Joe…
Hey anybody…
Hey ourselves…
What is life ?
And how would life be possible, without passion ?
Unfortunately it does seem to be possible, for so many people.
But we invite you, now, towards PASSION.
Nothing else but passion.
PASSION, PASSION, PASSION.
Let’s imagine A HOUSE FOR JIMI HENDRIX
For this eternally young man who transformed the guitar into a magical toy… and let’s not be nostalgic.
Let’s have vitality.
Let’s have exuberance.
Let’s die before we die.
Let’s bring the same energy into our buildings that Jimi brought to his music.
Let’s dream and let’s sing and let’s build.
This year will be 80 years since Jimi was born.
Even if, for now, only through our imagination.
Didn’t Picasso say that it took him four years to paint like Raphael and a lifetime to paint like a child ?
But the child is animated by that “free feeling” that Jimi Hendrix might have liked his music to be named,
although he resisted having his music labeled…
FREE FEELING
So how could we design A HOUSE FOR JIMI HENDRIX, THE HOUSE OF FREE FEELING ?
To attempt to move beyond our limits. To be those “arrows of longing” Nietzsche invited us to be. Are we up to the challenge ? We only have to try.
A HOUSE FOR JIMI HENDRIX.
We are waiting to receive from you THE HOUSE OF FREE FEELING.
JURY
Ed Keller Chief of Jury [architect, guitarist]
Elliott Sharp [guitarist, composer ]
Matias del Campo [architect, musician]
Sandy Ewen [guitarist, architect]
Ezio Blasetti & Danielle Willems [architects, coders]
Ben Goertzel [founder of SingularityNET, musician]
Dianne Krouse [musician, leader of Jam Galaxy project]
Carla Leitao [architect]
SUBMISSION AND PARTICIPATION
Music was Jimi’s house. Sound was where Jimi gave birth to new universes.
Perhaps you are an architect, a musician, a sound designer, a filmmaker, you work with your hands, with instruments, with software, you collaborate with AI: we welcome you to imagine Jimi’s house as a space, a sound, a gesture, a movement that can open a new universe.
We accept WORK in ANY size and MANY formats that responds to the theme.
All competitions are free to enter.
SCHEDULE
January 10, 2023: Register for Competition.
January 15, 2023: Submission of Work. ICARCH posts Work Online.
February 2023: Zoom Symposium with Jury and Architects/Musicians/Filmmakers/Artists
PRIZES
At the moment, ICARCH does not provide cash prizes nor require entry fees.
