Call for Entries [PDF] :: tremor_4: live.doc - November 8-11, 2007 ::

Tremor Live Arts presents Tremor_4, a festival of performance art that will occur in the artist’s present location. This year’s version of the annual Tremor Live Arts Event, live.doc, will happen on the internet in the form of a gallery, online portal, program and archive. Tremor_4 will be a freestyle and open-source festival that depends on the cooperation of the participating artists to succeed. We invite your collaboration in the production of this shared event! The festival is divided into four arenas of activity; street art, art space, transmission and electronic arts, and missing link.

The live arts-based initiative Tremor, founded by Malcolm Smith, is organized and presented by the Tremor Live Arts Collective annually since 2004. The annual Tremor event is a platform for experimental live art including performance art, noise/sound/transmission arts, and multidisciplinary actions/interventions. Embracing live art as a dynamic field for creation, we step into the intersection of experimentation between diverse mediums and practices, mobile technologies, and new communities as well as new definitions of stage, audience, and the artist. Under this broad category, we find room for traditional performance art in addition to the continuously evolving field of new live art forms and their expressions.

Tremor 2004 and 2005 were both presented in City without Walls Gallery in Newark, NJ. Tremor 2004 was framed as a performance and noise art event, which included the sonic works of Magic Chopping Hummingbird and Damian Catera alongside the performance art of Yukiko Nakashima and Alice Vogler. Tremor 2005 saw an expansion of forms represented as well as a focus on the politics of place, exhibited in the work of Dirk Adams and George Kinjo Ericson. They show not only an experimentation in formal terms but a concern with the place in which the action takes place, the place of the gallery, its temporality and insertion.

In 2006, Tremor moved to Bogotá, Colombia for Tremor_Bogotá where we made an international and national call for submissions. Colombian artists were selected by art critic, curator, and artist Andres Gaitan. Mapa Teatro Laboratorio de las Artistas, an important theater company in the field of experimentation in South America hosted the event, and La Pontificia Unversidad Javeriana de Colombia organized a conference on performance art for exchange and academic dialogue between the participating artists and the public.

Even though, the first two Tremors took place in the same city, (Newark, NJ) the vision of Tremor is to respond to the contingencies of a specific place.