Festival SOS 4.8, Murcia (Spain) :: Call for Artists - Visual Arts, Visual Jockeying (VJ), Net Art, and Performance :: Curators: Christiane Paul, Rirkrit Tiravanija, Paco Barragán :: Organized by Dept. of Culture Region Murcia and LegalMusic :: Deadline March 15, 2008.

Murcia launches the event SOS 4.8: 48 hours of non-stop artistic creation related to the concept of sustainability. Sustainability basically means meeting the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs. In words of the artistic director, Paco Barragán, SOS 4.8 understands sustainability not only in exclusively ecological terms  – an issue that has become very urgent but at the same time very trendy these days - but also as a concept that allows us to reflect and re-frame visual culture, democracy, information society, techno-sustainability, consumer society – CULTURE - as well as tourism, immigration, nature, and urbanism – ENVIRONMENT.

48 HOURS FORMAT: New times impose new challenges, and as a result suggest new formats. Thus SOS 4.8 has been conceived as an intense laboratory where during 48 hours artistic creation and exhibition will go hand in hand blurring the strict lines between artist and audience. Thus, all the selected works will be produced in situ in 24 hours and exhibited the next 24 hours. The artist will have the exhibition site or the city of Murcia as stage to carry out his or her proposal.

FROM INTERPASSIVITY TO INTERACTIVITY: From the traditional artistic institutions interpassivity (Robert Pfaller), wherein communication is only one-way, hierarchical, and imposed on the visitor, SOS 4.8 proposes a more democratic and exciting concept of interactivity by allowing the public to assist and be part of the artistic process. Culture, art and artistic practices are not any longer medium-based but idea-based. So visual artists, not only stick to their medium but engage with Visual Jockeying (VJ) and Digital Film -Micha Klein-, or play in a gothic rock band -Marc Bijl-, thus creating challenging exchanges between contemporary culture and arts.

OPEN CALL AND SECTIONS: SOS 4.8 is a mix of invitational and open call. All artists are invited to take part in the open call, regardless of their nationality, residence or age. A total of 6 artists will be selected by the curators from the proposals sent via the open call to our website http://www.sos48.com for the following sections: I) Visual Arts II) Net Art or Visual Jockeying (VJ)
III) Performance.

The 6 artists from the open call will be invited, together with 6 artists selected directly by the curators, and 3 artists from Murcia selected by the Artistic Director, to come to Murcia to carry out the selected proposal on the 2nd and 3rd of May 2008.

ARTIST PER DIEM AND PRODUCTION BUDGET
The selected artists will receive the following:
I) (Total) Artist fee of 2..500 Euros
II) Production/Equipment materials up to 2..000 Euros
III) Flight and Hotel up to 2.500 Euros

For further information and participation, please look into the SOS 4.8 website. NOTE: Please read the FAQs and conditions carefully before sending your proposal.