[rohrpost] [Fwd: Dislocate 08 - Festival for Art, Technology, Locality - Tokyo/Yokohama]

[Aram Bartholl]

*Dislocate 08*

International Festival for Art, Technology and Locality

September 2008 Yokohama, Japan

*Call for Submissions*

*Deadline: 14^th April*

*www.dis-locate.net <http://www.dis-locate.net/> *

Dislocate questions our notions of place and location in the face of 
perpetual motion through multifaceted environments. The velocity of this 
passage is accelerated through new technologies, but as a result how 
does this impact upon our encounter with place and our attempt to 
communicate this to elsewhere? Through an exhibition, symposium and 
workshop series Dislocate will examine this encounter and communication, 
taking a journey through surrounding spaces and exploring our transient 
connections.

Propelled through so many spaces with such momentum, mobility brings 
freedoms but also responsibilities. While in this state of passage how 
do we decide which spaces to engage with and what is our dialogue with them?

Considering the locations we constantly carry with us, the interaction 
between the internal/external, virtual/physical, real/imaginary, our 
locatedness is multiple, fragmentary and in constant flux. Nomadic in 
structure the festival will focus upon our kinetic force through these 
various intersecting sites. Employing transitions by foot, bike and 
public transportation Dislocate will form an expedition into the diverse 
routes of the city and its hidden spaces, while questioning our relation 
to the ground beneath our feet.

In this state of transit does our mode of transport isolate us from that 
which we travel through? Is there a destination? And how do we know when 
we have arrived?

*Exhibition*

Entering the current of the city, conducted through its circuits, in a 
constant state of disturbance, is it possible to configure with our 
environment? When shuttled at such velocities can we find any point of 
anchor? Roaming these streaming channels what do we transmit and what do 
we receive?

What makes up our experience and expression of place? How do we scan, 
read and send the information before us?

These will be particular areas of discussion which the Dislocate 
exhibition will contribute to. There will be an opportunity for work to 
be presented in selected exhibition spaces while connecting these sites 
with external sites. However the main strategy of the exhibition is to 
present itinerant works which investigate the surrounding environment, 
taking the viewer on a journey through the city, allowing a new 
experience of these immediate spaces and communicating this with other 
locations.

Required submission materials:

Project Outline

Technical Requirements

Examples of work (images/moving image/diagrams)

*Symposium*

Dislocate will hold an International symposium in the examination of 
art, technology and locality. The focus of these discussions will be 
upon 「Constructing Place」

In our rapid trajectories, what is it that we are moving through? How do 
we locate ourselves? How do we position ourselves in relation to our 
surroundings?

With reference to the impact of new media, we will examine how we 
formulate our notions of place and how we are tied to that which we 
inhabit. Does new technology strengthen our awareness of our 
surroundings or does it threaten this? In this discourse the potential 
of technologies to release us from location, overcome our coordinates, 
will be debated, questioning whether place is really something which can 
be run from. It may be suggested that location can not be escaped but 
nor is it a single point which we are confined within. Place is 
something we can not separate ourselves from and while technology may be 
a medium for experience, it is also the material of place itself.

The symposium presentations will be encouraged to take a 
workshop/discussion format and speakers will be led to consider 
alternative locations specific to their presentations, which may also 
take the format of excursions through the city.

Required submission materials:

1 page outline

CV

Supporting material

*Workshop*

Exploring the pathways of Yokohama

Yokohama is famous as a port of exchange, a gateway for international 
relations, a historical site of both commercial and cultural trade. With 
its various inlets and outlets,

Yokohama is a buzzing network of transactions and communications. But 
with our rapid movement through fluctuating lines how can we take 
account of each footstep? Utilizing these networks, trains, subway, 
roads, alleys in a scrutinization of the moving city, workshops will set 
out an expedition in which we reflect upon our roaming through urban 
space and the fleeting exchanges which occur here.

Required submission materials:

Workshop session Plan

Facility Requirements

CV

*Deadline: 14^th April*

*_How to submit_*

Material will not be returned

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If you are interested to participate in any of the above events please 
send proposals to:

Dislocate

Ginza Art Lab

Yogashi West 2F

7-3-6 Ginza Chuo-ku　Tokyo 104 0016　

Japan

Please state clearly in your application –

Name:

Address:

Phone Number:

Email address:

Website:

Project Title:

Outline of Project:

Technical Requirements:

*moving image works should be sent in mini DV format or avi data format

Application by email is also possible please limit any attachments to a 
total of 5MB

Please email to info at dis-locate.net <mailto:info at dis-locate.net>

If you require any further information please contact Emma Ota at 
info at dis-locate.net <mailto:info at dis-locate.net>

Apologies for cross-postings


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