[spectre] Low Lives: Occupy! Announcement / Call to Artists and Co-Presenters

[Jorge Rojas]

Dear Spectres,

*Low Lives* is pleased to announce that we have partnered with *Occupy with
Art* and *The Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics* to launch
a new program called *Low Lives: Occupy!*

On March 3rd, 2012, Low Lives: Occupy! an international platform designed
to enable artists, audiences, and presenters in alliance with the Occupy
movement to support the occupation, will transmit live performances,
actions, and happenings online as they occur in real time around the world.
Participating artists, artist collectives, Occupy groups, and presenters
worldwide will expand the reach and visibility of the Occupy protests by
broadcasting to an international community and audiences.
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Over the past 4 years Low Lives has developed a platform that invites and
enables artists, audiences, and presenting venues to "plug in and
participate" from anywhere an internet connection exists. This
technological platform brings a history of supporting artists’ full
creative freedom to imagine new worlds and is now offered to artists
interested to present work in solidarity with #OWS. Online documentation of
the live event will allow Low Lives: Occupy! to inspire online audiences
into the future.


*Artist Eligibility:*
• Low Lives: Occupy! seeks projects including, but not limited to,
performance art, public actions and interventions, happenings, acts of
protest and civil disobedience, taking place in both real and virtual
spaces.
• All artists, artist collectives, individuals, and groups in solidarity
with the Occupy protests are invited to submit proposals.
• Artists who have participated in previous Low Lives projects are eligible
to participate.

*Co-Presenters:*
• Low Lives: Occupy! invites any person, group of people, and presenters to
“plug in and project” the broadcast in their homes, venues, building
facades, and other public spaces for their local communities
• Technical support is provided in advance of the event date to facilitate
Co-Presenters preparation and to coordinate overall production
• No fee to participate
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Presenting Partner and official NYC venue:*
Hemispheric Institute of Performance & Politics
New York University, 20 Cooper Square, Fifth Floor, New York, NY
Hemisphericinstitute.org
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Presenting Partner and Online location: *
Occupy With Art - Occupywithart.com

*Important Dates:*
February 6: Submission deadline
February 10: Submitting artists/Individuals/Groups notified
March 3: Low Lives: Occupy! 6:00pm – 10:00pm EST <http://www.lowlives.net/>

*Note*- the Low Lives 4 Networked Performance Festival is scheduled for
April 27 - 28, 2012. A separate call for proposals will be issued January
30 2012.

For details visit www.lowlives.net


*About Low Lives *
Founded in 2009, Low Lives is an international platform for live
performance-based works transmitted via the internet and projected in real
time. Low Lives examines works that critically investigate, challenge, and
extend the potential of performance practice presented live through online
broadcasting networks. These networks provide a new alternative and
efficient medium for presenting, viewing, and archiving performances. Low
Lives offers local and global audiences a contextual frame from which to
consider live performance in both the physical and virtual space.

The platform celebrates the transmission of ideas beyond geographical and
cultural borders, and opens multicultural and intergenerational dialogue
through visual language, new technologies, and contemporary expressions.
Low Lives is about both the presentation and transmission of performative
gestures from a particular place and time. Low Lives produces an annual
Networked Performance Festival. For more information, visit
www.LowLives.net<http://www.lowlives.net/>

*About Occupy With Art*
Occupy With Art (Formerly Occupennial) is an affinity group of the Arts &
Culture working group. We are artists, writers, curators, and art
professionals lending our skills to produce art, cultural events and
projects, with a particular focus on OWS itself as a social art process. We
work with organizations and artists that require a focused team to
facilitate their projects. We produce art projects, large-scale events, and
exhibitions. Our website, www.occupywithart.com, serves as an information
hub for current and past art-related activities in the OWS movement. We are
committed to building relationships within OWS and with outside arts
organizations.

*About Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics*
The Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics is a collaborative,
multilingual and interdisciplinary network of institutions, artists,
scholars, and activists throughout the Americas. Working at the
intersection of scholarship, artistic expression and politics, the
organization explores embodied practice—performance—as a vehicle for the
creation of new meaning and the transmission of cultural values, memory and
identity. Anchored in its geographical focus on the Americas (thus
“hemispheric”) and in three working languages (English, Spanish and
Portuguese), the Institute's goal is to promote vibrant interactions and
collaborations at the level of scholarship, art practice and pedagogy among
practitioners interested in the relationship between performance and
politics in the hemisphere. www.hemisphericinstitute.org/hemi/


Wishing you all a great 2012!

Jorge Rojas
Founding Director
Low Lives <http://www.lowlives.net>
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