Open Call 2017
Cultures of Silence: Invisible Violence
Reception of works: 18 March, 2017
Deadline: June 30 2017

Cultures of Silence: Invisible Violence is a transatlantic call for video/performance works that happens in between Latin America and the Nordic and Baltic Countries*. The call looks for works that respond, discuss, resist and expand their visions towards the explicit representations of violence, promoted by massive media and building a violent aesthetics with stereotypical basis, polarizing the understanding in a binary system (good/bad, white/black, first world/third world�) invisibilaizing the complexity of the subtle violence’s and the relation between them.

By being directed at 2 continents, this open call seeks to compose a screening selection with different aesthetics, geography’s, economies and political perspectives of violence; it is a subtle open call that asks about the origin of violence, its assimilation, dispersion and transmission.

The following questions can help as a guide:
How to reveal violence? How to react, how to make it visible without reproducing it? What are the possible actions to resist and reject violence? How can local performance practices be contextualize in global events when they refer to specific situations? What are the mechanisms in performance practice that can be developed beyond the art scene, affecting other audiences?

More information on how to apply:
http://analco.cc/en/open-calls2017/