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SE ACULILLÓ? | LA SUTURA TIERNA Opening at AS220: Saturday, September 1, 2018 * SUBMIT YOUR ART FOR ¿SE ACULILLÓ? | LA SUTURA TIERNA * What: ¿Se aculilló? is an ongoing series of performance events and art shows. The phrase, ¿Se aculilló?, is a Colombian taunt that roughly translates to “Are you scared?” More literally, ¿Se aculilló? refers to a sensation of the body (in particular, the ass) clenching or curling inward. Where: Previous installments have occurred at AS220 (Oct. 2017) and Trade Pop-up (Feb. 2018). The next show will be a multi-space show, happening at AS220 and at the Granoff Center for the Creative Arts on the Brown University campus. When: September 2018 Who: This is an open call for people who have origins, ancestral roots, and/or cultural ties to the region known as Latin America, including the Caribbean. Theme: We have titled this third installment La sutura tierna, or “the tender suture.” Artists are asked to consider the body and fear in relationship to this theme. With this, we are thinking about susto, an illness identified as regionally specific to Latin America and often translated as “soul loss.” Today, artists with marginalized identities are often expected to put their traumas on display. La sutura tierna hopes to acknowledge traumas but center healing, as we come together as a community to hold each other, tenderly. * GUIDELINES * Strong consideration for Black artists, Indigenous artists, LGBTQAI artists, and artists who have been marginalized or disenfranchised from traditional presentations of art. All mediums, including performance/live arts, will be considered. We will also accept proposals for new projects that have not yet been created or performed. For the part of the exhibit happening at the Granoff Center at Brown University, we are also looking to pair student artists and community artists who can collaboratively develop work for the show on Brown’s campus. As a student, you may submit as an individual artist or as a pair, with a community artist with whom you already have a relationship. If you submit individually, the curatorial team will pair your work with an artist working in Rhode Island. Submissions are open to graduate and undergraduate students.] * SUBMISSION MATERIALS * Ways you can submit: For more info: Email / phone (benjofaman@gmail.com / 214.934.7144) To submit, please include the following: Personal information: • Describe who you are, what you do, and why you want to participate [200 words or less] Information about your piece or proposal: Up to 5 images of your work or up to 5 minutes of video/audio/media
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SE ACULILLÓ? | GROUNDHOG DAY SUBMISSIONS DUE 11:59 PM on January 19th
34 Governor Street Opening February 1, 2018 | 6 PM – 9 PM * ABOUT THE SHOW * SE ACULILLÓ? | GROUNDHOG DAY is a continuation of the SE ACULILLÓ? series started in October at AS220’s Resident Gallery featuring Luna Ayala, Linda Behar, Saulo Castillo, Leandro Castro, Kat Chavez, Tamara Diaz, Snake Eyes, Orlando Hernández, Rica Maestas, José Menendez, and Kendall Rivera-Lane. The phrase, “Se aculilló?,” is a Colombian taunt that roughly translates to, “Are you scared?” More literally, Se aculilló? refers to a sensation of the body clenching up or curling inward in fear — a sensation specifically located in the ass. SE ACULILLÓ? | GROUNDHOG DAY is a weekend pop up exhibit at TRADE POP-UP responding to fears associated with Groundhog Day. According to the tradition, if it is cloudy when a groundhog emerges from its burrow on Groundhog Day, then the spring season will arrive early, some time before the vernal equinox. If, instead, it is sunny, the groundhog will see its shadow and retreat back into its den, and winter weather will persist for six more weeks. Examples of fears associated with Groundhog Day could be fear of a long winter, fear of seasonal depression, fear of human-created climate change and its on-going disasters, fear of expectations, fear of the foreclosure of possibilities (the groundhog only has two options: it sees its shadow, or it doesn’t) * GUIDELINES * All mediums, including performance/live arts, will be considered. Strong consideration for Black artists, Indigenous artists, LGBTQAI artists, and artists who have been marginalized or disenfranchised from traditional presentations of art. Given that the exhibit will take place over a limited time (a single weekend only), video, live art, and work with minimal installation needs will be given preference. * SUMISSION MATERIALS * To submit, please include the following: – A short bio OR statement of interest (200 words or less) Please send all submissions via e-mail to SeAculillo@gmail.com SUBMISSIONS DUE 11:59 PM on January 19th
¿Se aculillo? / Are you scared? FECHA TOPE: 15 SEPTIEMBRE 2017 Curada por: Benjamín Lundberg Torres Sánchez AS220’s Resident Gallery Inauguracion: Octubre 7, 2017 | 5 PM – 7 PM Acerca del show: ¿Se aculillo? / Are you scared? Es una exhibición emergente de duración de un mes en AS220’s Resident Gallery presentando obras de artistas visuales que están históricamente arraigados en la batalla constante de enfrentar el miedo o obras que contemporáneamente enfrentan al miedo. La frase ¿Se aculillo?, es una burla Colombiana que más o menos se traduce en “¿Tienes miedo.? Literalmente, aculillo se refiere a una sensación del cuerpo cuando se apriete o se enrolla hacia adentro. Este octubre, como parte del Mes de la Herencia Hispana, Lundberg Torres Sánchez invita a los artistas Latinx/Latine, a presentar trabajos relacionado a los temas de miedo, aprehensión y el cuerpo, o a la frase ¿Se aculillo? / Are you scared?. Nota sobre Latinx and Latine: El show utiliza las palabras Latinx y Latine como formas neutrales de género Latina/Latino. Latinx es un término neutral muy distintivo usado en Estados Unidos de Norteamérica, usado en espacios queer o radicales y consecuentemente, la academia en Estados Unidos. Latine (y la práctica de reemplazar “a/o” con la terminación “e”), por otra parte, es un lenguaje de género neutral que conjuga más fácil con el español hablado. Acerca de las presentaciones: GUIAS: Deben ser artistas locales de Rhode Island. Debe de identificarse como Latinx / Latine /Latino/a/latinoamericano/a/hispano para enviar su presentación/es. Serán considerados todos los medios artísticos, incluyendo actuaciones/artes vivas. Se considerara bastante a los artistas Afro-Latinx, artistas indígenas, LGBTQAI, y artistas que han sido marginados, desfavorecidos/desprotegidos de presentaciones tradicionales de arte. PRESENTACION DE MATERIALES: Para enviar su presentación favor de incluir lo siguiente: Un perfil/bio corto o una Declaración de interés (200 palabras o menos) CV/resume/historial Hasta 5 imágenes de su trabajo o hasta 5 minutos de video Favor de enviar todas sus presentaciones vía e-mail a benjofaman@gmail.com
¿Se aculillo? / Are you scared? DEADLINE: SEPTEMBER 15, 2017 Curated by Benjamin Lundberg Torres Sanchez AS220’s Resident Gallery Opening October 7, 2017 | 5 PM – 7 PM About the show: ¿Se aculillo? / Are you scared? is a one-month pop up exhibit in AS220’s Resident Gallery showcasing visual artists’ historically grounded and contemporary reckonings with fear. The phrase. ¿Se aculillo?, is a Colombian taunt that roughly translates to, “Are you scared?” More literally, aculillo refers to a sensation of the body clenching or curling inward. This October, as part of Hispanic Heritage Month, Lundberg Torres Sanchez invites Latinx/Latine artists whose work relates to themes of fear, apprehension, and the body, OR to the phrase ¿Se aculillo? / Are you scared? to submit work. Note about Latinx and Latine: The show title uses both Latinx and Latine as gender neutral forms of Latina/Latino. Latinx is a distinctly U.S. American, gender-neutral term that has been taken up by queer, radical spaces, and, subsequently, the academy in the United States. Latine (and the practice of replacing “a/o” endings with “e”), on the other hand, is a gender neutral language that more easily flows and conjugates in spoken Spanish. About submissions: GUIDELINES: Must be based in Rhode Island. Must identify as Latinx / Latine / Latino / Latina / Latin American / Hispanic to submit. All mediums, including performance/live arts, will be considered. Strong consideration for Afro-Latinx artists, Indigenous artists, LGBTQAI artists, and artists who have been marginalized or disenfranchised from traditional presentations of art. SUMISSION MATERIALS: To submit, please include the following by September 15th: A short bio OR statement of interest (200 words or less)
Call for Artists of Color in North-Eastern U.S. Participate in an expanded re-performance of Safety Pin Removal (2016) by Benjamin Lundberg Torres Sanchez, commissioned as a part of TRUST & DownStreet Art (Information below) Description: TRUST is looking for artists of color to join commissioned artist, Benjamin Lundberg Torres Sanchez, in re-performing Safety Pin Removal, a performance in response to the Post-Brexit, Post-Trump Election gesture of wearing a safety pin to indicate allyship with immigrants, refugees, and other marginalized people. (Read more here and here) Safety Pin Removal uses the body of the performer(s) as a site to test the limits of allyship with the public. During the original action, Lundberg Torres Sanchez revealed to the audience a safety pin that was piercing the skin near his collar bone. He described the piercing process, and observed the audience’s winces and grimaces. After naming and rejecting their empathetic responses, Lundberg Torres Sanchez then asked them to collaborate in removing the safety pin from his skin — an act that requires collaboration, risk, trust, intimacy, and bodily contact. The action ends when the safety pin is removed. This remounted and expanded version, will experiment with taking the action into public space (as opposed to the theater or the gallery), research how different bodies experience performing the same action for an audience, and examine allyship between the performers themselves. Requirements: Must be a person of color. Please e-mail safetypinremoval@gmail.com with a bio, CV/resume, and short statement of interest (100 words or less) by September 1st.
Adaptive Shade: Call for Artists [PAID] DEADLINE EXTENDED: APRIL 24, 11:59 PM Adaptive Shade invites artists working in live arts to respond to Sherwin Williams Paint’s color catalogue, with a specific emphasis on how race is imagined by Sherwin Williams through its practice of naming colors. Performances will be featured in and around the gallery space on Washington Street during a single performance event on May 12th, framed by work from the Casa de Casta series (selections below). Proposals can include but are not limited to performance art, dance, music, theater, sculpture, and video. Priority is given to queer & trans artists of color based in Providence working outside of the support of institutional spaces (e.g. Brown, RISD, AS220…) Each artist is guaranteed a stipend + a door split. Payment will be given within one week of the performance date. Proposal requirements: – Bio/CV or short statement about yourself Optional: Link to website or social media handles THIS CALL FOR PROPOSALS IS NOW CLOSED. Resources: |
