Open Space announces an Open Call for Submissions to Convergent Boundaries:
A meeting of sound and sight.

Open Spaces seeks two British Columbian artists, one visual, one sonic, to create an artwork that brings sight and sound together in new way.

Convergent Boundaries
Convergent Boundaries refers to a place where two tectonic plates slide together to form a subduction zone or a continental collision. One produces a deep trench, the other mountains. Convergent Boundaries should also function as the theme of the artwork dealing explicitly with the boundaries between visual and sonic arts and how these boundaries may be transcended.

The meeting place between sight and sound within the arts is a difficult place to converge. Most often the result is that one aspect, either the visual or the sonic, is subservient to the other. The challenge is to create an artwork that brings these
worlds together to inhabit a territory where visual and sonic aspects contribute equally to the final outcome. Open Space challenges a team of two artists to explore interdisciplinary collaboration on these themes.

Submission should include:
• a one page proposal discussing the collaborative work
• a 250 word bio for each team member
• a CV of each team member
• 3 examples of previous works for each member (individual or collaborative)

A successful realization of this project may include (in any combination and is not limited to) an installation, a performance, multiple performances, live musicians, dance, film, sculpture, etc. Each member of the collaborative team will be given an artist’s fee and a small budget for artist supplies, the hiring of musicians, rent equipment, etc. In conjunction with the artwork the collaborative team is expected to document and host a discussion on the nature of their collaborative process as well as how they confronted the issues of multi-, inter-, trans-, anti-, disciplinary practices and temporal and non-temporal art.

Deadline for Submissions is September 1, 2010. Applicants will be notified by the committee by November 15, 2010. The chosen project will be presented at Open Space in May 2011. All decisions by the committee will be final.

Please send Submissions to:
Convergent Boundaries
c/o Open Space
510 Fort Street, 2nd Floor
Victoria, British Columbia
Canada V8W 1E6

Please note: In the instance of a single performance or a small installation this work may be mounted simultaneously with another exhibit at Open Space. Be
sure to check www.openspace.ca for floor plan and available equipment.