Open Space announced an Open Call for Submissions to Convergent Boundaries:
A meeting of sound and sight.
Open Space was seeking 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's goal was to challenge a team of two artists to explore interdisciplinary collaboration on these themes.
Submissions were to include
• a one-page proposal discussing the collaborative work;
• a 250-word bio for each team member;
• a CV of each team member;
• three examples of previous works for each member (individual or collaborative).
A successful realization of this project could 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 was 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 was 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 was September 1, 2010. Applicants were notified by the committee by November 15, 2010. The chosen project was presented at Open Space in May 2011.