LIVE WORKS - performance act award volume 4 | Call for Application

The award LIVE WORKS includes a creative residency period, for nine selected projects. LIVE WORKS sees performance as a work space, and as an instrument and cultural exercise.The prize is unique in its particular attention to hybrid research, underlining the openness and fluidity of performance, its social and political implications and its level of public understandability. The competition is open to a wide range of emerging performative actions, including: media arts, lecture performances, task performances, text-based performances and multimedia storytelling, relational practices and workshop-based projects, flash mobs, politically engaged and activist project,experience design, fashion design and relational urbanism.

Artists and professionals from any geographic location can enter the competition, as individuals or in groups, with a single project. The competition only accepts unpublished or long-term projects that need to be developed and/or concluded, for which participation would represent a continuing or final chapter.
The nine projects selected by LIVE WORKS will be invited to participate in a production residency at Centrale Fies from 1st to the 10th July 2015, during which they will be awarded with a budget of € 800,00 to produce their performance. The production of the performance projects during the residency will be supported by diverse types of curatorship, from theoretical to technical development.
During the residency phase, Centrale Fies will provide a technician and a production manager to assist the artists as they develop the selected projects. The residency phase is an essential part of the development of the competition and the selected projects.
In the event that the residency cannot be carried out in the period indicated in the competition announcement, it is possible to organize alternative forms of residency.
The proposal for an alternative residency must be justified by the typology and characteristics of the projects presented.
The performances produced will be presented during the 36th edition of the Drodesera Festival of Performing Arts. On this occasion, the nine finalists will be evaluated by a jury who will select the winner.
The winning artist will be offered the possibility of an additional residency phase at Centrale Fies and a € 1000,00 prize (net).

TERMS AND CONDITIONS
Artists who intended to participate must:

1. Fill in the online participation form or find it on www.centralefies.it

2. Attach their portfolio, including a personal statement and curriculum vitae. Required format: .pdf. Accepted languages: english, italian. The documentary material must be contained in a single compressed folder, no bigger than 10mb.

3. Attach a description of the performance project to be developed during the residency period. The description should include an abstract (max. 1000 characters / three A4 pages, including photos, images) in .pdf format. Accepted languages: english, italian. The documentary material must be contained in a single compressed folder, no bigger than 10mb.

4. Attach links to any audiovisual material. Accepted formats: .avi, .mov, mpeg, mp4, mp3. Accepted languages: all.The material must be contained in an external server (vimeo, YouTube, other) with the link and any necessary password provided.

5. Pay a € 24,00 registration fee, which partially covers the administrative costs, via on-line form () or bank transfer.

Registration for participation must be sent by midnight on the 7th March 2016. Candidates who submit after this deadline will not be accepted.

During the residency period, the organisation will cover room and board costs. Transport costs will be reimbursed up to a maximum of € 200,00 for each of the projects selected. For foreign candidates, Centrale Fies and Viafarini will seek to provide a letter of invitation for eventual applications for a grant or mobility fellowship.

The selection will be conducted in two phases: the nine projects finalists will be adjudicated by the competition organization. The nine selected finalists will agree to the residency phase and will be successively exhibited on the evening of 25th, 26th and 27th July 2016.
Each evening includes the presentation of three projects and a guest performer: Nástio Mosquito,Guido van der Werve, Pauline Curnier Jardin. At the end of the third day presentation will be announced the winner of the fourth edition of LIVE WORKS.

The jury, in addition of identifying the winner, will be actively involved in public and private meetings to analyze some basic steps processed by the performance offered to the audience.


JURY
The Jury of LIVE WORKS Vol.4 is composed by:

• Aaron Cezar
  Director of Delfina Foundation (London)


• Beatrice Merz
  Director of Fondazione Merz (Turin)


• Charles Aubin
  Associate Curator at Performa (New York) and Fondation Galeries Lafayette (Paris)


• Lorenzo Benedetti
  Indipendent curator (Amsterdam, Paris)


• Marwa Arsanios
  Artist, Co-founder of 98Weeks (Beirut)

The jury has the discretion to not announce one or more finalists or the final winner.
A tie for final place will not be admitted.
The finalists will be notified via websites: www.centralefies.it

DATES AND DEADLINES
15th January 2016 | competition announcement
7th March 2016 | competition entry deadline
4th April 2016 | finalists announcement
1st - 10th July 2016 | the residences of the finalists
25th, 27th, 28th July 2016 | performance presentations
27th July 2016 | announcement of the winner of LIVE WORKS Vol.4

PAYMENTS AND CONDITIONS
The competition registration fee partially covers the administration costs, and amounts to € 24,00. The artists must keep a copy of the payment made. The registration fee is not reimbursable.
The payment of the registration fee can be made:

• On-line with a credit card
  Within the registration form, making the payment in the relevant section through the PayPal service (if the credit card is not in the name of the person participating directly in the competition, it is obligatory to specific the name of the card-holder in the on-line registration form).


• Bank transfer
  As an alternative to payments made with PayPal, it is possible to register for the competition using a bank transfer. In this case, it is obligatory to make the transfer before filling in the online form. In the payment section of the form, participants should insert the reference code of the transfer: CASSA RURALE ALTO GARDA - IBAN: IT42 M080 1634 7600 0000 1141 273 – BIC CCRTIT2T04A - in the name of IL GAVIALE soc. coop. the payment description should be “Registration LIVE WORKS 2016, name and surname of the artist / name of group”.We do not accept any charges for transfer costs, on penalty of registration cancellation.

Centrale Fies is a space organized for live spectacles, and is equipped with specific technical
equipment. Together with the competition announcement, a downloadable kit with diagrams and images of the space is available.
The evaluation of the performance project’s feasibility within the requirements stated in the competition announcement is the responsibility of the artist.
For information on the equipment available, or other information, please write to: liveworks@centralefies.it

Participants must guarantee the intellectual property of the developed presentations. The work that involve non-original music or images must guarantee the relative rights and must cover any eventual rights necessary.
The material presented and the performance produced will remain the property of the author.
In the framework of LIVE WORKS, Centrale Fies is setting up a permanent Collection of Performance Art whose aim, beyond the simple documentation, is to explore different possible relations between ephemeral production and its traces, and to question the notion of performativity in objects and traces.
During the residency, artists are asked to consider this questions as well as invited to participate to the Collection through a donation if they and Centrale Fies consider it appropriate.

Centrale Fies reserves the right to publish the candidacy, without additional advisement, and to organize various activities for the appropriate promotion of the project and its participants.

The Competition Authority is Centrale Fies: Il Gaviale Società Cooperativa, via Gramsci 13, 38074 - Dro (TN). Participation in the competition requires complete and unconditional acceptance of the Trento tribunal. The translation of the current competition announcement is for informational purpose only. In case of disputes, the Italian text will be the sole reference point.