OSHA: CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS

OSHA

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS+PROPOSALS
OSHA, an independent curatorial project, is currently organizing a show considering the relation of autonomy with networked being. The aim of OSHA is to gather artists and theorists in collaboration and confrontation on particular projects, forming a temporary organization to foster the drives of art + process and to retain its potential within the inherent flux and vulnerability of experimentation. Working as a free-formed gathering, OSHA exists without the responsibility to a prescriptive structure of an established space and is thus able to conceive of the appropriate foundation, curatorial responsibility and physical identity for each project. This is an open call for work that engages with the pre-formative concepts. We will work will artists to realize difficult projects that may not be realized otherwise, and encourage dialogue amongst the participants where appropriate. We are expecting the project to originate in New York, from where it will then travel, accompanied by a series of lectures and salon style discussions, as well as relevant video screenings and performances. Read below as to the general theoretical foundation.

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OSHA seeks work, regardless of medium or discipline, that addresses aspects of the following: collective autonomy, networking, the forming of virtual entities or organizations, opposing forces, psycho-geographical mapping, biological and genetic alterity, toxicity, media flows, tangential drives, interruption + intervention, attraction + repulsion, virus operations, operating systems (software/lifestyle), identity (fixed/flux), mobility and distinction.

Counter beats and excess rhythms pulse excitedly, gathering and separating, parasitically searching for a host to move through. Social nodes of impulse, tense within a psycho-geographical drive for placement, flow through the collective, absorbing oneself in that which doubles and rebounds, necessarily affecting the insignificant tangents and drives of production. Media exists as a hyperbolic structure presenting a platform for culture to thrive, as a bacteria which incessantly variates, creates, doubles, falls back and crawls inward. The virile excess of mediated life forms interconnect embodiment through a seepage of information and meaning, with currents of fluidity leaching onto structural surface tension, boring through open pores into the facade of fixed networks, revealing an interactive embeddedness in networked society. Media’s amoebic and bacterial traces, the rhythm science of generation, of surpassing oneself in an intensive feedback loop with information, as information, flow in all of its indetermination; identifying, defining, placing, destroying, changing and unfixing. A cross-platform computability interconnects the informatic structures inherent in biology and technology. Intervention, disruption, care and openness are available and processed within the biological meshing of media and its fields of flow. The bio-media construction contours porous walls of vibrational excesses as culture, be it bacterial, neural or informational, resounds as a processor and composer of tension.


Deadline for proposals: February 15, 2006
Contact Info: send proposals, questions and images to [email protected]

Director: Peter Zangrillo