Expired: VISUAL ARTS WORKSHOP AND SALON DISCUSSION OPEN CALL: GROOVE BIENNALE II AND THE BRITISH COUNCIL

15th January 2025 /
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Deadline

19 January 2025

Website

https://www.instagram.com/dormantyouth/

Opportunity Description

This open call is an invitation for up to 50 applicants to participate in an in-person Visual Arts Workshop at Groove Biennale II during the day on Saturday 1 February 2025. The invitation is specifically targeted at Queer, Black and/or Femme artists or creatives with a keen interest in queer placemaking, temporality, and/or experimental spatiality that involves music (sub)cultures.

Groove Biennale II, presented by DORMANTYOUTH in partnership with Jagermeister Night Embassy, is the second edition of a bi-annual music and architecture festival. The alternative festival is back in 2025 from 30 January until 1 February, this time supported by The British Council, to bring you a celebration of alternative nightlife creative scenes that originate, find home, or grow in Johannesburg. The festival promotes inclusivity in both identity and music genre, and employs experimental interdisciplinary design to engage the city's traditional architectural profession with youth culture and nightlife.

Intended outputs to be experimented with at the festival workshop include (but not limited to) sculpting, performance/exhibition, stage sets, experimental spatial layouts, flyers and posters, video projections, 3D speculative art, fictional narrative/text, interactive/generative models, hacked merchandise, light installations/rigs, live painting — anything that speaks to modes of making alternative nightlife visually engaging, stimulating, sustainable, or exciting!

The workshops will be facilitated by UK based artists, Ebun Sodipo, Fa-Zah Raha, Seyi Adelekun.

Concluding the workshops is a short Salon Discussion, moderated by DORMANTYOUTH and led by

Ebun Sodipo (UK)
Fa-Zah Raha (UK)
Seyi Adelekun (UK)
Dr Sechaba Maape (RSA)
Andile Mangwana, a Tint Artist Resident (RSA)
Karl Ndebele, of Amazi Connexions (RSA)

How to Apply

We are looking for:

  • Registered undergraduate university students over 18 years of age;
  • Registered postgraduate university students;
  • Early-mid career visual artists/promoters/production specialists – no formal training required.

Only applications submitted via this linked Google Form will be accepted: APPLICATION FORM

A maximum of 50 confirmed participants will be emailed a confirmation letter with further workshop details and required capacity by 27 January 2025.

Criteria for the confirmation of participation is Diversity Equity and Inclusion based, interest specific and based on the alignment between the artist’s portfolio or CV and the festival’s programming, values and themes.

Please direct any workshop related enquiries to Chumisa via workshop.groovebiennale@gmail.com.