As part of the Rewire 2019 discourse programme, we are looking for artists, writers and critical thinkers to explore this year’s festival themes. Submit a short proposal for a longer text that will be commissioned and published with our editorial team. Deadline for proposal submissions is 18 February 2019.
For Rewire 2019, we invite artists, speakers and theorists to engage and reflect on this year’s festival themes, Instrumental Shifts and Staging Sounds (details below). During the festival, these themes will materialise into a conference programme on Friday 29 March, talks and presentations throughout the festival weekend, and a series of published texts.
In the run up to the festival, we are opening our platform to artists, writers and critical thinkers to explore the themes through written texts that will be commissioned and published with our editorial team. Submissions can comprise traditional text formats as well as speculative fiction, theoretical essays, poetry or creative writing. You can stick to a single theme, merge them, contradict them, make them entirely your own, interpret them through our music programme, or otherwise… it’s entirely open.
Please submit a short proposal of approx. 300 words describing which theme(s) you would like to address and how by 18 February 2019. Selected proposals will be commissioned by our editorial team. The commissioned text must be completed by 7 March 2019 and be between 500 to 1500 words. See below for detailed instructions.
Instrumental Shiftsprobes rapidly changing technology and the effects this has on music and society. It critically reflects on our dependency and embrace of all things technology, seeking answers to how this coincides and conflicts with musical and cultural progression and autonomy. There’s room to critically examine what technology is to music and the concentration on all things ‘high tech’ – machine learning, artificial intelligence, and so forth. Or perhaps what music can be for technology; the role music (and arts more generally) plays in an increasingly technologically complex world. Instrumental shifts can be narrowed down to individual technologies, how they have moved us forwardas a society, shifted us into new directions, or perhaps even stalled us. It can be opened up to speculative thinking; what comes next? and, where do we go from here?
Staging Soundobserves the performative nature of music; the experience, ritual,and show. It’s the creative process by which musical material is translated into performance. It’s the increasing pursuit for an experience beyond the sonic, and the urge for an artist to express ‘liveness’. It’s the changing environment for music to be listened to. What do these tell us about the state of music, music as entertainment, and music as commodity. Staging Sound speaks of the electronic music producers seeking new ways to express their music, and the many collaborative and multidisciplinary projects presenting at Rewire 2019; a widening network of adventurous possibilities made apparent, a means of knowledge production and exchange between fields of expertise. What patterns and trends are emerging, what is driving us towards these hybrid presentations, and where will it end?
→ Please email proposals to jo[at]rewirefestival[dot]nl by 18 February 2019;
→ Proposals should be no longer than 300 words;
→ Commissioned texts should be completed by 7 March 2019 and be around 500 to 1500 words
→ Include your name, contact details,and location
→ Commissioned texts will be paid and you will be invited as a guest to Rewire 2019
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