call: Luminous Bodies – residency
Call for entries
Deadline: 31 May 2014
LUMINOUS BODIES
International Call / Gibraltar Point Thematic Residency
Facilitator, Teresa Ascencao
Program Dates: July 11 – 25, 2013
Submission Deadline: March 31, 2014
Cost including taxes: $975 (private bedroom) $700 (shared bedroom)
Includes: accommodation, large shared studio, workshop facilitation, and an exhibition
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Luminous bodies is a two-week thematic residency to create artworks that shed new light on the human body. Its objective is to challenge “normativity†and “otherness.†Its goal is to reinvent and re-present the body in most inclusive and diverse ways. Audio-visual screenings, guest artist talks followed by studio visits, a gallery tour and readings, uncover how our bodies are culturally and aesthetically constructed, displayed and controlled. Cinema, artworks, phi losophy, theology, transpersonal psychology, post-colonialism and social movements are explored for ideas in transgressing these forces. Residents work individually or collaboratively to create artworks that reinvent the body through media of their choice, such as photography, video, installation, drawing, performance art, new media etc. Critiques of residents’ work in progress occur on a regular basis. There will be a closing exhibition of artworks created during the residency.
Gibraltar Point offers rich potential for the creation of corporeal artworks amongst its blue-flag beaches (one of them being clothing optional) and natural surroundings of Lake Ontario, forests and gardens filled with flowers, fruit and vegetables. On the island, there are tiny quaint homes, a hobby farm and antique carnival grounds. The Toronto city core is just a 15-minute ferry ride away! The essence of Luminous Bodies is about bringing to light heterogeneous bodies. It welcomes people in a ll walks of life and genders into a creative journey of critical innovation and self-discovery.
Teresa Ascencao is a media artist whose work deals with gender and sexuality constructs through unique cultural perspectives and technological approaches. Ascencao was born to Azorean parents in Sao Paulo, Brazil and immigrated to Canada at a young age. She graduated with distinction from the University of Toronto’s Honours Fine Art Studio program, and received her MFA from OCAD University specializing in Media Art and Sex-Positive Feminism. Her work has been exhibited widely in Canada and internationally. Ascencao lives and works in Toronto and teaches Experience Design and Photography at OCADU.
Luminous Bodies is limited to 10 residents. Skills guidance is available especially in photography, video editing and installation (all experience levels welcome). The cost for the two weeks including taxes is $975 for private accommodation, or $700 for shared. Prices inclu de sleeping quarters (private or shared), large shared studio, and workshop facilitation. Arrivals are on the 11th after 1pm and before 3pm, and departure on the 25th before 11am. Submissions are accepted until March 31st deadline. For more information visit luminousbodies.com or contact Teresa Ascencao at +1 (647) 521-2353 or info@LuminousBodies.com.
To apply, fill out the online form: artscape.wufoo.eu/forms/online-application-for-artscape-gibraltar-point/.
Artscape Gibraltar Point
443 Lakeshore Ave.
TORONTO, Ontario M5J 2W2
Canada
