Deadline: 7 November 2019
\nCall for entries<\/p>\n
Connexion Festival \u00e2\u20ac\u201c I edition<\/p>\n
Opening, December 12th, 2019 \u00e2\u20ac\u201c in Rome and broadcasted worldwide! Mattatoio, Rome, Italy <\/p>\n
\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Connexion Festival\u00e2\u20ac\u009d is a cultural, educational, and collaborative project curated by the students of the Master in Arts and Culture Management of the Rome Business School (RBS). It proposes a unique exhibition and curatorial experience, featuring students based in more than 100 countries worldwide. Simultaneously, each student participates in the organization and management of the event, both from their virtual seat (in their own country), or in situ, in Rome, while completing their studies. This blended managerial and curatorial approach is the very core of Connexion Festival, whose objective is to become a yearly education appointment for international students, artists, and viewers to focus on current events characterizing our history: in Rome, as will be the physical exhibition, and simultaneously across the globe, like the net of international students reached virtually.<\/p>\n
This approach echoes the famous chaos theory of the \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcButterfly Effect\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 that celebrates the importance of little happenings in a given part of the world, to then trigger a wider phenomenon reverberating on a global scale.<\/p>\n
This year\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s theme will be the environment, analyzed from three sub-topics that are<\/p>\n
natural, spiritual, and virtual (environments). Artists applying to the call should either<\/p>\n
select a work from their portfolio and verbalize why and how it refers to one of three<\/p>\n
sub-topics; or propose an ad hoc project for the edition (see the \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcTechnical List\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 below for<\/p>\n