Call for Submissions - Voiceunder

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS - Voiceunder

SIXES&SEVENS are hosting a one night screening event at the White Box Studio at Nottingham’s Broadway Media Centre. We are looking for moving image works, lasting no longer than five minutes that deal with the relationship between the image and the soundtrack/voiceover.

We are interested in work that plays with the tension between these two registers, touching upon the fusion that happens between a sound and an image when they occur at exactly the same time and the questions they ask each other.

The Screening will be held at the beginning of May (exact date tbc) and offers a great opportunity for artists to showcase their work in Nottingham’s exciting and innovative Media Centre.

Please send proposals or links to the moving image piece you are choosing to submit to:

sixesandsevens.submissions@hotmail.com

or - send us a DVD of your proposed moving image piece in its entirety to:

248 Alfreton Road,
Nottingham,
NG7 5LS

Your proposal must include documentation of previous work and a short description of your practice. (500 words MAX)

DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS 12.00pm Friday 26th March

Satellite

Nottingham based art collective, Sixes & Sevens, will host their second event 'Satellite' in the café bar of Nottingham Contemporary. The show will feature work from an exciting range of artists and musicians from across the country in response to Nottingham Contemporary’s current exhibition 'Star City'. From Soviet ideals of the future to the Science fiction of the communist era, 'Star City' is a show dedicated to exploring past visions of the future as well as the legacy of the space race. For one night only, Sixes & Sevens will transform Café.Bar.Contemporary into a platform for discussion, performance and video that will serve to investigate further the themes of Nottingham Contemporary’s superb current exhibition.

Line up (more TBC)

Miss Hypnotique will be playing the Theremin, performing classical and popular Russian music including works played by Latvian Theremin virtuoso Clara Rockmore. The Theremin is the world's first electronic musical instrument, played without touch. It was invented in 1920’s Russia and represented the sonic values of the USSR. After playing the instrument Lenin declared ‘Soviet Russia equals Communism plus electrification’ before sending its inventor Lev Termin to Europe and USA to spread the Soviet electronic gospel.

Cosmunatic Peoples Unified Party Of Free Sound; Joey Bell along with members of ‘Cuban Crime Wave’ (taking their inspiration from German experimental band ‘Einsturzende Neubauten’) will perform a set using samples from sci fi movie scores.

Adam Goodge will give a performance lecture presentation uniting the works of two unlikely bedfellows, Karl Marx and Cliff Richard.

Aaron Williamson presents a cover version music video of David Bowie's ‘Drive-In Saturday’ which is performed entirely in British sign language by the artist and a team of silent, space age backing dancers.

Gareth Hudson presents a video art work based on an outlook on Ascension and the persistence of loss.

Wiracha Daochai will count down to the return of soviet ideology with his unique performance ‘Red Bomb’.

Meg Tait and Emily Birrell present an interactive installation. The latest gaming technology is explored as the Guitar Hero phenomenon is parodied in cardboard and is arguably more fun than ever.

Simon Raven will be performing as a ‘Star waiter’ throughout the evening offering the audience the chance to take a little piece of his costume away with them at the end of the night.

Sarah Duffy will be giving us a different take on David Hasselhoff’s legendary ‘Looking for Freedom’.

Gemma Land will be showing ‘THE LOST VIEWS OF SPACE CITY’, a photographic project investigating the Market Estate in North London. The estate was built in the sixties and was originally nicknamed ‘Space City’ by the press. The estate has been plagued with anti social problems since it was built and is now due to be demolished next month.


Satellite is curated by Meg Tait, Emily Birrell and Sarah Duffy