FOREVER NOW

Artists-in-residence project at Vitalstatistix for Adhocracy 2013

WE ARE SEEKING 10 SOUTH AUSTRALIAN ARTISTS AND THINKERS TO JOIN THE FOREVER NOW RESIDENCY 
27^th May to 10^th June

Collaborating with lead artists Willoh S Weiland, Jeff Khan, Brian Ritchie & Thea Baumann

Expressions of interest now open, due Monday 1^st April

Don’t miss this incredible opportunity!

Forever Now is a cross-artform curatorial project that responds to our cultural obsession with immortalising ourselves. In the footsteps of the Voyager Golden Records, sent into space in 1977 by NASA as a record of culture and science at that time, Forever Now will research, curate and spectacularly launch a digital ‘golden’ data record of culture NOW.

For Adhocracy 2013, Vitals is hosting a residency with Forever Now curators Willoh S Weiland (Artistic Director, APHIDS, VIC), Jeff Khan (Co-Director, Performance Space, NSW), Brian Ritchie (Curator, MONA FOMA, TAS), Thea Baumann (independent artist) and other guest artists.

In a finger to the ‘best of humanity’ framework of Voyager, the artists are looking at the queer, the horrible, the sustainable and the precious, alongside the possibilities for digital democracy. An initial catalogue of content will be launched at the 19^th International Symposium on Electronic Art (ISEA 2013) in June. Following a global public submission and response process, the Forever Now record will be spectacularly sent into space by Florida’s Deep Space Communications team, to coincide with MONA FOMA, January 2014.

During our Adhocracy 2013 residency, ten selected SA artists, curators and creative producers will help prepare the ISEA 2013 presentation. You will collaborate with the Forever Now curators to interrogate, explain and celebrate the initial choices of the record by making video-based and other responses. In three public forums, each night of Adhocracy, both the Forever Now works and the responses will be presented.

All the info on the residency and how to apply is here

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