AMP: Artists' Meeting Place and Resource Collective

from Franklin Furnace

CALL FOR ART

The Work of Imagining: Art in the Age of “Apocalypse”

Part of the Reparations365 Series @Jack

JACK Theatre, Brooklyn NY

www.jackny.org

From the the demonization of "impractical" third parties and candidates, the mainstreaming of Donald Trump's white supremacy, and the celebration of centrist Hillary Clinton as a "solution," the 2016 US presidential campaign and election demonstrated a dearth of creative discourse about democratic politics and dissent. But this dearth exists within a larger context and set of preoccupations about the “end of the world.” How do we live, create, and think about the world in the middle of an(other) “apocalypse”? How might we imagine the end of the world as a possibility and an opening, rather than as the final destruction of the Earth and its inhabitants? What do you do and make when the world you imagined you lived in goes away?

What are the ways art, performance, theory, discourse, argument, and community-building might shift and expand our political and social imaginations? How can certain forms of creativity, sociality, and introspection help us survive our ongoing “apocalypse”? We call on artists, performers, political thinkers, organizers, intellectuals, and community members to contribute to this multimedia and multi-disciplinary performance. We especially invite submissions from NYC-based organizations and individuals.

Topics might include:

Protest and Dissent, Celebration, Sociality, Anti-Sociality, Creating alternate worlds

Dystopias, utopias, Community, Love, Desire, Race and Ethnicity

Disability Politics, Trans and Genderqueer art, Black Lives Matter, #NODAPL

Women and Girls, Immigration, Fascism/AntiFascism, Surveillance State

Black Girl Magic, Indigenous resistance, Muslim art worlds/activism, The undocumented

This call is open to all forms and genres of art.

Deadline for submission is February 28, 2017

Call with artists in March 2017

Performance: May 28, 2017

Apply at: https://form.jotform.com/JessePFein/call-for-art-the-work-of-imagining-

Questions: undergroundstudiesnyc@gmail.com