Tag: liminality

Call for contributors: Lexicon of drifting

Call for contributors

Calypso36°21 is launching a call for contributions for the Lexicon of drifting, a participatory work produced as part of Out.of.the.blue.map.

The lexicon brings together fragments of narratives [words, expressions, places, images, laws] in order to compose alternative borderscapes, to experiment new ways for borders to be sensed, and made sense of. Being both a place of passage and rupture, the Mediterranean Sea constitutes a liminal territory for some of those who cross it. The work around the lexicon deconstructs this territory, to free ourselves from imposed narratives by exploring their dead angles.

The result of two years of collaboration, this evolving editorial object is composed of contributions from artists, activists, jurists, researchers, architects and people whose work, stories and imaginaries summon, challenge and question these frontier landscapes. The book will be developed, edited and exhibited throughout the [exhibitions+workshops+meetings] programme in Morocco, France and the Netherlands. It will be translated into Arabic, French and English.

The first version of the lexicon will be exhibited at the International Community for Arts Festival in Rotterdam from 24 to 29 March 2020. The deadline for contributions to this version is 20 February.

Publications Calendar

Version 1. Deadline for submissions February 21, 2020. Version 1 will be exhibited at the International Community Arts Festival in Rotterdam, March 24-29, 2020. It will be used as a working tool in a workshop organized during the festival.

Version 2. Deadline for contributions 5 May 2020. Version 2 will be presented in the group exhibition organized at Mahal Art Space, Tangier, from May 28 to June 29, 2020. It will be used as a working tool within the 2 workshops organized in Tangier on the sidelines of the exhibition. This version will be printed in risography in the Kulte Print Studio in Rabat.

Version 3. Deadline for contributions 1 September 2020. Version 3 will be presented in the group exhibition organized in Marseille as part of the programme Les Parallèles du Sud of the Manifesta13 biennial, from September 18 to October 16, 2020.

Contribute to the lexicon: calypso3621 [at] gmail.com

Out.of.the.blue.map

An itinerant curatorial research program

Out.of.the.blue.map is a context-sensitive, itinerant curatorial research program exploring the notion of permanent liminality within Mediterranean [fluid+solid] territories. Anchored between Morocco, France, and the Netherlands, the program operates a collective and critical rethinking of governance systems shaping the Mediterranean [fluid+solid] borderscapes. From 2019 to 2020, this collaborative effort brings together French, Moroccan and Dutch artists, researchers, designers, architects and activists whose works contest, question or summon Mediterranean [fluid+solid] geographies. The program is structured around a series of stopovers in Morocco, France and in the Netherlands, during which a cycle of exhibitions and workshops will be organised, from March to December 2020 [International Community of Arts Rotterdam + Mahal Art Space Tanger + Les Parallèles du Sud Manifesta 13 Marseille + Jan Van Eyck Academie Maastricht].

Lexicon

Resulting from a 2-years research, a lexicon will be developed, edited, and exhibited throughout the program. Co-produced with designers, artists, journalists and activists, it is an evolving, hybrid editorial object composed of fragments from juridical literature and reports, activists testimonies, artists, media and political discourses, informal narratives and imaginaries as well as visual elements. The lexicon constitutes in itself an alternative map to Mediterranean [fluid+solid] liminal spaces. It will grow at every step of the program, and will be exhibited throughout the year.

Out.of.the.blue.map constitutes an attempt to compose alternative narratives and maps, going beyond inherited narratives and colonial fictions ; to experiment new ways for borders to be sensed, and made sense of. Both a space of passage and of rupture, the Mediterranean Sea constitutes a liminal territory for some of those who cross it. The participatory work of the lexicon allows one to deconstruct this territory, and to free oneself from imposed narratives by exploring their dead angles.

For more information : https://calypso3621.com/