An ocularcentric assault on the erotics of visuality
Butcher Gallery is accepting submissions of video and performance for a curated video installation! Submissions are due Friday April 23, 2010 at 11:59 p.m., for presentation at the gallery in early summer.
We are looking for video submissions pertaining to themes of trash, desire, destruction, domination and communion in sexy, violent, video (art) made for the Internet or inspired by it. Live performances, performance in front of projection, or performance on video are all welcome. Guest curator, Jennifer Chan will disgorge the selected submissions in a mash up projection installation. Submissions need not be overtly sexy or violent and can be found footage, documentary, animation, violence to or against images, fetishistic…etc.
We are calling for submissions from emerging artists, graduating students, recent graduates, and vloggers. This one night screening provides artists and non-artists, amateur producers, performers and/or web geeks with an alternative exhibition experience.
Accepted artists must consent to their work being remixed, mashed, looped, and effectively hacked apart to pieces by curator Jennifer Chan. High quality .mov files or DV video and stills should be available for accepted submissions. Butcher will provide technical assistance where possible and basic audio/video equipment for live performance (see equipment list).
We welcome submissions from outside of Toronto, but please note that Butcher Gallery cannot provide curator or artist fees, travel fees, or cover the transporting or insurance of artwork—although we wish we could.
All submissions will be reviewed by a selection committee of emerging artists and relevant professionals.
All submissions must include:
- Name
- Contact information: 1) E-mail (our primary mode of communication) 2) Phone number
- title and video via URL link to hosted video, or compressed .mov or h264 video files.
- Performance: video documentation and/or project description (250 words max)
Optional, but not necessary:
- artist statement (1 page)
- current C.V.
- website URL
For performance proposals: please include:
1) list of materials provided by the artist, including any software and audio-visual equipment
2) supplementary documentation of proposed work (DVD is preferred, however, URL links or JPG images are also accepted)
3) duration
Please send all questions and submissions to videobattle(at)butchergallery.com with title “Video submission” or “Performance submission”
Curator bio:
Jennifer Chan is an artist-curator specializing in Visual Culture & Communication at University of Toronto Misssissauga/Sheridan College. She has curated for Vtape and InterAccess Electronic Media Arts Centre and now assists with programming for Gendai Gallery. Jennifer is a recipient of the 2009 Trinity Square Video Award and 2008 Mississauga Arts Awards for Emerging Talent in Visual Arts. She has exhibited at VMAC, Nuit Blanche and Gallery 1313.
Butcher Gallery is an alternative presentation space in Toronto that is a proactive response to the lack of exposure of hyper-contemporary local and international emerging artists. Spurred by the rising popularity of online exhibitions, Butcher’s goal is to bring the inaccessibility and anti-tactile themes of these collections to three-dimensional reality. Traditional, as well as non-conventional exhibitions, such as lecture series, special installation projects, screenings, and curator/artist collaborations are in Butcher’s future. Founded by and under the direction of Brad Tinmouth and Lili Huston- Herterich with curatorial assistance by Kaitlin Till-Landry, Butcher Gallery is a new and refreshing departure from current art spaces in Toronto.