Open Call

Luminous Bodies

Arts Unfold

No Funding
Toronto, Canada

Eligibility

Professional Artist.

Number of Participants

Collectives are accepted.

Deadline

Selection Results (Announcement Dates)

Duration

July 18, 2022 - August 02, 2022

Costs

  • CA$876.00 program fee (one-time)

Facilities

Alternative Processes Darkroom, Co-Working, Darkroom, Desk Space, Installation Space, Piano, Shared Studio, Silver Darkroom, Wood Shop

Housing

Live/Work, Private Room, Shared Bathroom, Shared Room

Meals

No meals

Public Programs

Community Engagement , Critique, Demo Day, Discussion, Exhibition, Group Dinners, Online Exhibition, Open Studios, Panel, Performances, Professional Development, Readings, Retreat, Visiting Professionals

Disciplines

Animation, Augmented Reality, Biotech, Choreography, Cinematography, Collective, Composers, Conceptual Art, Crafts & Trades, Dance, Design, Digital Media, Drawing, Fiber Arts, Fiction, Film, Illustration, Immersive Experiences, Installation, Interdiscplinary Arts, Land Art, Moving Image, Multimedia, Music, Music Composition, Opera, Painting, Performance Art, Photography, Poetry, Printmaking, Public Art, Research, Scholar, Scientists, Sculpture, Singing, Sound Art, Tech, Textile, Theatre, Thinkers, Video Art, Virtual Reality, Visual Arts, Wearable Technology

Languages

English, French, Portugese

Program Description

Luminous Bodies is a two-week residency to create artworks that shed new light on the human body. Its objective is to challenge “normativity” and Otherness. Its goal is to reinvent and re-present the body in most inclusive and diverse ways. Resident artist talks, gallery tours, visual and textual references, guest artist talks, and regular critiques (individual with Facilitator and group critiques) help uncover how our bodies are culturally and aesthetically constructed, displayed and controlled. Residents work individually or collaboratively to create artworks that reinvent the body through media of their choice, such as photography, video, installation, drawing, painting, performance, installation, sound art, movement art, media art, etc. There will be a closing exhibition of artworks created during the residency (if preferred, artists may show in open studio fashion). The essence of Luminous Bodies is about bringing to light heterogeneous bodies. It welcomes people in all walks o

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