Open Call

OPEN CALL FOR IDEAS : LOCALIZE ENCOUNTERS : BEGEGNUNGEN

Localize Festival

No Funding

Free / No Costs

Potsdam, Germany

Eligibility

Since 2008 LOCALIZE opens up urban spaces for contemporary art in Potsdam. With a changing thematic focus, the festival seeks to explore urban space in transition, interspaces for design and the potentials of participation. LOCALIZE e.V. is a non-profit association. LOCALIZE Encounters is developed and realized by a team of students, cultural workers and creatives.

Number of Participants

LOCALIZE calls on artists, cultural workers, designers, future thinkers and urban critics for the development of formats to enable encounters in and around public spaces. The artistic works approach the festival’s theme, the public space and the city of Potsdam in a COVID-compatible, experimental, cross-genre and site-specific way. From sound, visual, conversation, play, movement, object to action – every media and aesthetic format is encouraged.

Deadline

May 20, 2021 22:00 UTC

Selection Results (Announcement Dates)

June 20, 2021 22:00 UTC

Duration

August 20, 2021 - August 22, 2021

Meals

No meals

Public Programs

Exhibition, Festival

Disciplines

Acting, Architecture, Collective, Conceptual Art, Dance, Dance Groups, Design, Digital Media, Documentary, Drawing, Film, Illustration, Installation, Intervention, Literature, Multimedia, Music, Painting, Performance Art, Photography, Public Art, Sound Art, Theatre, Video Art, Video Games, Visual Arts, Web Design

Languages

English, German

Program Description

LOCALIZE ENCOUNTERS : LOCALIZE BEGEGNUNGEN festival for city, culture and art in Potsdam August 20 – 22, 2021 At Park Babelsberg OPEN CALL FOR IDEAS APPLY UNTIL MAY 21st www.localize-potsdam.de The festival for city, culture and art invites to encounter in and around Babelsberg Park. Localize captures spaces for engaging with the city, it looks for artistic confrontations, raises fundamental questions of urban community, challenges pertinent positions and encounters urban visions and utopias of social coexistence in times of virality.