'Spell/ing' Open Call

'Spell/ing' Open Call

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Off Campus

The CalArts space at The Reef residency (DTLA)

Monday, March 13–Thursday, April 13

Last days to apply for SPELL/ING as part of the CalArts Reef Residency 2023: this opportunity to exhibit work at The Reef (downtown LA)  is managed and curated by Irene Gil-Ramon (Film/Video 22) and Julia Sáenz-Lorduy (Creative Writing 22). We are accepting current or previous works that engage words as material for shapeshifting, art as spell-casting and language as becoming.We seek seeks visual art, music, writing, video, performance, and multidisciplinary pieces which explore language as a conjuring, working with ensorcelling as a practice of creating a reality different to this one, of confronting the unknown, and of becoming.

All selected artists will be economically compensated, and their work will be promoted online and with a subsequent print and digital art book that will be made after the show.  

· APPLY here before April 19 through this Google Form (https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfjVJ35zwl7VeUtfZB9UdoHHKs0ctzpLFj16TiHEtloqGx9Zg/viewform?usp=send_form)

· Notification of Acceptance: April 27, 2023.

· Gallery Show: May 19–June 16, 2023