Experimentica is a four-day live art festival curated by Chapter Arts Centre, Cardiff, that encourages risk, collaboration and exchange – the only one of its kind in Wales. Running for over twenty years, this biennial festival brings a vital moment for radical and experimental practices to thrive.
Marking the turn of the seasons towards new life, Experimentica 2024: Call to Spring will gather artists and communities in celebration of the festival’s legacy and the networks that sustain performance within and beyond our locality. This festival will sow seeds for future performance ecologies during this moment of heightened vitality – from collaborative partnerships, commissions and residencies to scratch nights, parties and writers’ circles.
This open call welcomes proposals from artists based in the UK and Ireland that touch on themes of Spring – be that decay, transformation, emergence, spontaneity, ritual or the act of gathering.
Chapter are seeking proposals that are bold and playful, imaginatively engage with the building, the locality, the communities, and that challenge the idea of what performance/live art can be. What does it mean to be with an audience? How can the encounter or gathering be a space to think critically and collectively?
Experimentica 2024: Call to Spring will be a time for unsettling, for gathering and sowing; for emergent forms and relations to unfurl from the dark.
Deadline: 24 November, 5pm.