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Open Call for Videos: Alliances of Care and Desire Curated by Andrés Senra with Nicolás Dumit Estévez Raful Espejo

To participate, please visit the following website and complete the form:

https://forms.gle/aMUic5fGiruz73vy8

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To watch open call trailer, please visit the following website:

https://vimeo.com/662724108

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Calling creatives to propose up to two minutes videos/video performances that reflect on the concept of caring for the planet. Examples include practices such as veganism, magic, rituals, anti-speciesism, ecofeminisms, ecoqueerism, anti-ableism and anti-racist artivisms. The videos submitted to this open call are meant to question otherness and also subvert anthropocentrism as an episteme that places human in a position of hierarchy and dominance over all other beings. This call will consider videos reflecting on the possibilities of building alliances of desire and care with the planet and the beings that inhabit it from the position of the Other.

Alliances of Care and Desire arises from Andrés Senra’s own impetus and interest in the possibility of queering identity beyond gender binaries, as well as subverting the dual Western value system that separates the human from the non-human. This system of Western knowledge organizes the universe according to taxonomic rules that separate and divide it into artificial/natural, subject/object, mind/body, organic/inorganic, living/non-living, woman/man, human/non-human, human/animal, ability/disability, nature/culture, white/non-white, subject/object, reason/emotion, freedom /necessity, civilized/wild, and so on, assigning positive and negative values in a hierarchical way. Negative values have traditionally been assigned to the feminine, the queer, the animal, and the non-white.

Deadline For Entries: March 15, 2022
Only One Entry Per Participant Accepted
Participants Selected Will Be Notified By March 30,2022
All Questions Below Must Be Completed

Videos selected will be posted and archived on The Interior Beauty Salon's website and on social media. An online screening event (and possibly an in-person one) will be schedule for the spring-summer. Thank you for your participation.

Andrés Senra has received the Multiverso Videoart Grant, BBVA Foundation (2015); Fase 7 Mobility Art Grant from The Spanish Agency for International Development and Cooperation (AECID) (2014). He has also received an artist research grant of the National Museum of Contemporary Arts of Spain / Reina Sofía (2013-2014). In 2012 he was selected by the Goethe-Institut and Instituto Cervantes of Spain for the art program Participar.de, taking place in Berlin, Madrid, and Toulouse. In 2012 and 2013 he received the Ministry of Culture Grant for the promotion of Spanish art abroad. In 2009 he received the Madrid Procesos artist Grant of AVAM and Karl Hofer Universität Der Künste, Berlin; and in 2005 Senra was artist in residence at the Contemporary Art Center La Casa Encendida in Madrid. Winner of the Casa Velázquez Prize for Art Creation at Estampa (2009), he has also received, among other prizes, the Region of Madrid Award for art creation (2008). Senra’s work has been exhibited in important galleries and museums around the world such as Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía MNCARS (Spain), VanAbbe Museum (Holland), Art Center Nabi (Korea), and Centro Cultural Recoleta (Argentina), among other places.
https://www.andressenra.com

The Interior Beauty Salon is an organism living at the intersection of creativity and healing, serving as a space where that which is not necessarily seen or manifested in tangible ways, is seeded, nurtured and given room to grow safely. This includes processes melding art, ritual, ceremony, rites of passage, and consciousness. Now in its second year, The Salon hosts an expanding online archive of interviews, videos, and all of its engagements with visionaries in a diverse number of creative fields and unprescribed ways of being and approaching life. https://www.interiorbeautysalon.com