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The Czech Philharmonic and Galerie Rudolfinum, with the support of Lunchmeat Festival, invite young artists to participate in the “Hearing/Seeing” project as part of the Czech Year of Music 2024.
Join us for a project whose aim is to bring together contemporary visual art and the heritage of Czech classical music in a creative conversation. The result will be up to fifteen individual audiovisual works exhibited in the Rudolfinum Ceremony Hall. The project will also be shared through the social media channels of both institutions.
Submissions will be accepted from April 18th to June 2nd, 2024.
Form
Artists will create a visual piece in response to one of five musical extracts, in a format of H.264@30 fps in a 9:16 (portrait) aspect ratio. The result will then be a fusion of both components into a resultant audiovisual work.
The artists can choose from these five extracts
- Smetana: Vltava (0:53)
- Kaprálová: Suita rustica, I. Allegro rustico (0:54)
- Martinů: Symphony no. 6, II. Poco Allegro (1:31)
- Rychlík: African Cycle, III. (2:00)
- Vöröšová: Lunapark, III. Shooting Range (1:59)
Why take part
- Your work will be presented in one of the most important art venues in the country, under the patronage of two leading institutions.
- Support and promotion for your work.
- Participation in the Year of Czech Music 2024.
- A commissioning fee.
Selection criteria
The call is open to artists living in the Czech Republic no older than thirty-five years old at the time their proposal is submitted.
Commissioning fee
The selected artists will be paid a fee of 15 000 CZK.
How to apply
Send a concept for your audiovisual work as a storyboard or still frame (and, optionally, a referential piece of moving image; this can be a sample from an existing work), and a concept proposal for the piece (250–500 words). This text should include an explanation of the planned images, with a focused on the time-based media character of the work and an understanding of the artistic or formal connection between the audio and video components.
Send your proposals by e-mail to info@lunchmeat.cz by June 2nd, 2024, with the subject as “Hearing/Seeing Lastname Firstname”. If you need to send more data, please share your materials through any file sharing site and add a link to your email. Get in touch at the same email address with any other questions.
Dates
Applications close: 02 June 2024 at midnight
Selected artists announced: 17 June 2024
Delivery date for works-in-progress: 11 August 2024 (10s WIP moving image)
Delivery date for final pieces: 25 August 2024
Show opens: September/early October – TBC
Show closes: end of 2024
Selection process
A jury will select up to fifteen artists who will be invited to develop their concept into a finished piece. Artists can submit any number of works.
Jury
Julia Bailey (Galerie Rudolfinum)
Prokop Jelínek (Czech Philharmonic)
Jakub Pešek (Lunchmeat Festival)
Jen Kratochvil (FAMU)
Pavel Mrkus (UJEP FUD, Time-Based Media Studio; Signal Festival)
Presentation of the artworks
The final works will be presented on professional 4K screens with the following parameters:
- Diagonal screen size: 55”
- Resolution: 2160 x 3840 (4K UHD)
- Brightness: 500nit
Audio will be played back from closed headphones.