We are all response-able and responsible for a better, fairer future. We must act and remain active today, tomorrow, next week, next month, next year and every year until all forms of racism and inequality end.
DYSCORPIA is a platform that was created to allow students and artists at all stages of their careers to question, challenge and reinvent the relationship between the body and technology. We know that racism and inequality are deeply embedded and entangled in our relationship with technology and in the body, and that there is immense collective work to be done in order to fight it. In our modest capacity, we are committed to make DYSCOPRIA an ongoing open submission platform. We are thankful for suggestions and guidance and we will work harder to ensure we inform ourselves on how to make ‘Open Calls’ really open so that we enable all artists’ voices to be heard.
We start this commitment with resources to help us better understand the current moment and the reality of systemic racism. The Dyscorpia team’s essay written in the wake of George Floyd’s murder directs us to important work by black artists about racism and white supremacy. By making an open version of the essay and a reading list available here as an editable google document, we invite you to become actively involved on the DYSCORPIA online platform, by initiating or taking part in ongoing conversations about the issues these artworks raise and also the systemic racism in the art world and art institutions.
We have postponed the LIVE Digital portion of the DYSCORPIA 2.1 until August 1st to give more time for artists to prepare and potentially revise their performances, as well as allowing more artists to participate. We are also cancelling the planned symposium that was to focus on the digital form so that we can focus on having open discussion about racism and inequality in the art institutions we are all responsible for.
The Virtual Sound and Dance event organized by Stephanie Patsula which takes place on Friday 18th June from 8pm on Facebook will fundraise for the Act Blue Split Bail / Mutual Aid Fund, which splits all donations evenly among 70+ community bail funds, mutual aid funds and racial justice organizers. We are aiming to raise funds to free people incarcerated on bail, as well as to advocate for systemic bail reform.
As we look forward to a better future, please consider submitting works to DYSCORPIA 2.2: Racism and Inequality in relation to the Body and Technology. More information coming soon. To be added to a mailing list please email us.
Please join us in celebrating the launch of Dyscorpia 2:1 on Facebook with Ambient Sound Artist Clinker, followed by a mediated live dance party ft. CEEVS, FRASER & SILENT PARTNER. Please click here for the Facebook event.
For the Dyscorpia 2:1 Remote Exhibition Virtual Sound and Dance event, we are fundraising and donating to the Act Blue Split Bail / Mutual Aid Fund, which splits all donations evenly among 70+ community bail funds, mutual aid funds and racial justice organizers. We are aiming to raise funds to free people incarcerated on bail, as well as to advocate for systemic bail reform.
Thousands of protesters have been arrested during the Black Lives Matter protests and many folks are not able to afford bail until their trial date. Approximately two-thirds of the roughly 700,000 people typically in U.S. jails have not been convicted of a crime and being held in jail because they can’t make bail. Bail funds eliminate a common dynamic in which people who cannot afford to pay bail must choose between pleading guilty or remaining behind bars. These initiative are essential to help combat discrimination against a variety of marginalized communities.
We hope you can join us in the cause.
To donate to Act Blue Split Bail / Mutual Aid Fund please follow this link
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About the artists
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CLINKER // 8PM
Clinker (Gary James Joynes), is an award-winning sound and visual artist that has been active in the
international live audio-visual and experimental music performance community for many years. He blends
the beauty and physicality of sounds auditory and visual elements in Live Cinema AV performances and in
rigorous and emotional photo and video installation works. His performance for Dyscorpia 2.1 will be a structured improvisation, an exploration of deep listening, sonic minimalism and textural sound utilizing modular synthesizer.
CEEEVS // 9 - Late
ceeevs (Caitlin Varrin) has been djing around western Canada since 2017. She joined Edmonton's Night Vision collective in 2013, throwing events and parties around the city and collaborating on showcases at various Canadian festivals.
FRASER // 9- Late
Eric(Fraser) is a composer and sound artist living and working in Canada, on Treaty Six Territory. Fraser is also a professional deejay and live performer who draws inspiration from the environment around him. The overall physical and political climate and local industrial influences of the Places in which he works form the foundation of his conceptual process. By sampling field recorded and synthesized soundscapes in his musical compositions, Fraser creates a mood of dissonance. He also introduces non-linear patterns and pacing as a tool to create tension in his listeners and viewers.
Fraser has been involved as a composer, sound artist and participant in various electronic music and audio-visual projects in Canada for over a decade. 2019 saw Fraser perform at the Bass Coast Electronic Musical Festival in Canada and conduct a collaborative A/V performance opening for Detroit’s Underground Resistance DJ Stingray with visual artist Gabriel Esteban Molina. Fraser was a resident deejay at The Transient Warehouse Project, as well as, a co-contributor to the Refuge Sound Collective. Recent studio productions have been released on L.P.C. Music Switzerland (12” split EP), Refuge Sound as a self released various artist 12” complication, as well as, a string of remixes for Squids, Carl Finlow and Josh John.
SILENT PARTNER // 9 - Late