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Calling all writers, dreamers, bunnies, drifters and drawers...
Please find below the call for submissions to itch #13. We hope that you will share something with us. The submission deadline is April 15th.
Feel free to send questions to us (submit@itchjournal.org)
in love,
team itch
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For 2011, the Year of the Rabbit, we present
itch #13 -- The Magic Rabbit: a coloring book of expulsions for embracing radical vibrations
You underdog you... Ahem,"rabbit". You never really wanted to fight. You taught us to expel murkiness and fear, and in exchange embrace the bizarre and irreconcilable things that we love, that give life to our living.
Your hidden teachings taught us to take to our curiosity. That living by our own wits can be an act of protest in and of itself... To approach living and art-making the same way we did our favorite coloring book: draw big bold outlines around the things that matter and turn it all polychromatic.
Besides, we never stopped loving coloring books. They provided us the important exercise of recognizing grossly oversimplified (for better or worse) visions of the world and the opportunity to place our colorful mess within it. Crayons were our first lesson in a type of intervention that was about dreaming up a world we wanted to see and inserting the details that mattered.
How did you color?
In this year of the rabbit and itch's 5th anniversary, we offer up an invitation to talk about celebrations, new modes of protest and approaches to making a mark in the world. Let's bring back the soft, meandering clarity of our childhood minds as a force for re-conceiving the past, present and future. Dream us up a fable, a drawing, or share your research, first-hand experiences or future fantasies.
Some rabbits/suggestions we've pulled out of the hat:
how do you mark space to honor your capacity to occupy, do, love, create and act as you desire?
In what (magic rabbit) ways do you wander across templates, borders, language, policy, etc?
What frames do you create, recreate, or otherwise make visible the world you want to live in?
How do you personalize/magical-ize/colorize your surroundings?
How do you mess with the codes of art-making, living, socializing, political action, etc?
What does play mean? How do you maintain play in your life?
What irreconcilable things can't you live without?
Lover but not a fighter? Discuss.
What's making you happy these days?
Alternative modes of competition...
What acts do you expel in the quest for magic?
Also: Coloring book illustration portfolio contest
draw, steal, dream up an image that you'd like to have colored in.
Let’s make a mess together.
Submission deadline: April 15th, 2011
Send submissions, questions and provocations as attached, uncompressed word files or pdfs to submit@itchjournal.org
No pre-published submissions, please.
Please include a short bio (2-3 sentences) and your mailing address with your submission.
itch is an evolving art project in the form of a journal that aspires to serve the community of dancers and other artists of the Los Angeles area and beyond. Practice participation in the developing LA dance culture: insert your thoughts, your body, your voice. help itch grow should you be enhanced by it...
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