[FABRIKACORPS+ - Appel à participation]

[ K3MK Company - Karry Kamal Karry ]

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FabriKaCorps+ I COC

The Body Factory : A multidisciplinary research and creation laboratory on the body as a consumer object

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On an initiative of K3MK Company, and the K3+ & Co (commissions) and Lab Media Project (cultural mediation laboratory), in partnership with festivals, theatres, centres, schools, universities, galleries, contemporary art museums, libraries, media libraries, is launching a call for participation in the project entitled FabriKaCorps+.

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This call for applications is addressed to researchers and artists: dancers, actors, musicians, singers, visual artists, performers, video artists, photographers, writers, philosophers, sociologists, doctors, architects, designers, stylists... and invites them to take up the theme of "The Body as a Consumer Object (C.O. C)" echoing our world, its contemporary issues and its relationship with the new representations of the body, within the framework of the project of the Fabrique-laboratory of research-creation on the body as an object of consumption organized by the " K3+ & Co / Ensemble Art Performance / Lab Media Project " of K3MK Company from September 2023 to December 31, 2026.

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Submission of applications exclusively by electronic means, from 1 September to 31 December 2022.

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All application details can be found here :  

www.coc.k3mk.com

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FabriKaCorps+ European Call for Participation 2022Press release 01/09/2022

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Download PDF I Project Call for Participation

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[FABRIKACORPS+ - Appel à participation]

FabriKaCorps+ Multidisciplinary research-laboratory on the body as an object of consumption

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On an initiative of K3MK Company, and the poles K3+ & Co (commissions) and Lab Media Project (cultural mediation laboratory), in partnership with festivals, theatres, centres, schools, universities, galleries, contemporary art museums, launches a call for participation in the project entitled FabriKaCorps+.

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Our device consists of a three-year project, inspired by the reading of publications on the philosophy of the body "Thinking the body" by Michaela Marzano in particular. We will question the concept of "consumed bodies", i.e. the body as an object of consumption, and its nature as an artefact.

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La fabrique du corps - COC, Corps-Objet de Consommation - is a multidisciplinary and participative research and creation process located on the European territory. During three years, K3MK Company will create with its partners, collaborators and the associated public a stage work, performances, a monthly radio show, participative workshops, seminars, a webTv, a multimedia device and a documentary.

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All these creations will always be reflexive, i.e. associated with a process of research and theorization. FabriKacorps+ aims to be a committed and political initiative, expressing social issues through art. Moreover, the process of creation and multidisciplinary research is not predetermined: if it follows great guidelines, FabriKacorps+ will be above all the result of the collective implementation of such a process, by solidarizing practitioners and theorists around the project.

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The main axes of FabriKacorps+ are the following:

- The fabrication of the body (sport, food, cosmetic surgery, so-called comfort drugs): the healthy and useful body;

- The socialisation of the body (fashion, brands, accessories, attitudes): the normalised and powerful body;

- The privatisation of the body (science and the body) and the use of the body (pornography, etc.): the disappropriated body.

Exploring the body in the arts (Inscribing the body in 21st century artistic mediums)

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Open to a diversity of artistic and scientific practices, this call for applications is addressed to researchers and artists: dancers, actors, musicians, singers, visual artists, performers, video artists, photographers, writers, philosophers, sociologists, doctors, architects, designers, stylists, etc., and invites them to take up the theme of "The Body as an Object of Consumption (B.O.C.)", making it the focus of their work. O.C)" echoing our world, its contemporary stakes and its relationship with the new representations of the body, within the framework of the project of the Fabrique-laboratory of multidisciplinary research-creation on the body as an object of consumption organized by the poles "K3+ & Co / Ensemble Art Performance / Lab Media Project" of K3MK Company from September 2023 to December 31, 2026

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On the occasion of the project FabriKaCorps+: Fabrique-laboratoire de recherche-création sur le corps comme objet de consommation 2023/26, artistic and scientific disciplines will be particularly solicited. Embodying current practices, as close as possible to the elements and to contemporary research-creation, these arts and sciences will be at the heart of the programme of actions, as much as the alternative, non-official, imaginary and fictional domains.


This multidisciplinary research-creation program of K3MK Company wishes to initiate the reflection on the body, the realization of mediation actions, the production of new shows questioning the diffusion in the social fabric of a requirement of realization of actions and works through the aesthetics of the body or thinking the body as an object of consumption.

Objectives

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In the continuity of K3MK Company's major projects in the field of the performing arts, the FabriKaCorps+ project aims to question this societal upheaval and the pervasiveness of the ethical issue of the body. Are we legitimate to recreate the body, to transform it?

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The FARIKACORPS+ call for applications aims to select artists and researchers. The latter will be invited to participate in one or more actions in order to give life to the project. This participation will include remuneration, payment of travel expenses, accommodation and meals. A participation or commissioning contract will be established by K3MK Company with the artist or researcher to formalise this participation/collaboration in one of the project's components.

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The artists, researchers, the public associated or participating will be accompanied in their participation/collaboration by the managers of the "Lab Media Project" and "K3+ & Co" poles and the project manager for mediation and commissions of K3MK Company and the managers of the partner venues of this participation.

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Restitution

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This call for participation constitutes a corpus, during a time of research, creation, performance, workshop, seminar, conference... of restitution of the participation in the various partner places which will be part of the FabriKaCorps+ project: Fabrique-laboratoire de recherche-création pluridisciplinaire sur le corps comme objet de consommation 2023/26 as well as a scenic work, a radio broadcast, a multimedia installation and the publication rdv carnets de recherche-création will give an account of the work done. A proposal of a determined number of actions for each artist, researcher or associated public will be made by the FabriKaCorps+ project manager and the K3MK Company steering group, with a view to their participation in the body factory.

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The works produced within the framework of the FABRIKACORPS+ project, European call for participation 2023/26, will join the collection of works managed by K3MK Company.

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Eligibility

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The European call for participation in the project FabriKaCorps+: Fabrique-laboratoire de recherche-création pluridisciplinaire sur le corps comme objet de consommation 2023/26 of K3MK Company is open to any Swiss, French or European natural person of legal age, or collective of artists residing in Switzerland or France, evolving in the field of research and contemporary creation wishing to bear relevant witness to this theme.

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This call for participation is addressed to artists and professional researchers. The professional background of the candidates must be validated by achievements, publications or similar participations carried out by places or by professional artists and researchers.

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This call for participation is open to students at the end of their studies.

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Application

Candidates must send their application exclusively by electronic means, from September 1 (0h) to December 31, 2022 (23h59).+ Form: google forms

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The digital file consists of a single ".pdf" file not exceeding 5Mb with the subject: Call for participation FabriKaCorps+: Fabrique du corps comme objet de consommation 2023/26. This digital file must be formatted in "landscape" format in order to facilitate its reading on screen.

It should be sent to the following email address: candidature.coc@k3mk.com

This file includes in order :

An artistic documentation presenting the work already done (10 A4 pages maximum, colour and/or black and white);

A note of intent of the project written in French or English explaining the motivations in relation to the theme of the call for participation (1 A4 page maximum);

A curriculum vitae or a biography (1 A4 page maximum) attesting to professional practice;

A short text summarising the applicant's biography and project (1000 characters maximum)

A signed letter of application in which the author undertakes to respect the deadlines imposed by the call for participation.

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A notice of receipt will be sent by e-mail to the artists who have submitted an application.

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Selection

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A selection committee will meet to choose the candidates to whom it will award a participation/collaboration. This selection committee is composed of representatives of the K3MK Company team, the managers of the partner venues and three qualified personalities.The selection committee will meet in February 2023. The results will be communicated on the K3MK Company website in March 2023. The winners will have until December 31, 2026 (deadline) to participate in one or more parts of the Call for entries.

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Timetable

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1 September 2022: opening of the call for participation,

1 September (0h) / 31 December (23h59): submission of applications,

January 2023: examination of applications,

February 2023: meeting of the selection committee, announcement of participating artists,

March / June 2023: contracting with the winners,

September 2023: launch of the FabriKaCorps+ project,

31 December 2026: End of the FabriKaCorps+ project,

September to December 2026: stage work, multimedia installation, documentary film and publication of a book on the FabriKaCorps+ project resulting from this call for participation.