Impro Sessions I Ensemble Art Performance I EAP

On an initiative of K3MK Company, and its pole of the Ensemble Art Performance, in partnership with theatres, centres, schools, galleries, museums of contemporary art, launches a call for participation in the project entitled IMPRO SESSIONS.

This call for applications is addressed to dancers, actors, musicians, singers, visual artists, performers, video artists, photographers and musicians. s, video artists, photographers and invites them to take up the theme of the body echoing our world, its contemporary issues and its relationship with the new representations of the performative body, within the framework of the Impro Sessions organised by the performance pole "Ensemble Art Performance" of K3MK Company from September 2023 onwards in Geneva, Lausanne, Brussels, Paris, Lyon, Marseille, Grenoble, Annecy... with 2 sessions per month (20 dates).

Applications can only be submitted electronically, from 1 September to 31 December 2022.

All application details can be found here : www.eap.k3mk.com

IMPRO SESSIONS International Call for Participation 2022

Press release 01/09/2022

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[IMPRO SESSIONS - Call for participation]

Impro Sessions I Ensemble Art PerformanceOn an initiative of K3MK Company, the Ensemble Art Performance, in partnership with theatres, centres, galleries and museums of contemporary art, is launching a call for participation in the project entitled IMPRO SESSIONS.

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Open to a diversity of artistic practices, this call for applications is addressed to dancers, actors, musicians, singers, visual artists, video artists and performers. s and invites them to take up the theme of the body echoing our world, its contemporary issues and its relationship with the new representations of the performative body, in the framework of the Impro Sessions organised by the performance pole "Ensemble Art Performance" of K3MK Company from September 2023 onwards in Geneva, Lausanne, Brussels, Paris, Lyon, Marseille, Grenoble, Annecy... with 2 sessions per month (20 dates).

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On the occasion of the Impro Sessions, 2023/24 edition, seven disciplines will be particularly highlighted: theatre, dance, music, singing, fashion, photography, and video. Embodying current practices, as close as possible to the elements and to contemporary creation, these performing arts will be at the heart of the performance programme, as much as the alternative, unofficial, imaginary and fictional arts.

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The dynamic relationship between body, image and performing arts is linked - among other specificities - to the development of the notion of performance, in all places of society. How can the imperatives of improvisation, instantaneous composition and performance, the values of the relationship with the public "Spect-Actor" of the show being built and carried by this artistic and cultural event be represented today in a defined space-time?


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Representing the body differently, beyond the schemes usually linked to its media transmission, is an ever-renewed challenge. For the performing arts, which know no rules, it is also a place where aesthetics intersect, from visual communication to art, from reportage to performance, from fashion to new urban cultures.

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The Impro Sessions will be made using all the techniques available for the shaping of the performance, destined for the space of the performance and/or the public space, to be inscribed in a cultural place, in the city and in all the current places of diffusion, using all the resources allowing the diffusion and the sharing of the Impro Sessions.

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This performance programme of K3MK Company's Performance Art Ensemble aims to initiate the production of new shows that question the dissemination of a demand for performance in the social fabric through the aesthetics of the body and the performing arts.

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Objectives

In the continuity of K3MK Company's major projects in the field of performing arts, this project aims to recognize and encourage the vitality of contemporary creation in the field of performance.

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The IMPRO SESSIONS call for applications aims to select twenty artists. These artists will be invited to participate in one or more sessions to bring the project to life. This participation will include remuneration, payment of travel expenses, accommodation and meals. A participation contract will be established by K3MK Company with the artist to formalise this participation in one of the project's cities.

The artists will be accompanied in their participation by the head of the "Ensemble Art Performance" department and project manager of the Impro Sessions of K3MK Company and the managers of the partner venues.

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Restitution

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This call for participation constituting a corpus, a restitution performance of the participation in the various partner places which will be part of the Impro Sessions of the Ensemble Art Performance 2023/24 as well as a video and publication will give an account of the work done. A proposal of a determined number of actions, for each artist, will be made by the Impro Sessions manager and the K3MK Company expert group, in view of their participation in the performance session.The works produced within the framework of the IMPRO SESSIONS, international call for participation 2023/24, will join the collection of works of the Ensemble Art Performance, a collection managed by K3MK Company.

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Eligibility

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The call for international participation in the project IMPRO SESSIONS - Ensemble Art Performance of K3MK Company is open to any Swiss, French or foreign natural person of legal age, or collective of artists residing in France, evolving in the field of contemporary creation (performance) wishing to bear a relevant testimony on the theme.

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

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 1 September (0h) to 31 December 2022 (23h59).

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The digital file consists of a single ".pdf" file not exceeding 5MB with the subject line: Call for participation IMPRO SESSIONS - Ensemble Art Performance. This digital file must be formatted in "landscape" format in order to facilitate its reading on screen.

It must be sent to the following email address: candidature.eap@k3mk.com

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This file includes in order :

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

A note of intent 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 choice of participation (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 twenty candidates to whom it will award a participation. This selection committee is composed of representatives of the K3MK Company team, the managers of the partner venues and three qualified personalities.

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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 June 31, 2024 (deadline) to participate in one or more sessions of the Call for Participation.

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Calendar

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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 Impro Sessions,

30 June 2024: End of the Impro Sessions

September 2024: Film and publication of a book of the Impro Sessions resulting from this call for participation.