[Pop No Pop Project - Appel à participation]

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[ K3MK Company - Karry Kamal Karry ]

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Pop No Pop  I PnP - Project

The Body and Pop Culture: Populaire Non Populaire!

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On an initiative of K3MK Company, and the K3+ & Co (commissions), Ensemble Art Performance (performance) 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 Pop No Pop.

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This call for applications is addressed to researchers and artists: dancers, actors, musicians, singers, visual artists, performers, video artists, photographers, musicians, musicians, musicians, musicians, musicians, musicians, musicians, musicians, musicians, musicians, musicians. s, video artists, photographers, writers, philosophers, sociologists, doctors, architects, designers, stylists... and invites them to take up the theme of "Body and pop culture", echoing our world, its contemporary issues and its relationship with new representations of the body, as part of the research-creation project on the body and pop culture organised by the "K3+ & Co / Ensemble Art Performance / Lab Media Project" of K3MK Company from September 2023 to 31 December 2026.

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

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All application details can be found here :  

www.pnp.k3mk.com

+ google forms (mandatory)

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Pop No Pop I European Call for Participation 2022

Press release 01/09/2022

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Download PDF I Project Call for Participation

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Pop No Pop  I PnP - Project

The Body and Pop Culture: Popular Not Popular!

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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, is launching a call for participation in the project entitled Pop No Pop.

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In a changing society, how can the historical, cultural and thematic exploration of the body in popular culture be broadened while fully playing its role of social integration?

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What are the main pop cultural representations of the body?

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To answer this question, Karry Kamal Karry invites artists and researchers to examine the performing arts, contemporary music, cyber-literature, cinema and the form industry. The artists and researchers will examine the categories of the 'reduced body', the 'hyper body', the 'digitised body' or the 'written body', the 'utopian body' and the 'burdened body', and will examine the notion of the real body and the dangers of a new purism.

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The project on the body and pop culture: Populaire Non Populaire! - PnP, Pop No Pop - is a multidisciplinary and participatory research and creation process located on the European territory. K3MK Company will create during three years with its partners, collaborators and the associated public a stage work, performances, participative workshops, seminars, a webTv, a multimedia device and a documentary.

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All of these creations will always be reflexive, i.e. associated with a process of research and theorisation. Pop No Pop aims to be a politically engaged initiative, expressing social issues through art. Moreover, the process of creation and multidisciplinary research is not predetermined: although it follows broad guidelines from the outset, Pop No Pop will above all be the result of the collective implementation of such a process, bringing together practitioners, theorists and the public around the project.

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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 and pop culture and ask the question of what is Popular or Not Popular! (PnP)" echoing our world, its contemporary issues and its relationship with the new representations of the body, as part of the multidisciplinary research-creation project on the body and pop culture 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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On the occasion of the Pop No Pop: research-creation project on the body and pop culture 2023/26, the artistic disciplines: performing arts, contemporary music, cyberliterature, cinema and the form industry 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, unofficial, imaginary and fictional domains.


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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 to think the body and the pop culture.

Objectives

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In the continuity of K3MK Company's major projects in the field of the performing arts, the Pop No Pop project aims to question this societal upheaval and the pervasiveness of the ethical issue of the body.

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The POP NO POP (PnP - Project) 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 Média Project, K3+ & Co and Ensemble Art Performance " poles and the mediation project manager of K3MK Company and the managers of the partner venues of this participation/collaboration.

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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 to the different partner places which will be part of the Pop No Pop project (PnP - Project): a multidisciplinary research-creation project on the body and pop culture 2023/26 as well as a scenic work, a webTv, a multimedia installation and the publication of research-creation notebooks which will give an account of the work done. A proposal for a certain number of actions for each artist, researcher or associated public will be made by the Pop No Pop (PnP - Project) project leader and the K3MK Company steering group, for their participation/collaboration.

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The works produced within the framework of the POP NO POP 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 to the Pop No Pop project (PnP - Project): Multidisciplinary research-laboratory on the body as an object of consumption 2023/26 by K3MK Company is open to any Swiss, French or European natural person of age or collective of artists residing in Switzerland or in France, evolving in the field of research and contemporary creation wishing to bear relevant witness to the 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.

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).

+ Google forms (mandatory)

The digital file consists of a single ".pdf" file not exceeding 5Mb with the subject: Call for participation Pop No Pop (PnP - Project): Manufacturing the body as an object of consumption 2023/26. This digital file must be formatted in "landscape" format to facilitate reading on screen.

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

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 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.

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

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Selection

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

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: contractualisation with the winners,

September 2023: launch of the Pop No Pop project (PnP - Project),

31 December 2026: End of the Pop No Pop project (PnP - Project),

September to December 2026: stage work, multimedia installation, documentary film and publication of a book of the Pop No Pop (PnP - Project) project resulting from this call for participation.