Disidentes Festival opens call for artists in Colombia and the world

The event seeks to generate new exchanges, encounters, disagreements, reflections and multidisciplinary artistic creations, where there are no disabilities, no spaces, no visualizations or impossible sensations for anyone.

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The juries of the call that will be in charge of selecting the winners for each category, are made up of Leonardo Martinéz, Xiomara Galeano and Manuel Orjuela as artistic advisor.

Disidentes Festival in its first year of edition, opens the call aimed at artists over 18 years of age who have legal or natural interdependencies, also groups, directors, scenic artists, visual artists, dancers, plastic artists, clowns, musicians, mimes, mountebanks, performers, poets, heretics, scholars, Moors or even intellectuals. Closing of the call February 28, 2022.

This is an invitation extended to artists from Colombia and the world, Dissident Festival is a multidisciplinary art event, supported by the Ministry of Culture and Colombia creates, which attempts to establish other ways of perceiving the dialogue between the work and the viewer: it is an exhibition that encourages artists of all kinds, emerging of the highest quality or those at the pinnacle of their career, so that they dedicate themselves -with total effort- to building a short piece (15 minutes) with the purpose of being exhibited in an unconventional setting, using the different sensitive expressions and plastic, scenic, dance, audiovisual, technological, aesthetic, sound, discursive devices, sign language, touch and easy reading, among others.

Disidentes seeks to generate new exchanges, meetings, disagreements, reflections and multidisciplinary artistic creations, where there are no disabilities, no spaces, no visualizations or sensations impossible for anyone, rethinking and questioning “inaccessibility”, to turn them into languages ​​that enhance the different artistic capacities (which is partly heroic), both in the construction and in the reception of a work, fertilizing a space that contains all public.

The juries of the call that will be in charge of selecting the winners for each category, are made up of Leonardo Martinéz, Xiomara Galeano and artistic advisor Manuel Orjuela. The announcement of the winners will be the first week of March and the premiere of the festival will take place in the city of Bogotá at the El Ghetto entertainment complex; on April 30 of this year.

The Disidentes Festival invites artists from different disciplines to present themselves in the call within the categories of theater, dance, audiovisual and technology; the latter will be interdisciplinary which involves dance, music, painting, installation, union of digital formats, sounds, performance and virtual reality among others. As long as it has an innovative element.

In this first version, all the artists and categories are going to work on the premise of Romeo and Juliet, a universal classic known worldwide and which, moreover, talk regarding love and death; issues that touch everyone. For this reason, we decided on this work so that the 2 challenges are more interesting and provocative when working on them.

First challenge: Each category will have an assigned act of Romeo and Juliet, Act I and II being theater, act III dance, act IV audiovisual and act V technology. The artists must develop the act according to the category to which they applied and fill out the form according to their proposal. The winners must present the staging with a duration of 15 minutes on the day of the festival’s premiere.

Participants can consult www.disidentes.co in the terms and conditions button to know in depth the dynamics of the call.

Second straight: Those 15 minutes must be developed with 1 of the 5 senses as protagonist; one must choose between touch, taste, sight, hearing or smell. In this challenge, we invite you to explore the creation of the piece, for example: not necessarily because it is audiovisual, it should be the sense of sight, it can be hearing and you can even talk regarding taste, as soon as there is an evocation in this regard. The important thing is to creatively involve one of the 5 senses in the 15-minute proposal of the category chosen by the participant, which corresponds to that assigned act.

The objective of this exhibition is that in the end the public will see this result, an exquisite multidisciplinary and multisensory corpse. Each winner will have 15 minute exhibition and you can perform twice on the same night.

All this in order for the viewer to experience, approximately 1 hour and 20 minutes of the show of the winning line of dissidents within the festival programming, a winner will come out of each category, in order to have 4 winners who will receive 2,000 as an incentive. 000 (Two Million pesos) for each one.