Call for Participants: Art and Sub Culture Identity

CALL FOR PARTICIPANTS: Visual Artist, Video Artist and Band for this
planned event.

Subculture Clash:
Art and Sub Culture Identity

Objectives

1. Apply lifestyle, arts and music concepts and vocabulary to
communicate ideas.
2. Demonstrate awareness of how lifestyle music and art affects
individual perception and group identity.
3. Describe how individuals perceive popular images and how those may
influence
their social interaction.

Overview

Form, design, and function: making a social or political statement
through artistic presentation. Art and social issues have always gone
hand-in-hand, from Egyptian hieroglyphics to the Bauhaus to graffiti.
The ocular and emotional impact made by Picassos Guernica forces one
to think about the horrors of war. Munchs The Scream, depicting
despair and anxiety in 19thcentury Germany, is today a commercial
icon used to sell sports drinks. In the latter half of the 20th
century, the extreme revival of poster art branched into record album
covers, and the debate over whether popular art is really art, once
again posed the questions: what is art, and what is its purpose?
Does art have, and should it have, a message? Perhaps one of its
functions is to identify groups, group membership, and political or
social attitudes shared by the group.

Membership of subculture groups, whose ideas and lifestyles are at
variance with those of the dominant culture, is usually dominated by
the young. For some it is fleeting and forms a rite of passage;
others move through a series of subcultures, and some remain
committed to one, long term. Belonging to a subculture can be
liberating, offering, for example, certain freedoms in
lifestyle, sexuality, and politics. By defining their own
geographical, social, and sartorial boundaries, subcultures also
provide a sense of belonging that is independent of the family (Haye
& Dingwall, 1996) and thereby establish a sense of empowerment and
self-reliance that most young people strive for starting around ages
11-15. Subcultures express themselves through their own art, music,
and dress. The subcultures of the latter half of the 20th century
would most likely identify themselves as being outside of any norm.

Event Concept:

Art Exhibit, Video Art Projection cum Live Music Performance. To
gather individuals whose belong to subcultures such as: mod, punk,
oi, new wave, skinhead, ska etc. To encourage them to participate to
a visual art exhibit and video performance event which showcases
their works of art using any artistic medium with the content which
presents all about their subcultures, lifestyles and their identity
as a member of the society. The video art will be projected
accompanied with live band which the video concept coordinates with
genre of music of the band thats playing. This events major concern
is to give intellect awareness socially, politically and ethically to
the roles of subculture to the humanity and how it shaped our lives
as members of society.

This is a non profit artist' initiative project. We will announce the
venue and the date as soon as We've work on it.

Please email your videos in mpeg, wmv format or links in the web
(youtube, photobucket, google video etc.), pictures of your works in
jpeg format and sample music in streaming mp3 format that was played
by your band that you want to include in this planned event at
mardigrasscreatives@yahoo.com All entries are submitted are subject
for screening we will inform you via email if your piece is included
for this planned event.