OPEN CALL: ARIA, Algo-Rhythmic Ideation Assembly

✴ Structure and mentors of ARIA

ARIA takes the form of an intensive, bringing together artists, critical thinkers, and experts from diverse fields for a program that blends closed-door workshops and public activities. Following the concepts explored, ARIA is structured as an RGP (Real Game Play) designed by OMSK Social Club. 

Confirmed Lecturers: Alice Bucknell, Florin Flueras, Michael Marder, OMSK Social Club, Protektorama toxica [fed and cared for by JP Raether], Simon Speiser, Subash Thebe Limbu, Špela Petrič, Jelena Viskovic, Gediminas Žygus

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✴ About the RGP

The selected participants will engage in an immersive role-playing experience, co-creating the story of ARIA, which will provide the binding tissue and frame the activities of the programme. Before the start of the programme the participants will have an introductory online workshop with OMSK Social Club and receive a handbook explaining the mechanics of the game, rules of engagement, the initial story, and exercises for building the outline of their ARIA character which they will inhabit and develop during the intensive. 

The role-playing game is designed in a way to accommodate participants with various backgrounds and experiences. Thus no previous knowledge or experience with live-action role-play is necessary for participation. If you have any questions or need more information while considering applying, please don’t hesitate to contact us (find the link below). 

ARIA is a role-played (improvised) experimental live work that takes place through the lens of a fiction-theory narrative. The narrative is centred around the idea of a group of people who are attempting to synthesise a series of cultural assets, in order to present them to communities who may or may not welcome them into their daily lives. The group utilises the tools of unworlding, unnaming, unlearning, and unbinding (mind games that find images and symbolism in the world) to find the exceptional state of new intra-world visioning. The work brings up questions of consumption and conflict of reality & fiction, translation and identity. It is not utopian nor is it dystopian, it is complex. Exploring social customs, rites, rules and forms of daily practice the group will archive and prototype their ideas over the course of the lab, with added inputs from visiting practitioners.

 

✴ Mission statement

ARIA (Algo-Rhythmic Ideation Assembly) is a gathering of hyperstitional agents, a chorus of in/human voices on a mission to immanentize the eschatological horizons. 

ARIA is an exercise in unworlding, unnaming, unlearning, and unbinding the entrenched structures of mankind’s current collective hallucination, so that a second rhythm, a refrain for a second life in the material world can start to emerge; planting the seeds for a second nature and our second bodies as the existent ones foreclose around us.

By engaging in unnatural participation with anomalous alliances through techniques of unsorcery and anthropoforming disguised as play with maximal bleed, ARIA will manifest an arrivant cosmo-grammar from chaosmosis to invoke new intra-world visions.