[deadline: 1/09/2008]
In the seasons 2008/09 & 2009/10, Shadow Casters are preparing new performances and projects, while continuing the work on current projects. We invite all interested parties to take part in our work or propose collaboration within the frame of Shadow Casters’ production. The call is addressed first and foremost to actors, performers and other professionals in the field of performing arts and film; visual and intermedia artists; musicians; writers; photographers; architects; art historians; interdisciplinary researchers – but also to all those who are akin to the poetics and creative politics of Shadow Casters. The selection of collaborators / colaborations will unfold in 2 or 3 steps: - 1. Applicants should send their CV’s and a short statement on their motivation to work with Shadow Casters as well as on their interests in general to: bacaci_sjenki@europe.com or via regular mail to: Bacači Sjenki, Bosanska 10, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia | - 2. Shadow Casters will contact the applicants by September 8 and invite a certain number of them for an interview. The interview with those applicants who reside outside of Zagreb and are not able to come will be conducted via Skype | - 3. For actors and performers: Following the interview, there will be scheduled a thematic workshop/audition | **[BACACI SJENKI (SHADOW CASTERS) is a non-profit international artistic and production platform dedicated to interdisciplinary collaboration, creation and reflection within the field of intermedia arts, especially in the domain of its implementation in urban spaces. Its seat is in Zagreb. SC stimulate intercultural dialogue through creating projects platforms for active cultural exchange between Croatian and international artists and professionals, at once questioning the existing concepts of individual and collective identity. Through its activities, SC encourages the debate on the nature and contradictions of the on-going globalization process, dealing with those social, political and cultural issues that reveal the “blind spots” and “hot potatoes” of a certain society. In the course of the 6 years of its existence, SC have produced a number of projects on local and international level. The majority of these projects, created as performative time sculptures, examines the relation of man and space through entirely different approaches: a specific study of world cities that takes on the shape of poetic-detective urban travels (Shadow Casters); amalgamating and juxtaposing the material space of the performance and the real time of actors with the virtual space and the delayed time of film (Process_City, part III: Process_in_Progress); penetrating into the microcosm of one Zagreb skyscraper and the multi-facetted revealing of its past, present and future (Man is Space: Vitić Dances, intermedia project and full-length documentary film); travelling through the material space of memory of a city neighbourhood that turns into a unique travel through one’s own memory, feelings and sub-conscioussness, thanks to the special sensorial conditions of the visitors (Process_City, part II: Ex-position); creating a multimeda archive of urban events that become the tool for studying the hypertextuality of space (Re-collecting City/Re-collecting Time; Wall Newspapers; Urbotheque). SC projects have thus far gathered over 80 artists and professionals from 16 countries world-wide. The projects have been produced and presented at festivals and manifestations in Zagreb, Dubrovnik, Bologna, Graz, Pisa, Ljubljana, Udine, Bjelovar, Belgrade, Marseille, Leiden, Krizevci, Genoa and New York, in collaboration with local partners]. For more detailed information on Shadow Casters and their projects, please check: shadowcasters.blogspot.com - expozicija.blogspot.com - biljezenjagrada.blog.hr - zidnenovine.blogspot.com