Dream Farm Commons is seeking proposals for You Meaning Me, a month long series of site-based performative works to take place in Downtown Oakland, California in May 2020.  

 

Through a series of performative works, You Meaning Me will address the social conditions and historical context of living in contemporary urban environments. Selected proposals will be site-specific to the 15th Street location of our gallery space, sidewalks, parks, and other areas of Downtown Oakland. The duration of the proposed performance should be between 30 minutes to 8 hours in length. Applicants should be driven by the belief in the radical possibilities of site-based, public performative works and the reimagining of our shared spaces.

 

As examples, proposed performative works might include:

• Body-based performance

• Durational works

• Creative activism

• Experimental dance

• Sound art

• Spoken Performance

• Social practice

 

Dream Farm Commons, the host and organizer of this event, located at 345 15th Street (between Webster and Franklin), is a site for radical imagination, for engagement with the visual, the poetic, the neighborhood and the future. 15th Street has become a unique site for creative resistance against the rapid gentrification of Downtown Oakland.

Applicants are invited to visit the gallery during open hours, and strongly encouraged to attend upcoming information sessions.

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The deadline for submission December 1, 2019.

 

Please find the application here.