(INTERNATIONAL)
Theme: OCEAN (place, action, philosophy, folklore)
deadline: 3rd November 2014 (any local time)

“...Become like water my friend.” - Bruce Lee

“Smooth space is filled by events or haecceities, far more than by formed and perceived things. It is a space of affects, more than one of properties. It is haptic rather than optical perception. Whereas in striated forms organize a matter, in the smooth materials signal forces and serve as symptoms for them. It is an intensive rather than extensive space, one of distances, not of measures and properties." - Gilles Deleuze. The Smooth and the Striated

"Orkney storytellers used to describe with exquisite imaginary the town of Finfolkaheem at the bottom of the sea." - Ernest W. Marwick. The Folklore of Orkney and Shetland

"…our island home is doomed. In a few short ages the lobster and
crab will crawl on our cold hearthstones; whales and fishes will disport above where our chimney tops now reach; seaweeds and limpets will grow on our gravestones, and our graves will be nowhere. But our dust will be safe in that most glorious of all sepulchers – the mighty ocean – on which “time writes no wrinkle” - Denisson. 1893 address to the Orkney Natural History Society

5th edition of Papay Gyro Nights Art Festival is taking place 3 - 10 February 2015 in Orkney (Scotland), 6 - 20 March 2015 in Hong Kong and through the year will be continued as an international touring and exchange programme

Artists from anywhere in the world are invited to submit video art works: single-channel and installation

OCEAN, as a theme, is not a limitation, but an opportunity to desolve boarders and bondaries, to"become like water", to submerge a rigid landmass, to look at OCEAN as a way of action, philosophical paradigm, world of folklore, post-human ecology, or as a mass of water


Format:
MPEG4, WMV, MOV, MPEG1, MPEG2, AVI
16mm
single-channel and installation
(please consult for others)

Download submission form here >

Contact: papaygyronights@papawestray.org