Western Sydney Artists are invited to submit an EOI for Juxta, an interactive installation that will be presented as part of the Bankstown Biennale at Bankstown Arts Centre in October 2022.

Created by Felix Cross and Katrina Douglas, Juxta is where audiences create and curate mixes of audio and video works to discover how different combinations can reflect and stimulate emotional states. Juxta will happen in Studio One at Bankstown Arts Centre, with devices that allow the audience to select and juxtaposed video over sound and vice versa.

With support from Bankstown Arts Centre, we are commissioning 12 Western Sydney artists to create a 1-minute, original video or sound work responding to the theme of EARTH. Selected artists will be provided with additional information about the theme, however the content and style of your work is entirely up to you. The only criteria is that the work must be exactly 1 minutes long and you must produce a work in one of two formats: audio or video. Audio works can be created by composers and musicians, poets and spoken word artists, storytellers and soundscape artists; and video work (image-based only no audio) could be created by filmmakers, choreographers and dancers, visual and digital video artists. The final video works must be submitted without sound and credits.

The fee is $400 for the creation of a one minute work.

Your submission should include:

For more information and all submissions, please email juxta2020@gmail.com

Timeline

EOIs Due: Friday 9 September

Selected Artists Notified: Tuesday 13 September

Draft Work Delivered: Friday 23 September

Final Work Delivered: Monday 3 October

Juxta Goes Live: Saturday 8 October

Juxta is a live development of our original online project, which featured 24 artists who each created a sound or video work in response to the theme of WATER. These works were uploaded to a specifically designed website. This led to a live, club style iteration that was presented at Bankstown Arts Centre’s as part of the NEXUS in April 2022. For this version 18 new pieces were successfully commissioned, responding to the theme of FIRE. This event used V/DJs to select and mix the video and audio ‘tracks’ for a live audience. Juxta was created in partnership with Bankstown Arts Centre, ATYP, The House That Dan Built and The Q; and has received support from the City of Sydney and the NSW Government via Create NSW.