Frequently Asked Questions

May I apply as a collective?

The short answer to this question is simple. Yes, you’re more than welcome to apply as a collective! We’ll consider your application gladly. Our reservation is not ideological, but financial. Our budget is calibrated to support individual contributions. We cannot afford to deviate from our budget. What we can offer to potential collective (and individual) contributions is an official acknowledgement of your contribution to the LACE #3: Materialising Touch symposium, in writing, to support your search for additional funding.

Are LACE and INTERLACE one and the same thing?

No, they are not.

Think of LACE as the overarching factor. The OPEN CALL refers to any practice dealing with the general theme of this year’s LACE #3: Materialising Touch symposium. Our central theme this year is integration.

INTERLACE is a section of LACE #3: Materialising Touch symposium that is looking at specific questions and... restrictions, if you will. The specialised INTERLACE OPEN CALL articulates these questions and restrictions.

What are you looking for, a workshop or a lecture?

We are looking for something in-between a workshop (art, action) and a presentation (knowledge, reflection). I would encourage you to (re)read our Mission Statement in which we tried to articulate this in-between-ness… as a space, perhaps, where art (practice) and knowledge (epistemology) meet.

If you’re thinking, but what does any of that mean? Then, I think, I’ve responded to your question in the best way possible. Let me explain.

My response is not meant to be mysterious or cryptic. The question of “what does that mean?” is the question we are actually asking. We, in other words, do not have set expectations. Quite the contrary, we are making this symposium to find out—from the examples shared with us—what are all the ways art and knowledge come together to communicate worth, or value.

This is why we’re asking the following questions:

• How does your practice operate?;
• What conditions does it require?;
• In what format do you imagine sharing your practice and your observations with the symposium participants?; and
• What kind of point would you like to make? To what embodied conclusion do you hope to bring the temporary community to? And why?

With these OPEN CALLs we are looking for examples of ways in which artistic work can (and already does) make knowledge. Furthermore, we are looking for examples of knowledge that can only be articulated through artistic activity. As opposed to, e.g., scientific or academic activity.

What is a Deep Dive?

A Deep Dive is a 90-minute-long event that invites an artist to share an aspect of their practice experientially for a specific reason. A Deep Dive is a primary format for practice-based exchange.

All Deep Dive hosts have been asked a version of the question,

• What aspect of your work will the participants be able to experience?, and
• Why would you like to share that aspect of your work experientially?

No two Deep Dives are exactly alike.

The format of each Deep Dives is developed in dialogue between the curators of the symposium and the participating artist aka Deep Dive hosts after the selection process has been complete.

How should I approach my application?

This year, we included new media in the application. You can send us audio messages, as well as video messages, and material. Please, keep your materials digestible. We understand that not every practice lends itself easily to being described in short form. Keep in mind that we’re a small team of interested individuals who are operating on a tight budget and whose access to time is limited.

A good question to ask yourselves is, What do you really want us to know?! What would you really like us to consider?

That said, we welcome transparency, active questioning, and speculative formulations. As we said in the Q&A event, please—for all our sakes—don’t try sending us a good application. Share, instead, what you’re thinking about! Tell us what you’re working on! Describe how your work relates to your life, your world, your cosmology.

The requirements specified on this website and the ImPulsTanz website are not the same. Which character limit should I follow?

Some of you have noticed that we weren’t being consistent with our requirements. :) Thank you for that. And your feedback.

Character, word, and minute limits are all approximate. We will not be disqualifying any application on the account of word-count alone.

Perhaps the most unforgiving limit will be the file size. If your PDF, for example, reaches over the limit prescribed by the application tool, the application tool may refuse it. In that case, you’ll have to adjust the file size.

As for the rest, I’ll repeat a paragraph from the previous question:

Keep in mind that we’re a small team of interested individuals who are operating on a tight budget and whose access to time is limited.

A good question to ask yourselves is, What do you really want us to know?! What would you really like us to consider?

My practice isn’t quite a dance practice. But I’m interested in the theme of the symposium.

LACE Symposium for Dance and Other Contemporary Practices is looking at the intersection between dance and other artistic forms and practices. We are referring to artistic research as a common denominator. We’ve written about this topic in our mission statement, where we associate artistic research with making-knowledge by making-art.

When talking about dance we are talking about dance in an expanded sense, which includes but isn't necessarily limited to dance, choreography, movement research, dance science, experiment, somatics, etc.

As long as your practice and/or work in some way thinks/feels through the prism of the body, lived experience, perception, proprioception,... perhaps along the lines of Haraway’s “privilege of partial perspective”, please apply!