Modern Edinburgh Film School is delighted to announce an open call for poetry, text and spoken word pieces for publication in its first anthology.

This anthology includes works from invited artists and an open call and is for a publication principally, becoming the catalyst for a live event.

Modern Edinburgh Film School stages my practice as an artist with curating, producing new collaborative projects, publications and critical writing. These work together on themes of learning about film and its ideas, moving image artists and their films, sculpture and poetry and new expressions, founded in discussion.

Queer Information, the title of this anthology seeks works that correspond to the themes of my project: relationships between, often abrasive, things, objects, editions as performance and evidence, screenings as prisms, noise and sound as form, language and discussion as catalyst, language as extract and space, alternative curatorial pursuits, titles (where one thing can have many titles, and many things can have one title), queer evidence, discreet activity, poetry in gay discotheques, the experimental, durational and extended, substances, properties of materials and the changes they make to their environment, genderless titles, clairvoyance and invocations, morning and evening philosophy, films and social invitations, “On Spaces of Uncertain Function”, “A Transmitter of Mysteries”, “Filming Day for Night, its message is open and allusive”, “This space evaporates, pursues, too, yet requests time”, “flowers and questions, indoor: blue, black, permanent”, “Sculptural revisions, additions, equally found on photographs, maybe poetry and possibly films” and “Displayed revisions echo future actions.”

This call is open to visual artists who work with text and voice, spoken word performance and poets, a connection to Edinburgh is not necessary, inclusion makes no inference of sexuality, works from queer communities are welcome,

Please include name, the title of the work, and a short biography

Deadline is Tuesday 11 November 2014

The publication will be A5, and I am seeking between 12 and 18 works depending on response and length, the anthology will be the catalyst for a future live event.