Shangri-La Glastonbury 2019 - Digital VJ/Performers

Deadline: 31/03/2019

City: Shepton Mallet  |  Region: Somerset  |  Country: United Kingdom  |  kaye dunnings

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Shangri-la Artist submissions - Venue/Installation Briefs for artists, groups. organisations and collectives.

SHANGRI-LA is Glastonbury Festivals most iconic late night area. Found tucked away in the farthest corner from the main stages, it has both inspired and challenged its vast and devoted audiences for the past decade. 

Through provocative art installations, underground music programming, spectacular set design and groundbreaking live art and performance, Shangri-La continues to push the boundaries of what a festival looks and feels like. These elements are woven together to create a fully immersive experience unlike any other.

Shangri-La strives to illuminate progressive culture with great urgency - in the field and beyond. By holding a mirror up to the masses, creating conversations, encouraging activism and engagement, and stimulating all of the senses, we aim to expand minds and open hearts, motivating people in politics and play. The audience enters a spectator, and leaves a participator.

This radical area has a deep history in outsider art and underground culture. By inviting new collaborators each year to contribute to our evolving narrative, it remains an incredible creative playground where this anarchic spirit continues to manifest in original and new ways, inspiring the next generation of cultural revolutionaries and amplifying the collective conscience. Shangri-La is the meta-narrative that strives to illuminate progressive culture and other- worldly entertainment within Glastonbury Festival.

VJ's and Performers:

We are looking for VJ's and Performers to create content for an immersive music and visual arena split over 8 fully surrounding screens. Please see images attached. If you would like to submit something for the Gas tower please review the technical description in the FAQs.

At this stage we are just looking at initial ideas, sketches, mood boards etc and from there we can support you in developing the idea further if it will be something that is suited to Shangri-La this year.

So please do get in contact if you have any questions regarding the brief or technical specifications.

Please see all technical specifications in the FAQs.

Budgets: 

We have not stipulated a commissioning fee / budget in these briefs as the scope of work and opportunities for funding them are very varied. 

We are not expecting you to work for free and we do have infrastructural resources to support some more ambitious projects, though commissions with a large footprint or higher costs usually have relatively long lead-time and probably won’t be able to be considered for this year’s festival. 

In the medium and long term we are open to projects of all scales so please do still approach us if you have that mega idea that will change the world! 

Feel free to drop us a message before you spend too much time developing your pitch if you think the costs are going to be significant. 

Inclusion: 

 

We are particularly interested in working with artists from communities that are underrepresented in the festival scene. It's time to break the barriers!

 

Contact the curator
Who is eligible for this opportunity?
Everybody!
We welcome artists, thinkers, creatives and performers from all walks of life.
When is the deadline?
Submission deadlines: 30th March 2019
When is the delivery date?
Work needs to be installed and signed off by H&S by Tuesday 25th June 2019.
When do I need to collect my work?
Monday 1st July 2019 unless otherwise arranged.
How much does it cost?
You will need to fund your own travel expenses. We can only help with the transport of artworks and not personal journeys.
Are there payments to artists?
Budgets:
We have not stipulated a commissioning fee / budget in these briefs as the scope of work and opportunities for funding them are very varied.

We are not expecting you to work for free and we do have infrastructural resources to support some more ambitious projects, though commissions with a large footprint or higher costs usually have relatively long lead-time and probably won’t be able to be considered for this year’s festival.

In the medium and long term we are open to projects of all scales so please do still approach us if you have that mega idea that will change the world!

Feel free to drop us a message before you spend too much time developing your pitch if you think the costs are going to be significant.

Inclusion:
We are particularly interested in working with artists from communities that are underrepresented in the festival scene. It's time to break the barriers!
Is there a private view / opening?
The festival opens on the 26th June 2019.
Does the location have disabled access?
Yes but limited access. Arrangements can be made. Its a festival site within a field so would need an off road wheel chair. We aim to support artists with disabilities in any way we can.
What publicity will be provided as part of the opportunity?
Each year we invite selected artists to exhibit within Shangri-La.

We have been fortunate to work with a wide range of established and up and coming artists from many disciplines.

We are able to reach a very large audience, both on-site and on-line. Seeing the works in this environment has a big impact with audiences of up to 40,000 per day.

Our audience is not a traditional gallery going audience, yet the response to seeing high quality pieces in that setting is huge. Interaction is high and there’s a flurry of social media, especially on image sharing platforms. International press is very focused on the festival.

The festival get over a million mentions on social media over the course of the weekend as well as being watched by over 20 million people through TV coverage.
Do I need to be present?
No. We can install your work if its pre fabricated.
How do you decide on proposals?
We look at all submissions and decide based on the relevance of the individual artwork within the bigger picture of the whole of the area and theme and aesthetic of the field as a whole.
What happens if my proposal is chosen?
If your proposal is chosen then we will be in contact to begin to discuss how we can support you with the production, delivery and installation.
What kind of proposals are you looking for?
We are completely open to new ideas!
We are especially interested in projects that work with recycled, repurposed materials or artists/crew that consider the waste and carbon footprint and incorporate this into their work.

As this years theme is all based around human connection we are particularly interested in immersive projects which encourage the audience to interact with each other and the space/art work.

How can we spark inspiration for beyond the festival.
What does it mean to be Human in 2019?
What are the selection criteria?
Artists, Crews , Activists, Charities, Organisations to explore and challenge new ideas and encourage interaction through Human Connection.
Artwork Restrictions
We can offer budgets but we do have great resources.
Support we can offer
Production Support - we produce a lot of pieces ourselves and may be able to offer installation, transport and printing support. Any production support we provide will need to be planned well in advance, as people get very busy on site.
Press
Press/PR - Shangri-La benefits from a great deal of international press attention, we will put a release out to arts and music publications at the time of the festival.
Tickets and Accommodation
Tickets – Tickets are low on the ground but for crew who are working on-site, of course a ticket will be provided. Other tickets can be provided for crew depending on the scale of the project but plus ones aren't generally given as we need the tickets, but always worth asking.
Technical Requirements:
Description:
The Gas Tower consists of 8no 9m x 5.6m 16:9 ratio screens arranged in an octagon with
a 24m diameter. Each screen is fed by a Pansonic DZ21K projector running at
1920x1080 @60hz. [projector spec is subject to change]
Projectors are projecting across the arena from off-centre projection towers.
There is an onsite technical team of myself plus one depending on which day your
performance is on. You will be expected to show up at a minimum of the afternoon of
the day of the show, preferably before the programming begins, to discuss your
configuration.

If you do not show up, or show up while the venue is running, it will, understandably
become harder to look at specific setups, but we are pretty accommodating and should
be able to help out with most challenges.

Performer Location:
VJ’s wishing to make use of more than 2 screens will need to perform from the control
booth. There will be 2no 1080p HDMI/DisplayPort feeds on stage. Please ensure you
have the required HDMI/DisplayPort dongles.
VJs wishing to use more screens can perform from the front of the VJ booth next to the
stage and can utilise more screens using the playback options.

Canvas Resolution & FPS
The overall canvas is 8x HD – this can be performed as either 15360x1080 or
10240x720. The lower resolution will improve your performance drastically.
Target refresh is 60hz, 30fps video content preferred.

Screen Layout – all content and users
Due to the central screen being above the DJ there is an uneven number of screens
either side in an 8-sided arena. Be aware that you will need to offset the centre/focal
point of your content, so it sits in the mid-point stage screen.
Even if you have no intention of using 15360x1080 wide content, you can still use your
advanced mapping to repeat and mirror your content around the arena using 1 or 2 4k
outputs if you desire.

8 or 4 or 2 screen outputs
For content that is not 360 degrees, but utilises 8 or 4 outputs, you will need to have a
split in the screen if you wish your centre point to be above the stage.
This will mean offsetting your composition by -960px in the advanced mapping and
having the 960px that is cropped out duplicated at the other end.
Included in this show pack are test patterns and Resolume example files that will
illustrate this [for 8 screens].

1 or 3 screen outputs
There is no need to introduce any offset in the content, it will be
mapped/mirrored/repeated however you choose.
You can achieve this either by sending us individual feeds and we can create a preset
on e2 or you can use 4k outputs as described above.

d3 and Notch
Currently we have no provision for Notch based shows. If you require Notch/d3
integration, please contact directly to discuss.

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