Anxiety 2017 Festival :: September – November 2017 :: Sydney
Call for Commissions closes 15 July 2016
Anxiety 2017 is a new arts festival that fosters adventurous interdisciplinary collaboration and artistic innovation to address some of the biggest challenges in mental health. It will explore anxiety, stress, illness and mental health from culturally diverse and neurodiverse perspectives, and through cutting edge art practice and pioneering modes of community engagement. The Festival seeks Expressions of Interest for three commissions of up to $25,000 each, for new works aligning with the themes of the festival. Proposals may encompass visual, sound, multimedia, or performing arts. Preference will be given to work with a strong social practice or community engagement aspect, and/or innovative mental health outcomes. Submit applications to thebiganxietyproject@gmail.com with a one page Expression of Interest that outlines your project idea, its relevance to the themes of the festival, potential partnerships, a venue or site for presentation, a short biography or a one page CV, and a contact phone number.
A new innovative company in the medicinal cannabis industry may have found an all-natural and highly effective way for women to treat menstrual cramps and pains. No, they’re not actually cannabis tampons but rather small capsules, called Foria Relief.
When inserted directly into the vagina these cannabis tampons provide powerful pain relief.
Foria Relief, which pot enthusiast and writer Sophie Saint Thomas points out is “the first—and only—cannabis suppository on the market dedicated to treating menstrual cramps,” contains only three ingredients: organic cocoa butter, THC oil, and CBD Isolate.
Foria says that the combination of THC and CBD it uses in the suppositories was specifically designed to “activate certain cannabinoid receptors in the pelvic region when introduced into the body.”
From the dreaded black plague to flu epidemics of the 21st century, Melbourne continues to encounter the spread of disease across the globe. This illuminating exhibition shows the ways disease visits the people and places in Melbourne’s past, present and future.
Like visitors, diseases come and go, while some stay and live among us. Whether having arrived by 19th-century sailing clipper or a contemporary A380 aircraft, diseases that visit Melbourne always cause fear and can impact with devastating consequences.
A selection of diseases is featured as totemic personalities, presented as translucent cylinders hung from above and lit from within. These unsettling totems also serve as beacons, illuminating the places and people encountering disease.
With a growing urban population, protection from mass infections cannot be taken for granted.
Despite its First World medical facilities and most liveable status, can Melbourne’s diseased past be a guide to the city’s future?
Location
City Gallery
Ground 110 Swanston Street
Melbourne VIC 3000
Enter via Halftix
Call for Artists :: Deadline Extended to 30 September 2015
Sparks is a European project that aims to promote the concept of Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI) amongst citizens and other stakeholders in 29 European countries. Sparks is looking for artists to create artistic visions of new technologies in health, medicine and wellbeing. The organising committee expects a diversity of artistic, speculative design and exemplary ideas, as well as disruptive out of the box thinking to make such future developments more tangible. This is a unique opportunity to question, provoke and interrogate this area of research through artistic and scientific discourse. The selected three artists will work at Ars Electronica with futurologists and scientists on the development of their artistic vision on technology in health, medicine and wellbeing.
http://www.aec.at/sparks/
