We can become part of a widening when we refuse to be narrowed. - Sara Ahmed, Living a Feminist Life
Resistance is a relationship. Are you keeper or are you kept?
Resistance is geologic.
What does resistance look like when the algorithm knows your shames, your loves, your kinks, knows what you want before you want it? When the protest gets a police escort? When you buy a Starbucks afterward, because god can we just live for a minute?
At every turn you foil me. And yet through some luck/grace/will/inverse inertia we get on with it - with the spongy matter of loving.
The pitfalls are many! The vertical task of somehow having connection when the name of the game is to go untouched. A saddling of SLOW deliberate motion that must sustain a strobe light of assaults. We doom-scroll to chill out. Can I resist and still have fun?
We cannot speak of resistance without her sister temptation. And get to a salient point that yes sometimes to resist is to forgo desire, to deny pleasure - a wet with wanting and mouth full of lightning that_goes_nowhere_. Although_ must every lost hard-on become a little baby angel in heaven? Might we question the narrative that everything you’ve ever wanted is a half breath away; dreams that become landfill, become bombs, and then too become billable at $300 per hour so you can cry in front of someone who’s sworn to secrecy. Might we question the myth that accountability isn’t sexy, was never sexy.
Might we crawl toward an ethic that holds frustration and elation. Toward a field of heterogeneity, plurality, exchanges, toward dildonics (thank you, Paul). Is resistance an insistence on collectivity, on saliva vs. bleach?
We have been able to resist because we expanded our subjectivity, refusing to accept the idea that we’re all the same. - Ailton Krenak, Ideas to Postpone the End of the World
We are looking for work that takes up the project of resistance, in the un/knowable breadth of what that may mean.
Guidelines:
- All genres and styles are welcome
- Artists may submit up to two entries
- Entries must be a link - Vimeo, Youtube or to a direct section on your website.
- Entries must be no more than 3 minutes in length, though the total running time of the work may be up to 20 minutes.
- If applicable, please submit a link with the full work in addition to the excerpt, which we will watch if interested in your entry.
- Works not in English must have subtitles
- $15 entry fee submitted to Venmo account: @singlechannelvt. We will send confirmation upon receipt of your entry and fee.
- International applicants please contact singlechannelvt AT gmail.com for alternative payment methods.
- DEADLINE for submission & entry fee is January 15, 2025 at 11:59pm ET
- Festival Dates: February 28 - March 1, 2025. This is an in-person event.
If accepted, artists will be asked to submit a CV, short bio and artist statement.
Questions? Please contact: singlechannelvt AT gmail.com
Snake House VT is an artist-run collaborative based in Vermont dedicated to supporting underrepresented artists through exhibitions, performances, screenings, and other events and projects.
Single Channel is a Snake House project that explores the moving image and time based media through a series of ongoing collaborative viewings and discussions. Artist curated screenings are presented throughout the year highlighting the history, practitioners, and genres of the moving image and time based media. Our thematic video festival is held annually.