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SALON VIDEO and TRANZIT.RO/ IAȘI are
launching an open call for video and sound works. These will be displayed in the frame of the fourth edition of salonvideo, which will take place in Iași, Romania in December 2013.

Guest curator: Luminița Apostu

Deadline for submitting works:
*November 20th 2013*

*THEME OF THIS EDITION: MATTERS OF METHOD*

When speaking about any type of action, be it physical or mental, an immediate transcription makes us describe it as a method. There are goals to be attained (however frivolous or blurry they might be) and an initial situation to start from. The method always develops in between these two. But what happens when the steps to take are not so clear, when the goal is lacking clarity or it even seems to be irrelevant? What motivates the use of a method and what feeds it?

Take the simplest action you do in your work and analyze it thoroughly, divide it into smaller and smaller particles and find out what holds everything together. Think about the last five years and draw a map of the different stages your city has been through. List the changes that took place and try to connect them. Think about decision making processes throughout a group or a nation - in what sense are they communicated?

Everything you do can be described as a project. You work as a freelancer, you take a full time job to pay your tuition fees, you volunteer until your 30s, you start taking care of a cat, you go out in the street to join
protests. What inspires you to act and do things the way you do? salonvideo invites you to a close reflection on the secret tactics, hidden agendas, working habits and survival techniques for the everyday, where everything you do turns on the engines of a mechanism.