OPEN CALL for End Expo: a Trade Fair for The Palliative Turn
Generously hosted by the Bauhaus Museum Dessau, End Expo 2024 will gather together multifarious perspectives to promote a cultural shift from European ideals of progress, growth, technical and intellectual mastery, towards notions of mitigation, care, and attention. The fair aims to straddle the cognitive dissonance between life and death with generosity, kindness and most importantly humour.
And we are looking for your contributions! You can apply with ideas for participation in the form of art, entertainment, information, comic relief, food and drink, games, palliative products, or anything which responds to idea that business as usual is coming to an end.
When is End Expo?
18 May 2024
Where is End Expo?
The ground floor of the Bauhaus Museum Dessau
Mies-van-der-Rohe-Platz , 06844 Dessau-Roßlau, Germany
WHAT ARE WE LOOKING FOR?
Stalls: We invite stalls that fit categories like Palliative Medicine or care, Palliative Comedy or Humor, Palliative Sustenance, The Sepulchral, Artistic Response or Positions. Or something entirely different, as long as it responds in some way to the Association of the Palliative Turn’s manifesto. If you have an idea about how to play with the format of a trade fair for mortality, let us know!
Live Events: The fair will have a dedicated stage with presentations,performances, demonstrations, and readings taking place throughout the day. If you have something that will fit for this stage, please apply!
APPLICATION
As always, there are a few limits.
Applications need to be submitted by the 10th of January 2024.
Your proposed stall should be able to be installed and deinstalled within a day.
Your proposal should take into account the limits of a fair atmosphere; people coming and going, food and drinks, noise etc. i.e. this is not an insured, guarded exhibition scenario.
If you are not able to attend, you will need to help plan how to realise your idea with those who can.
We’re on a tight budget. We will cover the domestic travel in Germany, Dessau accommodation, and a 250-euro fee for successful applicants. Additional support for production, international travel, or other needs may be possible, based on proposals. Please keep your ideas simple and manageable within a tight budget. Indicate in your application if you can secure more funds locally, as we aim to stretch our budget to include as many people as possible.
APT in consultation with Bauhaus Museum Dessau, will choose the successful applicants.
WHY THE BAUHAUS MUSEUM DESSAU?
Since April 2023 APT has been involved in the program ‘Zwischenspiele’, initiated by Oliver Klimpel, head of curatorial workshop at the Bauhaus Museum Dessau, with an Intermezzo presentation. You can see images and more information here. As a result, Oliver asked APT to come up with an event for the 18th of April 2024 and will also change around a few of the works presented in this section, integrating APT and the Bauhaus collection further.
THE SPACE
Britain’s Favourite Funeral Songs
Wednesday 2 November & Wednesday 9 November at Spanners Club
Picking music for a funeral is no easy task. In a grief-stricken state we are liable to make the maddest playlists. But what do these songs say, if anything, about a country and its people? Through music and storytelling, Paul Haworth explores two biggies – death and Britain – in his new show.
Paul Haworth is a writer and performer. He is the author of the ‘Silk Handkerchiefs’ trilogy and ‘Letter to Robin Kinross’ (co-written with Sam de Groot), both published by TRUE TRUE TRUE. His play ‘Guide Me O Thou Great Redeemer’ premiered at Camden People’s Theatre in 2017. In 2018 he organised ‘The I Don’t Need To See That Fair’ at Grow Tottenham. His previous solo show was ‘You Can Always Sell Any Dream To Me’ in 2019, which was performed at Clout! Festival, Barking, and Hordaland Kunstsenter, Bergen.