How a «deviant » behavior can interrogates/reveals/changes public/urban spaces ? This interrogation is the basis for Something Happens collective to elaborate a program for the year 2018. Its aim is to promote a large variety of practices and points of view of artists from all over the world through the video medium.

Many subjects are possible : relation between private and public spaces, body and architecture, create an astonishing poetry, the memory of the city, town planning, fun guerilla...

We are mainly interested in short videos about actions in a urban context but the selection is also opened to video recordings of urban phenomena (experimental or/and documentary).

The selected videos will be visible on Something Happens website during from 01 to 31 march 2018 for an online exhibition.

The event will continue in May 2018 in different places in France (institutional and alternative places in Grenoble and Lyon). The selected videos will be also screened on different buildings in different cities during the year 2018.

To participate, send us links of videos, accessible through YouTube, Vimeo or other online video platforms at somethinghappenscollective@gmail.com

If your work is selected, you will had to send us your video in a good quality size and in MP4 video file format (H264 compression), a synopsis, a short CV and one or several images (jpg format, 300 dpi).

Works submitted in languages other than English or French must be subtitled in English.

Submissions are free.

Max duration : 10 min

Several proposals are possible

submission deadline : 20 february 2018

The results will be on the Something Happens website from 25 february.

Selected artists will be informed by email.

website : https://somethinghappens.jimdo.com

contact : somethinghappenscollective@gmail.com