The title of this open call is aaaaaah! How do you pronounce it? 

aaaaaah! Well, depending on who you ask, you’ll probably get a different answer. There is no universal pronunciation, or so it seems. I generally like to scream it out myself. Aaaaaah! It’s also a popular stock sound effect for film from back in the day when effects were expensive and therefore often reused. [Enter the Wilhelm Scream]. 

So what does aaaaaah mean to you exactly?

To me, aaaaaah! is basically everything. It’s reading the news and thinking ‘Wtf is going on in the world?’ It’s also the sound often associated with ecstasy. It’s ‘Oh, now I understand’, ‘Damn that hurt’, ‘My thirst is quenched’, and ‘Stop, I can’t take this anymore’. 

In our team meeting about this open call, we were discussing how often people are too afraid to scream, yet it’s such an important skill in life for humans to have. Perhaps a ‘learning to scream’ workshop could be interesting! At least, we are discussing it. 

So this is an open call about emotions?

Yes! Because life is full of emotions, a huge spectrum of ups, and downs, on personal and societal levels. The August events are an opportunity for

alumni of School of MA to share whatever it is they have to say through art, technology, design, and human connection. We’re looking for pitches for exhibition works, performances, and workshops for public events taking place between 1. - 24. August in Berlin, DE. 

Basically, we’ve existed as an independent art and technology school for 10 years which is no easy feat considering we’ve had zero institutional funding to support our existence. Think about your own relationships. Lots of good and bad happens in 10 years. Lots of learning and growing. We wanna celebrate what the school is about and what humans are about right now in this specific and critical moment in time. 

A big theme occupying our brains is survival. How did we all survive the last 10 years and how can we help each other survive the next 10? Certainly there are more questions than answers so let’s ask the hard questions that need to be asked and see where it takes us. Joy and justice are key to survival.

We’re all doing the best we can. Hopefully we’re all learning from mistakes and evolving. 

Let’s laugh and cry together, peeps. Submit your application by 26. May and show us what you’ve got to share!

The application is below. For further questions, feel free to get in touch!