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OPEN CALL!
Between now and February 28, 2025 Mobius invites proposals for works by regional queer artists who work performatively for an Ides of March event called SLAY.
The theme of SLAY is the Ides of March–a time of omens, superstition, curses, hexes, prophecy, plotting and crowd-sourced assassination. Taking inspiration from a date famous for being the beginning of the end of the Roman Empire, Mobius calls in queer community and invites artists who work in performance art to pull out all of the psychomagical stops and cast anti-authoritarian spells with us. Show us how you use your queer power to conspire towards the fall of all of the Roman Empires of the present. Show us how you slay!
We welcome proposals for all formats: movement, performance, spoken word, drag, sound-based works, and anything else you feel moved to do in response to the Ides of March and the infamous fall of Caesar.
Mobius is proud to present this program as a successor to the first-ever 100% Queer Mobius event, MobiusLIVE: Bodies that Matter in 2023, first organized by former Mobius member Tom Mackie and current member Hey There Kapplow. This second iteration is co-curated by Heather and Jasper A. Sanchez. These events are curated and created by queer artists for queer artists.
See application form for full details, but here is some basic information:
SLAY will take place on March 16, 2025 at The Lilypad in Cambridge from 3:30-5:30 (we have the space from 3-6pm, inclusive of setup and breakdown.)
All participating artists must identify as queer.
Proposed works must be 20 minutes or less in duration.*
The less production/tech that your work involves, the better as the time is tight, and we want to include as many artists as possible, but the venue is well-equipped for sound and projection, so if you need these things, it’s fine!
Apply through this Google form. Contact heather@mobius.org or jasper@mobius.org if the form poses difficulty for you.
Deadline for submissions is 11:59PM EST February 28, 2025. We will make our selection and get back to you by March 5, 2025. If you have questions, please send them to us by February 22 so we will have time to research and get answers to you before the deadline.
*Contact us if you want to propose something longer. There is very limited time in the venue, but if it works with how the rest of the program shapes up in terms of how the space is being used, it might be possible for something durational to happen in the background of other performances in some way.
TOM PLSEK
Corvus Corax 5
collaboration with Joanne Rice.November 2003
photo by Bob Raymond
MOBIUS MEMBER FROM 1988 - 2022
It is with a heavy heart that we report the death of our colleague Tom Plsek. Tom first performed with Mobius in 1983 in Orpheus, playing his trombone on the bank of Fort Point Channel to create an aural cacophony with Sound/Image/Events as audiences rode in a boat across the River Styx. He became a member of Mobius Artists Group in 1988 and went on to regularly collaborate and perform with other group members as well as artists in the greater Boston community. Memorable performances include his many concerts with Boston musicians, his collaborations with dancer Marjorie (Jorie) Morgan, a series about ravens with Joanne Rice, and so many, many other performances.
In the words of Mobius Artists Group member Ellen Godena:
"Tom was such a kind and humble human being. He was an inventive and skilled musician, improvisor, and teacher. Such a joy to perform with. Such a joy to watch!
I think what I loved most of all about him was the wonder and awe with which he approached the world. So few people can approach life that way and just being near him, he spread that to others.He was really a profound human being, and I will miss his presence and the love that he emitted into the world." We are not alone in sharing her sentiments. Tom will be sorely missed by the many people who knew him around the world.
A fuller obituary can be found at https://lynch-cantillon.com/obituaries/2024/02/12/thomas-j-tom-plsek/#tab-obituary
Mobius values innovation, vulnerability, artistic development, and non-hierarchical relationships of mutual respect among our members.
45 years of art, performance, and activism
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