The Flash Job Campaign calls for participation

Can you make things happen?

Whoever you are, or whatever it is you do (profession, nationality, age, artist, not artist,) you can apply as an activist in The Flash Job Campaign. The deadline of the application is May 25th; the form is online. The only requirements are that you must give your reasons for applying and must cite relevant past experiences. You can act alone, form or join a tem. In total, a maximum of 10 teams can take part, and they will each become a zone within the borough of Neukoelln, Berlin (first come, first serve). For participants that do not live in Berlin sponsors of the NEW LIFE BERLIN Festival have provided us with two apartments for housing during the campaign.

The Flash Job Campaign starts on June 1st , 5-7 pm with a kick-off workshop at FAIR-ETHICS Society for Art & Aesthetics on Karl Marx Strasse in Neukoelln. We will screen Flash Job Videos, discuss and the Flash Job Starter-Kit will be handed out. It contains a city-map of the target area, tips and tricks for the procedure, guidelines for the documentation and information like the youth-labour-protection-act.

The amount of Flashjobs which you manage to organize is not important to us. What is important, however, is your ability to understand and document why, in your opinion, people act or react in certain ways.

You may decide the medium in which you create your report. You can use film or photo, or you can interview the people after the Flash Job is finished. If you find that in certain situations, filming or taking photos would be inappropriate, you can simply write your story explaining how it went and why. We would then support you in putting together an interesting contribution to The Flash Job Campaign. Until June 15, all documentations from catalysts will be gathered and published at the final event of the NEW LIFE BERLIN Contemporary Art Festivals and at youtube.com/teenkom and you will be credited as official artist of the festival.

You submit an application by writing us an Email, including your address, including your resume and a statement on why you wish to participate – at flashjob at domain teenkom dot de. You also have the option to open a free account at wooloo.org – the organizer of the NEW LIFE BERLIN Festival – and then sign up to the Flash Job Campaign from there.