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Sound and Colour Works and Responses

Sound and Colour Open Call

Eupa Project is seeking submissions for the 2022 installment themed Sound and Colour. This hybrid multidisciplinary artwork aims to give any artist from any discipline an opportunity to collaborate through a digital call-and-response approach. 

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For this round, Eupa, a multi-coloured group of creatives, wants to explore how sound and colour elements affect our day-to-day lives. Through this call, Eupa seeks the collaboration of musicians, painters, artists of all backgrounds, and well-wishers to respond artistically to the music of colours and paint sounds.  

The goal is to derive laws of colour and sound harmony. Ways to describe physiological colours and sound and subjective visual and auditory phenomena. The metaphors, symbols or emotions these two elements add to our social constructions. The images that we see and interact with and the sounds that wake us up are part of our every day. From the sound of birds chirping in the morning to the sirens alerting some of us at night. A grey or white snowy day. Sunset in the desert…

We will post some hint sound and art pieces on Eupa Website and invite artists to respond. The musicians make music on the visual pictures that we post. And visual artists create visual art pieces for the music and or performance pieces. 

In the end, we will have a collection of sound and visual pieces. We will organize an online exhibition. And we will combine selected works into a multimedia performance to celebrate. As a stretch goal, we will seek to have an offline exhibition in Uganda. We will reveal the details later as we understand how many works we will have. 

This would make a rich tapestry of “chain-mail” art and music pieces, each corresponding to a previous one. The results ‌would ‌feature on the website, and other (or the same) artists will respond to them.

Inspired? Submit yours!

There are two ways to take part: 

  1. Email a sound or visual art piece that responds to the theme of Sound and Colour to eupaproject@gmail.com by October 31, 2022. 
  2. Go to https://eupaproject.org/sound-and-colour-hints-and-responses/, pick a work you would like to respond to, and send the response by November 30, 2022. 

Thank you!

Materials to submit:

  • The piece itself via WeTransfer, Google Drive, or an embeddable player (Spotify, SoundCloud, Bandcamp or YouTube)
  • Your name, email, and the country where you are from.
  • If you are responding to work already on the website, please indicate which one.
  • Any links or social media handles you’d like us to include, such as Instagram, Youtube, Soundcloud, Facebook or your website link.

Eupa Message to the Future 2021

In 2021, we asked artists, poets, musicians, and filmmakers throughout the world to submit their messages to the future. Here are their messages.

Love is the only thing that matters! Love everyone regardless of their race

Phillip Ateesa ,Uganda

Music heals, “We sing what can’t be spoken” Anytime i may feel stressed out, having faded mold, feeling of disappointments and Failure i usually isolates myself to quiet and less distracted place with my guitar and sing my heart out and heart heals. The skills of Music and art, playing music instrument and hopes is what i want to situate and deposit in to the next young generation that is experiencing lot of depression.

Isabirye Mitch Uganda

Society has changed perception of how we treat our languages and most parents make it a point to teach their kids English as early as possible denying them the chance to learn their mother tongues. Therefore I would like the future generation to drop the notion of Kids that speak native languages aren’t cool and thus me as a writer am supposed to do my part and spread the word. “

James Gichuru AKA “Churu” Kenya

In community with others, you make better and more beautiful progress. Be careful with your messsages. Lets open our mind to the unknown. We need to un-learn and re-name. Not only speak to the converted. To go on, I want a vital and creative disagreement.

KARØ GOLDT Germany

i woul like to pass on the great ideas i have to the next generation and also let them know that everything in possible come what may.

Lwanyaga Phaixoual

“Something I would like to pass on to the next generation is to work hard and avoid laziness.”
– 

Eric Kwizera, Rwanda

learn how to appreciate the ordinary things they have /get in life, for they are a stepping stone in life.

Twesigye Angellinah, Uganda

To the next generation, I would like to pass on a sense of confidence not only in pursuit of what you want but also in facing who you are. Through my work as an author, I would like to awaken the power within for every reader, the confidence to chase those dreams that seem too big and the courage to live a life of open expression. Kendi Karimi, Kenya

Art and magic – Eupa Language Project 2021

We asked artists in Uganda, Germany and all over the world to submit their favourite words and sayings. We got dozens of submissions from all over the world. Here are some of them.

The Language Project started during the 2020 pandemic. It connected artists through space, time, and language barriers. The participants submitted their favourite words and created artworks inspired by each other. Poems. Videos. Drawings. Street Art. This page is a memory of the submission and created art, preserved. 

What is your favourite word?

Eupa team responses

Video

Eupa words 2021 by Yule Burleginfer

Gilead

A poem by Marione Malimba

Sketchbook

Maria Kubysh had created a sketchbook in response to the words submitted. Here is a video.

The Language Project at Dewe

We presented the language project at Eupa event at Dewe in December 2021