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FADO E-LIST (October 2006)
INDEX
1. FADO NEWS
2. Fado presents Vassya Vassileva IN SEARCH OF FRIEDRICH NICHTMARGEN / FROM UNCREATIVE TRAVEL BOOK XXIII [SURFACE AREA 510,100,934 KM2 196.950.168 MILES2 ]
3. Fado presents Aiyyana Maracle's ndn wars are alive, and ... well?
4. Fado presents Glyn Davies-Marshall SOMEWHERE BETWEEN WAKEFIELD AND WICHITA
5. 7a*11d International Festival of Performance Art : October 19 - 29, 2006
6. WORKSHOPS: "Feel invisible things" & "Breaking the Barriers of Discipline " 7a*11d
October 15 & October 23 - 25, 2006; Source: 7a*11d
7. CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: "VISUALEYEZ 2007" Latitude 53 (Edmonton)
Deadline: October 20, 2006; Source: Latitude 53
8. CALL FOR ARTISTS: "Artist in Residence Program" The Vancouver Board of Parks and Recreation & Community Centre Associations (Vancouver)
Deadline:October 31, 2006; Source: publicart-online
9. CALL FOR RESIDENCY PROPOSALS: 18th Street Arts Center (USA)
Deadline: November 7, 2006; Source: 18th Street Arts Center
10. CALL FOR PROPOSALS: "Of other spaces..." UrbanFestival (June 2007) (Croatia)
Deadline: November 13, 2006; Source: UrbanFestival
11. CALL FOR PROPOSALS: "WASTE" CESTA (Czech Republic)
Deadline: November 15, 2006; Source: Franklin Furnace
12. CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: "HOME / AWAY "IDENSITAT 07 (Spain)
Deadline: November 15, 2006; Source: ARTSERVIS #215
13. JOB POSTING: School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (USA)
Deadline:November 15, 2006; Source: SMFA
14. WORKSHOP: "The Improvising Citizen" with Keith Hennessy
Dates: November 18-19, 2006; Source: the RED Letter
15. CALL FOR PROPOSALS: "SENSITIVE SKIN 2007" Future Factory (UK)
Deadline: November 20, 2007; Source:Matt Hawthorn
16. CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: "The 2nd RED Festival"
Deadline: December 1, 2006; Source: The RED Letter
17. JOB POSTING: Visual Arts Department, University of California, San Diego (USA)
Deadline: December 15, 2006; Source: publicart-online
18. CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: "THE BOOK OF INVITATIONS" (Montréal)
Deadline: January 15, 2007; Source: Akimbo
19. ARTIST PROJECT: "The Department of Network Performance" (USA)
Deadline: not given; Source: Cary Peppermint
20. CALL FOR NETWORK: What is an Environment?
Deadline: not given; Source: Ryan Kamstra
21. CALL FOR PROPOSALS: "Deep Structure: Deep Play" Neutral Ground (Regina)
Deadline: not given; Source: Neutral Ground E-Missive#14, vol. 4
22. NEWS: agora8 Contemporary Art magazine (online)
Source: Kenny McBride
23. CALL FOR NETWORK: bluelab (USA)
Deadline: not given; Source: Jeff Hogue
24. ARTIST PROJECT: "Perfect Speech" (Germany)
Deadline: not given; Source: Der Erste Stock
25. NEWS: New website - Diane Borsato
Source: Diane Borsato
26. ARTIST PROJECT: "have you ever wanted to change?" (online)
Source: Megan Wilson
27. EVENT: "Neutrinos They Are Very Small" (Kingston)
Date: October 15, 2006; Source: Sally McKay
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1. FADO NEWS
Fall is in full swing, and Toronto is hungry for performance art events, as evidenced by the massively successful Nuit Blanche programming that took place in various downtown zones at the end of September. Various Fado alumni, including Tanya Mars, Louise Liliefeldt, Shannon Cochrane and Jess Dobkin were among the artists featured in a dusk-to-dawn art extravaganza. For those whose appetite has been whetted, Fado packs three new IDea projects into October's programming schedule. These projects are presented in conjunction with Toronto's performance art biennial, the 6th 7a*11d International Festival of Performance Art. While all of these projects deal with different aspects of identity, they are linked by a common concern for aspects of geography. Bulgarian artist Vassya Vassileva takes her cue from geographical measurement as a way of interrogating the notion of presence. First Nations artist Aiyyana Maracle reminds us that we are living on land that is contested territory. UK artist Glyn Davies-Marshall searches for a place that can reconcile a real but often unspoken or unacknowledged geography with one that lingers in both the popular and personal imaginary. Take in these and other works at this year's 7a*11d.
We would also like to take this opportunity to express our thanks to our summer intern, Gale Allen, a candidate in the University of Toronto's Master of Visual Studies program. Gale has been working as an editorial assistant for the upcoming publication on Tanya Mars, the second installment in our Canadian Performance Art Legends series. Watch for details of the launch later in the programming year.
On a more sombre note, we note the recent death of our beloved colleague, Ahasiw Maskegon-Iskwew, rapporteur for Fado's After the Facts online discussion project.. On September 26, 2006, Ahasiw passed away, survived by his partner Alain Malo, three brothers and many friends and colleagues. Paul Couillard writes, "Ahasiw stands as one of the most powerful performance artists of my generation. Although he stopped performing some time ago, saying that the place he had to go to make that work took too much out of him, his Vancouver performances of the early 1990s have acquired the status of legend. His brilliant contributions as an organizer, curator, writer, and media artist have continued to enrich Canada's cultural fabric. I will miss his footsteps on this earth."
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2. Fado presents Vassya Vassileva IN SEARCH OF FRIEDRICH NICHTMARGEN / FROM UNCREATIVE TRAVEL BOOK XXIII [SURFACE AREA 510,100,934 KM2 196.950.168 MILES2 ]
October 19 - 28, 2006
Fado presents (in our ongoing IDea series)
IN SEARCH OF FRIEDRICH NICHTMARGEN /
FROM UNCREATIVE TRAVEL BOOK XXIII
[SURFACE AREA 510,100,934 KM2 196.950.168 MILES2 ]
Vassya Vassileva
Presented in conjunction with the 7a*11d International Festival of Performance Art; Co-sponsored by the Toronto Free Gallery
October 19, 8 pm: Performance
XPACE (303 Augusta Ave., Toronto ) PWYC, suggested donation $5
October 20 - 28, 5 pm: Performance
Toronto Free Gallery (660 Queen St. E., Toronto) Free
October 25 - 27, 11 am - 6 pm; October 28 12 - 6 pm: Installation
Toronto Free Gallery (660 Queen St. E., Toronto) Free
Fado is pleased to announce that from October 19 - 28, 2006 it will host a Toronto research visit by the Bulgarian artist Vassya Vassileva. Presented in conjunction with the 7a*11d International Festival of Performance Art, and co-sponsored by the Toronto Free Gallery, IN SEARCH OF FRIEDRICH NICHTMARGEN / FROM UNCREATIVE TRAVEL BOOK XXIII [SURFACE AREA 510,100,934 KM2 196.950.168 MILES2 ] (short title: IN SEARCH OF FRIEDRICH NICHTMARGEN) will unfold as a series of talks (public and personal), actions, lectures and installations situated around the city, and a presence that aims to establish an ontological framework for the IDea of Friedrich Nichtmargen. The artist invites Toronto audiences to meet with her at 5 pm each day from October 20 - 28 at the Toronto Free Gallery. At that time she will share the daily results of her research through conversations, displays of the evidence she uncovers, and field trips to various local sites of interest.
Vassya Vassileva has been in search of the artist Friedrich Nichtmargen since Thu, 4 Nov 2004 14:42:37 -0800 (PST). Upon losing him, Vassileva cancelled her engagements in order to search for all vestiges of evidence of his existence. According to Friedrich Nichtmargen, every declared identity is misleading, unhelpful and irrelevant – a pure diagnosis. In explaining her reasons for believing she might find traces of Friedrich in Toronto, Ms. Vassileva sent this fragmentary message:
“I was informed by the artist Hermann Hessler that Friedrich intended to go to the Canadian woods in relation to the ‘indispensability of measuring the distance between certain kinds of trees.’ I decided at once that the next geographical locality of my quest shall be Canada. During my stay in Toronto I will search for Friedrich Nichtmargen. In order to prefigure his local appearance, I shall strictly follow his own rules of mathematical formalization while scrutinizing geographical twists and measuring the distance by my own…” = Message truncated =
To learn more about Ms Vassileva's persistent search, and to share in the narrative of her ongoing journey, come join her at the Toronto Free Gallery.
About the artist
Vassya Vassileva is an artist and lecturer who is currently working on her PhD in the Semiotics of Art at the New Bulgarian University, Sofia. Since October 2004 she has been searching for the artist Friedrich Nichtmargen. She works as a full-time researcher at the Institutum Fridericianum.
For more complete details, visit the Fado website.
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3. Fado presents Aiyyana Maracle's ndn wars are alive, and ... well?
October 22, 2006
Fado presents (in our ongoing IDea series)
ndn wars are alive, and ... well?
Aiyyana Maracle
Presented in conjunction with the 7a*11d International Festival of Performance Art
Trinity Bellwoods Park (in the ravine)
FREE
Fado in cooperation with the 7a*11d International Festival of Performance Art is pleased to feature the world premiere of a new performance by award-winning artist Aiyyana Maracle. Join us in the ravine of Trinity Bellwoods Park on Sunday, October 22 when Maracle presents ndn wars are alive, and ... well?, a multimedia performance with video projections. Inventive, passionate and multi-talented, Maracle is known for her eloquent actions that assert the ongoing struggle for aboriginal presence and title in this country, particularly in her ongoing "peace piece" series. She is also recognized as a key contributor to Vancouver's vibrant First Nations performance art scene.
Maracle provides this pointed commentary about her new work:
"The ndn wars: Canada’s Indigenous people remain resistant to the perpetuation of an unjust colonial relationship with ‘the Crown,’ and within Canadian society. The Crown, by its own actions and inactions more so than its words, continues to show its resistance to entering into a new era of an equitable, respectful, peaceful relationship between our cultures and peoples. Canada the meek; Canada, the world’s peacekeeper. Can there be peace in this world while this country remains so willing to, yet again, engage in violent repression of the Indigenous people of this land?"
About the artist
Aiyyana Maracle is an award-winning multi-disciplinary artist who has recently re-located to Montréal to take-up a Visiting Scholar position at McGill University. Amidst her research work, she will be traveling to Essen, Germany in November to present a new performance work.
For more complete details, visit the Fado website.
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4. Fado presents Glyn Davies-Marshall SOMEWHERE BETWEEN WAKEFIELD AND WICHITA
October 24 - 26, 2006
Fado presents
SOMEWHERE BETWEEN WAKEFIELD AND WICHITA
Glyn Davies-Marshall
Presented in conjunction with the 7a*11d International Festival of Performance Art; Co-sponsored by the Toronto Free Gallery
Part 1: Palomino - October 24, 2006, 6 - 10 pm
Part 2: Number 33 - October 25, 2006 , 4 - 10 pm
Part 3: The Wichita Line Man Is Still on the Line - October 26, 6 - 10 pm
Toronto Free Gallery (660 Queen St. E., Toronto) PWYC
Fado is pleased to announce the North American debut of Glyn Davies-Marshall, hailed as " one of the great undiscovered voices of British performance art" by Andre Stitt. Davies-Marshall's durational performance trilogy Somewhere Between Wakefield and Wichita is presented in conjunction with the 7a*11d International Festival of Performance Art, and co-sponsored by the Toronto Free Gallery between October 24 - 26, 2006.
Somewhere Between Wakefield and Wichita is an epic three-day journey through a complex terrain of personal history, private mythology, and post-colonial politics. Developing three distinct durational performance environments, Davies-Marshall will attempt to fashion his own "multi-faceted, self-sufficient promised land," situated somewhere between the bleak reality of rural Britain in the second half of the Twentieth Century and a mythologized North American cowboy frontier fueled by the plaintive songs of Glenn Campbell.
"From the early 1990s my work has dealt with my own symbolic order, colloquialisms, the words of my father, the stigma of a Northern upbringing and a persistent habit of perceiving situations in an overly romantic fashion. There have been developments and issues that have subconsciously infiltrated my practice and train of thought that have now become fundamental facets within my work. These include colonialism, dictatorship, the plight of those who are seeking asylum and a recollection of a place that I once called home."
About the artist
Glyn Davies-Marshall is a performance and installation artist whose work has been presented throughout the UK as well as in Germany and Russia. He currently works as a Senior Lecturer in Performing Arts and Stafford College. Andre Stitt describes him this way: “An artist who combines a unique understanding of process combined with the manipulation of objects and materials to create strange and secretive juxtapositions of reality. His work resonates with humour and gut wrenching pathos.”
For more complete details, visit the Fado website.
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5. 7a*11d International Festival of Performance Art : October 19 - 29, 2006
Experience provocative performance art from local favourites, national treasures and international visiting artists at the 6th 7a*11d Festival.
For nearly 10 years, 7a*11d has been bringing to Toronto the famous, the not-so-famous and the soon to be renowned of the performance art scene including Daniel Barrow, New York’s activist preacher Reverend Billy, Esther Ferrer, Will Kwan, James Luna, William Pope.L, Clive Robertson, Melati Suryodarmo (APG group), Black Market’s Roi Vaara and many more. Since our first festival in 1997, 7a*11d has been host to over 250 performance artists from here at home and around the world.
The 6th 7a*11d Festival of Performance Art brings to Toronto over 20 established and emerging contemporary performance artists from across Canada as well as Japan, Singapore, Indonesia, the Philippines, Poland, Bulgaria, Finland, Germany, the UK and the US.
New performance works from over 20 international and home-grown artists including Tejpal S. Ajji (Toronto), Racquel de Loyola (the Philippines), Dariusz Fodczuk (Poland), Rose Hill (US), Ed Johnson (Toronto), Leena Kela (Finland), Nahed Mansour (Toronto), Kenny McBride (UK), Rita McKeough (NS), Oraf Oraffson (BC) Lee Wen (Singapore), Willem Wilhelmus (Finland), Herma Wittstock (Germany) and Yoyoyogasmana (Indonesia).
Co-presentations with Fado Performance Inc. include Vassya Vassileva (Bulgaria), Glyn Davies-Marshall (UK) and Aiyyana Miracle (Montreal).
- Exciting and unusual day and evening performance events
- d2d = direct to documentation video screenings (October 21 + 28)
- Do Me! performance instruction offerings from the likes of Joey Skaggs, Critical Art Ensemble, Ann Hamilton, Geoffrey Hendricks, Aernout Mik, Martin Creed and Linda Montano, Carolee Schneemann and Martha Wilson which will be performed by local artists and students from OCAD, the University of Toronto and York University (check the website for times and locations)
- Panel discussions, artist talks and workshops, outdoor and off-site performances and much more…
Festival catalogues are available at 401 Richmond Street West and festival Venues (Xpace, OCAD and Toronto Free Gallery).
PDF of the 2006 Festival catalogue now available at www.7a-11d.ca
Join us on Thursday October 19 at 8pm for OPENING NIGHT featuring:
Québec sensation collective Les Fermières Obsédées, anti-cool (Japan), performance and video installation from Claudia Bernal (Québec) and Vassya Vassileva (Bulgaria) co-presented by Fado Performance Inc.
10 PM Opening Night party
All events PWYC. Suggested donation for evening programs & Opening Night Party is $5.
7a*11d main festival venue: Xpace (303 Augusta Ave. in Kensington Market)
Plus day events + programming at Toronto Free Gallery, OCAD & Trinity Bellwoods Park.
http://www.7a-11d.ca
email: performancefestival@hotmail.com
FESTIVAL HOTLINE (from October 13): 416-822-3219
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6. WORKSHOPS: "Feel invisible things" & "Breaking the Barriers of Discipline " 7a*11d
October 15 & October 23 - 25, 2006; Source: 7a*11d
This year 7a*11d takes advantage of the presence of our visiting international artists to present two FREE workshops.
anti-cool (Japan)
-Feel invisible things-
Gendai Gallery at the Japanese-Canadian Cultural Centre
October 15, 1:00-6:00 pm
To register, email Kerri Sakamoto: unbidden@sympatico.ca; maximum 10 participants
"I would like to go through a process in which participants can experience unexpected feelings and ways of thinking by joining my workshop. Through this form of interaction and communication the participants will be able to reflect upon themselves, and the relationships between the participants and their surroundings." - anti-cool
Performance and installation artist, anti-cool (Tomoko Takahashi) was born in Kanagawa, Japan. Her works explore ways of conquering the boundaries and rules with which people surround themselves. Through communication with those present, she tries to find solutions in order to break through people’s self-imposed limits. She has exhibited in more than ten countries in the last six years. Recent group shows include Visions in the Nunnery, London, UK; Cultural Studies Wien at Museum Quarter 21, and Platform Kunst for Japan-EU year, Vienna, Austria.
Racquel de Loyola (Philippines)
Breaking the Barriers of Discipline
October 23, 24 and 25, 6:00-8:00 pm
Toronto Free Gallery, 660 Queen St. East
To register, email 7a*11d: performancefestival@hotmail.com; maximum 6 participants
An investigative journey into cross-disciplinary practices. Live art is classified as a paradoxical conjunction of established disciplines, and this workshop will seek out ways to negotiate the links – and missing links – between different media. After presenting a selection of performance documentation, the workshop will draw from each participant’s personal history, artistic background and media experience. By utilizing material-based explorations, the workshop will intensify as well as amalgamate everyone’s strongest capabilities.
Racquel de Loyola’s work addresses the issues of women, colonization, identity, migration, displacement, capitalism and globalization. Loyola is currently a convener of New World Disorder. She has recently presented performances at the Currency Festival of Performance (New York, 2005), the 7th ASIATOPIA (Bangkok, 2005), Asia Meet Asia (Tokyo, 2006), and the Laokoon Art Festival (Germany, 2004).
http://www.7a-11d.ca
email: performancefestival@hotmail.com
FESTIVAL HOTLINE (from October 13): 416-822-3219
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7. CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: "VISUALEYEZ 2007" Latitude 53 (Edmonton)
Deadline: October 20, 2006; Source: Latitude 53
The eight annual festival of performance art taking place from May 17-29, 2007 in the downtown core of Edmonton, Alberta. Visualeyez 2006 will focus on the curatorial theme of the city.
Throughout North America and many developed countries there is a concentration of people, resources and networks within urban centres and super cities. Visualeyez 2007 will explore this phenomenon through work that focuses upon performance art as a basis for commentaries and analyses upon how systems of cities attempt to work and how the individual and/or groups navigate these systems. Utilizing systems and density of resources as a departure point, Visualeyez is seeking submissions from artists and collectives that explore relationships between the city and spaces created for friction, individuality, creativity, intimacy, and security.
Visualeyez happens over a period of ten days and all invited artists should be prepared to attend for the entire length of the festival. Artists experience the work of other artists, engage in discussion groups, panels and other activities that enhance the work of individual artists and the performance art community within Canada and beyond.
Proposals should include:
- a CV and artist statement;
- a detailed description of the work you wish to present, or explore;
- support material (that can include slides, video, print or digital documentation of your work, catalogues, and press).
If you would like your materials returned to you, please also include a self-addressed stamped envelope with sufficient postage.
Artists shall be contacted by late November regarding the status of their proposals.
Proposals can be sent by mail to:
Todd Janes, Executive Director
Latitude 53 Contemporary Visual Culture
10248 106 Street
Edmonton, Alberta Canada T5J 1H5
Alternatively, proposals can be emailed to visualeyez@latitude53.org and a cc to todd.janes@latitude53.org Please be courteous of image size and materials that you are sending.
The deadline for Visualeyez 2007 submission is Friday, October 20, 2006.
Visualeyez is supported, in part by Canadian Heritage, the Inter Arts Office of Canada Council for the Arts, Imperial Tobacco Canada Arts Council, The City of Edmonton and Latitude 53.
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8. CALL FOR ARTISTS: "Artist in Residence Program" The Vancouver Board of Parks and Recreation & Community Centre Associations (Vancouver)
Deadline:October 31, 2006; Source: publicart-online
The Artist in Residence Program is based on principles of community cultural development. Its purpose is to support artists working with communities on issues of joint interest or concern. The Artist in Residence Program encourages the development of a wide variety of interactions between artists and community members. The term 'residence' in this program refers not to where the artist lives, but to their commitment to, and consideration of, the peoples, places and issues located in the participating communities.
Artists from all disciplines, including writers, composers, visual artists, dancers, musicians, poets, choreographers, theatre artists, celebration artists, video artists, and performance artists, are invited to submit proposals. After September 18th , application packages will be available (for pick-up only) at each of the participating Community Centres listed below, at the Roundhouse Community Centre (Davie and Pacific) and at the Park Board Office, 2099 Beach Avenue.
Information is also available on our website at: http://www.city.vancouver.bc.ca/parks/arts/air.htm
The residencies provide:
- an artist's fee of $8,000,
- artist-intern fee of $2,000
- and a materials budget of up to $2,000.
After artists are selected, an intern is engaged to assist in each residency. Projects may take place at any time of year as long as they are completed within 2007.
Participating Centres in 2007
Britannia Community Services Centre - 1661 Napier Street, contact Brenda Racanelli, 604-718-5825
Mount Pleasant Community Centre - 3161 Ontario Street, contact Harvey Eng, 604-713-1884
After reading the information available in the packages, if you have further questions about the specific communities please call the contact people at the centres. For information about the program please call jil p. weaving at 604-257-8496.
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9. CALL FOR RESIDENCY PROPOSALS: 18th Street Arts Center (USA)
Deadline: November 7, 2006; Source: 18th Street Arts Center
18th Street Arts Center in Santa Monica, CA is accepting applications to its Residency Program for four non-live-in and two live-work artist residencies beginning in mid-January and April 2007 for emerging to mid-career artists and arts organizations in all media.
LIVE-WORK STUDIOS: Studio #1 is a 670sf studio with a bedroom and loft. Studio #2 is a 2,300sf studio with two smal rooms and three large workrooms. Both studios are equipped with full kitchen and bathroom facilities, high ceilings and built-in storage space. Artists who have occupied these spaces previously include painters, dancers, writers, performance artists, and graphic artists. Studio #1 is $930 month including utilities. Studio #2 is $2,100 month including utilities.
DAY STUDIOS: Mixed-use spaces useable as artist studios, workspaces, and/ or offices. Studio #3 is 385sf with a loft and high ceilings - $481 w/out utilities. Studio #4 is 540sf with high ceilings, work sink, and good natural light - $675 w/out utilities. Studio #5 is 414sf with high ceilings and good natural light - $517 w/out utilities. Studio #6 is 380sf with high ceilings and good natural light - $475 w/out utilities.
Parking is free. Leases are renewed annually for a maximum of three years.
OUT-OF-TOWN APPLICANTS: While applicants outside of the greater Los Angeles area are eligible, all finalists will be interviewed in-person or by online video. All artists and arts organizations of 18th Street Arts Center must be Los Angeles County residents while in the Residency Program.
PROGRAM DESCRIPTION: 18th Street Arts Center&Mac226;s Residency Program provides subsidized (i.e. below market rate) studio rentals and shared facility use to emerging and mid-career artists and arts organizations in order to act as an incubator for work and career development. Residents are also required to contribute a community project each year. (Community projects are individualized acoording to each resient artist or organization.)
18th Street Arts Center is a leading international residential arts center that supports emerging to mid-career artists and arts organizations dedicated to issues of community and diversity in contemporary society. Our programs include a professional gallery, free art-nights for the public, an international artist exchange, and artist teaching residencies in public schools. 18th Street promotes our artists-in- residence to the public and funders through regular mailings, multiple events and our website. We also provide access to free and low-cost services to artists, such as shared marketing, shared office equipment, professional development and legal consultation. For more about 18th Street, visit our website at http://www.18thstreet.org/.
To apply, please send an application form (available on our website at www/18thstreet.org/residency_application.pdf), CV, work samples (10 slides/digital images, 10 minutes of video/DVD or 10 minutes of audio CD), and a one page statement about how you will use this residency to further your artistic goals. Couples or groups should submit joint applications with separate resumes, work samples and statements. We accept proposals year round. However, to be considered for these six openings, applications must be received by 5:00pm on Tuesday, November 7, 2006. Late applications will not be considered. Selections will be made by the first week of December.
Mail or hand-deliver applications to: 18th Street Art Center, 1639 18th Street, Santa Monica, CA 90404, Attn: Residency Program
Michael Sakamoto
18th Street Arts Center
Email: <mailto:office@18thstreet.org>office@18thstreet.org
Web: <http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?t=cfkunybab.0.ge7qlwbab.55unlwbab.1147&ts=S0208&p=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.18thstreet.org>http://www.18thstreet.org
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10. CALL FOR PROPOSALS: "Of other spaces..." UrbanFestival (June 2007) (Croatia)
Deadline: November 13, 2006; Source: UrbanFestival
(Hrvatski tekst slijedi)
"Heterotopias are real places – places that do exist and that are formed in the very founding of society – which are something like counter-sites, a kind of effectively enacted utopia in which the real sites, all the other real sites that can be found within the culture, are simultaneously represented, contested, and inverted."
Michel Foucault: "Des espaces autres" (Of Other Spaces), 1967
After Foucault, we can think of a day when space will no longer be treated as sacred, a day when we will make the space profane and thus cease dividing our life into separate spheres defined by unalterable borders; a day when our anxiety of space will disappear.
This does not mean that we wish to transfer the multiplicity of spaces we now inhabit into one, unique, homogenous, empty space. Au contraire, in this modern time and age we have the urge to create other spaces that exit in correlation with the multiplicity of spaces we inhabit, and at the same time they exist only to contradict this multitude. Thus we can think of a day when the space will be porous, and not divided. The first step forward would be to perceive that these other spaces are nothing else than spaces we live in.
We invite the artist on the «governmentalistic» research of the city, that is, discovering internal borders, antagonisms and frictions, in disclosure of the invisible mechanisms of force. To start from the aforementioned essay would mean to accept the possibility that there is a possibility to find differences and utopia in the existing spaces; spaces of heterotopias as a space where the resistance exists.
After the structural changes in space – power relations, the changes provoked by the general political change in the neo-liberal forms of ruling, the modern city has mutated into a city of fragmented spaces. Homeless, criminals, poor, youngsters and other marginalized groups in our perception and knowledge represent a danger. But the new urban grammar demands contra-discourse and their heterotopias. Because the power of the heterotopias is in the possibility to revoke the reality, to oppose it and to annul it.
The programme will be accomplished in the public city spaces. To extend the domain of action out of protected walls of galleries and theatres, and on the other hand to animate the public spaces as spaces of coexistence, confrontation of different views and also possible antagonisms.
Since 2001, UrbanFestival deals with a concept of public, especially that of public space, through its thematic focuses, programme selection, but also through its specific, often experimental, organizational schemes. In the social climate with intensified and hasty privatization of public spaces, namely the common meeting places, atomization of the society and strongly individualized, almost intimate reception of the cultural products, in the era of technological innovations that encourage and stimulate passivity, the crucial point is to reopen and affirm spaces of collective consummation, spaces of greater accessibility, as well as spaces of active participation of broader audience/public. The notion of the city that exists independently of objects and praxes installed therein, as the space that regulates our everyday life, the notion of the city as the expression and means of power and brutal interest of capital, is being replaced with the political viewpoint of the city as a space that is being produced by its citizens over and over again.
The call is open till November 13th 2006. The proposals must be submitted via http://www.urbanfestival.hr/07/eng/call.html and thus we would appreciate if you don't send any extra material than requested here. Until December 15th 2006 we will contact those artists whose works have entered the second round.*
organized by: [BLOK] - Local base for culture refreshment is a non-profit and non-governmental organisation that produces and organizes innovative artistic events, woks on widening and changing public spaces through inspiring citizens participation, hybrid artistic research project focused on rethinking social phenomena and urban structure. [BLOK] works on creating and preserving continuum of artistic effect in the public space.
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Poziv na predlaganje radova - UrbanFestival (lipanj 2007.) - O drugim prostorima...
radove prijaviti na http://www.urbanfestival.hr/07/hr/poziv.html*
"Heterotopije su stvarna mjesta – mjesta koja postoje i koja su stvorena u samim temeljima drustva – koja su nesto poput protu-mjesta, svojevrsna ucinkovito ostvarena utopija u kojoj se stvarna mjesta, sva ostala stvarna mjesta koja mozemo naci u kulturi, simultano reprezentiraju, osporavaju i izokrecu."
Michel Foucault: "Des espaces autres", 1967.
Mozemo zamisliti, nakon Foucaulta, dan kad prostor vise necemo tretirati kao sveti; dan u kojem cemo prostor uciniti profanim te stoga prestati dijeliti zivot na zasebne sfere podijeljene definitivnim granicama; dan u kojemu ce se ponistiti nasa prostorna anksiozniost. Ovo ne znaci da zelimo da se mnostvo razlicitih prostora koje nastanjujemo jednoga dana transformira u jedan jedinstveni prazni homogeni prostor. Naprotiv, u moderno doba imamo potrebu za stvaranjem «drugih mjesta» koja postoje u odnosu na mnostvo prostora koje nastanjujemo, a u isto vrijeme postoje samo kako bi proturjecili ovom mnostvu. Stoga mozemo zamisliti dan u kojem ce prostor biti porozan, a ne odijeljen. Prvi je korak, dakako, uvidjeti da «drugi prostori» nisu nista drugo doli prostori u kojima zivimo.
Pozivamo umjetnike na 'guvermentalisticko' istrazivanje grada koje se sastoji u razotkrivanju internih granica, antagonizama i trenja, u demaskiranju nevidljivih mehanizama sile. Krenuti od spomenutog eseja znaci priznati mogucnost da se u postojecim prostorima pronadju razlike i utopije; mjesta heterotopije kao mjesta zivota otpora. Nakon strukturalne promjene u odnosima prostor-moc, promjene uzrokovane generalnom politickom promjenom u neoliberalne forme vladanja, moderni grad mutirao je u grad fragmentarnih prostora. Beskucnici, kriminalci, siromasni, mladi i druge marginalizirane skupine u nasoj percepciji i misljenju predstavljaju opasnost. Ali nova urbana gramatika trazi protu-diskurs i svoje heterotopije. Jer je snaga heterotopije upravo u mogucnosti da stvarnost izazivamo, da joj se suprotstavljamo i da je ponistavamo.
Program ce se realizirati u javnim gradskim prostorima. Siriti podrucje djelovanja izvan zasticenih zidova galerija i kazalista, a s druge strane animirati javne prostore kao prostore su-postojanja, konfrontacije razlicitih pogleda, pa i mogucih antagonizama.
UrbanFestival se od 2001. u svojih pet izdanja kroz tematske fokuse, izbor programa, ali i specificne organizacijske oblike i eksperimentiranje s istima bavi pitanjima javnosti, a posebno javnoga prostora. U drustvenoj klimi pojacane i uurbane privatizacije javnih prostora, odnosno zajednickih prostora okupljanja, atomizacije drustva te vrlo individualizirane, gotovo intimizirane recepcije kulturnih proizvoda, u eri tehnoloskih inovacija koje pogoduju i gotovo poticu pasivnost, kljucnim se namece nanovo otvarati i afirmirati mjesta kolektivne konzumacije, mjesta sto vece otvorenosti, kao i aktivne participacije sto sire publike/javnosti. Poimanje grada kao prostora koji postoji neovisno o objektima i praksama koji su u njega ugradjeni, kao mjesta koje regulira nasu svakodnevnicu, grada kao izraza i sredstva drzavne moci ili surovog interesa kapitala, odlucili smo zamijeniti politickim poimanjem grada - grada kao mjesta koje uvijek i nanovo proizvode prakse njegovih gradjana.
Poziv je otvoren do 13. studenog 2006. godine. Jedini nacin predlaganja radova je putem web-stranice http://www.urbanfestival.hr/07/hr/poziv.html i stoga vas molimo da ne saljete dodatne materijale. Do 15. prosinca 2006. kontaktirat cemo one predlagatelje ciji su radovi usli u uzi izbor.
organizator: [BLOK] – Lokalna baza za osvjezavanje kulture je neprofitna nevladina organizacija koja producira i organizira inovativna umjetnicka dogadjanja, radi na sirenju i promjeni javnog prostora kroz poticanje participacije gradjana, hibridne umjetnicko-istrazivacke projekte usmjerene na promisljanje drustvenih fenomena i urbane strukture. [BLOK] radi na stvaranju i odrzavanju kontinuiteta umjetnickog djelovanja u javnom prostoru.
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11. CALL FOR PROPOSALS: "WASTE" CESTA (Czech Republic)
Deadline: November 15, 2006; Source: Franklin Furnace
WASTE
CESTA's 12th Arts Festival of International, Interdisciplinary Collaborations
August 2007
"The greatest wastes are unused talents and untried ideas." - William Shakespeare
Without question, waste is a polemic. We treat the object with abandon and the concept with contempt. But waste is full of complexities, and resting in these complexities are dichotomies, integral to development.
We can consider waste as:
everyone's
something
valued
product
natural
necessary
beneficial
an icon for growth
a harbinger of the future
AND
no one's
nothing
ignored
by-product
artificial
useless
toxic
a monument to decay
a residuum of history
For WASTE, CESTA invites artists in all disciplines to collaborate in creating works which seek to define the origins, ramifications, uses and abuses of one the most ubiquitous and prevalent elements in our behavior and environment.
CESTA's festival themes and parameters of cross-national interdisciplinary collaborations represent the center's commitment to improving communication through creative expression. We base our selection of artists on a review of applications resulting from our annual open call. Applicants request CESTA to connect them with one or more collaboration partners or apply as a pre-formed collaboration group.
For WASTE all final festival collaboration groups must be:
a) Cross-national: more than one nationality
b) Interdisciplinary: more than one artistic medium
c) Collaborative: conceptualizing and creating interdependent artistic work
AND must contain work created exclusively for WASTE.
Festival Application Deadline: November 15, 2006 (postmarked for material submitted by post)
On-site collaborations in progress:August 1-23
Presentations of participants' past work: August 10-15
Seminars, workshops and educational programs on the festival theme:August 10-15
Final presentations of the collaboration groups: August 24-26
Daily reviews of the presentations:August 25-27
Festival closing forum: August 27
For application guidelines, forms or other information, please visit our website or contact us at:
CESTA
Novakova 387, Tabor 39001, Czech Republic
tel: +420-381-258-004
<mailto:>cesta@mbox.vol.cz
www.cesta.cz
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12. CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: "HOME / AWAY "IDENSITAT 07 (Spain)
Deadline: November 15, 2006; Source: ARTSERVIS #215
IDENSITAT
IDENSITAT 07: HOME / AWAY
call for proposals
http://www.idensitat.org/a07_bases07.htm
IDENSITAT 07 starts its fourth edition with a public call for projects by creators who bring proposals in the field of public space from a multidisciplinary perspective, and with the aim of interacting in the social area of the territory in which this project will be promoted.
The public call IDENSITAT 07 is structured around two categories of presentation, having different characteristics and goals. One points towards the production of projects, whereas the other is for projects already done (projects of documentation). Both types are conceived under the motto HOME /AWAY; calling, on the one hand, projects to be developed in Calaf, Manresa or Mataró (Barcelona) and which aim is the PRODUCTION OF PROJECTS activated in relation to the place. On the other hand, there is a call for projects or works already done in other cities. Under the category PROJECTS OF DOCUMENTATION it is intended to gather works developed in other contexts, thus promoting their diffusion and relation to diverse activities of debate, exhibition and edition organised by IDENSITAT.
Under the motto HOME / AWAY a reference is made either to projects based on working processes that have a medium or large term strategy, as well as to projects intervening in a more specific or incisive way (temporary, transient) in the public space of different places, having the possibility to use the facilities and the existing media in the territory. Moreover it constitutes an inspired theme for the development of proposals. On the one hand it refers to a relationship based in concepts such as the belonging to a territory, identity elements and the cultural structuring in a long time, among others. These references are the other side of the superficial, distant look, the lack of compromise linked to the local territory, the tourist experience, etc. Summarising, it is a feasible project construction based on the tension between the concepts of home and away, both categories usually used in sport competitions.
CARRYING OUT OF PROJECTS
Under the title PROJECT PRODUCTION there will be six proposals referring indistinctively to these two categories (HOME / AWAY), three of which will be based on the town of Calaf, two on Manresa and one on Mataró.
The authors or collectives who want to present a proposal in this section must explain the basic lines which their project is based on and include the references to the context for a global comprehension, too. The following premises must be taken into account:
Take under consideration aspects that are specific for Calaf, Manresa or Mataró. These elements might be specified, perhaps referring to common elements or contrasting ones, existing among the three different places. Also, referring to aspects which, having been generated in other contexts, have an influence in them.
Detail the process schedule. It is recommended not to exceed the limit of nine months for the work, distributed between December 2006 and November 2007. Although the work schedule is flexible, participants should try and make the moments of exhibition of the projects coincide with the general initiatives of diffusion for the programme IDENSITAT 07 (conferences, debates and exhibitions in the local contexts.)
Consider the development of a workshop for some group of population (associations, groups, collectives, students, etc.) thus society can get involved in the work process. This characteristic is seen as specially appropriate for those projects based on a developmental process.
In reference to the category DOCUMENTATION PROJECTS, a minimum of six proposals will be selected and collected, including a series of theoretical works or specific experiences, developed in other places. The aim is to widen the frame of ideas and approaches through which the intervention in public space is faced with the artistic eye and the cultural action. IDENSITAT will spread out and present the whole of the works according to the different strategies of presentation required by each one, thus adapting to the different actions of the programme.
The proposals presented under this category must detail the project's original characteristics, its references to the specific context where it was developed, or the elements of analysis in the case of theoretical proposals. In the same way, the format that is going to be used must be specified, be it a conference, a programme, an exhibition project, a video project, edition, etc. The presentation of these works will be connected to the IDENSITAT organisation's own criteria and its own publicity activities.
In any case, the organisation has the right to change the number of projects, as well as invite, while the programme is being developed, any other author or collective to participate in IDENSITAT 07 a part from the public call.
WORK PHASES
The work steps of each project may vary according to the degree of complexity required and its implication to the local context. In reference to the PROJECT PRODUCTION and in those cases the projects will be mainly a process, it is suggested to divide the project into the following different phases:
1) Fieldwork and documentation about the context, with the aim to detail the proposal in the case that it were selected and outline its development according to the ideas that refer to specific contexts.
2) Project production and development of activities with communities, specific collectives or population groups.
3) Formalising communication utilities for the diffusion of the process, either as the project is laid out; or otherwise the process execution is programmed for later, when the closing exhibition will be presented at the end of the IDENSITAT 07 edition.
Each of the three work phases above mentioned demand the presence of the participating artists in the places where the activity will be developed. Dates and length for the work phases will be determined independently, considering any special need for each case.
In the case of those projects that are executed through more specific actions, priority will be given to the specific production in public space or to the use of media and strategies. Thus, the work phases must be defined in accordance to the requirements of the intervention; moreover, there is a minimum initial fieldwork stay in the specific place and another one in the final presentation of the project. Both of them could be complemented with any other necessary stays for the development of activities that might involve any population group in different moments.
In any case the organization might facilitate lodging and a space for working in three determined moments of the project. Also the organisation of IDENSITAT 07 will have a follow-up team who will guarantee the continuous contact with the social groups involved and who will work for the solution of any question related to mediation, communication and management.
SELECTION COMMITTEE
The Selection Committee of this public call is constituted by:
Santiago Cirugeda, architect and artist
Amanda Cuesta, independent curator
Alicia Murría, art critic and director of the ARTECONEXTO magazine
Ramon Parramon, director of IDENSITAT
Lorenzo Romito, architect and founding member of STALKER
ECONOMIC ENDOWMENT
The economic endowment destined to each selected project in the section PRODUCTION OF PROJECTS will be determined by its budget, having available a maximum amount of 11,000 € (subject to taxes.) The budget presented must detail the production expenses, the fees (up to a 25% of the total) and the transport expenses. In reference to the stay and lodging expenses, these could be partially covered by the organisation, depending on the planning of each project. The production management will be coordinated by the organisation.
In reference to the DOCUMENTATION PROJECTS, the economic endowment might depend on the presentation format of the project; the amount of 300€ has been established as a referential minimum in the case of a conference and a maximum of 1,500 € in the case of more complex formats. The expenses due to transport, lodging and allowances must be presented separately from the initial budget.
In case that the budget of the project exceeds these amounts, the capacity of the participants in the project to obtain a donation from other sources or a sponsor will be taken into account.
IDENSITAT
Ajuntament de Calaf
Plaça Gran, 2
E-08280 Calaf
Spain
tel: +34 938 698 512
fax: + 34 938 680 462
idensitat@idensitat.org
http://www.idensitat.org/
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13. JOB POSTING: School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (USA)
Deadline:November 15, 2006; Source: SMFA
PERFORMANCE ARTIST
The School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (SMFA) is conducting a search for a regular full-time position in visually-based performance art to begin September 2007.
The SMFA seeks a practicing performance artist/educator to teach a range of visually-based performance art classes, in a studio program that focuses on a cross-disciplinary approach to the visual arts. Candidate should be a practicing artist with a exhibition record that reflects experience in multiple aspects of visually-based performance and/or body art, is familiar with both the national and international worlds of live art, who demonstrates a strong grounding in theoretical, historical and practical aspects of performance, and has the ability to address a wide range of performance-related issues at both the undergraduate and graduate level.
This is an entry-level position; an MFA or equivalent experience and teaching experience is required; an interdisciplinary sensibility is an asset. The SMFA offers studio courses in diploma, undergraduate and postgraduate programs. The SMFA is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to increasing the diversity of our faculty. Members of underrepresented groups are strongly encouraged to apply.
Please send letter of application, statement of teaching philosophy, up to 20 slides and/or CD and/or up to 20 minutes of cued videotape and/or DVD, resume, sample courses and syllabi and SASE. Include contact information for three references, and student evaluations if available. SMFA will have no liability in case of loss. Please do not send originals.
Materials should be sent to: Academic Affairs Office, SMFA, 230 The Fenway, Boston, MA 02115, Attention: Performance Search Committee. All applications must be received by 5 PM on Wednesday, November 15, 2006. (Applications will be received until the position is filled.)
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14. WORKSHOP: "The Improvising Citizen" with Keith Hennessy
Dates: November 18-19, 2006; Source: the RED Letter
This workshop is an intensive laboratory for dancers, performers, physical actors, interdisciplinary actionists, and imaginative citizens. The Improvising Citizen questions, plays and investigates the relationship between studio and city, between art practice and citizenship, between private and public, sensation and _expression... attempting to create a dynamic double helix of interdisciplinary friction and collaboration. Employing non-hierarchical teaching structures based in feminist, anarchist, and indigenous theories and practice Hennessy revisits the classic feminist claim that the personal is political and the political is personal.
The workshop asks the question: Is Toronto Improvising?
Saturday and Sunday November 18th and 19th 2006
10am - 6pm Dovercourt House - 805 Dovercourt Road, Toronto
$ 225 regular fee
$ 200 early bird fee paid by October 15, 2006
Enrollment limited ~ billeting available ~
E-mail <mailto:omeagan@gmail.com>omeagan@gmail.com
Organized by Meagan O'Shea and Pam Johnson
Keith Hennessy is a Canadian-born, interdisciplinary artist and citizen living in community in San Francisco. Creating performances for theaters and urban sites, Hennessy's work is marked by queerly evocative images, untamed physicality, and sharp political texts. He directs CIRCO ZERO , a diverse crew of circus, performance and music artists working the fusion of spectacle, ritual, and action. He has won numerous awards and commissions for choreography, performance and organizing. Keith has received numerous awards and commissions and his solo work has been produced throughout the US, in Canada, New Zealand, Germany, Israel and Australia. He was a primary collaborator in the internationally acclaimed companies CAHIN-CAHA, cirque bâtard (98-02), CORE (95-98), CONTRABAND (85-94), and founder of 848 Community Space. He teaches at many universities across the United States. Keith has been teaching unique hybrids of performance, ritual and improvisation both locally and internationally for over 20 years.
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15. CALL FOR PROPOSALS: "SENSITIVE SKIN 2007" Future Factory (UK)
Deadline: November 20, 2007; Source:Matt Hawthorn
Future Factory at The Bonington Gallery and Powerhouse announce 5 commissions which will form the heart of the 2007 Sensitive Skin Festival of new art works in March 2007. We are seeking new works which will have a dynamic relationship to Nottingham as an urban context, and possible new relationships to audiences. The festival has a historic relationship with live art work, however the curators are keen to expand this terminology into cross-disciplinary practices. The works may be Gallery based or site/context specific. Proposed works may draw on existing works but should be clearly articulated in relationship to one of the following themes:
1. Cartographies
2. Material Bodies
3. Architectures & Archaeologies
4. Civic Space and Public Communion
5. Trade and Traffic
These themes are intentionally broad, and proposals should articulate an interpretation of the theme in the context of the proposed work. The works would also make a contribution to a publication to be produced as part of the Festival.
The value of each commission will be £1500, inclusive of fees, materials and all expenses.
The work will be selected by a Panel comprising Stella Couloutbanis (Exhibitions, Events and Festival Manager), Matt Hawthorn (Curatorial Chair of Future Factory), Lisa Urwin (Exhibitions, Events and Festival Administrator), Manick Govinda (head of artists' advisory services, Artsadmin) and Daniel Brine (Live Art Development Agency).
Applications must include
Proposal - indicating the concept and context of the proposed work related to one of the commission themes.
Initial indication of Technical requirements (noting that the fee is inclusive of all costs related to the work)
Artists C.V
SAE (for return of work, if appropriate)
Examples of previous works in the following format: hard copy, website link, Adobe Acrobat, Microsoft Word, JPEG, Video should be supplied on CD or DVD. We cannot accept responsibility for obscure media formats or files which do not open properly.
DEADLINE: Monday 20th November 2006
Please could you send the information either via email highlighted as SENSITIVE SKIN 2007 to:
lisa.simmons@ntu.ac.uk or by post to
Lisa Urwin
Exhibition, Events and Festival Administrator
Future Factory (Bonington Gallery)
Nottingham Trent University
School of Art and Design
Bonington Building
Dryden Street
Nottingham NG1 4GG
Tel: (0115) 848 8446
www2.ntu.ac.uk/ntsad/bonington
To comply with the Race Relations Act 1976, as amended in 2000 (Race Relations Amendment Act (RRAA), Higher Education Institutions (HEI), as public authorities, have a Duty to Promote Race Equality in relation to Procurement and not just to eliminate discrimination. There is a mandatory requirement to complete the "Equality In Higher Education Purchasing Questionnaire."
Available for online completion at:- http://www2.ntu.ac.uk/purchasing/forms/RRAA_form.asp
We are actively implementing equality of opportunity policies and seek people who share our commitment.
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16. CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: "The 2nd RED Festival"
Deadline: December 1, 2006; Source: The RED Letter
The 2nd RED Festival
Four Days of Live Performance
April 15-18, 2007
is accepting submissions.
RED Festival is a four day celebration of some of Toronto's artistic and cultural diversity. For the past 4 years, Curator Lisa Pijuan-Nomura has presented over 300 artists in eclectic evenings at the Lula Lounge in Toronto's West End. The 2 nd RED Festival will grow to include a handful of downtown locations to present new and existing performance pieces.
For more information have a look at the RED Gallery and Archives at <http://www.girlcancreate.com>www.girlcancreate.com
We are looking for 5 minute to 30 minute performance pieces that are
Sassy,
Interdisciplinary,
Bright,
Innovative,
Edgy,
Smart,
Sexy,
Brilliant and Lovely
Pieces that could include
Spoken Word,
Puppetry,
Film,
Dance,
Theatre,
Martial Arts,
Music and Visual Art .
From both emerging and established artists.
Please send:
- 1 page Description of the piece
- CV's and or bios of artists involved
- Tech Requirements
- Support Material ie, video, script, DC, press clippings etc.
- Contact Person and Phone Number
-Self Addressed Stamped Envelope for return of support materials
Deadline for submissions is December 1, 2006.
No email submissions.
Please send submissions to:
GirlCanCreate
88 Hallam St,
Toronto, Ontario, M6H 1W8
We are always interested in presenting new and innovative ideas. If you have any questions please contact Lisa at <mailto:lisa@girlcancreate.com>lisa@girlcancreate.com
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17. JOB POSTING: Visual Arts Department, University of California, San Diego (USA)
Deadline: December 15, 2006; Source: publicart-online
Tenured Associate Professor or Full Professor
Visual Arts Department, University of California, San Diego, USA
Deadline for applications: December 15, 2006
Tenured Associate Professor or Full Professor to begin July 1, 2007. Rank and salary commensurate with qualifications and experience based on UC pay scales. We seek an outstanding artist who comes from a visual art, architecture or urban studies background and works across these disciplines as a practitioner using Asia as their site of investigation. Candidates could work within the genres of new media, media, site specific installation, community-based practices, photography or architecture, but more generally they should work with the problematic of the "public" and the dynamics between private and public space in Asia. The work may be single authored or collaborative.
UCSD is a research university that actively promotes and supports creative work within a broadly interdisciplinary arts department that includes studio, computing, media, art and media history, theory and criticism. Teaching will include both graduate seminars and undergraduate courses, large and small. The candidate will actively participate in the ongoing development of the general curriculum as well as our more specific one in public culture. MFA or equivalency and teaching experience are required.
Send letter of application, curriculum vitae, names and addresses of three references (do not send letters of recommendation and/or placement files) and evidence of work in the field. The evidence may be in the form of slides, CDs, DVDs, tapes, photocopies and should be accompanied with a return mailer and postage. Applicants are welcome to include in their cover letters a personal statement summarizing teaching experience and leadership efforts and/or contributions to diversity.
Search Committee (Position #PC-07-E)
University of California, San Diego
Visual Arts Department (0327)
9500 Gilman Drive
La Jolla, California 92093-0327
All applications received by December 15, 2006, or thereafter until position is filled, will receive thorough consideration. Please reference position #PC-07-E on all correspondence. UCSD is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer with a strong institutional commitment to the achievement of diversity among its faculty and staff. Proof of U.S. citizenship or eligibility for U.S. employment will be required prior to employment (Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986).
Other opportunities see: http://visarts.ucsd.edu/title/Recruitment/
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18. CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: "THE BOOK OF INVITATIONS" (Montréal)
Deadline: January 15, 2007; Source: Akimbo
This is an open call to artists for the submission of projects for a book that is of and about invitations.
Invitations are as much passive platforms of communication as they are active, world-engendering propositions. They are things that are written through with the stuff of culture. A material complex of gestures, objects, and events, invitations function as indices that mark a potential or precarious agreement between people regarding the shape of a time to come.
Invitations construct and evoke times and places where the invisible lines of kinship are drawn, broken, erased, and re-distributed. They may also be tokens of a desired exclusivity, thus mimicking the logic shared by the walls of home, the community's gate-keepers, class boundaries, and the borders of the state. Invitations can be instruments of division as well as of convocation, tools for building new worlds as well as for deconstructing old ones. They are, in the
end, surprisingly flexible networks of times, people, places, and things that serve as supports for so many different kinds of mediation.
This is an open invitation to imagine the past and possible conjugations of this form of interaction. We are now accepting submissions of invitations that explore the formal, conceptual, and stylistic boundaries of the medium and/or tease the limits of the circumstances that inform its production.
Invitations in all media are welcome. Participants should keep in mind, however, that all selected invitations will be published in a book. Although the actual size or support for the work is not important, objects or actions that are not 2D and larger than 11"x14" should be submitted in the form of their documentation.
Please mail your original invitations and/or good quality documentation to the address provided. Remember to include an artist's statement with your submission, as well as a S.A.S.E. if you want the contents of your package returned.
Contact: Pablo Rodriguez
perack@gmail.com
514-270-3990
Attn: Book of Invitations
6055 Ave du Parc
Montreal, Quebec
H2V 4H4
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19. ARTIST PROJECT: "The Department of Network Performance" (USA)
Deadline: not given; Source: Cary Peppermint
Open Enrollment 9.19.2006
The Department of Network Performance
Registration for classes now open:
http://myspace.com/deptofnetworkperformance
Network Performance - Arts 404.JO
Times: Ongoing, Always, 24-7
Professor: C. Peppermint
Dept. of Network Performance
Fall 2006
Course Outline
This is not MySpace. This is Arts 404.JO, simultaneously a networked course and performance intended to assist students in the conceptualization, development, and implementation of online instances of networked performance-art practices.
Course Requirements and Objectives
(1) Arts 404.JO is an information-arts course titled "Network Performance Art - Arts 404.JO" Arts 404.JO is intended for:
Artists, Hackers, Cultural Purveyors, Imaginative Housewives, Creative Construction Workers, Creative Workers, Creative Chocolatiers, Urban Homesteaders and Back to the Land Types, Special Teachers, Special Education Teachers Who are Fighting Corporate / State Mandates, Cosmopolitan Farmers, Innovative People and Animals, Eco-minded Global Citizens, Cultural Readers, Whole Food Eaters, Savvy Art Critics, Curators, and Art Historians Who Aren't Afraid to Ride In The Back of Pick-up Trucks, Cyborg Mycologists, AIs Masquerading As Musicians, Information DJs, Print-makers, Painters and Ceramicists Who Set Information Free, etc.
Follow this link for more info and to register for fall 2006
http://myspace.com/deptofnetworkperformance
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20. CALL FOR NETWORK: What is an Environment?
Deadline: not given; Source: Ryan Kamstra
What is an Environment?
I am looking to gather and establish a network of artists, cultural workers and performers interested in community building and addressing the links between environmentalism and the broader question of what is an environment. I am an artist and social activist recently hired as a coordinator for the organization LEAF Toronto, a grassroots organization dedicated to preserving and enhancing the urban forest as well as educating the public on proper tree care. As part of community development, LEAF hosts a number of tree fairs and tree parties which include the efforts of many artist, artisans, craft-makers, musicians and entertainers.
What I am looking to do to is broaden the inclusion of boundary-pushing artists, artists who directly engage communities, performance artists, site-specific artists, conceptual artists, landscape artists, installations artists, people interested in confronting the boundary between alienation/community, class and environment, race and environment, feminism and environment, power/trust, the natural and the unnatural, private imagination and public space, engagement and disengagement, property vs. ownership. My feeling is that there is a paradigm shift happening within green and political movements generally, whereby, for example, the degradation of impoverished landscapes can no longer be seen as exclusive from the degradation of the "natural" environment and community-building is not separate from proper stewardship of our natural resources. That being said, I think these sort of links are nascent and artists are in a privileged position to flesh these questions out, tease and engage the public, begin the dialogue in earnest.
If these and related questions interest you, if you are an artist with a history of engaging in such territories or a desire to engage now, please contact me even just to have a chat: <mailto:rkamstra@leaftoronto.org>rkamstra@leaftoronto.org or phone 416-413-9244. Events happen fairly frequently and I am looking to get started.
Thank you,
Ryan Kamstra
Tree Tour Coordinator
LEAF (Local Enhancement and Appreciation of Forests)
416-413-9244
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21. CALL FOR PROPOSALS: "Deep Structure: Deep Play" Neutral Ground (Regina)
Deadline: not given; Source: Neutral Ground E-Missive#14, vol. 4
Neutral Ground
Call for Proposals in Performance and Live Art
"Deep Structure: Deep Play"
Neutral Ground is also calling for proposals for their annual performance festival to respond to the statement;
"Combining experimental visual art with conceptual new media, entertainment, immersive environments and post-pop narcissism constitutes an aesthetic travesty of the highest order."
Thematic and critical concerns to be identified in the program;
-connectivity, the impact of new media and the Internet
-geo-political boundaries in the age of and after globalism
-celebrity and the formation of identity, performing gender
-popular culture, populist art, smart pop
-online cinema, experimental video
-audio art, music and the presence of absence
-copyright/copyleft & intellectual property rights
Submissions should include:
A current résumé or curriculum vitae
Up to 20 twenty slides or digital images of current work or work intended for exhibition
(Digital images need to be Mac compatible)
A statement about the work and a description of the performance
An SASE if you wish to have the materials returned
Submit to;
Neutral Ground
#203, 1856 Scarth Street
Regina, SK S4P 2G3
Tel: (306) 522-7166
Fax: (306) 522-5075
neutralground@accesscomm.ca
www.neutralground.sk.ca
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22. NEWS: agora8 Contemporary Art magazine (online)
Source: Kenny McBride
Kenny McBride announces that issue 02 of agora8 Contemporary Art magazine is now online
Featuring Ivana Keser, Aleksandar Battista Ilic, Rolf Langebartels, association APSOLUTNO, Jindrich Chalupecky, Darko Fritz...pdf's, video, text...
http://www.agora8.org/
online Contemporary Art journal: <http://www.agora8.org/>www.agora8.org
Kenny McBride website: <http://www.agora8.org/kmb>www.agora8.org/kmb
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23. CALL FOR NETWORK: bluelab (USA)
Deadline: not given; Source: Jeff Hogue
What if?
What if leading artists were offered resources allowing them to come together and to work intensively and without distraction for substantial blocks of time on film, music and real time performance collaborations toward activism and global healing? What if these artists were guided through community building processes prior to beginning their projects allowing them entrance into deep levels of trust and communication? What if they were given opportunity to work with and interact with some of the leaders of our time in the fields of science and philosophy and spirituality? What if they were given all the production equipment and technical assistance they might need to produce global quality shows?
Please come visit Bluelab&Mac226;s new blog and stay a while...
<http://communalart.blogspot.com/>http://communalart.blogspot.com/
bluelab
<mailto:triageart@yahoo.com>triageart@yahoo.com (while website is under construction)
Represented by Chris Watkins of Shughart, Thompson & Kilroy 120 West 12th Street Kansas City, Missouri 64105
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24. ARTIST PROJECT: "Perfect Speech" (Germany)
Deadline: not given; Source: Der Erste Stock
“If Presidents of the United States can influence European economics and political policies, Europeans should be allowed to vote for President of the United States.”
WHAT IS THE PERFECT SPEECH PROJECT?
Lowell Darling’s Perfect Speech is essentially a poll to gather what anyone would like the next President of the United States to promise.
In order to create the Perfect Speech, we invite everyone to send us their requests on pieces of paper by mail send to our Berlin office.
Perfect Speech
c/o Wagner-Simon
Koepenicker Str. 4
10997 Berlin
Germany
In the spirit of public service and bi-partisan politics, copies of The Perfect Speech will be given to all registered presidential candidates, including candidates from the major political parties in America.
All of the written requests gathered will be included and presented on the Perfect Speech Website.
Lowell Darling will travel outside of the United States, where he will give The Perfect Speech in as many venues as possible. The Perfect Speech campaign team is willing to travel to wherever we are invited.
If you have any questions or comments, please feel free to contact us any time.
Perfect Speech – Lowell Darling, Marianne Wagner-Simon – Tel. 0049 -30 -25019312
Email: info@erster-stock.org
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25. NEWS: New website - Diane Borsato
Source: Diane Borsato
NEW SITE
An archive of performances, installations, videos and interventions by
Diane Borsato
www.dianeborsato.net
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26. ARTIST PROJECT: "have you ever wanted to change?" (online)
Source: Megan Wilson
have you ever wanted to change? is a web-project featuring durational performances, a written thesis and interviews with artists:
Ellie Harrison (UK)
Jonathan Keller (USA)
Peter Conlin (Can)
Mina Totino (Can)
This project is an attempt to grapple with a rather complex cultural phenomenon - the act of imposing a regime on one's daily life. Somewhat banal, this act ties into a socio-political framework of thought that determines to a great extent how everyday life is experienced in contemporary Western society.
'A person decides that there is something about themselves that they would like to change'. This is the primary problematic of the project. What motivates self-development? What makes it seem an imperative? How is it enacted?
To address these questions, the project incorporates the work of artists who impose a regime on their daily life as an art practice. Loosely framed as 'durational performance', these artists create a set of limits or tasks that must be carried out through a disciplinary regime of some kind. The project argues that these practices mark a critical engagement with the notion of self-development within the context of neo-liberal individualism.
Three forms of research are employed: written essays, interviews with artists who carry out these projects, and a series of self-imposed regimes documented through video, contracts and photography.
have you ever wanted to change? is presented in partial fulfillment of the requirements of the MFA degree program at Simon Fraser University.
http://www.durationalperformance.com
For more information, contact info@durationalperformance.com
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27. EVENT: "Neutrinos They Are Very Small" (Kingston)
Date: October 15, 2006; Source: Sally McKay
Toronto-based artist Sally McKay writes:
"Hello! I will be giving a free performative lecture at the Agnes Etherington Art Centre in Kingston, Ont. on Sunday, October 15th at 1:30pm, and then Rebecca Diederichs, Gordon Hicks and I will be hosting a free workshop/lab at the gallery until 5pm.
"Please join us for the events and visit our exhibition, Neutrinos They Are Very Small (on display until December 10th)."
Sally McKay
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