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FADO E-LIST (December 2005)

FADO E-LIST (December 2005)

INDEX

1. Season's Greetings from Fado
2. ONLINE SEMINAR: "Performance, Learning and Development"
Deadline: December 11, 2005; Source: East Side Institute for Group and Short Term Psychotherapy
3. CALL FOR PAPERS: "Two Thousand + SIX Conference "Sonic Arts Research Centre (Northern Ireland)
Deadline: December 15, 2005; Source: Artsadmin e-digest #202
4. CALL FOR PARTICIPATION: "Technologized Bodies/Embodied Technologies " Leonardo Education Forum (USA)
Deadline: January 1, 2006; Source: Leonardo/ISAST
5. CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: "The Life and Death of I.D." McMaster Museum of Art (Hamilton)
Deadline: January 6, 2006; Source: Akimbo
6. ACADEMIC POSITIONS: School of Art at Carnegie Mellon.University (USA)
Deadline: January 7, 2006; Source:Franklin Furnace
7. RESIDENCY: Art Omi International Artists Residency (USA)
Deadline: January 15, 2006; Source: Instant Coffee
8. CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: "Imagining Ourselves - Online Exhibit" (online)
Deadline: January 15, 2006; Source: International Museum of Women
9. CALL FOR ENTRIES: "THRESHOLD 06," (UK)
Deadline: January 15, 2006; Source: E:vent
10. CALL FOR PROPOSALS: "2006-2007 programming" Espace Vidéographe (Montreal)
Deadline: January 16, 2006; Source Espace Vidéographe
11. CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: "Truth & Lies" ARTCITY 2006 (Calgary)
Deadline: January 20, 2006; Source: Artcity
12. CALL FOR PROPOSALS: Facility Symposium 2 (UK)
Deadline: January 20, 2006; Source: Artsadmin e-digest #202
13. CALL FOR PROPOSALS: "Collision 2006 "Interarts Research and Practices (Victoria)
Deadline: March 1, 2006; Source: University of Victoria
14. CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: “Wunder der Prärie” (Germany)
Deadline March 10, 2006; Source: zeitraum_ex!t Büro für Kunst
15. CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: "frisch eingetroffen“ Platform for Young Art (Germany)
Deadline: April 28, 2006; Source: zeitraum_ex!t Büro für Kunst
16. CALL FOR PROPOSALS: "Eco Vandalism" Lookoutpost (Germany)
Deadline: not given; Source: Artsadmin e-digest #202
17. CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS (PUBLICATION): "TRANS(END) FORMATION" (USA)
Deadline: ongoing; Source: Travis McCoy Fuller
18. ONLINE JOURNAL: "Vague Terrain" (online)
Source: vagueterrain
19. NEW PUBLICATION: "Stelarc: The Monograph"
Source: Stelarc

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1. Season's Greetings from Fado

As we find ourselves at the end of another calendar year, Fado's Board and staff extends our best wishes for the coming year to all of our supporters and Fado e-list subscribers.

The past month has been a busy period here, with intensive work on operating grants for our next fiscal year as well as participation in a number of professional development activities. In November, Fado's Performance Art Curator, Paul Couillard, spent two weeks in Chile attending a remarkable series of events in Santiago and Valparaiso hosted by PerfoPuerto.org. The "1er. CONGRESO INTERNACIONAL de ARTE de PERFORMANCE" featured several days of artist presentations, discussions and working sessions around current concerns in the world of performance art, as well as two separate performance art festivals ("Intro" in Santiago and "Post" in Valparaiso) that brought together artists from Europe, Asia, North and South America. Couillard's participation was facilitated through an artist's travel grant from the Canada Council for the Arts.

From December 1 - 3, Couillard and two of Fado's Board members, Tagny Duff and Clive Robertson, were participants in a roundtable discussion for Canadian curators hosted by the Ontario Association of Art Galleries through their "Unspoken Assumptions" series. The symposium, "Role Call: (re)Placing Curating" took place this past weekend at the Art Gallery of York University, featuring presentations by 16 participants from across the country. Performance art and art practices with relational concerns arose repeatedly as important concerns among participants, who reflected a variety of public gallery, artist-run centre, independent and academic backgrounds.

While Fado has no programming activities scheduled for December, our workload is as substantial as ever, as we continue to consider the mass of projects submitted to us from recent calls for proposal, and to focus on several different publication projects set for launch in the coming year. A number of new programming projects in the CANADIAN PERFORMANCE ART LEGENDS, IDea and INTERNATIONAL VISITING ARTISTS series will be launched beginning in January. We begin 2006 by hosting a residency project with Alain-Martin Richard beginning January 7, followed by projects featuring Warren Arcan, Will Kwan, Anja Ibsch and Ingolf Keiner to round out our fiscal year. Stay tuned for details, and have a happy holiday season.

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2. ONLINE SEMINAR: "Performance, Learning and Development" (online)
Deadline: December 11, 2005; Source: East Side Institute for Group and Short Term Psychotherapy

Performance, Learning and Development
An online seminar with Carrie Lobman
December 12 - January 20, 2006 (5 weeks)

Fee: $45
Estimated materials fee: $25

Institute faculty, Carrie Lobman, is an assistant professor in the Department of Learning and Teaching at Rutgers University and an expert in developmental approaches to classroom learning.

Join her for five weeks of lively online dialogue, that will bring together students at desktops around the world (including members of the Institute's 2005/2006 International Class) to discuss the relationship of performance to learning and development.

Explore what leading educators have to say about performance as a basic human capacity, and examine the Institute's radical developmental approach.

To register click: http://www.acteva.com/booking.cfm?bevaid=99804

For more information contact Melissa Meyer at mmeyer@eastsideinstitute.org or call 212-941-8906.

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3. CALL FOR PAPERS: "Two Thousand + SIX Conference "Sonic Arts Research Centre (Northern Ireland)
Deadline: December 15, 2005; Source: Artsadmin e-digest #202

Call for papers/presentations:
Two Thousand + SIX Conference
A new international conference focusing on performance in technology mediated environments

This new conference will kick off as part of the 2006 Sonorities Festival of Contemporary Music (www.sonorities.org.uk), hosted at the Sonic Arts Research Center, Queen’s University Belfast (www.sarc.qub.ac.uk). The festival is the longest-running new music festival in Ireland that presents cutting-edge new music and features some of the most thought-provoking and controversial musicians.

The "mini-conference" is planned for Saturday, the 29th of April 2006 at SARC in Belfast. Paper sessions will take place in the morning and the afternoon, with two keynote speakers, a lunchtime performance and an evening concert.

For this one-day conference we invite proposals for papers that reflect on performance and technology. As this is a short event, a maximum of 16 papers of 20 minutes duration (plus question time) will be accepted. Abstracts (max. 350 words) are due by the 15th of December 2005. Presenters of accepted papers/presentations will be informed by the 15th of January 2006. The registration for the one-day event will be £40 (£15 unwaged). This includes free access to all Sonorities Festival events on the 29th April 2006.

All accepted papers will be published online.
CONTACT: SARC website: www.sarc.qub.ac.uk

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4. CALL FOR PARTICIPATION: "Technologized Bodies/Embodied Technologies " Leonardo Education Forum (USA)
Deadline: January 1, 2006; Source: Leonardo/ISAST

Leonardo is pleased to announce a call for participation in the Leonardo Education Forum (LEF) exhibition concurrent with College Art Association (CAA) conference, Boston, MA, February 22-25, 2006:

Technologized Bodies/Embodied Technologies

Curated by Legier Biederman and Dave Burns/Leonardo Education Forum

DEADLINE: JANUARY 1, 2006

Works on video that convey and/or solicit embodied subjects and/or embodied responses, and thus potentially rupture and/or problematize the notion that acts of viewing cohere us as the discrete and transcendent origins of vision and knowledge.

The exhibition will be held at Art Interactive in Cambridge, MA and includes screens curated by the New Media Caucus and by Art Technology Boston. A reception will be held on Thursday, Feb 23 from 6-9pm, so mark your calendars!

To download details and submission information, visit: http://artexetra.com/LEFcfpArtInteractive2006.doc

Entry is open to LEF members and non-members alike.

LEF is part of the Leonardo Educators and Students Program. For more information on LEF visit: http://www.leonardo.info/isast/events/leonardocaa.html

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5. CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: "The Life and Death of I.D." McMaster Museum of Art (Hamilton)
Deadline: January 6, 2006; Source: Akimbo

An invitation to artists in all media to submit exhibition proposals that respond to this theme.

Identity Politics - why does it seem as though this term has become the latest four letter word in contemporary art circles?

Are we in the midst of a post-identity politic where the issue of identity has been subsumed by larger discussions of global cultural politics and transnationalism or is there still a need for discourse around the specific issues that the rubric of identity politics addresses?

Requirements:
10-20 labelled slides, CD or DVD
project description
CV & exhibition record
SASE (with enough postage to return slides)
Electronic proposals will not be accepted.

Deadline:
January 6, 2006

Please send proposals to:
Submissions: The Life and Death of I.D.
McMaster Museum of Art
University Ave, McMaster University
1280 Main Street West
Hamilton, Ontario L8S 4L6
<http://www.mcmaster.ca/museum>www.mcmaster.ca/museum
e-mail: <mailto:museum@mcmaster.ca>museum@mcmaster.ca
Tel. (905) 525-9140 ext.23081
Fax (905) 527-4548

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6. ACADEMIC POSITIONS: School of Art at Carnegie Mellon.University (USA)
Deadline: January 7, 2006; Source:Franklin Furnace

Two posts available in the School of Art at Carnegie Mellon.University: One in Art in Context/Public Art; the other in Electronic and Time Based Art. Please circulate.

Art in Context/Public Art - Carnegie Mellon University School of Art
Tenure track or Visiting Faculty Position
Beginning August 2006

The School of Art at Carnegie Mellon University is seeking to fill one tenure-track or one two-year visiting artist position (with possible renewal) with an emphasis on creative practice that expands the context for art and engages the public beyond traditional venues. Seeking broad approach that may include interdisciplinary, collaborative, tactical, interventionist and other models of artmaking. Candidates with conceptual strengths, contextual sensibilities, and/or a multidisciplinary orientation are sought to work with a dynamic faculty team and energetic, motivated students in innovative BFA and MFA programs. Teach project-based undergraduate and graduate courses in which students research, interact with and respond to organizations, sites, and/or audiences in a variety of diverse communities, sites and contexts. Artists with additional experience
in other visual media or visual culture history/theory also encouraged to apply.

Salary and benefits competitive. Start August 2006. Advanced degree or equivalent. College-level teaching experience beyond graduate assistantships required or equivalent professional experience.

Programmatic information at <http://artserver.cfa.cmu.edu>http://artserver.cfa.cmu.edu. Include letter of application with teaching philosophy, CV, names/addresses/ telephone numbers of 3 references (no recommendation letters). Up to 20 examples of creative work, documented through slides or digital media. Documentation of time-based or interactive media should include navigation directions, if applicable, and should not exceed ten minutes total viewing time. For specific submission guidelines for electronic work, visit: <http://artserver.cfa.cmu.edu/media.html>http://artserver.cfa.cmu.edu/media.html Documentation of student work only at interview stage. Minorities encouraged to apply. AA. EOE. WMA. SASE.

All applications should be postmarked by January 7, 2006 and mailed to: Art in
Context Search, School of Art, CFA 300, Carnegie Mellon University,
Pittsburgh, PA 15213-3890.

Electronic and Time-Based Art - Carnegie Mellon University School of Art
Tenure track or Two-year Visiting Faculty Position
Beginning August 2006

The School of Art at Carnegie Mellon University is seeking to fill one tenure-track or two-year (with possible renewal) visiting artist position in its Electronic Time Based Art Area. Candidates with conceptual strengths, contextual sensibilities, and/or a multidisciplinary orientation are sought to work with a dynamic faculty team within an established electronic time based area in the School of Art. Emphasis on creative practice in technology-based art with experience in one or more of the following areas: digital multimedia, Internet-based interactive and/or virtual environments, performance, interactive audio, motion capture, telepresence, computer vision, artificial life or biotechnology, robotics, or programming for electronic art. Potential for collaboration with the School of Computer Science, the Entertainment Technology Center and/or other divisions on campus.

Artists with a significant track record in digital/electronic media who are qualified for joint appointments with computer sciences, natural sciences or engineering will also be considered.

Those with additional experience in other visual media or critical theory are also encouraged to apply.

Salary and benefits competitive. Start August 2006. Advanced degree or equivalent. College-level teaching experience beyond graduate assistantships required or equivalent professional experience.

Programmatic information at <http://artserver.cfa.cmu.edu>http://artserver.cfa.cmu.edu. Include letter of application with teaching philosophy, CV, names/addresses/ telephone numbers of 3 references (no recommendation letters).  Up to 20 examples of creative work, documented through slides or digital media. Documentation of time-based or interactive media should include navigation directions, if applicable, and should not exceed ten minutes total viewing time. For specific submission guidelines for electronic work, visit: <http://artserver.cfa.cmu.edu/media.html>http://artserver.cfa.cmu.edu/media.html Documentation of student work only at interview stage. Minorities encouraged to apply. AA. EOE. WMA. SASE.

All applications should be postmarked by January 7, 2006 and mailed to: ETB Search, School of Art, CFA 300, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA 15213-3890.

Hilary Robinson
Stanley and Marcia Gumberg Dean,
College of Fine Arts
Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburgh, PA
USA

<mailto:hr@cmu.edu>hr@cmu.edu

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7. RESIDENCY: Art Omi International Artists Residency (USA)
Deadline: January 15, 2006; Source: Instant Coffee

The Art Omi International Artists' Residency offers visual artists three-week residencies in the month of July. The Arts Center is located approximately two and a half hours north of New York City in the historic Hudson River Valley. Artists are provided with room and board for the three-weeks. Studio facilities are set among the 300 acres of rolling green hills. The program includes a critic-in-residence who facilitates an ongoing dialogue in studio visits, as well as day visits from dealers, curators, artists and critics from New York City. The residency session concludes with a major exhibit at the Art Omi Center, to which members of the art world from both upstate New York and New York City are invited. More than 1,000 people attend this event, which includes a special dinner, each year.
Artists pay for travel, materials, and donate a work of art created during the residency to the Art Omi Foundation Collection.

APPLICATION REQUIREMENTS
1. Six (6) 35mm color slides for carousel projector. CDs, or video tapes or DVDs for new media artists only whose work is time based or kinetic and cannot be seen well in slide format. Any work that moves or is based in video or film can be viewed on CD, DVD or video. All 2-D and 3-D work that is still will only be viewed in slide format.

Note: do not send catalogs, glass slides, brochures or folders. These extra materials will not be considered. Each slide should be labeled with your name and the number of the slides corresponding to the slide script. The TOP of each slide should be clearly marked. VHS tapes should be NTSC format cued for a 3-5 minute viewing. CD-ROMs will be viewed on an IBM-compatible PC.

2. A numbered list of slides (or CD/video script) submitted with title, date of work, medium and size. At the top of the page list the artist’s name, address, telephone number, email address, nationality, age, sex and languages spoken.

3. Curriculum vitae listing education and exhibitions.

4. A brief letter describing what you hope to achieve while in residence at Art Omi.

5. How did you hear about Art Omi?

6. A S.A.S.E. (self addressed stamped envelope), for returning slides.

Send completed applications to:
Art Omi Applications
55 Fifth Avenue 15th Floor
New York, NY 10003

Deadline January 15, 2006. Session dates: July 2-July 24, 2006. For further information please visit our website, http://www.artomi.org or contact: Blaire Dessent, Director, Art Omi International Artists Residency at 212.206.5684 or via email to artists@artomi.org.

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8. CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: "Imagining Ourselves - Online Exhibit" (online)
Deadline: January 15, 2006; Source: International Museum of Women

<http://echo3.bluehornet.com/ct/ct.php?t=217977&c=305277904&m=m&type=1>The International Museum of Women and the Imagining Ourselves Global Team invite young women in their 20’s and 30’s all over the world to submit their stories and art t hat answer the question: "What Defines Your Generation of Women?"

The Online Exhibit will feature an interactive multilingual gallery of over 300 interpretations of young women in answer to this question. If you are a young woman with images to share, a story to tell and a voice that wants to be heard, you have every reason to be a part of this growing community of a global generation.

Women everywhere are responding to this question with artwork, songs, poetry, video, performance, essays, etc. An anthology of the project is being published next year, and an online exhibit of the project will debut on International Women’s day in March 2006. In addition, a series of local events associated with the project will occur all over the world. We are especially hoping to get entries from Africa, Latin America and the Middle East. That said, great art is great art wherever you are, so ALL women are encouraged to submit work. If you are interested, know someone who might be interested, or can think of a great place to post an “open call for submissions” form, let me know! Feel free to forward this email on to as many people as possible. Help me get the word out and encourage women to have their work shown!  It’s a great opportunity for emerging artists. We want your voice to be heard. This is your opportunity to be inspired and inspire others. Get involved in the Imagining Ourselves conversation. Take action to create change in your life, in your community, and in your world.

Be Inspired. Get Involved. Take Action.

As a result of numerous requests from all around the world we are extending the submissions deadline for the Imagining Ourselves Online Exhibit. The deadline is now January 15th, and applications can be found at <http://www.imaginingourselves.org />www.ImaginingOurselves.org or <http://www.imow.org />www.imow.org. Thanks so much,

Rebecca Greenberg
Imagining Ourselves
International Museum of Women
PO Box 190038
San Francisco, CA 94119
telephone: +1 415-543-4669 extension 12
telefax: +1 415-543-4668
<http://www.imow.org />www.imow.org
iosubmissions@imow.org

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9. CALL FOR ENTRIES: "THRESHOLD 06," (UK)
Deadline: January 15, 2006; Source: E:vent

THRESHOLD 06  [exploring the edge of sonic_space]

Threshold is hosting a 3-week residency for sound artists and media artists to work collaboratively with a group of Architectural Association graduates to create a sound_space landscape. Participants will work on-site to transform E:vent's basement space into an immersive audio/visual environment.

The aim of the residency is to provide a platform to explore the potential of emerging creative partnerships within sonic and spatial practice.

This residency is relevant for artists whose work evokes, delineates or occupies a space through sound and/or digital media.

Deadline of submission: January 15th 2006
Residency period: April 7-30th 2006

To apply for the residency:
You must download and fill out the application form which can be found at
http://www.eventnetwork.org.uk/residency.php
and send it to residency@eventnetwork.org.uk

E:vent
promoting emergent practices in contemporary art
Open: 12 - 6 Friday to Sunday, or by appointment
96 Teesdale Street, London E2 6PU
http://www.eventnetwork.org.uk/visiting.html
root@eventnetwork.org.uk

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10. CALL FOR PROPOSALS: "2006-2007 programming" Espace Vidéographe (Montreal)
Deadline: January 16, 2006; Source Espace Vidéographe

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Espace Vidéographe, the programming sector of Vidéographe, invites artists and curators to submit proposals for video programs and media-arts exhibitions. Every year Espace Vidéographe presents between 7 and 9 activities (5 to 7 programs, 1 or 2 exhibitions), in galleries and other venues, and in partnership with other cultural organizations.

We encourage proposals that provoke thought on the language of video and its modes of representation, and that promote exchanges between different media-arts practices and between local and international production.

SUBMISSIONS MUST INCLUDE:

- Project description (1 page)
- Artistic statement (1 page)
- List of technical requirements
- Budget

- Artists’ and/or Curators’ CVs
- Visual, Sound or Web Documentation with descriptive list of works
(accepted formats:VHS, DVD, CD-ROM, DVD-ROM)
- List of the project’s venues if applicable
- Press kit if available
-Self-addressed stamped envelope

DEADLINE: MONDAY, JANUARY 16, 2006
Projects will be evaluated by the programming committee next February.

Espace Vidéographe
Att: Sylvie Roy
460 Sainte-Catherine West, Suite 504
Montreal, Quebec, CANADA H3B 1A7
Phone: (514) 866-4720
www.videographe.qc.ca

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Appel de Dossiers: Espace Vidéographe Programmation 2006-2007

L'Espace Vidéographe, secteur programmation de Vidéographe, invite les artistes et les commissaires à soumettre leurs projets de programmations vidéo et d'expositions dans le domaine des arts médiatiques. Sur un mode nomade, l'Espace Vidéographe diffuse annuellement entre 7 et 9 activités (5 à 7 programmations, 1 à 2 expositions), hors les murs ou en galerie, en collaboration avec différents organismes culturels.

Sont encouragées les propositions qui stimulent une réflexion sur le langage vidéographique et ses modes de représentation ; qui favorisent les échanges entre les différentes pratiques en arts médiatiques et entre la production locale et internationale.

Composition des dossiers :

- Description du projet (1 page) ;
- Démarche artistique (1 page) ;
- Ressources techniques (équipements)
- Budget requis pour le projet

Documents de référence :

- CV des artistes et/ou des commissaires
- Documentation visuelle / sonore / web et liste descriptive des oeuvres proposées (supports acceptés :VHS, DVD, Cd-Rom, DVD-Rom)
- Liste de diffusion du projet s'il y a lieu
- Dossier de presse s'il y a lieu
- Enveloppe de retour pré-affranchie

Date limite : Lundi 16 janvier 2006

Les projets seront évalués par le comité de programmation en février prochain.

Espace Vidéographe
À l'attention de Sylvie Roy
460, rue Sainte-Catherine Ouest, Bureau 504
Montréal Québec CANADA H3B 1A7
Téléphone : (514) 866 4720
<>www.videographe.qc.ca

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11. CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: "Truth & Lies" ARTCITY 2006 (Calgary)
Deadline: January 20, 2006; Source: Artcity

Artcity is a celebration of contemporary visual art, architecture & design, held every September in Calgary, Canada. Artcity opens possibilities for conversations, debates and realizations about how and what artists, architects and designers do and how they see and shape the world around us.

Artcity programming is responsive to current issues and trends in the Calgary community and beyond. Each year we develop new themes and programming that will challenge and engage viewers. Individuals are encouraged to forward submissions for visual art, lectures and performative works.

2006 FESTIVAL THEME: Truth & Lies

All art is considered to be a replica of reality - and is therefore a lie.

Next year’s Artcity theme TRUTH & LIES will provide viewers and participants with a forum for critical discourse surrounding ideas of replication, illusion and fiction. Local, national and international visual/media artists, architects and designers are invited to create thought provoking work that examines and deconstructs what it is to be art producers in a mass media culture.

The Artcity Board of Directors invites submissions for site-specific works, which address Artcity’s 2006 theme: Tuth & Lies for various confirmed venues as well as additional sites as proposed (see the website for details). Submissions could include site-specific projects, performative works situated within impromptu gallery settings (vacant retail space or shop windows). In addition to the proposal information requested below, applicants should identify possible/preferred venues/sites.

All media will be considered, including time-based work such as video/film, audio and performance. Emerging artists are encouraged to submit.

Exhibiting artists will be paid at minimum CARFAC rates for a regional, non-touring, group exhibition.

Please include the following in your submission:
-curriculum vitae
-artist’s statement
-description of proposed work
-proposed site/venue requirements
-10-20 slides and/or other relevant support material
-special technical/installation requirements
-a self-addressed stamped envelope
-project budget (including anticipated amount of funds required from Artcity’s Production Assistance Fund)

DEADLINE 
January 20, 2006 (postmarked)

SUBMIT ENTRIES TO
Artcity Visual Arts 2006
#200, 137 – 8th Avenue SW
Calgary AB T2P 1B4
Canada

QUESTIONS?
visualart@art-city.ca
Please visit www.art-city.ca for more information about Artcity.

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12. CALL FOR PROPOSALS: Facility Symposium 2 (UK)
Deadline: January 20, 2006; Source: Artsadmin e-digest #202

CALL for performance as research

The Facility Symposium 2: Saturday 22 April 2006.

The objective of the Facility Symposium 2 is to explore the place and role of narrative in performance/theatre within modernism, postmodernism and transmodernism.

The aim of the symposium is to attract the active participation of researchers and practitioners wanting to address certain issues through performance as research work.

Does theatre need narratives? How does narrative affect structure? How does structure evolve without narrative? Have postmodern notions of fragmentation destroyed narratives? Are there new narratives that have evolved from the fragmenting of text? Do we need to re-discover our ability to tell a story to an audience? Does the concept of narrative imply naturalism and the well-made play?

DEADLINE: for proposals is January 20th 06.
CONTACT: Lucy.richardson@londonmet.ac.uk

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13. CALL FOR PROPOSALS: "Collision 2006 "Interarts Research and Practices (Victoria)
Deadline: March 1, 2006; Source: University of Victoria

Collision 2006
Interarts Research and Practices
September 21 – 24
University of Victoria, BC, Canada

Call for Papers, Performances, Collaborations and Workshops
Deadline for Submissions: March 1, 2006

In September 2005, the Collision Symposium brought together researchers, performers and artists to present their work on interarts and interdisciplinary performance and creation. Collision, a term that denotes forceful impact of masses moving in different directions, was used as a theme for the kind of interarts processes often used to create and merge art forms. Often by design, and sometimes by chance, these processes do not result in seamless integration of the arts, but instead create a friction of disciplinarity that promotes rupture or erasure and creates detritus that exists in liminal states. Building on some of the themes and discussion from the previous symposium, Collision 2006 requests abstracts and proposals from artists, researchers and performers for the following:

Lecture-presentations – we encourage traditional lecture format presentations as well as artist talks, dialogues and lecture-demonstrations. These presentations will be the standard 20 minutes with 15 minutes for discussion.

Performances and Creative works – gallery and performance space is available for interarts works. Please include the specifications for presentation (type of venue, dimensions), all the technical requirements, and an audio-visual sample of the work along with your abstract. If the work is performance-based, please list its duration.

Performative Lectures – presentations that operate as an amalgamation of art/performance and research. These presentations will be the standard 20 minutes with 15 minutes for discussion.

Workshops and Roundtable Discussions – hands-on practical topics including but not limited to “Teaching interdisciplinary collaboration”, “Methods to merge theory and practice” and “Interarts terminologies/histories”. Workshops will be limited to 1 hour.

Collaborations and Activities – we invite you to lead a collaboration or other activity for a mixed group of artists, researchers and performers on a topic that relates to interarts practices. Collaborations and Activities are limited to 1 hour and 30 minutes.

For the 2006 Collision Symposium we will have several thematic areas of focus. As well as general submissions on any subjects of interarts and interdisciplinary creation, we also invite submissions that address the following topics: 

1. Practice and Performance as Research, Theory as Performance/Art: Following the Art and Language group, philosopher-artists have taken an approach to research and discourse that presents theory as a performance or creative work. What are the current forms that these practices take?

2. Interdisciplinarity as a Social Force: How do theories of power, legitimacy, and inclusion change when applied in an interdisciplinary context? How is gender performed interdisciplinarily? How does intersectional feminist theory inform interarts work? Is activist art inherently interdisciplinary? How can interarts practice enrich or transform community-based or site-responsive projects?

3. First Nations Interarts Creation: What is the role of participation, interaction and community-building in First Nations interarts practices? How are storytelling practices transformed in interarts creation?

4. Technology: What are the roles, potential, and dangers of technology in interdisciplinary artworks? How do information and communications theories intersect with artistic practices?

5. Between Architecture and the Arts: Artistic explorations of built environments or imaginary structures. How do artists and performers integrate architecture as a part of their practice? 

6. Conscious Interdisciplinarity: Current academic and artistic research, art production, and performance are often interdisciplinary almost as a matter of course. So what does it mean to refer to one’s practice as ‘interdisciplinary’? How is this label strategic? Aesthetic? Fetishistic?

7. Non-Western Interdisciplinarity: What might we learn from non-Western manifestations of interdisciplinarity or interarts practice (or from cultures where the concept of artistic disciplines may not even exist)?

8. Interdisciplinary Art and Spirituality: Where does ambiguity in art intersect with spirituality? Are there parallels between interdisciplinary creation and spiritual pursuits (eg. art as process)? Can nonverbal artistic imagery for which no authoritative tradition of interpretation exists become a catalyst for spirituality?

We encourage Québec researchers, performers and artists of various linguistic and cultural affiliations and francophones across Canada to participate in this call for abstracts and proposals. 

All accepted presentations from the 2005 and upcoming 2006 Symposia will be considered for a planned publication on interarts and interdisciplinary research and practices.

Abstracts should be no more than 250 words in length and must be sent as a doc. or rtf. file attachment to interart_at_finearts.uvic.ca Please DO NOT send audio-visual documentation as attachment files. Instead, please send all materials - slides, CDs, VHS video and DVDs in NTSC format only to:

Collision 2006 Organizing Committee
C/O Visual Arts Department
University of Victoria
PO Box 1700 STN CSC
Victoria BC V8W 2Y2 Canada

Further inquiries can be addressed to: Dylan Robinson at interart_at_finearts.uvic.ca

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14. CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: “Wunder der Prärie” (Germany)
Deadline March 10, 2006; Source: zeitraum_ex!t Büro für Kunst

“Wunder der Prärie” stands for international, experimental, and extraordinary art projects which bring together fine and performing arts.

“Wunder der Prärie” occurs in art rooms, uses and animates urban spaces and is firmly rooted in the urban life of the region Rhein-Neckar.

For 6 years the arthouse zeitraum_ex!t has organised an annual festival. They started with the 9th International Performance Conference in 2000. Since 2004 the festival is named “Wunder der Prärie”.

Amongst others, the following artists and groups participated: Anna Huber, Stefan Kaegi, Alastair McLennan, Boris Nieslony, Lindy Annis, Gob Squad, Jaap Blonk, Théâtre du Radeau, Stan’s Café, Yoko Tawada, FarADayCage, Volker Gerling, Mike Pearson.

The Theme: “Glück Glück Glück ”

The German word “Glück” is a term with many meanings. Other languages have several, more differentiated terms for “Glück”. In English for example, we have the terms “luck, fortune, happiness, felicity”; Italians speak of “fortuna, felicitá”. 

“Happiness” is generally understood as a very special, extraordinary emotion or an emotional state; its opposite is unhappiness or - as an extreme - desperation.

Personal Happiness
Feeling happy is defined as “being in accordance with oneself and the world”. Everyone has to find out for herself or himself when these valuable moments of happiness have occurred or do occur.
“Happiness” (as well as “good luck”) is fragile, volatile, it never lasts forever.
There is chance which helps to make somebody happy. Happiness also depends on fortune. The “lucky devil” or the “child of fortune” have inherited fortune; they succeed in everything and everywhere.
“Life is what you make of it” – we all wish to make and are to make ourselves happy. Happiness is merit.

Happiness in this World and in the Next World
Religions, too, make use of peoples’ longing for happiness. When the promise of happiness is shifted to the realm of the next world then there is no reason to be at odds with a luckless life in this world. 

The happiness-cliché
Happiness and the way how happiness can be achieved are defined by cultures and societies. In a society in which beauty, success, good health, and activity are norms which have to be met and in which not meeting these norms leads to exclusion the question whether one possesses these qualities – or is lucky to possess them - is of vital significance.

The longing for happiness
Millions of people hope that they “have good luck” when playing in the lottery; it seems as if there is an essential connection between money (owning a “fortune”) and happiness.
The world of consumption is full of surrogates for happiness and of promises of happiness. Having the proper garments, the proper figure, the proper car, the proper vacation destination, the proper house is important ... it is happiness you can buy. The proper house is automatically inhabited by well-educated, intelligent children, a loving husband or a loving wife: who wouldn’t be happy then? Perfect happiness!

The obligation to be happy
Being obliged to be always and forever happy causes fear: the fear not to succeed to be happy or the lose one’s happiness.
The image of happiness
The suggestion of never-ending happiness uses clichés such as marriage, family, happy children, home, nature, picturesque and exotic foreign cultures, and so on.
Clichés are materials for “kitsch”; kitsch if full of excessive clichés; kitsch is up-to-date, again.

The Festival will take place from Wednesday, August 30 to Saturday, September 9, 2006.

Festival Venues
The city and public places, for example the central station, empty shops, the pedestrian zone, depending on the project; zeitraum_ex!t Büro für Kunst and other exhibition rooms

Events
Exhibitions
Films
Performance art
Theatre projects
Lectures and discussions with the audience

The call is directed to artists which have dealt with the 2006 festival theme.

Deadline: March 10, 2006 (date of the postmark)

Applications / Proposals should be sent to: zeitraum_ex!t Büro für Kunst, Lange Rötterstr. 23, 68167 Mannheim

Artistic Directors: Gabriele Oßwald, Wolfgang Sautermeister, Elke Schmid, Tilo Schwarz

Applications should consist of:
-A meaningful concept (video, pictures, description)
-CV
-Scheme of costs
-Technical requirements
-Self-addressed answer envelope and postage

Please note that we cannot finance new productions. We do not accept any responsibility for the application documents. We do not accept e-mail applications!

Applications without a sufficiently stamped answer envelope will not be sent back and will not be kept in archive!

For applications from other countries than Germany: please include the equivalent of adequate postage in Euros!

zeitraum_ex!t, büro für kunst e.v.
lange rötterstraße 23, d 68167 mannheim
phone: 0049-621/3709830; fax: 0049-621/3709832;
office@zeitraumexit.de, www.zeitraumexit.de

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15. CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: "frisch eingetroffen“ Platform for Young Art (Germany)
Deadline: April 28, 2006; Source: zeitraum_ex!t Büro für Kunst

For the fifth time in a row the arthouse zeitraum_ex!t offers artists a platform to present their work.

"frisch eingetroffen“ (just in) is directed to artists who are at the beginning of their career or who try to test new approaches in their artistic career.

"frisch eingetroffen“ focuses on the exploration of new territories in art and on the juxtaposition of two approaches: performance-art and theatre.

The selected works are presented in the framework of a two-days event at the Interface Performance - Theatre.

Dates: Friday, July 7th and Saturday, July 8th, 2006, 8 p.m.

Applications can be made by performers and theatre artists with:
-Projects with 1 to 2 actors (no recitals, no comedy-programmes or scenic readings). There is no age limit as going new ways does not depend on age.
-Technical an spatial prerequisits:

We cannot offer the usual technical theatre equipment. The playing area is about 3 to 5 m2 and 3 ms high (ceiling). It is possible to provide for a simple illumination equipment (maximum: 10 x 500 m3). There is also the opportunity to play or to perform in a small yard. The projects should not be longer than 20 – 60 minutes and should only need small equipment, as it is intended to present several works every night.

zeitraum_ex!t Büro für Kunst can only provide for parts of the equipment needed for projects with video projections.

The organisers will cover the travel costs and costs of accommodation; there is no further payment.

Applications should consist of a short CV; photos or videos; concept/description of the work submitted; details with regard to length, technical requirements as well as a self-addressed and prepaid envelope.

Address: zeitraum_ex!t Büro für Kunst, Lange Rötterstraße 23, 68167 Mannheim

Contact: Elke Schmid, Tilo Schwarz 0621-3709831(Theatre); Gabriele Oßwald, Wolfgang Sautermeister, 0621-3709830 (Performance)

Deadline: April 28th, 2006 (Date of the postmark)

We do not accept any responsibility for the application documents. Applications without adequate postage cannot be returned. For applications from other countries than Germany: please include the equivalent of the adequate postage in Euros!

zeitraum_ex!t, büro für kunst e.v.
lange rötterstraße 23, d 68167 mannheim
phone: 0049-621/3709830; fax: 0049-621/3709832;
office@zeitraumexit.de, www.zeitraumexit.de

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16. CALL FOR PROPOSALS: "Eco Vandalism" Lookoutpost (Germany)
Deadline: not given; Source: Artsadmin e-digest #202

Following the success of last year's exhibition The Art of Permanence and Change, Lookoutpost seeks expressions of interest for their 2006 exhibition, Eco Vandalism.

Artists excelling in any discipline are invited to consider this theme in light of the shows unique external setting in Sydenham Hill Woods. Work should be durable, weather resistant, safe and vandal proof unless deliberately designed for interaction.

The show will run for a full weekend in May 2006. Funding is proposed for two days at standard artists daily rate plus materials. Funding application awaits confirmation.

Please send examples of relevant work in any format, with updated c.v and covering letter to
Lookoutpost, 25A Mycenae Road, London SE3 7SF.
Please enclose sae for return postage and packaging.
Helen Morse Palmer: missmorsepalmer@yahoo.co.uk

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17. CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS (PUBLICATION): "TRANS(END) FORMATION" (USA)
Deadline: ongoing; Source: Travis McCoy Fuller

An invite to all artists, thinkers and writers working in and writing about all forms of challenging ephemeral and "permanent" art to submit writing to a bimonthly publication.

TRANS(END) FORMATION
A document of contemporary art practices

TRANS(END) FORMATION is a medium through which ideas on contemporary art practices can manifest, achieve permanence, and reach new and different minds. It is a medium of communication which intends to fulfill the desire for documentation and representation of ephemeral, as well as permanent art practices. This publication strives to give authority to and document the history of the art of the present. TRANS(END) FORMATION intends to stimulate new ways of thinking about older forms of art as well as giving voice to the ideas, processes, and forms of contemporary art practices.

Please include in your submissions:
- Your name
- A brief bio (to be included in the publication)
- The article you wish to include
- Any additional information to give context to yourself, your work and/or your article

Articles will be published in the language in which it was sent. Translations into english are encouraged but are in no way required.

Please include all writing within the email as well as in an attachment.

Send all submissions to travis@testperformance.org

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18. ONLINE JOURNAL: "Vague Terrain" (online)
Source: vagueterrain

Announcing the launch of http://www.vagueterrain.net

Vague Terrain is a new quarterly web-journal showcasing work from various Canadian and International artists, musicians, and writers. Our intent is to stake a unique claim which will sample the focus and methodologies of academic and art journals while commissioning parallel excursions in the sonic realm. The first issue of Vague Terrain is now online and features contributions related to the theme of "digital detritus" from: des cailloux et du carbone, greg lynn form, intercom, kero, liav koren, willy le maitre & eric rosenzveig, neil hennessy, robin armstrong, tasman richardson, tony scott (aka beflix), and tomas jirku.

This notice serves as a statement of intent. We plan on carving out a unique niche for ourselves not only on the net, but through a series of upcoming Toronto based, immersive electronic music showcases which will feature a blend of aural and visual work in a live environment. We hope to provide a platform through which established and emerging artists can promote their work online, and stimulating event-spaces where mediums and disciplines intersect.

Greg Smith & Neil Wiernik
editors/curators - http://www.vagueterrain.net

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19. NEW PUBLICATION: "Stelarc: The Monograph"
Source: Stelarc

Stelarc writes:

"The MIT publication on my work has now been released. If not at your favorite bookstore, you would be able to order it from the MIT website or from Amazon.

"The title is "Stelarc: The Monograph" Edited by Marquand Smith.

"(Not my preference for the title ha, ha)!"

Stelarc

Performance Artist

Visiting Professor
School of Art and Design
The Nottingham Trent University
Nottingham, UK.

Adjunct Professor
School of Contemporary Art
Edith Cowan University
Perth, Australia.

www.stelarc.va.com.au

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