TALKING MONUMENTS
The art group "Archeopterix" (Izhevsk, Russia) is pleased to invite artists working with different media to take part in the public art project Talking Monuments, which will be realized in the framework of the cultural marathon "Perm Cultural Capital 2006." The event will take place in September 2006 in Perm city, Russia. Please submit your project proposals before July 20, 2006. Further dissemination of the information will be highly appreciated.
Concept: The ten-days public art festival “Talking Monuments” aims to bring together artistic reflections upon the role of monuments in contemporary urban spaces. The idea is to question nowadays city environments from the position of monuments within them as living objects of city public life. How are they integrated into social activities around them? How does public relate to them? How do they participate in the public discourse? Can we make them sound and speak on their own? What kind of observations can be grasped thenWe are looking for new myths and stories about monuments. Within rapidly changing nowadays reality monuments are both cross-historical traces and witnesses of passing epochs and mythologies. They seem to be silent and immobile objects, but what about giving them an opportunity to speak out, to talk back to the public, to turn them into active subjects of communication?
GUIDELINE FOR PROPOSALS SUBMISSION
Please submit your project proposals according to the following four categories:
1. Talking Monument Art projects in formats of multimedia, kinetic installation; staged visual, musical, poetic performance. Your works are expected to be related to already existing monuments in the city and/or their context. Especially works aiming at bringing dynamics and new contextual experiences are welcomed. Works in this category will be selected in cooperation with the city administration. Please pay attention to special criteria for the projects in the category “Talking Monument”: Your project should not cause any damage or material loss to monuments. The project idea should correlate as much as possible with the festival theme “Talking Monuments ." References to the specific topics and aspects of cultural and social context of Perm are encouraged.
Authors of selected projects will be provided with the assistance for their realization, including materials, assistants, expenses. For more details please contact the organizers.
2. Monumental Video-Scape Video art works of the total length of 10 min maximum. The video art works are supposed to provide new environment or background for a monument, so it is going to be presented next to a monument which would be incorporated into the video-scape. The presentation of the project assumes that between the screen and spectators there will be a monument. For further information and assistance in choosing monuments and location please contact the organizers.
3. SMS Perm Novel Projects in the form of short text messages. One of the ideas of presentation of projects in this category assumes: on a pedestal of a monument the board with running line with text is mounted and transmitted. This category is open to your creative suggestion as well.
4. USB Stall or Art into the Masses! Any multimedia projects, which would suggest original ways of distribution of contemporary art content via portable and mobile devices widely used especially by youth: players, phones, PDAs, etc. For that a small mobile stall-poster with USB and flash ports is going to be established, where everybody could download the art, not only the detailed program and documentation of the festival, but also media art works as such. Visually the object will be similar to the flying device from planet Pluke from the cult Russian sci-fi movie "Kin-dza-dza" with mounted screens, speakers and video projector to broadcast the documentation and multimedia projects.
For more information on project, the list, photos and description of Perm monuments look at http://dacha.tyros.ru
DEADLINE for submission of project proposals is July 20, 2006.
Please use the electronic form in DOC format.
Put your last name in the name of your file, for example: (smith.RTF) and send it to anfimx[at]yandex.ru. Please send your files with brief description of the project and pictures illustrating the description in JPG or GIF format together with the electronic form to anfimx[at]yandex.ru
For any questions and suggestion contact: anfimx[at]yandex.ru
Further detailed information can be found at the web site.
The form for the application in categories “Talking Monument,” “USB Stall.” “Monumental Video-Scape” is below:
AUTHOR FULL NAME
ADDRESS
PHONE
TITLE
CONCEPT
BRIEF DESCRIPTION
TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS
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