artists newsletter
 
 
08 December 2006
No. 49

EXHIBITIONS
Stay Gold, Brooklyn, NY : blowup
CITY|SPACE, San Francisco, CA : Wish You Were Here
Pendu Gallery,Brooklyn, NY : Merdre!
FESTIVAL
59 Seconds Video Festival, NY
GRANT
Jerome Foundation, artists Travel & Study Grant Program
PROPOSALS
articule, Montréal : 2007-2008 Program
The Lake George Arts Project, NY
POSITIONS
Director - Belluard Bollwerk International (BBI), Fribourg, Switzerland
Co-Artistic Director - ANTI - Contemporary Art Festival, Kuopio Finland
RESEARCH
Dartington College of Arts, Devon, UK : Performance Research
RESIDENCY
Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture , ME
Beijing Da Art Space
Stiftelsen Kulturhuset USF, Bergen, Norway







EXHIBITIONS
Stay Gold, Brooklyn : blowup
Deadline : February 1st, 2007

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS!!

An exhibition showcasing the photographic versatility of point & shoot cameras!

Stay Gold Gallery is pleased to present “blowup”, an exhibition showcasing the photographic versatility of the point and shoot camera. The opening reception will be held on Friday, February 23rd from 7-10pm and the exhibition will continue through March 25th, 2007.

All submissions should be sized between 8 x 10”to 30 x 40”, and mounted on white 1/4” foamcore. In order for submissions to be considered, they must be received no later then February 1st, 2007. Please include your name, address, phone number, and email on the back of each piece. A necessary waiver will be made available on the Stay Gold website (www.StayGoldGallery.com) under the heading “NEWS” in the form of a PDF file which can be downloaded; submissions without waivers will not be considered. We will consider up to three pieces from each contributor, with a mandatory fee of US $5 for each submission. Checks or money orders can be made out to Stay Gold Gallery. Please do not send cash. If you would like your piece to be returned at the end of the exhibition, please include a SASE with your submission. Submissions that are not picked up by May 1st 2007 will be donated or subject to use for future art auctions, gallery benefits, and fundraisers.

While we will do our best to include each submission, we cannot guarantee that they will be exhibited. If we plan to include your submission, we will contact you 1-2 weeks prior to the exhibition.

We hope to show that the appeal of point and shoot photography stems both from its non-necessity of professional use and its ability to capture life without pre-meditation, so please keep in mind that the object of the exhibition is not strictly sales driven. The price of submissions will be determined by Stay Gold, and contributors will receive 50% of sales price if sold. Please feel free to contact us with any questions you may have at: submissions@staygoldgallery.com.

SUBMISSION FORM

Stay Gold Gallery
451 Grand Street
Brooklyn, NY 11211 USA
+ 1.718.599.7778









CITY|SPACE, San Francisco, CA : Wish You Were Here
Deadline February 16th, 2007.

Events — Spring and Summer 2007.

In the world of ephemera every place has its souvenir. A memory for the tourist that arrives and departs, a collection of images and mementos to take home and revisit, the souvenir encompasses expectation and recollection of places, people, and adventures.

Although often ignored, souvenirs are representations of the places we inhabit, written in the familiar dialect of sno-globes and postcards. But souvenirs also navigate more intimate geographies, of excitement, melancholy, and fondness. Grafted onto personal memory, they pine for a place left, a time gone. From the quirky world of mass-produced trinkets and collectibles to the realm of one-of-a-kind precious mementos, from the embarrassing to the delightful, souvenirs speak the language of representation CITY|SPACE is calling artists, tourists, residents, visitors, place experts, and place lovers to submit their interpretations of and ideas for new souvenirs of places in the San Francisco Bay Area.

City|Space is calling artists, tourists, residents, visitors, place experts, and place lovers to submit their interpretations of and ideas for new souvenirs of places in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Subject: San Francisco Bay Area, California, USA Souvenirs can recollect an array of subjects: As obvious as San Francisco, as unexpected as Redwood City As well-known as the Golden Gate Bridge, as surprising as a hotdog stand in Emeryville. As famous as Jack Kerouac, as anonymous as your local mechanic As legendary as Dungeness crab, as ordinary as a burrito.

What: A creative product reinterpreting the traditional souvenir. From a coffee mug to a walking tour, from a postcard series to a personal assemblage, from a video collage to a song, from a reproducible idea to a unique sculptural object. All media accepted. One-of-a-kind pieces, a series and potentially reproducible objects: all accepted.

Who: Anyone who has visited, dreamed of, read about, or is a resident of the San Francisco Bay Area. Artists of all backgrounds, residents, tourists, visitors, place experts, and place lovers.

Submission Guidelines: Proposals should be submitted in the form of a single postcard.
Please describe your idea on a postcard and mail it to:

CITY|SPACE
P.O.Box 77114
San Francisco,
CA 94107-7114

For complete submission guidelines please visit our website.

Timeline:
1. Postcard Proposals Submission:
Must be postmarked by February 16, 2007.
Postcards will be included in an on-line exhibition in Spring 2007.

2. Souvenir Exhibition:
Selected participants will be asked to produce and submit their souvenirs for participation in a gallery exhibition in the Bay Area, Summer 2007.

Postcard entries will also be exhibited.
Selected participants notified: April 1st, 2007
Deadline for final submission: June 1st, 2007
Things that might happen next:
Publication, traveling exhibition, and other special events.

One last request:
If you have a unique antique souvenir from the Bay Area please let us know.









Pendu Gallery,Brooklyn, NY
Presents an online exhibition and printed catalog...
Merdre! Low-tech art - drawings & animated GIFs, 2007
Deadline : February. 28th, 2007

In 1896, a nasally-voiced character in a cheaply- made costume appeared on a stage before a bewildered bourgeois audience and uttered the word MERDRE! The crowd went into a rage, a mob fight ensued and it was fifteen minutes before the play could resume. The character’s name was Ubu, an invention of the mind of Alfred Jarry when he 15 years old. Crude, juvenile, and scatological, this “low- comedy” theatre piece has left a permanent mark on modern art from the Dadaists and onward. The word MERDRE comes from the French word “merde” meaning shit. The extra “r” is an invention of Jarry’s adding a personal touch to the vulgarity and making the word nonsensical and absurd. Ubu is a grotesque creation that makes us laugh and simultaneously comments on a bourgeois, hypocritical and inhuman society. In this exhibition of drawings and animated GIFs we can hear the shrill voice of Ubu resonating today.

Merdre! is a curated exhibition of drawings and animated GIFs expressing the anarchic, democratic, anyone-can-do-it spirit of low-tech art. This international group of artists create an art of resistance to an impersonal culture taking cues from graffiti, comic books, illustration, outsider art, folk art, video games, pop culture, and their own imagination armed with basic drawing utensils, any surface to draw on, and a working knowledge of scanners, photography software and some HTML.

What is low-tech art?
Low-tech implies handmade or handcrafted works of art. For this exhibition, the term applies more specifically to artists who in a high-tech world deliberately choose the unrefined over the polished. This is low-tech connoting a playful, irreverent, whimsical and deliberately amateurish approach to art. It’s making art with whatever materials are at hand and making it cheaply. It’s about humor, irony, expression, and the personal.

"I wanted them to be funny, so I made them look satiric and monstrous" - Willem De Kooning

Drawing
Drawings of invented characters, monsters, strange animals, and imaginary creatures fill these pages with scenes that are both cute and macabre. These works range from line drawings, to child-like scribble, to complex, and everything in between. Artists use anything from pencils and charcoals to pens and magic markers to white out / etc. on every conceivable surface.

Animated GIFs
The animated GIF is creating an aesthetic all its own. Designers all but abandoned it in the last few years due to its poor quality and constraints on creativity; however it has gained popularity in the underground for the same reasons it was abandoned. Artists are using GIFs to create humorous ironic artworks by animating scanned drawings, digital photos, or mousedrawn art and utilizing ridiculously glitzy effects found in most computer photography programs. This in itself is an ironic use of the computer; a notoriously high-tech machine being used for low- tech ends.

Merdre! launches in March of 2007 and will remain online as a permanent collection and archive. Additionally, a limited edition catalog of drawings by 50 artists will be printed in November 2007.

Todd Brooks, Director of Pendu Gallery
MORE INFORMATION

Pendu Gallery
1117 8th Ave. #1FL
Brooklyn, New York 11215

FESTIVAL
59 Seconds Video Festival, NY
Early deadline: December 1, 2006
Late deadline: January 10, 2007
No entry fee

Launched by Project 59 in the spring of 2005 at 59 Franklin Street in Tribeca, the 59 Seconds Festival gathered a collection of 59 videos and animations (selected through three international open calls), 59 seconds each by artists from around the world.

59 Seconds Festival is a play off as well as a metaphor for the short video format, that gives an opportunity to introduce 59 international artists and a wide range of video works - mini documentary, political satire, metaphorical, narrative, experimental, edgy, controversial, including a unique collection of videos that integrate number 59. 59 Seconds Festival is a video storm of a variety of techniques, ideas and visions that is sampling an emerging contemporary international video art scene. "Maximum entertainment in minimum time" San Francisco Bay Guardian 12/7/05.

59 Seconds Festival is developing a network and popularization of participating artists while introducing as broad an international audience as possible to unique collection of works, providing exchange of ideas and information.

A collection of selected 59 videos, 59 seconds each by 59 international artists, shown 59 times around the globe is the ultimate goal of 59 Seconds Festival.

SPECIAL OPEN CALL

We are ONLY looking for 59 seconds long video works, that integrate Number 59 in some manner. Submitted work should be in DVD format. Application is here. Please include a short synopses and a paragraph describing how your video connects to 59 or how it was created.

Please send your video, along with contact information, a short synopses and a paragraph describing how your video connects to 59 or how it was created.

Please submit the video on a DVD and mail it with the requested information to:

Irina Danilova and Hiram Levy
6505 Stoney Hill Road
New Hope, PA 18938 USA

Please also e-mail a copy of the submission information to Project59@gmail.com







GRANT
Jerome Foundation, artists Travel & Study Grant Program
Deadline February 2, 2007

ELIGIBLE DISCIPLINES: MUSIC, THEATER, and VISUAL ARTS

MAJOR CHANGES FROM PREVIOUS YEARS:
  1. The Program invites applications from artists living in MINNESOTA and the five boroughs of NEW YORK CITY.
  2. Only emerging creative artists are eligible to apply.
The 2007 Travel and Study Grant Program will award grants to emerging artists who create new work (music: composers and sound artists; theater: playwrights and creators of performance art and experimental theater; and visual artists). The deadline for applications in Music, Theater, and Visual Arts is February 2, 2007. Applications must be postmarked on or before the deadline to be eligible for consideration. Fax and e-mail submissions are not permitted.

The Travel and Study Grant Program places emphasis on individual exploration and growth. The program supports such activities as research leading to the creation of new work, the development of collaborations, participation in specific training programs, time for reflection and individualized study, investigating artistic work outside of Minnesota or New York City, and dialogue on aesthetic issues.

Application guidelines and forms may be obtained from the Jerome Foundation, 400 Sibley Street, Suite 125, Saint Paul, Minnesota 55101-1928.

Telephone:
651.224.9431 or 1-800-995-3766.

These materials may also be found here : Travel and Study Grant Program

The 2007 Travel and Study Grant Program is supported by the General Mills and Jerome Foundations.

PROPOSALS
articule, Montréal : 2007-2008 Program
CALL FOR PROPOSALS
Deadline 15 January 2007

For its programming season, from September 2007 to June 2008, articule invites local, national and international artists, groups of artists and curators to submit exhibition and/or event proposals.

Last summer articule moved to a new convivial space with a large storefront window in the Mile End, one of Montreal's most vibrant neighbourhoods. The move was motivated by articule's desire to offer more visibility to artists and their work, as well as to provide an accessible space to a varied public.

For the 2007-2008 programming season, articule is particularly interested in exhibition projects that consider the street level gallery and its possibilities as a place of communication and engagement, for creating connections and transformations, where art and the environment, the artist and the public, touch.

Proposals must include:
  • curriculum vitae
  • artist statement and/or a description of the project, specifying spatial
  • maximum of 20 slides or digital images on CD, clearly-identified
  • maximum of one VHS tape (NTSC) or one DVD, clearly-identified
  • a descriptive list for the visual material (title, date, dimension, medium)
  • a self-addressed, sufficiently pre-stamped envelope
Important:
If you submit digital images please comply with the following guidelines:
  • compatible with MacIntosh OS 10.4
  • jpeg format suggested, do not exceed 2 MB or 1024 x 768 pixels
  • identify each image with a number and a title corresponding to
  • the images have to appear when opening the CD, do not create indexes
Please note that email applications are not accepted.

Please send your proposal to:
articule
Programming Committee
262 Fairmount Ouest
Montréal (Québec) H2V 2G3
Canada

T 514 842 9686
info@articule.org









The Lake George Arts Project, NY
Deadline : January 31, 2007

Courthouse Gallery Seeks Exhibition Proposals The Lake George Arts Project invites emerging and professional artists to submit exhibition proposals for the Courthouse Gallery 2008 exhibition schedule. The Courthouse Gallery presents 5 to 7 exhibitions yearly of regional and national contemporary visual artists in all media. Artist's submissions are reviewed and selected by a Gallery Committee. Strong preference is given to experimental or non-traditional work created within the last two years.

Artists are asked to send ten to twelve 35-mm slides of recent work in a plastic slide sheet, or 10 to 12 jpegs on a CD. All exhibition proposals must include a hardcopy of resume, statement and slide list (listing image title, medium, date and dimensions). To view complete Submission Guidelines, as well as view samples of previous exhibits,

please visit Lake George Arts Project

The postmark deadline for proposals is January 31, 2007. Selection and notification will be complete in April, 2007. Materials so designated and accompanied by a self-addressed stamped envelope will be returned at that time.

Send proposals to Lake George Arts Project,
Courthouse Gallery,
1 Amherst Street,
Lake George,
NY 12845.
mail@lakegeorgearts.org

POSITIONS
Director -Belluard Bollwerk International (BBI), Fribourg, Switzerland
Deadline : 31st December 2006

The Belluard Bollwerk International (BBI) is an annual contemporary arts festival held in Fribourg at the beginning of each summer. Since 1983 the Belluard has gained an international reputation through its engaged and incisive programming at the peak of contemporary art forms.

The Belluard Bollwerk International (BBI) is looking for a Director (80% to 100%) responsible for the artistic direction and organisation of the festival

Role
  • Artistic programmation
  • Financial responsability
  • Fundraising and income generation
  • Develop an effective communication strategy
  • Promote the BBI nationally and internationally
  • Supervise the technical organisation and logistics of the festival in collaboration with the current team.
Conditions
  • In tune with the mission of the BBI
  • Proven experience in programming and managing cultural events
  • Extensive links to the contemporary art world
  • Confident communicator and negotiator
  • Proven financial skills
  • Languages : Proficiency in French. Fluent in English. Knowledge of german a plus.


Budget: The yearly budget for the festival is currently at 800'000 Swiss Francs.

Location Fribourg, Switzerland

Starting date September 2007

Please forward your application documents including a concept for the BBI 2008 to Anne-Sophie Cosandey, anne-sophie@belluard.ch

BELLUARD BOLLWERK INTERNATIONAL
Case postale 214
CH-1701 Fribourg
Suisse

Please use the same contact information for all enquiries regarding your application or call 0041 33 534 96 78









Co-Artistic Director - ANTI - Contemporary Art Festival, Kuopio Finland
Deadline : 15 December 2006

ANTI – Contemporary Art Festival is an international festival of contemporary art which is annually organized in Kuopio, Finland. Our festival programme consists of the works of the artists representing various fields and they are performed in the city of Kuopio. These time- and site-specific works are located in annually changing sites in an urban environment. The programme contains works of the artists who have been invited and selected based on their applications.

We are currently looking for a Co-Artistic Director to be co-responsible for the ANTI festival programme 2007 together with Artistic Director Johanna Tuukkanen. Duration of this position is negotiable.

Duties involve curating 1-2 works for the festival, handling work proposals and planning of the overall programme, planning of the programme for the PUHETTA ja TEKOJA (Talks and Deeds) event and participation in the development of the festival. The Co-Artistic Director is expected to have a sound knowledge of contemporary and city art, a solid network at a national and international level and a particular passion for live art.

Applications including work plans and salary requests should be sent by 15.12.2006 to the address below:

ANTI – Contemporary Art Festival
Koljonniemenkatu 2, 2nd Floor
FIN-70100 Kuopio
Finland
info@antifestival.com

Further information: Johanna Tuukkanen,
tel. +358 50 3052 485, johanna@antifestival.com

Further Information: ANTI Festival | mobile +358 50 305 2485 | e- mail info@antifestival.com |









RESIDENCY
Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture , ME
Deadline: February 1, 2007

The 2007 Summer Session
June 9th - August 11th

RESIDENT FACULTY : El Anatsui, Tom Burckhardt, Susanna Coffey, Angela Lorenz, Marjetica Potrc

VISITING FACULTY : Paul Chan, Petah Coyne, Peter Doig, Jon Kessler, Liz Larner, Walter Murch

Skowhegan is an intensive nine-week summer residency program for emerging visual artists, providing an exceptionally stimulating and rigorous environment to support artistic creation and interaction.

Artists are provided with a concentrated period to work, created with the support and critical assistance of a distinguished faculty of Resident and Visiting Artists. Founded in 1946 by artists, and still governed by artists for artists, the program provides an atmosphere in which participants are encouraged to work and explore free of the expectations of the marketplace and academia. As always this year's Faculty of distinguished artists reflects a broad formal and conceptual spectrum of approaches to art- making.

Through its admissions process Skowhegan seeks to bring together a gifted and diverse group of individuals who have demonstrated a commitment to art-making and inquiry. Sixty-five participants are accepted annually. Applicants must be at least 21 years old before the session begins. An academic background in art is not required. The admissions panels consider both those who are enrolled in academic programs and artists who have been working independently. Skowhegan's financial assistance program helps ensure that artists accepted to the School may participate regardless of their financial status. A variety of full and partial scholarships are available to those who provide evidence of financial need. Skowhegan also works in partnership with several schools and art departments to provide Matching Fellowships.

A detailed description of the program, financial assistance opportunities and the 2007 application are now available









Beijing Da Art Space : BDAS announces open submissions for 2007 & 2008
Deadline: March 1, 2007

We are a non-profit artist organization sponsored by both domestic and foreign artists in Beijing. Our aim is to provide national and international visual artists with affordable rental rates to studio residency program. This program affords a diverse and underserved array of artists the opportunity to produce new bodies of work in Beijing of China.

The program is open to both Chinese and international visual artists.
An application form and guidelines can be downloaded from the program website.

Each studio period is approximately four weeks to create new art works. Proposals must be submitted to us at least 4 months in advance prior to the proposed event. Six artists per year are chosen for six separate one month residencies.

Applicants must be 21 and over. All two or three- dimensional media, including paintings, original prints, photographs, video, mixed media, sculpture installations and performance art, are accepted.

Lee ritian
Beijing Da Art Space
Unit #2, First Floor, Yuhuili, Xiaoying Road, Chaoyang District, Chaoyang District, Beijing, P.R. China 100101
Tel: (011-86-10) 8461-6684, Tel/Fax: (011-86-10) 84645056
E-mail: bdaspace@yahoo.com









Stiftelsen Kulturhuset USF, Bergen, Norway
Deadline : 1 January 2007

For professional artists, writers, directors, choreographers, composers & audio / new media artists. The residencies for fine artists & craft artists are open to non-Nordic citizens. The aim is to strengthen, promote & develop collaboration between contemporary artists in Bergen & foreign artists. Facilities include 2 studios & 2 small apartments, situated at USF Verftet. Art centres & cultural organisations are invited to submit 1 artist per year; artists may also apply individually, with letters of reference from local or national arts communities / institutions.

The Council of Bergen & Stiftelsen Kulturhuset USF residency

Artist in Residence,
Stiftelsen Kulturhuset USF,
Georgernes verft 12,
NO-5011 Bergen,
Norway
Tel: 00 47 5531 5570
Email: air@usf.no

RESEARCH
Dartington College of Arts, Devon, UK : Performance Research,
Deadline : 15th January, 2007

Vol. 12 No. 4 (December 2007)
'On Objects' - Call for Contributions

Issue Editors:
Laurie Beth Clark, University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA Richard Gough, Centre for Performance Research, UK Daniel Watt, University of Loughborough, UK

In this issue of Performance Research we hope to explore the various transformations of the object in theatre and performance, from sacred to sacrilegious, fetishised to worthless, functional to aesthetic, craft to commodity, unstable yet enduring. Contributions might focus on very specific objects or sets of objects and/or provoke more thought about some of the questions and themes below. We are interested in the presence of objects in a variety of theatrical and performance media from Futurism and Surrealism to forms of puppet theatre, the Bio-objects of Tadeusz Kantor to the boxes of Joseph Cornell. We are also interested in the philosophical designation of objects and their relation to the stage, from Heidegger's things to the ghostly trace of Derrida, from the body without organs of Deleuze and Guattari to Bachelard's dreamy geometry of shells.

We invite scholars and practitioners to engage with some questions about objects, performance and culture in the form of essays or artist pages. We encourage you to consider all manner of objects: props, icons, antiques, artifacts, salvage, inventory, tchotchkes, flotsam, jetsam, lagan, fetish objects, sex toys, digital objects, waste, detritus, prostheses, souvenirs...

Contributions might focus on very specific objects or sets of objects and/or provoke more thought about some of the questions and themes below.

  • What is an object? How is its ontological status determined
  • What does it mean for an object to perform?
  • How are objects deployed in creative and quotidian contexts?
  • How is the status of an object determined and contested?
  • Why do we still care about things?
  • How are the boundaries between objects and subjects drawn,
  • How is the study and deployment of objects differently
  • Do the environments of theatre and performance offer a
  • What are the possibilities and constraints for to the use of
  • What are the pleasures of objects? What are objects of pleasure?
  • What does it mean to think about the body as an object?
  • What about bodies that are merged with objects?
  • What professions (like curating) have special relationships with object culture?
  • What do objects teach us?


Deadlines are as follows:
Proposals: 15th January, 2007
Finalised material: 18th May 2007
Publication date: December 2007

ALL proposals, submissions and general enquiries should be sent direct to:

Linden Elmhirst - Administrative Assistant
Performance Research
Dartington College of Arts, Totnes,
Devon TQ9 6EJ UK

tel. 0044 1803 861683
fax. 0044 1803 866053

Performance Research
performance- research@dartington.ac.uk

Issue specific enquires should be directed to:
Laurie Beth Clark: lbclark@wisc.edu
OR
Daniel Watt: D.P.Watt@lboro.ac.uk

For complete Guidelines for Submissions

Performance Research is MAC based. Proposals will be accepted in hard copy, on CD or by e-mail (Apple Works, MS-Word or RTF). Please DO NOT send images without prior agreement.

Please note that submission of a proposal will be taken to imply that it presents original, unpublished work not under consideration for publication elsewhere. By submitting a manuscript, the author(s) agree that the exclusive rights to reproduce and distribute the article have been given to Performance Research

phone: +44 (0) 870 922 0438

If you have an opportunity to post, please send it on to us at info@re-title.com