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---------------------------- Original Message ---------------------------- Subject: Digest arena, volume 24, assunto 25 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Fri, November 30, 2007 22:00 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 2 Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2007 11:18:22 +0100 From: "alexandra dias ferreira" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [ARENA] Call for artists/ Glasgow international Call for artists Cast some light A private view in a public sphere Glasgow international 11 27 April 2008 Curators and artists, Helen de Main (Glasgow) and Maj Hasager (Copenhagen) are curating a programme of artist's film and video for Glasgow international (Gi) 2008 to be screened in 3 different formats in 3 different locations during the festival - a mainstream cinema, the Centre for Contemporary Art (CCA) and on the internet. We are currently researching artists and works for inclusion in the programme that are sensitive to the 3 sites, and fit in with the overarching curatorial premise for the project (please see below for details). Gi is Glasgow's curated and commissioning Festival of Contemporary Visual Art which aims to reflect Glasgow's capacity to exhibit internationally significant art. The Festival provides a platform for the best of contemporary visual arts and artists, through hosting events that have been specifically developed for the Festival and presenting work that has not been seen in Glasgow before. Cast some light, will screen work by approximately 15 artists in each of the 3 locations. The project will use the platform of Gi to screen works as part of the festival in this contemporary art context, but it will also tap into a larger audience for film, through screening all the included works at one of Glasgow largest multiplexes and on the internet. The same material will be available in each of the three locations, but taking a different form, to alter the viewing experience. Additional to this, a small publication will be distributed at each of the venues, and other interpretative material will be available online. The overarching theme of Gi is 'public and private', examining the changing nature of public space, the evolving landscape of public and private art funding and the fluid boundaries of privacy in a world of converging mobile technologies. Taking this as their starting point, we have devised a project that uses film and video placed in different sites, to interrogate some of these ideas. 'Films are today dismantled and dislocated even without intervention by the spectator. The experience of a film was once localized in space and time, in the finite unreeling of a narrative in a particular theatre on a particular day.' Victor Burgin All of the three 'institutions' are public in a semi-public way. The viewer is always able to visit the cinema if he or she has the economy to pay the price of a ticket. The internet is open to everyone, but is still dependent on access to an online computer and knowledge of how to use it. The art institution, in this context, is the only venue that could be deemed truly publicly accessible, as it is free for all to enter. However to many sections of the public, it may seem the least accessible of the 3, as art spaces are often perceived as elitist and closed. It is hoped that through presenting different ways of engaging with artist's film and video, some of the borders between entertainment and art might be bridged and some of the audiences might be encouraged to cross these bridges too. Non-commercialism and the Cinema The project is interested in trying to widen audiences for artist's film and video by showing works in a mainstream cinema, and taking advantage of a captive audience who have come to see a general release. We hope that by using the venue of the cinema we will be able to introduce existing audiences to alternatives ways of working in moving image, which they might not normally encounter. It is also envisaged that placing the artist's film and video between the commercials and the main feature, the works will suddenly become a rupture in the unconscious flow of the viewing experience. In a time where we are exposed to a massive amount of commercials in our everyday life, almost without even noticing it, the piece of art becomes a wedge between the goods that have been paid for (the ticket) and the commercials urging you to buy more. This small rupture will point to a different context of viewing film and videos and may even create a space for reflection for the viewer to consider the site and the expectations of the cinema. Codices and the Art Institution By using the Art institution (CCA) to screen the full programme of artist's film and video, it allows the single works to be interlinked into a complete programme, with works contrasting and complimenting one and another. It will be shown for free and can be read within the wider context of a contemporary art festival. However it is also hoped that audiences from the cinema, having seen one work, may be encouraged to come and see the whole programme. The majority of the 'general' public are unlikely to visit art institutions on a regular basis, even though the majority of these institutions are free and open to them simply because a lot of people do not feel comfortable in this setting. The reason for this is often described as a set of codices some find it hard to relate to. The project aims question whether these unwritten codes can be challenged, without becoming a community art project, but remain an individual project interesting enough to actually break down the borders between 'them and us'. The private view and the Internet The Internet allows us to work with the concept worldwide, and it represents a flow of information and how, in many ways, contemporary art today has become more a matter of working globally, than working locally. Sitting in front of a computer, surfing the internet and looking at the artist's film and video the viewer is in control of what they see and they decide the combination of the programme, the order in which they are viewed and indeed if they watch them the whole way through. The viewing situation is private, but they can choose to share it by sending links to people they know. By letting go of the control it is left it up to the viewer to take an active role in relation to the project. As a whole the project presents several challenges: To place artist's film and video outside the 'safe' art and institutional context, showing non-commercial interests in the commercial setting of the mainstream cinema, and inviting the general public into the art institutions. One could say that these positions are the opposite, but by letting them slide in and out of each other a new way of perceiving art might appear. Details of works: We are looking for of works by artists from all around the world; each film should be no longer than 7 minutes, and be suitable to be screened, rather than pieces made for presentation in a gallery or on a monitor. The works will be pre-dominantly recent works, and should not have been shown in Glasgow before. Please contact Maj Hasager for more details [EMAIL PROTECTED] Deadline for expressions of interest 10 December -- Alexandra Ferreira Chausseestr 6 10115 Berlin ++49 (030) 28879268 http://eutueu.blogspot.com/ http://translocality.blogspot.com/ skype: xanalouiseferreira _______________________________________________ arena mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://my.binhost.com/lists/listinfo/arena Fim da Digest arena, volume 24, assunto 25 ****************************************** _______________________________________________ oberlist mailing list [email protected] http://idash.org/mailman/listinfo/oberlist
