OPEN CALL FOR PARTICIPATION IN THE 2009 ATTITUDE FESTIVAL 26 30 JUNE 2009 BITOLA MACEDONIA
CENTER FOR CONTEMPORARY PUBLIC ARTS BITOLA MACEDONIA http://ccpaelementi.blogspot.com Proposal Deadline: 2 April 2009 This is the 5th time that we are organising The Attitude Festival in the city of Bitola. Each year there were numerous artists participating, from all over the Europe and World. The Attitude Festival targets both new and existing audiences, seeking to attract national and international art audiences. The selected video art and experimental film will be shown in public spaces this year, in front of the banks within the city, as a reaction to financial crises and globalization of the financial market: The capital does not create the poorness but invents it. This system which is threatened not only by the energy crises but much more by the individual crises, encouraged and leaded from the connection of material luxury , mental disaster and abuse of the necessity to propagandize the importance of the economy, portrays that the society is being directed towards the discourse of general catastrophe. In this stadium of social reality in which the hyper-reality is becoming the reality , the manipulation of truth is imposing as absolute focus. This focus on the problem which leads us to the problem resisting of capitalistic domination, at the same time gives us the possibility to fight against it, not accepting it as a moral but also not as an unmoral , but above all creating a net of signs which would direct towards displacing the gravitation of the reality and that would comes up into the loss of the power concentrated in the governance. But if this kind of disarranging the historical myth would release us from the ominous and false function of the things which are leading us to the loss of real essence? Where the new seduction begins through power of the money or through the power of the artwork? The Attitude Festival has collaborated with numerous cultural organizations ( Art Expo Italy, Prima Centre Berlin/Skopje, The One Minutes Foundation Amsterdam, EAF Adelaide, Remont Belgrade, SKUC Galerija Ljubljana, Museum of Contemporary Art Skopje Macedonia, Franz West Studio Wien, Visura Aperta Zagreb and others). Participation in the Attitude Festival is free of charge. The selected artists who would be interested in visiting the festival have to secure the travel, accommodation, postal and any other costs by themselves. CCPA Elementi can help them in finding convenient accommodation and travel arangements. SUBMISSION PROCESS Selection is based on the Festival curators choice. Proposals and accompanying information could be received either in hard copy or electronically. Notifications will be sent by email (where possible) not later than 2nd May. The application forms together with the proposed artwork to be sent not later than 2nd April 2009 (5 p.m.) to the following address: CCPA ELEMENTI Ul. Boris Budzevski 18 7000 Bitola Macedonia SELECTION CRITERIA 1. The artworks should fall into these categories: video art and experimental film 2. The artworks have to be send as a good quality copy of the master in PAL system 3. The CV of the artist has to be added within application form For additional information please send an e-mail to: [email protected] TIMESCALES 2 April Deadline for submissions (proposals to be received no later than 5pm) 16 April Selection process 2 May Applicants receive notification of decision 26th June Video and experimental film presentations 27th June Video and experimental film presentations 28th June Video and experimental film presentations MARKETING SERVICES Festival Guide A publication containing both written information and images on participants works as well as the places where the works would be shown Website http://attitudefestival.blogspot.com Reading Rooms The Reading Rooms will be centrally located venues in Bitola which will serve as both conventional information desks for visitor queries and as relaxed environments where visitors can access a wide range of publications on exhibitions, events and on those participating in the Festival. The Reading Rooms will be opened in many spaces in the town: Gallery Magaza, YMCA, ACM corner, Institute and Museum, clubs Porta Jazz and Lectira, bookstore Ikona, City library etc. PR Services Our PR agency targets a large range of press, magazine, broadcast and online outlets to promote the Attitude Festival. APPLICATION FORM Name of the applicant: ______________________________________________________________ Date and place of birth and nationality: ______________________________________________________________ Full postal address, e-mail, telephone: _______________________________________________________________ Name of the proposed work: _______________________________________________________________ Media and year of production: ________________________________________________________________ System (NTSC or PAL) ________________________________________________________________ Length of the work: _______________________________________________________________ Name and title of borrowed sound (if there is) or original sound _________________________________________________________________ Synopsis: _________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________ We prefer to receive DV quality (Quick time/AV) on DVD. While every effort is made to treat submissions with care, CCPA Elementi is not responsible for any damages or loss. -- Moldova Young Artists Association "Oberliht" http://www.oberliht.org.md . . . . . . . . . . . http://idash.org/mailman/listinfo/oberlist portal informational pentru arta si cultura din Moldova information gateway for arts and culture from Moldova _______________________________________________ oberlist mailing list [email protected] http://idash.org/mailman/listinfo/oberlist
