Alexandru Patatics on Tue, 19 Feb 2002 15:37:03 +0100 (CET) |
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[Nettime-ro] FW: [spectre] last call - Dead or Alive |
Dear colleagues, this is the last call for applications which should be sent by March 1st 2002. Key words: Death, Life, Body, Poison, Oxymoron , Fatal Sex, Biotechnology, Artificial Life, ... CALL FOR ENTRIES - BREAK 21/2002 Break 21 6th International Festival of Young Emerging Artists May 19th – 24th, 2002 Ljubljana, Slovenia Integral description of the festival: http://www.break21.com Organiser K6/4, Kersnikova 6, Ljubljana, Slovenia THEME “Dead or Alive” “Dead or Alive” implicates the urge, which tends to satisfy something at all costs, taking no regard whether it demands the life to be taken. It is assumed, that it represents something, for which, imperatively, it is greater than life or death. In the tendency to give up life as the highest value, the sacrifice is implicated or some urgent denunciation in the economy of one’s own life, which we could call a particular death, for the sole purpose – to accomplish something. In the title, the initial question appears. It questions death and life; it demands an answer to the question about definitions, what is actually dead and what is alive. To what extent something is dead, though only inert; to what extent something is alive, though tends to be prolonged with the help of machines; how to understand organic material in the cryobanks and how biotechnical mechanisms/organisms? Are the cyber space and avatars with artificial intelligence, which are present in the Hollywood apparatus of the imaginary or the top cyber laboratories, our or the parallel world? Bionics and eugenics establish new paradigms of life and death as much as nanomechanics and intelligent neuronic nets. Artificial life is the oxymoron, which penetrates the core of our theme. Questions, posed to us by high technology, are still utterly legitimate in traditional sense, since we understand them through the perspective of modern age. Intermingling of everyday violence, which we encounter in the streets, car accidents, murders, suicides, diseases, wars and catastrophes on higher scales are balancing with births, rebirths, changes of identity and initiations, creations of new life situations and cosmic phenomena. Religious repertoires and great ideologies are all built upon dichotomy of life and death. They tend to be valid within the scale of the universal, while moments of ecstasy during meditation or sex, pain and dreams are utterly intimate and identical to themselves. Mental deviations, such as insanity, psychosis, neurosis, obsessions, paranoia and hysteric states were interpreted as a kind of intermediary state between life and death in primitive cultures, while in modern societies, the border between the healthy as an attribute of life and the ill as an attribute of death is being obliterated. Life and death are great themes of art and a lot has been said about them, however, some things can’t be talked about too many times. Our intention is for artists to deal with them innovatively, through the perspective of new art and research artistic practice, which owns a tactical value that points more at the poetics of life than poetics, which is already known from traditional aesthetic paradigms. Forms of expression may not be products and aesthetic artefacts but rather processes, states, situations … that comprise the dimension of time – transition. FIELDS - THEORY: we will organise a series of lectures and presentations and the texts will be published in the catalogue. We will also publish essays, theoretic and critical texts of the selected theme. The emphasis will be put primarily on the texts, which deal with the complex of life and death through the perspective of contemporary and new art. - VISUAL ARTS: computer-assisted art (from web art to robotics), comics, graphic prints, digital prints, photographs, interactive works, visual communication (subvertising), etc. - PERFORMATIVE ARTS - INTERMEDIA ARTS - MOBILE PICTURES: films in all categories will be presented at the festival: documentaries, fiction, video art, animated films, experimental films, short films ... - MUSIC and SOUND: concerts, sound installations and intermedia performances, in which sound holds the priority. - ARCHITECTURE: we are interested in the projects, which sublimate themes of life and death in the most radical meanings. Architectural semiology should be oriented towards conceptual projects and less towards utilitarian realisations. - APPLIED ARTS: although we recognise the fashion creativity through fashion machinery of the consumer society, we decided to underline the part of a designing production, which holds highly personalised approach and thus point at semiology of dressing, which wrenches from the vice of mass economy. - CULINARY ARTS DEADLINE Call for applications should be sent by March 1st 2002 to the following address: Študentski kulturni center Break 21 Kersnikova 6 SI - 1000 LJUBLJANA e-mail: break21@k6-4.org phone: ++ 386 (0)1 438 03 00 fax: ++ 386 (0)1 438 02 02 Thank you! Andreja Kralj Coordinator of the Festival ______________________________________________ _______________________________________________ Nettime-ro mailing list Nettime-ro@nettime.org http://amsterdam.nettime.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nettime-ro --> arhiva: http://amsterdam.nettime.org/