Syndicate: Projects of Critical Participation and Social

[Technologies To The People <daniel@irational.org>]

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CALAF/BARCELONA 01-02.

Projects of Critical Participation and Social Interaction in the Public
Space.


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becomes the thematic axis of a programme that gathers projects,
promotes participation and proposes debates in the field of creation
linked to the public space.


Community space, interaction, identity, communication, confrontation,
participation and conflict are elements that, connected to social and
cultural factors, which are characteristic of the place, become active
instruments to project and actively participate in the public space.


These activities are developed between two urban areas with different
characteristics: a population of three thousand inhabitants in an
industrial and rural context, namely Calaf, and another of three
million inhabitants in an urban context with more complex
characteristics, that is, Barcelona.


Taking these two specific contexts a field for projects to happen is
proposed and open to experimentation. It is also addressed to creators
who develop their work by means of representation or action in urban
contexts, working directly in the field of the human interaction which
is normally found to the public space. The working process is stressed
through the project, participation and debate.


IDENTITAT         DENSITAT      LLOC          COMUNITAT

IDENTIDAD        DENSIDAD      LUGAR      COMUNIDAD

IDENTITY           DENSITY         SITE           COMMUNITY





<bold><bigger>Antecedents of the Project IDENSITY.CALAF/BARCELONA
01-02.


</bigger></bold>IDENSITY.CALAF/BARCELONA 01-02 maintains the sense and
the spirit of Calaf Public Art 1999-2000, gathering a number of people
involved in creative practices related to the public space, either
through activities of participation and theorisation, or through an
open and critical debate.


In this new stage of the project the aim is to reaffirm the goals met
in the former convocation and start a renewal in order to widen its own
horizon. This renewal implies the consolidation of the theoretic
potential generated in all the activities, the expansion of the
connection with other cities that organise activities in the field of
creation and contemporary art, and also establishing ties with
education and teaching: artists' collectives, schedules, schools and
faculties, either of art, architecture or design. 


IDENSITY. CALAF/BARCELONA 01-02 is a project that has a
multidisciplinary character focused on new areas of activity in the
public space. It is based on open working processes, participation,
questioning and debate. The different interrelated stages that
constitute this programme are:

-Public call of projects from other contexts (2001).

-Carrying out the projects in the contexts of Calaf and Barcelona
(2001).

-Exhibition of the work in progress (2001-2002).

-Debates. (2002)

-Publication.(2002)




<bold>Activities Promoted by
<bigger>I</bigger>DENSITAT.<bigger>C</bigger>ALAF/<bigger>B</bigger>ARCELONA
<bigger>01-02</bigger>.



Public Call to Artists Who Relate their Activity to the Public Space 


</bold>This is a public and open call addressed to artists who have
made projects and developed activities or performed in different
contextual areas of the public space. Working processes which are open
and applied to other social and cultural areas will also be
considered.


<bold>Stressing the Working Process and Investigation


</bold>A selection committee chooses the artists who will participate
and who will carry out a stay in Calaf and Barcelona with the aim of
making a project related to both specific contexts. In this sense, the
people or the working teams who would like to participate in this
programme must explain which are the basic lines of activity developed
in both contexts. 


<bold>Giving Support to the Production of Contemporary Creation.


</bold>Three of the proposed projects will be selected and funded so
they can be carried out. There is a period of approximately a year to
make the proposal. These projects will be publicly presented in the
year 2002, together with a programme of debates.


<bold>Stimulating Debate and Communication


 </bold>A series of artists and theorists, who develop their work in a
hybrid area, are invited to expose their positions and ideas in order
to establish a theoretical point of discussion.


<bold>Enacting a Divulgating and Pedagogical Function


 </bold>An itinerant exhibition and a publication comprising the
projects developed are the elements that makethe explanation of this
programme in other places possible. Other parallel activities can be
developed by means of itinerancy.




<bold><bigger>Terms of the Call.


</bigger></bold>The participation in IDENSITY. CALAF / BARCELONA 01-02
is open and it has a multidisciplinary character. It is addressed to
artists who work in the field of public space. It is possible to
participate with finished works or with projects. These must have
focused their investigation on specific contexts and must formulate
proposals of critical participation and social interaction in the
public space.


In order to make the work comprehensible it is necessary to attach all
the information that is deemed suitable, as well as the references to
the context.


It is mandatory to outline the guidelines which the project will be
based upon, just in case it is selected. To elaborate them the
following instructions must be taken into account:


- The proposals must follow the general guidelines detailed in this set
of terms.

- The projects may refer to specific aspects of Calaf and Barcelona,
and to common or contrasting elements of both places.

- In Calaf a workshop that involves a sector of its population
(associations, groups, collectives, students, among others) must be
held, in such a way that the social fabric of the town is involved in
the working process.


The final project will be written out after a stay in both places.


The selection committee of this call will be constituted by:


<bold>Manuel Delgado:</bold> Anthropologist and professor of urban
anthropology in the University of Barcelona.

<bold>Nuria Enguita</bold>: Exhibition manager in the Antoni T?pies
Foundation of Barcelona.

<bold>Antoni Muntadas:</bold> Artist.

<bold>Ramon Parramon:</bold> Artist, professor and director of
IDENSITY. CALAF / BARCELONA 01-02.


<bold>Realisation of the Projects in the Context of Calaf and
Barcelona.


</bold>Seven authors (or working teams) will be selected among all
those who have presented a work in order to develop a specific project
in the context of Calaf and Barcelona. The seven chosen artists or
teams will be able to realise their proposal in the period comprised
between the 3rd and the 16th of September 2001. The stay will be split
in two weeks, one spent in Calaf and another in Barcelona. 


This stay may be considered as a <italic>field work</italic> that will
last fifteen days, so that during this period the participants can
concentrate all their efforts in the making of their own projects.
Therefore, there will be the possibility to work on ideas related to
the specific contexts of Calaf and Barcelona. Afterwards, three out of
these seven projects will be selected for a later materialisation,
construction and realisation of the workshop.


In Calaf, the Town Council will facilitate the basic materials and the
required information for these three selected participants to elaborate
their own specific projects. In Barcelona, the Centre of Contemporary
Culture of Barcelona and Hangar will allow access to a working place
and to some of their facilities: computers, video edition and working
areas, among others.



In Barcelona, the working area does not need to be restricted to a
specific zone, although the selection of areas where agglutinative
processes of the urban fabric take place will be considered. There will
be free access to the Documentation Centre of the Centre of
Contemporary Culture of Barcelona, so that any information needed while
outlining the project may be obtained.


Food and lodging expenses for the three final participants will be
covered by the organisation. They will also have access to a working
place, to basic equipment and to any required information needed to
write out the project.


If a collective presents the project, the organisation will cover the
food and lodging costs of only two members of the group.


<bold>Exhibition of the Process


</bold>Apart from this stay in Calaf and Barcelona (September 2001),
simultaneously, some activities will be realised centred in allowing
communication between participants and groups who take part in and
develop the social processes affecting the city itself. Through this
mechanism, the formal device that becomes the exhibition will be
constructed. This exhibition will be itinerant throughout the year
2002.


The exhibition of all this process will have a documentary and an
audio-visual character (slides, photographs, videos, CD-ROM, etc).


<bold>Production


</bold>Three out of the seven specific projects realised in the context
of Calaf and Barcelona will be selected and publicly presented
afterwards by mid 2002. 

These projects will be funded with <bold>5000 euros</bold> each as
payment for wages and material expenses.


The selected projects will appear in different forms: an exhibition, a
publication in paper and an electronic one in the IDENSITY website. The
exhibition will be held in Barcelona, Calaf and Madrid. It will also be
part of the Itinerant Exhibition Programme of the Artistic Diffusion
Bureau belonging to the Cultural Area of the Diputaci? of Barcelona.


<bold>Submission of the Proposals


</bold>- Submit a dossier (photographs, slides, videos, magnetic medium
or other means of reproduction) showing other projects or works already
done.

- Attach a written document defining the basic guidelines adapted to
the characteristics of this call.

- Include a curriculum and a photocopy of each participant's identity
card or passport.


The projects should be sent from the 1st April to the 30th June of 2001
to:


Ajuntament

Calaf Art Public

Pla?a Gran, 2

E-08280 Calaf


Phone number: 93 869 85 12 

Fax: 93 868 04 62

(Consultation timetable: Tuesdays and Thursdays, from 9 AM to 1 PM)


Or through the following electronic address:
<underline><color><param>0000,0000,00FF</param>idensitat@cccb.org

</color></underline>http://idensitat.cccb.org


The mailing and collection of the projects will be the sole
responsibility of the participants. It will be possible to collect the
unwanted projects from the 1st of September to the 1st of October
2001.


<bold>Regarding the Ownership of the Works


</bold>- The selected works and the related projects will remain their
authors' property. Their reproduction will be allowed to appear in a
published form and/or to be distributed through the Internet (during a
period of two years after the date of its publication), and also in all
those instances related to the promotion of the IDENSITY. CALAF /
BARCELONA 01-02 event. 

- The association Calaf Public art and the Town Council of Calaf will
include in all their documentary files and public archive all the
documentation generated by the IDENSITY. CALAF / BARCELONA 01-02
event.


The participation in this call implies the acceptance of its terms.

 

<bold><bigger>Organisation



</bigger>IDENSIDAD. CALAF / BARCELONA 01-02 

</bold>Organised by:

<bold>Associaci? Calaf Art P?blic


</bold>With special support:

<bold>Ayuntamiento de Calaf

Centre de Cultura Contempor?nia de Barcelona

Ajuntament de Barcelona. Institut de Cultura



</bold>Support:

<bold>Diputaci? de Barcelona

Generalitat de Catalunya. Departament de Cultura.

Hangar. Centre de Producci? d'Arts Visuals i Multim?dia

INJUVE. Ministerio de Trabajo y Asuntos Sociales




<bigger><bigger>General Guidelines


</bigger></bigger></bold>Projects of critical participation and social
interaction in the public space.


<bold>The creation that is developed in a hybrid territory: a place of
contagion with other fields of knowledge.


</bold>Creation linked to other fields: anthropology, urbanism,
history, sociology, pedagogy, and contact with specific cultural
communities. In short, creative works approached from a perspective
based on multidisciplinary roots.


<bold>Creation as a working process linked to a place or to a specific
context and proposing mechanisms of involvement in the social field.


</bold>Creation as an activity in process able to transform either
space, the relationship with the place and memory.


Interference with social and cultural contexts. Works that act as an
entrance into specific aspects of the cultural context, so that
particular fragments may be analysed, debated, questioned and/or
reinterpreted.


Critical analysis of the social and contextual realities to which the
work refers to.  Alignments and alternative proposals opposed to
consensual approaches.


<bold>A creative practice that establishes a communication with
individuals or social areas traditionally kept away from the artistic
channels.


</bold>Propose new strategies and new means of presentation in order to
reach new audiences. Works that simultaneously use several technologies
and final formalisations: actions in the urban public space, works for
television channels or in the web, etc.


<bold>The creative practice that proposes a working methodology based
on investigation and a discourse that is coherent with this
investigation.


</bold>Approach the working process as a creative practice that
requires an analysis of the situation and a later speculative proposal.
A previous field of work and a proposal determined by this
investigation.



<bold><bigger><bigger>Organisation


</bigger></bigger>IDENSITY. CALAF / BARCELONA 01-02</bold> is a public
call organised by:

<bold>Calaf Public Art Association


</bold>With special support from:

<bold>Town Council of Calaf

Centre of Contemporary Culture of Barcelona. CCCB

Diputaci? de Barcelona </bold>(provincial government)


With the support of:

<bold>Generalitat de Catalunya </bold>(Catalan autonomous
government)<bold>. Department of Culture,

Ministry of Education and Culture. General Direction of Fine Arts and
Cultural Patrimony


</bold>With the collaboration of:

<bold>Hangar, Centre of Production of Visual Arts and Multimedia

INJUVE, Ministry of Work and Social Affairs



   














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