hi caterina i'm looking for a place (s) for the gates paroject in venezuela i'll keep you informed weit a week pez
ART ELECTRONICS > * Apologize for our English * > > Urgent: > > Call for participation/collaboration by experimental > artists/partners, for a > global project previewed in Summer July-September 2003. > > A new Caterina Davinio's planetary project is under construction! > > This year Rome University I "La Sapienza" is celebrating its 700 years. > Among the initiatives, the Museo Laboratorio di Arte Contemporanea of the > University (directed by Simonetta Lux), in collaboration with the Art > History Department, presents the exhibition > ArtConFusion, in > which artists will meet, who use a plurality of languages and media, > numerous art expressions are called to > interact and coexist in a common context, open to all possible influences. > > In this context the curatorial committee has accepted Caterina Davinio's > global project GATES, a planetary in progress event, which will develop > during summer (since July 4, until end of September) > contemporaneously in Rome La Sapienza Museum and in other places/sections > decentralized in the world, involving many international artists, as it was > with the Global Poetry Project 2002. > See the link below (referred to Global Poetry 2002) to have an idea of what > the spirit of the project is: http://members.xoom.virgilio.it/kareninazoom/ > > The "environment" in Rome is identified as space in the meddle between art > and a > livable area, in which performances, poetry readings, lectures by > experimental artists and critics, poets, can happen. > > But GATES has numerous new aspects we are going to create > together! This is the call for entries to join and participate. > A quick reply is needed urgently, because La Sapienza > University Museum has let us know very late the acceptance of the project, > so we have only one month to organize and coordinate a complex event that > will involve many persons who live in very far countries and cities. > > The invitation to participate/collaborate is directed to the same artists > who already collaborated in Global Poetry in 2002, but for every one who has > ideas and is in > the spirit of the project it is possible to join. Festival teams, young > artist galleries and spaces, situations related to experimental poetry and > performance, and also alternative spaces, are welcome! > > PROGETTO GATES > GATES in Rome Museo Laboratorio dell'Università la Sapienza > is as well: > 1. an installation that has the aspect of a white gate, open in every > direction (only the frame of the door), > 2. a series of performance actions/poetry > readings/lectures that happen under/in/behind/around the door-installation, > 3. a series of projections on the wall behind the door, > 4. Interchange of materials with decentralized spaces of the project: > digital > video, e-mail, photos, slides, etc. will be projected. > > We are looking for artists/operators/groups, who can reproduce this > installation-performance-projection ensemble in places decentralized in the > world, which will be all part of an unique collective creation of all > involved artists. > FEEL FREE TO LIBERATE YOUR FANTASY IN CREATING A GATE and the space around! > > THE CENTRAL INSTALLATION IN ROMA > The central installation in La Sapienza University Museum in Roma: > It is a white door (only the frame of the door) in a white environment, > installed in > a way it is possible to perform all around, in front of it and behind. > The so installed door has an essential form, creates > a space rich of symbolic value bound with the concept of communication, but > also poetic, > referred to the idea of transit, passage, opening, with computer and > telematic echoes, with possibility to > project what arrives from the decentralized spaces (video, CD ROM, slides, > etc.) on the wall behind the door. > > This installation/environment will be replicated (in real or virtual way) in > other places in the world, contemporaneously, during summer, by all the > participating collaborators/partners we are searching with this call for > entries. > Among Rome and the decentralized spaces there will be a continuous exchange > of materials > (videocassettes, and CD ROM, digital videos, and images, photos, e-mail, > poems). > We will realize videos and photos of what happens around or under or through > the door in Rome (performances, lectures, projections), and we will send it > to the locations in the world, where a similar door is reproduced. > We expect you do the same in your city. What happens very far in the > decentralized gates will be presented in > Rome in video, what happens in Rome will be projected in the decentralized > spaces. > > CONCEPT > The Gates Project is based on the concept of > decentralization/dispersion, enlargement of the real / virtual > space of action, and on the duration in time of a collaborative action > in progress that will develop during the whole summer. > Through Internet and e-mail communication will be coordinated the > decentralized initiatives and the dimension of communication will be > intrinsic to the art > event, the "real" "material" and > connective of this art project, as it was in analogue projects created by > Caterina Davinio. > > > Places: > The places where you can create a decentralization of this project could be > not > necessary a museum or a public Gallery, but every space open to the public: > such as a private gallery, an open space, an alternative exposition space, a > park, a theater, in the contest of a festival, of a meeting, and so on. > > Time: it is relatively free: since July 4 and during summer you can > operate as you like in a sequence of dates, in an unique period or day, > during the whole summer. > > Installation: it is requested to the participating artists: > 1. to reproduce an installation in form of door, > 2. to organize performance, meetings, poetry > readings under or around the door, or using the door as scenery, or using > the door to perform in/around it, > 3. we expect you to send to us what you > have done (as video VHS PAL, digital photos jpg, CDROM. More wanted formats: > VHS PAL > standard and jpg files, please no MAC files), we will present what arrives > from you in Rome, > 4. we expect you to project video and jpg materials > arriving from Rome. > > Involved persons: experimental artist and poets, performers, operators, who > collaborate; the complexity of realization and organization of an event > which is > previewed during a long time in a planetary extension, needs the > involvement of more persons, so consider the possibility to involve some > organizational staffs of cultural > centers, or already planned experimental festivals. If you have an idea, you > are welcome! > > This event will be part of a book containing the best of Karenina.it texts > and net projects. On line catalogue. > > DEAD LINE: as soon as possible submit your proposal complete of: > 1. addresses of the spaces where you can realize your door, > 2. time (probably dates), > 3. involved collaborators or organizations > 4. your bio (education, exhibitions, publications, experiences) > > > GATES > Caterina Davinio realized since 2001 collaborative projects in the net, > using > e-mail communication and real and virtual spaces, these initiatives saw > the participation of hundreds of international experimental artists, who > created a new way to do performance art poetry using communication as > fundamental material of art. > General statement and bio > http://members.xoom.virgilio.it/davinio/DAVINIO%20STATEMENT%20BIO.htm > See also: > NET-PERFORMANCE: PROCESSES AND VISIBLE FORMS > Recent experiences. A statement by Caterina Davinio > http://members.xoom.virgilio.it/davinio/statement%20on%20performance.htm > > > ARTCONFUSION is sponsored by: Trenitalia s.p.a., Apple Italia, Redbull, > American Academy in Rome, Village catering. > Curators: Maria Egizia Fiaschetti, Agnese Malatesti. > Official Patronage: Roma Municipality. > Realized in collaboration with: Art History Department of Rome University La > Sapienza, > Museo Laboratorio di Arte Contemporanea of University Roma I La Sapienza. > Museum Director: Simonetta Lux. > > > -- > KARENINA.IT (poetry in phatic function) On line since 1998 - By Jakobson, > phatic is the use of the language which has the finality to maintain open > and operative the communication channel among the interlocutors. On the > limit between art and critic, happening and net performance, Karenina.it is > a virtual meeting place around the theme of writing and new technologies, in > which experiences of international artists, curators, theoreticians > converge, in a net that counts thousands of contacts in the world. > http://members.xoom.virgilio.it/kareninazoom/kareninarivista.html > > -- > Art Electronics and Other Writings > Archives / Videotheque / Rome > To contact the Director: > Davinio Art Electronics > Via Sassi 10 > 23900 Lecco (LC) - Italia > Tel&Fax 0039 (0)341 282712 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > >
