Urban festival 2005
Záhreb, Chorvatsko
Lokalna baza za osvjezavanje kulture (Místní základna kulturního občerstvení) společně se svým partnerem Platform 9.81 vyzývá umělce, aby zaslali své projekty současného umění (performing arts, výtvarné umění, nová media či nedefinovaných uměleckých forem) pro Urban festival 2005 v rámci projektu Invisible Zagreb. Termín podání projektu 15. prosince 2004.
CALL FOR PROPOSALS - URBAN FESTIVAL 2005
(Zagreb, Croatia, 1 - 14 September 2005)
APPLICATION DEADLINE: 15 December 2004
NOTIFICATION ABOUT THE RESULTS DEADLINE: 15 February 2005
IMPORTANT: Filled-out "Application form" (see below) should be sent to info@urbanfestival.hr ONLY.
Any ADDITIONAL MATERIAL should be sent to:
BLOK - MAMA
Preradoviceva 18
10 000 Zagreb
Croatia
GENERAL INFORMATION
ORGANIZER: Local Base for Culture Refreshment [BLOK], Zagreb, Croatia
PARTNER: Platform 9.81, Zagreb, Croatia
FRAME: "Invisible Zagreb"
THEME: conversion, adaptation, alternation of "forgotten" places into spaces of cultural production
PLACE: abandoned, out-of-use locations in ex-industrial zone of eastern Zagreb
TEASERS: | creation of a parallel city | revitalization of abandoned
places | culture as art + social + political practice | interaction,
direct communication, participation | local community | transformation,
transition, change | creating "cultureplex" |
WE ARE LOOKING FOR ART AND CULTURE PROJECTS THAT ARE:
1. RELATED TO:
- the place/space/venue - art/culture in the close surrounding, and/or
- the place's position in the city's master plan - art/culture in the urban surrounding, and/or
- the other (existing or imagined) cultural, artistic and social practices
2. DIRECTED TO FOUR DIFFERENT PARTICIPANT/AUDIENCE TYPES:
- those who visit because of art/culture, who are there because of particular cultural event (usual art audiences), and/or
- those who were attracted by the possibility to have fun, to be entertained and to participate in basic social interaction(entertainment audience), and/or
- those who are living in the areas surrounding festival places/spaces (found audiences), and/or
- those who came to learn something new, to participate and to get actively involved (participants)
3. SHAPED IN THE FORMS OF WHAT CAN BE CALLED CONTEMPORARY ART/CULTURE, SUCH AS:
- performing art/culture (theatre, dance, performance art, happenings, actions.),
- visual art/culture (space interventions, installations, performance art.)
- new media and technology (multimedia, intermedia, tactical media, hybrid media.)
- other new, hybrid or formally undefined forms
WE WILL PREFER ART/CULTURE PROJECTS THAT ARE:
- combining different art forms,
- interdisciplinary intertwined with other fields of human activities (social, political, business.),
- interactive / dependent on interaction with and on action of audience,
- dealing with subjects/themes of new cultural, political and social practices and their spatializations.
EXPLANATION
Urban Festival (UF) was founded in 2001 by gathering international and Croatian artists working with diverse art forms (performance, visual and sound installations, dance, urban interventions, web projects, etc.) with basic tendency to "infiltrate" art in urban life, to change urban landscape and human behavior patterns in it by using urban infrastructure - streets, squares, buildings, shopping malls, the traffic network. During four years of its existence, UF has focused on concrete issues concerning particular public places, and, simultaneously raising general matters on public, publicity and public space. After working on different levels, using various methods and including diverse specific themes, this year we have decided to conclude one part of this"research" and to direct program towards the articulation of a clearly visible need: pointing out new possibilities of urban and culture development throughout reanimation of unexploited, vacant spaces and their transformation in dynamic urban zones - by using cultural events as catalyst for possible changes. According to that, UF 2005 will be part of the project "Invisible Zagreb", which is initiated by Platform 9.81 to experiment with innovative ways of culture programming and space implication of culture, focusing mostly on larger ex-industrial and/or ex-business spaces, such as factories, transportation points, storages, etc., but also including other abandoned venues (like ex-cinemas and similar smaller places). UF 2005 is going to be the central and largest event in the serial of temporary inhabitations of those places that will, by using space resources of unused or underused eastern, ex industrial zone of City of Zagreb, put in the center of the public interest of the city questions of transition and transformation of these spaces, with the specific stress on their cultural usefulness. In two festival weeks we will try to create new culture, art and entertainment zone, new public gathering-place and space of new social attractions. Through this specific form of "temporary colonization", we are going to put clear and strong light on the need for creation of new model of exploiting industrial architecture of Zagreb. We will try, out of almost forgotten and in itself collapsed east "cityplex", to create a new"cultureplex".
APPLICATION FORM
Please answer as clearly and as shortly as possible to ALL of the following questions:
1. NAME OF THE PROJECT:
2. APPLIED BY:
3. CONTACT PERSON:
4. POSTAL ADDRESS:
5. E-MAIL ADDRESS:
6. PHONE:
7. FAX:
8. WEB:
9. SHORT DESCRIPTION OF THE PROJECT CONCEPT:
10. PRECISE AND CLEAR DESCRIPTION OF THE PROJECT REALIZATION:
11. DETAILED LIST OF THE EQUIPMENT NECESSARY FOR THE REALIZATION OF THE
PROJECT:
12. DETAILED LIST OF ALL THE COSTS AND POSSIBLE FINANCIAL RESOURCES:
13. SHORT BIOGRAPHY OF THE AUTHOR(S) OF THE PROJECT:
14. HAS THE PROJECT BEEN REALIZED YET?
If YES, please send us the project documentation to the above mentioned POSTAL address. If NO, please send us the documentation of ONE of your previously realized projects to the above mendtioned POSTAL address.
THANK YOU!
