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nascent - rubric journal

nascent - rubric journal
Deadline : 21st August, 2009

rubric is a new, experimental journal discussing art, writing, theory, and the points at which they intersect.

The journal operates in a curatorial format, with contributors asked to respond to a specific theme or idea for each issue.

We aim to highlight nuances within subjects and methodological procedures whilst bringing together critical theory, art writing, and art practice. Through a diverse approach to each area of focus we propose to construct and consider potential possibilities, applications, or limitations.

We are looking for submissions to the next issue of rubric, entitled nascent, which will be available both in print and online in September.

For more information please visit http://www.rubricjournal.org/submissions.html

Call For Submissions: ITCH online journal seeks Writing, Visual, Sound Art, Multimedia

Call For Submissions: ITCH online journal
Deadline: August 28, 2009

Artists working in any medium and writers expressing themselves in any form or genre are invited to submit work for the fourth issue of ITCH Online. The "theme" is:

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A moment's expectation, a silent space between the verbal flow... A short row of spots, to be sure... A breath held... Or expelled... Visual space, opened for interpretation... Ellipses eclipsed... Hesitation, uncertainty, the pause prioritised... A confused vagueness... The search for the right... words... or pictures... or sounds... An unwillingness to end a statement with certainty... or commit to a particular and unchangeable position... A soft ending in hard times... An evocative moment unwilling to be crystallised into expression... Three pennies on the floor... A sigh... a logo... dot dot dot...

You are free to interpret this theme in any way that you wish, to speak to or against it, to explore or ignore it, with words, sounds and/or images. Poetry, prose, essays, book reviews, short stories, unclassifiable writing, photography, graphic design, sound art, visual work, animations, short films, drawings, paintings, and more, are welcomed.

Submissions are open until 28 August 2009.

See http://www.itch.co.za/submissions for full guidelines.

 

Artist’s Book Prize @ Bank Street Arts, Sheffield

2nd Sheffield Artist’s Book Prize, Bank Street Arts, Sheffield
Deadline : 31st August 2009

This is an Open Call for entries for the 2nd Sheffield Artist’s Book Prize. This is an open submission prize and exhibition, held in conjunction with the Off the Shelf Festival, which takes place annually in Sheffield during the months of October and November.

The Sheffield Artist’s Book Prize and Exhibition is open to makers of artists’ books in any format and from anywhere in the world. Entry to the exhibition and prize is free.

Following the success of last year’s prize and exhibition, we are pleased to announce a number of initiatives to extend the scope of the prize this year. In addition to the main Sheffield Artist’s Book Prize, we will also award a Student Prize and a special Jury Prize.
All books entered for the Student Prize will be automatically entered into the Jury Prize and the main Sheffield Artist’s Book Prize. Prizes awarded will be a combination of cash and exhibition offers.

The format for selecting the winner of the SABP will be the same as last year. Visitors to the exhibition will be given a voting slip and asked to choose their favourite book(s). The new Student and Jury Prizes will be selected by a jury.

The exact format of the Exhibition will depend upon the volume of submissions, although it is anticipated that all entries will be displayed in some form during the Festival.

The exhibition will run for 4 weeks during October 2009 (exact dates to be announced).

Closing date for submissions – 31st August 2009.

For further information please send an e-mail to prize@bankstreetarts.com or visit the website www.bankstreetarts.com where full contact details can be found as well as further information about the venue, exhibition and submission procedure.

Please note: submissions will not be accepted without the submission form which can only be obtained from the website or by e-mail.

Semina - where the novel has a nervous breakdown, Book Works, London

Semina - where the novel has a nervous breakdown, Book Works, London
Deadline : 29 May 2009

We are looking for artists and writers interested in experimental prose fiction, who transgress all the boundaries separating art and literature. Think of the ways in which Paul Gilroy theorised the history of modernism through the rubric of the Black Atlantic, W.E.B. Du Bois and double-consciousness, and the inescapable links between race and class: Anthony Joseph, Kathy Acker, Amiri Baraka, Samuel R. Delany, Darius James, Ishmael Reed, Ann Quin, Clarence Cooper Jr, Claude Cahun etc. Above all we're looking for artists and writers willing to take risks with their prose and who demonstrate total disregard for the conventions that structure received ideas about fiction.

Semina takes its inspiration from a series of nine loose-leaf magazines issued by Californian beat artist Wallace Berman in the 1950s and 1960s. The series is commissioned and edited by artist and writer Stewart Home. The series will publish nine books, six of which will be selected from open submission, two commissioned by the editor, with Blood Rites of the Bourgeoisie by Stewart Home the final title in the series.

The selection from open submissions will be made by Stewart Home and Book Works. The series is designed by Fraser Muggeridge studio.

Contact gavin@bookworks.org.uk or visit our website for more information http://www.bookworks.org.uk

Semina series:
No. 1 Index by Bridget Penney (2008)
No. 2 One Break, A Thousand Blows! by Maxi Kim (2008)
No. 3 Bubble Entendre by Mark Waugh (2009)
No. 4 Rape New York by Jana Leo (2009)
No. 5 To Whom Life by Ashkan Sepahvand (2009)
No. 9 Blood Rites of the Bourgeoisie by Stewart Home (2010)

Book Works
19 Holywell Row
London
EC2A 4JB

http://www.bookworks.org.uk

VOLUME 14: MIDDLE EAST, ASPECT: The Chronicle of New Media Art

VOLUME 14: MIDDLE EAST, ASPECT: The Chronicle of New Media Art
Deadline : APRIL 15, 2009

ASPECT: The Chronicle of New Media Art, a biannual DVD publication, is currently accepting submissions of work for Volume 14: Middle East. From ancient times to the contemporary moment, this region is a crucible of cultural, religious, economic, political and strategic import. We seek new media work focused on any aspect of this sensitive region, and are specifically interested in work generated in the Middle East, but will consider all work focused on the topic. We will review installation, video, performance, sound, and any other work best documented in time-based format.

The staff of ASPECT is asking artist/commentator pairs to submit proposals of time-based work made in, or focused on, the Middle East. Commentators may be curators, historians, critics, or educators who can offer a distinct perspective on the work. Due to the format of the publication, the criteria for selection will include both the qualifications of the commentator and the quality of the work submitted. Audio recordings of the commentary will be assembled after the submissions have been selected.

Submissions should include:
- Video documentation of a work or small group of works by a single artist
(no more than 15 minutes in length)
- A brief (100 word) statement regarding the submitted work
- Resume of the artist
- Contact information for the commentator and artist
- Resume of the commentator
- Brief notes outlining the proposed commentary w/ respect to theme

Submissions must be received by APRIL 15, 2009 and sent to:
ASPECT: The Chronicle of New Media Art
46 Waltham Street, suite 103
Boston, MA 02118
617.695.0500

All artists will be contacted via email regarding their submission no later than May 15, 2009

For more information see our FAQ:
http://www.aspectmag.com/contact/faq.cfm

Company Information —The mission of ASPECT is to foster a deeper and more intimate understanding of contemporary new media art by expanding access, education, and distribution of the genre. ASPECT pioneered DVD distribution of artworks and continues to set the standard for new media art publishing and distribution. ASPECT Magazine is a biannual DVD magazine of new media art. Each issue highlights 5-10 artists working in new media whose works are best documented in video or sound, including in-depth information on the artists and commentary by distinguished curators and critics. Individual issues and subscriptions are available directly from the ASPECT web site.

Four Corners Familiars - Four Corners Books

Four Corners Familiars - Four Corners Books
Deadline : 10th April 2009

We are seeking proposals from artists, at any stage in their careers, for a volume in the Four Corners Familiars series. The series presents artists' responses to classic novels and short stories and participants are encouraged to come up with innovative, distinctive ways of complementing the text, far removed from traditional notions of illustration.

Artists need not be represented by galleries, and proposals are welcome from all sections of society, from which we will publish the selected project in 2010.

Three Familiars have already been published, The Picture Of Dorian Gray, Dracula and Blumfeld, An Elderly Bachelor. Two more will appear in 2009: NAU SEA SEA SICK, a collection of sea stories selected and illustrated by Kay Rosen and A Stick Of Green Candy, short stories by Denton Welch and Jane Bowles, selected and illustrated by Colter Jacobsen.

Proposals should be received no later than 10th April 2009. A final decision will be made no later than 25th May 2009.

For more information, visit the Four Corners Books website: www.fourcornersbooks.co.uk/OpenSub

or email us at: opensub AT fourcornersbooks.co.uk

Aplication details
 http://www.fourcornersbooks.co.uk/OpenSub.pdf

About Four Corners Books
Four Corners Books was established in 2003 to produce innovative and distinctive art books. We work with artists and curators to produce books by artists and books about art that are affordable and accessible. Our books are distributed to bookshops throughout the UK and the USA.

Four Corners Books
Studio I,
Rochelle School,
Arnold Circus,
London E2 7ES.
www.fourcornersbooks.co.uk

Call for articles - The Bergen Biennial Conference 2009, Bergen Kunsthall, Norway

The Bergen Biennial Conference 2009, Bergen Kunsthall, Norway
Deadline : 5th of April 2009

17th - 20th September 2009

Curated by: Elena Filipovic, Marieke Van Hal, Solveig Øvstebø

THE BERGEN BIENNIAL CONFERENCE

As scholars and curators have recently acknowledged, the history of exhibitions is both one of the most vital and, paradoxically, ignored narratives of our cultural history. And given the increasing role of biennials and other perennial exhibitions of contemporary art in contemporary culture, it seems all the more necessary to critically examine them today. The impetus to do so now comes in response to the City of Bergen's plans to establish a biennial for contemporary art in Bergen, Norway, for which the Bergen Kunsthall has taken up the task of organizing an international conference and think tank to study and discuss the status of the biennial as an exhibition model, and also to launch a debate concerning the plans for a biennial in Bergen.

The aims of the Bergen Biennial Conference, poised to be one of the most extensive examinations of the biennial phenomenon to date, are to identify and explore existing 'biennial knowledge' from different regions of the world and to incite new critical thinking and writing on recurrent large-scale art exhibitions—their history, socio-political and economical contexts, as well as their impact on artistic and curatorial practices.

Taking research as its starting point, the Bergen Biennial Conference will bring together an international group of curators, critics, artists, and thinkers so as to benefit from their discussions of their findings, and create the occasion to reflect collectively about the practice and potential of biennials as institutions. The event's discursive format—a combination of symposium and think tank—made up of three days of lectures as well as seminar style workshops with young and leading professionals in the field will be complemented with a two-volume reader. The first volume will include existing seminal texts on biennials from around the world, and a second volume will be composed of newly commissioned texts and a report on the event. On the occasion of the conference, the archive on international biennials that was conceived as part of the 28th São Paolo Biennial and constituting the most comprehensive documentation source on biennials anywhere, will be present and ava ilable for consultation in the Bergen Kunsthall.

Call for articles: As the first step in this project, and in order to compile the first volume's comprehensive reader about biennials, we are calling for already existing (published or unpublished, recent or older) articles from around the world and in any language on the biennial as a format or phenomenon (i.e. not reviews of a particular edition of a biennial but more comprehensive, researched articles on the larger biennial question). We ask that you submit articles that you may have written or know about, which constitute a seminal reflection on the subject of perennial exhibitions. Please include full contact information or publication information for previously published texts. All submissions will be considered for the creation of a biennial bibliography, a new reference tool aiming to be beneficial for all professionals working in the field. A selection of texts will be translated and published, with prior permission of the author.

Please submit articles by: 5th of April 2009 and consult the website for further information and updates: http://www.bbc2009.no.

Dates:
17th-20th September 2009

Contact information:

Bergen Kunsthall
Rasmus Meyers allé no.5,
5015 Bergen, Norway
T: +47 55559310
E: bbc2009@kunsthall.no
W: http://www.bbc2009.no
W: http://www.kunsthall.no

THE VIDEO ESSAY, Blackbird, an online journal of literature and the arts, Richmond, VA

THE VIDEO ESSAY, Blackbird,  an online journal of literature and the arts, Richmond, VA
Deadline: April 3, 2009

About video essays

Like its print counterpart, the video essay is an attempt of personal reflection while engaging with the facts of the world. The video essay, writes Phillip Lopate, “wears proudly the confusion of an independent soul trying to grope in isolation toward truth.” Agnes Varda, the poetic French filmmaker who coined the term cinécriture, or film-writing, best described the promise of the video essay when noting that, for her, writing meant more than simply wording a script. Choosing images, designing sound—these, too, are part of that process. At its best, the video essay combines the visceral power of sound and image, building a sympathetic resonance with language  and taking a direct route to the senses. We believe this emerging form of creative nonfiction to be, by its very nature, personal, poetic, open to invention. We invite your explorations.

Specifically, Blackbird is seeking video essays between two and ten minutes in length (with five to seven minutes being an ideal).

Submissions accepted for publication will be asked for accompanying text, preferably a process statement about your work.

Work is intended for publication in the v8n2 Fall 2009 issue of Blackbird.

For more information, including submissions information: http://www.blackbird.vcu.edu/v7n2/sub-video_essay.htm

For an idea of our editorial approach, see http://www.blackbird.vcu.edu/
You may find the gallery and features sections of particular interest.  

Query:
blackbird@vcu.edu 

Blackbird 
Virginia Commonwealth University Department of English 
PO Box 843082 
Richmond, VA 23284-3082

 

Seeking Contributions for PALIMPSEST magazine : A multimedia publication

Seeking Contributions for PALIMPSEST magazine : A multimedia publication

PALIMPSEST magazine is a rotating, web-based, multimedia library, compiling a selection of works within a set theme for each issue. It will publish quarterly as a tactile, heterogeneous publication.

This publication will include, but will not be limited to, media such as chapbooks, editioned prints, photographs, posters, tapes, CD/DVD, or memory key copies of sound and performance or video works. The physical version of the web-library will be packaged and designed to compliment the varying media, ultimately aiming to incorporate and disseminate art and literature which might be better represented outside the confines of a traditionally bound periodical.

Each issue will have a theme based on a pair of concepts, oppositional or complimentary, intended to create shape and to provide narrative without restricting content. The theme guiding the first volume is Urban Space/ Rural Space, however, submissions outside the theme will also be considered.

Deadlines:
Electronic issue: February 20, 2009
Physical issue: March 1, 2009


For additional information please visit

http://palimpsest.ca

or email us at palimpsestmagazine at gmail dot com.

 

 

 

Live Art - artartart

Live Art - artartart
Deadline : 10th February 2009  

The March issue of e-publication art art art will focus on 'Live Art'.  

If you have any ideas for interviews, articles, or reviews relating to this subject please email submissions@mattroberts.org.uk by the 10th February with a brief 100-200 word proposal. If selected the final copy deadline for any articles or reviews will be March 1st. Live Art will then be distributed to our online readership of nearly 10,000 artists and curators in late March 2009.  If you would like to access the current issue: Art V History, please visit www.artartartgallery.com   art art art is a new e-publication produced by Matt Roberts Arts - a company committed to the development of early career writers and artists in the arts community.