[oberlist] RU* call/txt: Visual Poetry - Long Stories for Perm 2012

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Perm, Russia
perioada: May 2012

Long Stories for Perm 2012
Festival of contamporary art on concrete fences, residential and
industrial constructions in Perm

Theme of the festival: Visual Poetry
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The theme of the festival “Visual Poetry” is synchronous to the property
of Perm being a “Library capital” of the Perm region in 2012. Artists will
deploy the visual equivalents of poetry on a multimater concrete fences. 
Projects will focus on the expression of the poetic text – rhythm,
structure and texture of the verse. Long stories for Perm will be
consisted of a visual image of the text, of the relationship of artists to
the verse, word, letter as to the image. The theme of the festival is a
challenge for the participants, not only because the artistic projects
should be formulated for extremely non- standart elongated horizontal
format of concrete fences, encircling the industrial facilities in Perm,
but also because the art projects will have to coexist and resist in
spontaneous and agressive in many ways grafic and font environment of the
city (visual identics and navigation, outdoor adverizements, running
lines, signs)

The festival is divided into two platforms.

ARTIST-POET platform updates and sets a new scale of rich and varied
traditions of visual poetry – from the pictographic and hieroglyphic
writing, calligraphy, frieze compositions and ornaments, to the poetry
albums, animated stiries, riddles and visual stories in children’s
magazines (when replacing the words in the text to images) until the
experiments of the modern art (Merz-Dadapoems, constructivist and popart
play with the font and image, concrete poetry of conceptualism,  lettrism
of postmodernism).

Especially for designers working in the field of typography the festival
has a platform FORM OF STANZA where they will bw able to demonstrate their
skills and artistic talents, to show the meaning and give the energy to
poetic lines of Russian poets. Poems dedicated to contamporary life in the
city and its citizens “constructed” by designers, will not only be a
transcription of poetic texts in visual language, artists will give a
monumental scale to the rows of classical and modern Russian poetry, will
make them proportionate to the public spaces of the city.

The organizers will pay for partisipants’ travel, accommodation and meals,
assume all the costs of implementing art projects of partisipants of the
festival – paint, tools and transport.

Conditions of participation in the festival:

ARTIST-POET – a platform for experimental visual poetry
project.Participation in the festival on a competitive basis.
Participation is free.

The participants – artists, designers, architects

The selection of the project participants comes by the jury (curators,
artists, poets). Curators select a long list of artists, the jury chooses
from the list participants of the festival.

To participate you should send your sketches and completed application
form with your photo. Number of sketches is not limited. Only one project
of one author will be chosen to implement.

Project requirements:

1.You must create a “long” art project, a detailed descriptive and poetic
narrative. “Poetic story” should be read as we move along it. The choice
of art forms, motifs, stylistic and expressive means for creating stories,
as well as using or not using typefaces, the degree of abstraction or
literary remains with the autor – the art work should be “read”
successively and understood as a “poetic text”.

2.Sketches should be taken into account of the modul structure of fences.
Sketch may be structured as a storyboard, comic strip or scrolling.

3.Sketches’ length must be at least 10 sections, with a possible increase
depending on the length of the fence (in fact, most of the fences are much
longer than 40 sections).

4.Authors must be prapared to finilize the design in a 7- day period,
tying the project to a particular fence provided by the organizers. The
choice of the location of the project is carried by curator of the
festival.

5.The visual story must have at least 2 of the plan of perception – the
plan “a big plastic” is perceived as close as 10 meters or more at high
speed (from the window of a car or public transporation), as well as the
finer detailed plan, perceived by pedestrians at close range.

6.You can’t use more than 3 colours in your project, including black and
white colours. The colours should be in a palette of the automatic tinting
machine (RAL).

7.The project should be prepared for implementation by a team of 6-8
volunteers in a period of 2 to 5 days under the direct supervision of the
artist, either witout his supervision- by the provided sketches if for
some reason the author can not participate in the implementation process.

8.The project will be performed by hand with brushes, rollers, facade
paint. The surface of the fence will be primed with white paint. Drawing
will be transferred through a video projector.

FORM OF STANZA – a platform for design projects in the field of
typography. Participation is only after invitation of the curators of the
festival. The curators offer the authors the choice of the pieces of
poetry and information about the fences, where they must be applied.
Authors’ projects are prepared in close collaboration with the curators of
the festival.

The participants – designers working in the field of typography.

Festival participants are invited by the curators of the festival.

Conditions of participation – Until April 15 prepare sketches of the
project in accordance with the requirements and in close contact with the
curators of the festival.

Project requirements:

1.Typographic composition should not affect the readability of the poetic
fragment

2.The project should have two perception plans – a plan of «big plastic»
perceived from a distance of 10 meters or more at high speed ( from the
window of a car or public transport), and a plan of “reading” wich is
perceived by pedestrians at close range. The direction of “reading” is
from left to right.

3.Typography/ calligraphy must be reproducable by hands with a facade
paint, brushes, rollers, markers.

4.In preparing the draft the caisson surface of the concrete unit fences
shold be taken into account.

5.Sketches should take into account the modul structure of fences.

6.Contour drawing of art project will be transferred through a video
projector.

7.You can’t use more than 3 colours in your project, including black and
white colours. The colours should be in a palette of the automatic tinting
machine (RAL).

8.The project should be prepared for implementation by a team of 6-8
volunteers in a period of 2 to 5 days.

Requiremants to authors

1.Willingness of author to work with poetic fragments proposed by curators.

2.Willingness of author to work at the facility proposed by curators.

3. Willingness of author to create a form-design project for 2 weeks after
getting a piece of verse and information about the location of the project
(plan and photographs of the fence – scan and prospects).

To participate in competition:

- Send confirmation of participation on an e-mail address below. Please,
indicate your name, e-mail, phone number, Skype, post address.

- Fill the entry form in DOC. Name file of entry form with your surname
(e.g.: jones.DOC).

- Name files of designs with your surname and number (e.g.:
jones_001.jpg). We accept files in JPG (Image height should be at least
400 pixels), AI (Adobe Illustrator ver. 3-9-CS2), EPS (Adobe Illustrator
EPS, ver 3-9-CS2), CDR (Corel Draw! Ver 4-7), PDF ( Adobe Acrobat ver 5)

- Attach to application your photo in JPG (Image high should be at least
400 pixels)

Send files of entry form, designs and photo to e-mail address below.

Results of the competition – April 25, 2012.
Realisation of selected projects from 1 to 30 May, 2012 with a help of
volunteers under the guidance of the author.
Opening of a project – May 31, 2012.


data limita: 15/04/12

Kontakt:
Long Stories for Perm 2012
Dasha Vasilyeva (project coordinator)
Russia
tel: +7 (919)492-85-94
longstories2012 at gmail.com
lsp2012.tumblr.com

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