[oberlist] KV* call/wshp: Graphic novel workshop in Pristina

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Pristina, Kosovo
perioada: May 5 – 11, 2012

Tirana Art Lab and Qendra Multimedia
Graphic novel workshop

Call for applications
www.tiranaartlab.org

In the last years graphic novels have attracted more and more attention
both in the field of literature and the visual arts. Not only they open
alternative perspectives onto the complexities of every day life. With
their distinct use of two mediums – image and text – they also suggest how
memories and recollections of the past can find new forms of expression
despite their inherent blanks.
This interrelation between image and text lies at the core of the project
GRAPHIC, NOVEL. Taking the works of W. G. Sebald as a point of departure,
we would like to rethink the dynamics between the two mediums in the
context of Pristina, eager to tackle what suggests itself as ‘grey areas’
in the memorization process by means of graphic and text. Also W. G.
Sebald famously utilized in his work both image and text in order to find
a momentary equilibrium between otherwise hazy or fragmented
recollections, personal memories, and, at times, ineffable events.
However, similar to the grid-like structure of a graphic novel, the
merging of image and text in Sebald’s work produces an ‘excess of
meaning’,which cannot be utterly resolved.

The workshop aims at thinking the potential of the literary and graphic
elements of graphic novels further by drawing on the author’s ‘poet(h)ic
of remembering’, but also by the direct encounter with and research into
the environment the workshop is set in. The participants are invited to
creatively delve into yet unprecedented graphic-novelist techniques,
sketching what has been lost, what is to be retrieved, and how to conjoin
the missing bits and contradictions of the local recent history. Being an
initiative from Pristina and Tirana, the subject-matter from where to
explore those techniques are the city and its (in-)visible histories.
Therefore, additional to the seminars, the workshop will look closer at
the matter and the surfaces of the city. Archival documents, found
photographies, oral histories and walks through the city will form a
central part of the research and of the elaboration of a new graphic novel
by means of visual and literary expressions.

Throughout the workshop, the participants are invited to work on a chosen
context presented to them in the city of Pristina. The results of the
workshop will be shown in a group exhibition during the “Polip Literature
Festival” held from May 11, 2012 to May 13, 2012.
GRAPHIC, NOVEL. is organized by Elisabeth Desta and Sonja Lau. The
workshop is held by researcher Ute Friederich and graphic novelist Barbara
Yelin.

Application process

The successful applicants will recieve travel costs and free board and
lodging in Pristina.
All applications arriving prior to the due date, March 25, 2012, will be
taken into consideration, assessed, and a selection of participants
chosen. The result of the selection will be announced by April 15, 2012.
All applicants will be informed of their approval or decline in written
form.

If you are interested in being a part of the workshop GRAPHIC, NOVEL.
please send a completed application form, an artist statement, an idea for
a possible research you want to deal with in the workshop, a short
biography, a selection of recent works (literary or visual), and a picture
of the artist. Please specify in your statement why you would like to
participate in the workshop in Pristina, and if you have any prior
experience in working in the region.

Submission can be made either online or by sending a CD-ROM / works on
paper. Please respect the format JPG and a resolution of 300 dpi for
visual/graphic works. Incomplete applications cannot be considered.
Application on papers / CD-ROM cannot be returned to the sender.

data limita: 25/03/12 - recieved

Kontakt:
Qendra Multimedia
Elisabeth Desta
Rr. Xhelal Mitrovica p. n., Teatri Dodona
10000  Pristina
Kosovo
tel: +381 38 722 464
fax: +381 38 222 793
elisabeth.desta at kulturmanager.net
www.qendra.org

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