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Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2007 11:18:22 +0100
From: "alexandra dias ferreira" <diasferreira.alexandra la gmail.com>
Subject: [ARENA] Call for artists/ Glasgow international

 Call for artists

 Cast some light
 A private view in a public sphere
 Glasgow international
 11  27 April 2008

 Curators and artists, Helen de Main (Glasgow) and Maj Hasager
(Copenhagen) are curating a programme of artist's film and video for
Glasgow international (Gi) 2008 to be screened in 3 different formats
in 3 different locations during the festival - a mainstream cinema,
the Centre for Contemporary Art (CCA) and on the internet. We are
currently researching artists and works for inclusion in the programme
that are sensitive to the 3 sites, and fit in with the overarching
curatorial premise for the project (please see below for details).

 Gi is Glasgow's curated and commissioning Festival of Contemporary
Visual Art which aims to reflect Glasgow's capacity to exhibit
internationally significant art. The Festival provides a platform for
the best of contemporary visual arts and artists, through hosting
events that have been specifically developed for the Festival and
presenting work that has not been seen in Glasgow before.

 Cast some light, will screen work by approximately 15 artists in each
of the 3 locations. The project will use the platform of Gi to screen
works as part of the festival in this contemporary art context, but it
will also tap into a larger audience for film, through screening all
the included works at one of Glasgow largest multiplexes and on the
internet. The same material will be available in each of the three
locations, but taking a different form, to alter the viewing
experience. Additional to this, a small publication will be
distributed at each of the venues, and other interpretative material
will be available online.

 The overarching theme of Gi is 'public and private', examining the
changing nature of public space, the evolving landscape of public and
private art funding and the fluid boundaries of privacy in a world of
converging mobile technologies. Taking this as their starting point,
we have devised a project that uses film and video placed in different
sites, to interrogate some of these ideas.

 'Films are today dismantled and dislocated even without intervention
by the spectator. The experience of a film was once localized in space
and time, in the finite unreeling of a narrative in a particular
theatre on a particular day.'
 Victor Burgin

 All of the three 'institutions' are public in a semi-public way. The
viewer is always able to visit the cinema  if he or she has the
economy to pay the price of a ticket. The internet is open to
everyone, but is still dependent on access to an online computer and
knowledge of how to use it. The art institution, in this context, is
the only venue that could be deemed truly publicly accessible, as it
is free for all to enter. However to many sections of the public, it
may seem the least accessible of the 3, as art spaces are often
perceived as elitist and closed. It is hoped that through presenting
different ways of engaging with artist's film and video, some of the
borders between entertainment and art might be bridged and some of the
audiences might be encouraged to cross these bridges too.

 Non-commercialism and the Cinema
 The project is interested in trying to widen audiences for artist's
film and video by showing works in a mainstream cinema, and taking
advantage of a captive audience who have come to see a general
release. We hope that by using the venue of the cinema we will be able
to introduce existing audiences to alternatives ways of working in
moving image, which they might not normally encounter.
 It is also envisaged that placing the artist's film and video between
the commercials and the main feature, the works will suddenly become a
rupture in the unconscious flow of the viewing experience. In a time
where we are exposed to a massive amount of commercials in our
everyday life, almost without even noticing it, the piece of art
becomes a wedge between the goods that have been paid for (the ticket)
and the commercials urging you to buy more. This small rupture will
point to a different context of viewing film and videos and may even
create a space for reflection for the viewer to consider the site and
the expectations of the cinema.

 Codices and the Art Institution
 By using the Art institution (CCA) to screen the full programme of
artist's film and video, it allows the single works to be interlinked
into a complete programme, with works contrasting and complimenting
one and another. It will be shown for free and can be read within the
wider context of a contemporary art festival. However it is also hoped
that audiences from the cinema, having seen one work, may be
encouraged to come and see the whole programme.
 The majority of the 'general' public are unlikely to visit art
institutions on a regular basis, even though the majority of these
institutions are free and open to them  simply because a lot of
people do not feel comfortable in this setting. The reason for this is
often described as a set of codices some find it hard to relate to.
The project aims question whether these unwritten codes can be
challenged, without becoming a community art project, but remain an
individual project interesting enough to actually break down the
borders between 'them and us'.

 The private view and the Internet
 The Internet allows us to work with the concept worldwide, and it
represents a flow of information and how, in many ways, contemporary
art today has become more a matter of working globally, than working
locally.
 Sitting in front of a computer, surfing the internet and looking at
the artist's film and video  the viewer is in control of what they
see and they decide the combination of the programme, the order in
which they are viewed and indeed if they watch them the whole way
through. The viewing situation is private, but they can choose to
share it by sending links to people they know. By letting go of the
control it is left it up to the viewer to take an active role in
relation to the project.

 As a whole the project presents several challenges: To place artist's
film and video outside the 'safe' art and institutional context,
showing non-commercial interests in the commercial setting of the
mainstream cinema, and inviting the general public into the art
institutions. One could say  that these positions are the opposite,
but by letting them slide in and out of each other a new way of
perceiving art might appear.

 Details of works:
 We are looking for of works by artists from all around the world;
each film should be no longer than 7 minutes, and be suitable to be
screened, rather than pieces made for presentation in a gallery or on
a monitor. The works will be pre-dominantly recent works, and should
not have been shown in Glasgow before.
 Please contact Maj Hasager for more details  majhasager la gmail.com

 Deadline for expressions of interest 10 December

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Alexandra Ferreira
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10115 Berlin
++49 (030) 28879268
http://eutueu.blogspot.com/
http://translocality.blogspot.com/
skype: xanalouiseferreira

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