visual/ experimental poetry call for submissions
Anna Balint
epistolaris at freemail.hu
Fri Aug 31 12:36:55 CEST 2001
SOUTH/NORTH MEXICO XXIth
VII INTERNATIONAL BIENNIAL OF VIRTUAL VISUAL/ EXPERIMENTAL
POETRY
(on-line and/or in situ)
In homage to Philadelpho Menezes (1960-2000)
1. The VII Biennial will take place on October-November of
2001 and it will have as main headquarters Mexico City.
2. There will be able to participate artworks of poetic
nature carried out in non objectuals supports: in/for
Internet, computer art, virtual poetry, videopoetry and
experimental video (American system), etc., which will be
exhibited during the VII Biennial inaugural season and
uploaded for their on-line circulation as virtual
exhibition (except video), through the web site of the
Biennial ones: www.exmadrid.com/~poexperiment and of
concurrent links.
Also, during the inaugural period live artworks will be
presented: action-poetry, poetic performance and
polypoetry, poetry and sound objects, visual music,
ephemeral devices (installation, atmosphere), etc.
Productions of experimental literature will also be
accepted: impossible writings, generative-interactive
texts, intercode and intersigns, digital creation, object-
books and books of artist, mediatic and multimedia
palimpsests etc.
3. There for, a selection of the works will be shown, as
well as samples of historiographical and commemorative
character about the main movements of the experimental
poetry in the XX century, which will be proposed and
programmed with an advance of six months to the Biennial
inauguration.
4. The artworks of virtual-digital character (e-art) will
be received through electronic mail, links to pages, or
recorded in compact disc (CD ROM), ZIP or diskette,
compress in Internet resolution (JPG). The reception of the
works will be made through the following e-mail:
poexperimental at exmadrid.com
5. With regard to the poetical actions and performances,
their authors will present the respective projects and
escenographical requirements with date limit of August 20
2001; those from another country will have to cover their
transport expenses by they own ways.
6. The proposals and artworks that are sent by traditional
roads (snail mail) will have a date limit of September of
2001 and they will have to be sent to:
CESAR ESPINOSA/ARACELI ZÚŃIGA
Curators-coordinators
P.O. Box 45-615 06020
Mexico, D.F. MEXICO
7. It will be established a Selection Committee that will
approve, in their case, the artworks on-line, live or
experimental written projects that will be presented in the
VII Biennial.
8. For the first time in the Biennial one there will be
given the experimental poetry prizes "Germán List
Arzubide"and "Edgardo-Antonio Vigo", united with the
existent one in Mexico "Raúl Renán", to the most relevants
on-line, live and experimental written works , as well as
honorary mentions.
9. During the inaugural season it will take place a
colloquy-course on experimental poetry whose interventions
will circulate through the Internet and they will be picked
up in a memory. Also, there will be made the presentation
by some of its authors of the anthology-
encyclopedia "Experimental Poetry; Autonomous Wrintings for
the New Millennium ", in printed versions and in CD ROM.
10. This VII Biennial assuming in the basic the objectives
of the South Cultural Project, in continuity with the
position made in previous Biennials of the topic: "Sud-Aca/
South-here: the south in the north, the south here", in
rejection of the racism, of the etnocide and the ecocide,
as well as to exalt the
resistance/transformation/regurgitation against/toward the
political/cultural enslavement on the part of the global
capital.
11. The collaborations received for mail won't be returned
and they will be incorporated to the archive of Poetry
Vixual - Mexico / International, A.C. Mexico City, November
of 2000 Mexican committee and international co-organizers
POESÍA VIXUAL - MEXICO / INTERNACIONAL, A.C.
poexperimental at exmadrid.com
www.exmadrid.com/~poexperiment
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