Performance Art Festival+Archives: Call --Deadline April 15

Thu Apr 3 15:10:07 CEST 2003

From: "Thomas Mulready" <thomas at performance-art.org>

  Folks,

  I hope you can help me spread the word to the performance artists around the

  world. We are presenting a performance series in connection with our
  exhibition Confessions of the Avant-Garde, a collection of Performance Art

  Festival Archives videos and photos, and we are distributing a worldwide

  call for performance artists. The deadline is April 15, 2003. Please go to
  http://www.performance-art.org for more info. Details are below.

  Hope all is well with you, and I look forward to hearing from you.

  Thanks!

  Thomas Mulready 

  Thanks!

  —Thomas Mulready

  Founding Director

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  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE            

  Contact: Founding Director Thomas Mulready 
  216-221-6017
  thomas at performance-art.org     
  http://www.performance-art.org

  Attention Performance Artists

  Performance Art Festival+Archives announces
  Call For Performance Artists and Symposium Participants

  Deadline April 15, 2003

  The Performance Art Festival+Archives s mounting Confessions of the Avant-
  Garde, an exhibition of the photo and video archives of the Performance Art
  Festival from May 27 through June 21, 2003 at the Cleveland State University
  Art Gallery and Cleveland State University Library Special Collections in
  Cleveland, Ohio USA. Gallery performances will take place at 7PM on May 29,
  and the exhibition opening reception will take place 5-7PM on May 30. This
  is to celebrate and announce that the Cleveland State University Library
  Special Collections will be hosting the Performance Art Festival Archives
  and making them available to researchers, scholars, journalists and the
  public. These extensive Archives, consisting of over 6000 photographs, 2000
  hours of video tape, Artists Fact Sheets, biographies, news clips, and
  ephemera, were collected from 1988-1999 during which time the Performance
  Art Festival, known as the largest festival of its kind, presented over 1000
  performance artists from over 24 countries at venues throughout the
  Cleveland area. Virtually all performances were photographed and videotaped
  with two camera angles, and all pertinent ephemera and materials have been
  retained and collected in the Archives. The exhibition includes video or
  images of Blue Man Group, Guillermo Gomez-Pena, Lorena Wolffer, Julie
  Laffin, Annie Sprinkle, John Fleck, Reno, Ivan Rados, Seiji Shimoda, Rachel
  Rosenthal, Ping Chong, Goat Island, and Raphael Montanez Ortiz, among
  others. Video compilation programs include Performance Art As Controversy,
  Task & Durational Performance Art, Women Performance Artists, and
  International Performance Art, among others. Complete information can be
  found at http://www.performance-art.org, or contact Thomas Mulready,
  Founding Director, thomas at performance-art.org

  Performance and Symposium Opportunities: To accompany the exhibition
  Confessions of the Avant-Garde, the Performance Art Festival+Archives is
  also presenting a performance art series May 29 through June 8, 2003 at
  Cleveland Public Theatre, 6415 Detroit Ave, Cleveland, Ohio, and a symposium
  on archiving performance art on May 31, 2003 at Cleveland State University.
  See http://www.performance-art.org. 

  To apply for a performance art opportunity: Please send the following
  information to:
   thomas at performance-art.org  by April 15 or April 22, 2003.

  1) Contact Information (Full Name, Company Name, Address, Home Tel, Work
  Tel, Mobile Tel., Fax, E-mail); a) Artist or Group Name; b) Indicate how
  many performers would travel to Cleveland; c) Title of proposed piece (if
  any); d) Length of proposed piece.
  2) Complete description of proposed work of performance art (500 words max),
  including most basic tech requirements;
  3) Artist’s Statement or artistic philosophy and how it relates to the
  proposed work (250 words max);
  4) Biography of artist or group, including an overview of your artistic
  career, education, major works, awards and current activities (250 words
  max);

  5) All above questions should be typed out in the body of an e-mail, rather
  than included in attachments. Additional attachments may be attached to the
  e-mail, not to exceed 1MB of PC-compatible documents.
  6) Video & Photos: For videos, please enclose five-minute VHS NTSC format
  (not European PAL). To send photographs, please send up to two black & white
  or color photos or digital photos in GIF or JPEG format on a CD-ROM in PC-
  compatible format.
  7) All applications from outside the US must be received before April 15,
  2003: no fee

  8) All US applications postmarked on or before April 15, 2003: Enclose $10
  fee
  9) Extension: All US applications postmarked on or before April 22, 2003:
  Enclose $30 fee
  10) Send videotapes, photos, and fee to:1365 Webb Road, Cleveland, Ohio
  44107 USA. Please include adequate international postage for return of
  materials. Make check or money order payable to Performance Art Festival.

  Featured performers will be offered a small stipend and accommodations at
  the Ritz-Carlton Cleveland. Remaining performers will be offered an
  honorarium and the opportunity to present 30 minutes of lo-tech work in the
  Performance Open, an unjuried, uncensored and uninhibited forum. 

  To apply for a symposium participation opportunity:  As a complement to the

  exhibition, the Performance Art Festival+Archives will host a symposium
  project entitled Archiving the Avant-Garde, on May 31, 2003 at Cleveland
  State University focusing on the archiving of performance art. Symposium
  participants will join other participants from this collaborative project
  that includes representatives from the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, The
  Walker Art Center, Franklin Furnace, the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific
  Film Archive, and Rhizome.org. See http://www.bampfa.berkeley.edu/ciao/
  avant_garde.html. Featured symposium guest is Dr. Barry Smith of The
  Nottingham Trent University in Nottingham, England. To apply for symposium
  participation, please send a complete description of materials you’d like to
  discuss related to archiving performance art to: thomas at performance-art.org
  by April 15, 2003. See http://www.performance-art.org. 

  Confessions of the Avant-Garde and Archiving the Avant-Garde are made
  possible by Cleveland Public Theatre, Cleveland State University Art
  Gallery, Cleveland State University Library Special Collections, The
  Nottingham Trent University, The Wexner Center for the Arts, and
  CoolCleveland.com. The Ohio Arts Council helped fund this program with state
  tax dollars to encourage economic growth, educational excellence, and
  cultural enrichment for all Ohioans.
  The Ritz-Carlton Cleveland is the official hotel of the Performance Art
  Festival+Archives.

  Complete information can be found at http://www.performance-art.org