International Art Festival Artconcept, St. Petersburg, call for submissions

[anna balint]

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: International Art Festival ARTCONCEPT (St Petersburg, Russia)
  
International Art Festival ARTCONCEPT, ST PETERSBURG.
The purpose of ARTCONCEPT is to develop a festival of the syncretic arts. Action, 
performance, installation, multimedia - considered "boundary" fields in relation to 
traditional art - demand more serious attention and study. We hope to present, as 
far as possible, the most tendentious currents in the modern cultural process.
The festival will focus on the creators of conceptual art. We seek works by artists 
and experimenters who successfully create new experiences, innovators who develop 
new aesthetic layers. The philosophy of festival is to gather under one "roof" 
diverse creative authors - artists, poets, musicians, writers, film-directors, 
multi-media creators, art-critics. By collaborating on a single stage, artists of 
various disciplines will be motivated to look at the process of creating art on a 
broader scale, to push themselves beyond their narrow field of specialization. In 
this way, we hope to nurture a new art ambience, a language of art more coherent and 
distinct than we have previously used. From this effort, perhaps, can emerge a core 
group of artists with common vision and goals; and a positive future. We plan to 
publish a second and final catalogue of the festival, to sum up its achievements.

To entry for participation is in two steps:
First - the organizers dispose a site in internet and in mass-media, where are 
descriptions about ideas of festival, providing an email address where entrants can 
send descriptions of their projects as well as copies of their resumes.
Second, the organizers will notify entrants if their work has been chosen for 
inclusion in the festival. At that point, they may choose to submit additional 
material in the form of audio, video tapes or CDs.
Four to five artists will be chosen for each category. (A collective will count as 
one artist.)
No more than 40 individuals will participate overall.
One important aspect of the festival will be "Art Laboratories".Artists who 
participate will exhibit two types of work:
1. Works the artist created before the festival, and, exhibited at the festival.
2. Works created in a collaborative way during the Art Laboratory.
Festival Duration: 6 days.

Dates: September 2003 in Saint-Petersburg, Russia.
For further information please contacts: tel.: +7(812) 311-31-90 or 
efiandr at mail.cityonline.ru