CESTA's 10th Arts Festival of International, Interdisciplinary Collaborations

[anna balint]

From: "CESTA" <cesta at mbox.vol.cz>

Call for Submissions:

Spirit Matters
CESTA’s 10th Arts Festival of International, Interdisciplinary Collaborations
August 2005

The desire to define existence has produced the most contentious struggles 
since the
dawn of humanity. Civilization is the result of myriad definitions evidenced 
by science,
philosophy and religion. During the epoch of postmodernism, the rift between 
the
spiritual and the material began to grow at an exponential rate; yet, both 
sides of this split
still claim to encompass the other. This contradiction translates into 
dichotomous
interpretations of reality, morality, purpose, expression and power.

For Spirit Matters, CESTA invites artists from all disciplines to approach 
and interpret the
diverse roles spirituality plays in the inspiration to make, and the creation 
and critique of,
artistic work. We ask artists to collaborate in developing works, which 
critically address
the tension and harmony between knowledge and belief, understanding and 
mystery, the
devoted and the devout.

CESTA's festival themes and parameters of cross-national interdisciplinary
collaborations represent the center's commitment to improving communication 
through
creative expression. We base our selection of artists on a review of 
applications resulting
from our annual open call. Applicants request CESTA to connect them with one 
or more
collaboration partners or apply as a pre-formed collaboration group. For 
Spirit Matters all
final festival collaboration groups must be:

1) Cross-national: more than one nationality
2) Interdisciplinary: more than one artistic medium
3) Collaborative: conceptualizing and creating interdependent artistic work

AND must contain work created exclusively for Spirit Matters.

If you have a group, which fits the above parameters, you may qualify to 
apply as a pre-
formed collaboration group. Details for applying as a pre-formed 
collaboration group are
on the application form.

Festival Application Deadline: December 3, 2004 (postmarked)

On-site collaborations in progress: August 1-24
Meet the Artists - presentations of participants’ past work: August 14-21
Seminars, workshops and educational programs on the festival theme: August 
14-21
Final presentations of the collaboration groups: August 26-28
Daily reviews of the presentations: August 27-29

For an Application Form or more information, please visit our website or 
contact us at:

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CESTA
Novakova 387, Tabor 39001, Czech Republic
tel: +420-381-258-004
email: cesta at mbox.vol.cz
http://www.cesta.cz