CALL
FOR APPLICATIONS
Deadline
for submission of art projects expired on February
15th.
Selection results will be announced on this
web page
presumably in the end of March.
Break
2.2 Festival (previously called Break
21 Festival) is an international art festival
that presents young emerging artists with orientation
towards urban, technologically supported arts
and intermedia artistic practices that are perceived
as current avantgarde. The date of the next
festival is June 17-28, 2003. It will also present
some special guests (world-acclaimed artists)
with the aim of establishing an innovative dialogue
with the young emerging artists. An important
component of the festival is also the symposium
with lectures by invited artists and scientists
from different fields on the chosen theme.
The
festival is organised
by Zavod K6/4, non-profit
cultural institution from Ljubljana, Slovenia,
that produces, organises and promotes contemporary
creativity.
Each
year, the festival presents a specific theme
which we find important but not adequately discussed
in our society. The one chosen for the up-coming
festival is "Invisible
Threat".
Categories
of the festival are: visual arts (comics, graphic
prints, digital prints, photographs, interactive
works, visual communication - "subvertising",
computer-assisted art - from web art to robotics);
performing arts; intermedia arts; moving pictures
(films of all categories: documentaries, fiction,
video art, animated films, experimental films,
short films); music and sound (concerts, sound
installations and intermedia performances in
which sound holds the priority); architecture;
applied arts; and culinary arts.
Forms
of presentation include 2D exhibitions, installations
and ambients, performances, actions, concerts
and sound installations, fashion shows, lectures,
round tables, projections and food preparation.
There
are no special conditions to participate in
the festival besides quality of the project
and its correspondence with the chosen theme.
Since "young emerging artists" is
a relative concept, we leave it up to the artists
themselves to decide whether or not they fit
under this label. However, only art works created
in the period of the last ten years will be
considered.
The
expenses we will provide for are mainly those
connected to presentation of selected art works
at the festival (costs of production of these
works are not included). We can also assure
accomodation and food for three days for each
selected artist. However, only those artists,
whose presence is absolutely crucial for presentation
of their project, will have their travel expenses
reimbursed. What we can also do is help the
artists apply for grants to their embassies
and different foundations.
Important:
- Application material will not be returned
and the costs of its submission are to be covered
by the sender.
- All necessary documents for temporary export/import
of exhibition requisites and objects (ATA Carnet)
should be assured by the authors themselves
in co-operation with their local institutions.
- To avoid import tax when sending VHS cassettes
and CDs, it is necessary to enclose documents,
from which it is evident that the material is
not intended for commercial use. For any necessary
letters of confirmation, please contact the
organiser.
All
applying artists, who have their art projects
well-presented on the Internet or can send adequate
promotional material by e-mail, do not need
to send any additional material by regular mail.
In any case, the application procedure requires
filling out the on-line
application form first. Those, who will
be sending additional material (i.e. video cassette,
CD-rom etc.) by regular mail, should make sure
that, besides the sender's name and address,
project title is also marked on the package,
which is to be sent to:
Zavod
K6/4
Break 2.2 Festival
Kersnikova 6
1000 Ljubljana
Slovenia
The
festival program and its locations will be announced
on this web site shortly after the selection
(presumably
in the end of March 2003). All applying
artists will also be notified about the decision
concerning their application personally. Complete
program will include art projects by some special
guest artists and lectures at the symposium.
Reports
on festival events (including photos) will also
be accessible on this web site during and after
the festival.
For
further inquiries, please write to: info@break-festival.org-
or contact the festival staff.
