[rohrpost] GATES: Call for participation/collaboration byexperimental artists/partners

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Urgent:

Call for participation/collaboration by experimental
artists/partners for a
global project previewed in summer July-September 2003.

Another Caterina Davinio's planetary project is under construction!

This year Rome University I "La Sapienza" is celebrating its 700 years.
Among the initiatives the Museo Laboratorio di Arte Contemporanea of the
University (directed by Simonetta Lux) is planning an exhibition
called ArtConfusion, in
which artists will meet, who use a plurality of languages and media, in the
sign of contamination, multiple art expressions are called to
interact and coexist in a common contest, open to all possible influxes.

In this contest the curatorial committee has accepted Caterina Davinio's
global project GATES, a planetary in progress event which will develop
during summer (since July 4, until end of September)
contemporaneously in Rome La Sapienza Museum and in other places /sections
dislocated in the world, involving many international artists, similar to
what happened with the Global Poetry Project 2002.
See the link below (referred to Global Poetry 2002) to have an idea of what
is the spirit of the project: http://members.xoom.virgilio.it/kareninazoom/

But GATES has numerous unedited and new aspects we are going to create
together! This is the call for entries to join and participate.
Urgent answer needed because La Sapienza
University Museum has let us know very late the acceptance of the project,
so we have only one month to organize and coordinate a complex event that
will involve many persons who live in very far countries and cities.

The invitation to participate/collaborate is directed to the same artists
who already collaborated in Global Poetry, but for every one who has ideas
and is in
the spirit of the project it is possible to join. Festival teams, young
artist galleries and spaces, situations related to experimental poetry and
performance, and also alternative spaces are welcome!


PROGETTO GATES
GATES in Rome Museo Laboratorio dell'Universitā la Sapienza
is as well:
1. an installation that has the aspect of a white gate, open in every
direction (only the frame of the door),
2. a series of performance actions/poetry
readings/lectures that happen under/in/behind/around the door-installation,
3. a series of projections on the wall behind the door,
4. Interchange of materials with dislocated spaces of the project: digital
video, e-mail, photos, slides, etc. will be projected.

We are looking for artists/operators/groups, who can replicate this
installation-performance-projection ensemble in dislocated places in the
world, which will be all part of an unique collective creation of all
involved artists.
FEEL FREE TO LIBERATE YOUR FANTASY IN CREATING A GATE and the space around!

THE CENTRAL INSTALLATION
The central installation in La Sapienza University Museum in Roma:
It is a white door (only the frame of the door) in a white ambient ,
installed in
the way is possible to perform all around, in front of it and behind.
The so installed door has an essential form, creates
a space rich of symbolic value bound with communication, but also poetic,
referred to the idea of transit, passage, opening, with possibility to
project what arrives from the dislocated spaces (video, CD ROM, slides,
etc.) on the wall behind the door.

This installation/ambient will be replicated (in real or virtual way) in
other places in the world, contemporaneously during summer, by all the
participating collaborators/partners we are searching with this call for
entries.
Among Rome and the dislocated space there will be an exchange of material
(videocassettes and CD ROM, digital videos and images, photos, e-mail and
poems). What happens very far in the dislocated gates will be screened in
Rome, what happens in Rome will be projected in the dislocates spaces.
CONCEPTION
The development of the Gates Project is based on the concept of dislocation
and enlargement of the real and virtual
space, and of time. It is based on an action in
progress that will develop during the whole summer.
Though Internet and e-mail communication will be coordinated the dislocated
initiatives and the dimension of communication will be intrinsic to the art
event, the "real" "material" and
connective of this art project, as it was in analogue projects created by
Caterina Davinio.

The "space" in Rome is identified as space in the meddle between art and a
livable area, in which performances, readings, lectures by
experimental artists and critics, poets, can happen.

We will realize videos and photos of what happens around or under or through
the door in Rome, and we will send it to the dislocated locations
in the world, where a similar door is replicated.
We expect you do the same in your city.

Places:
The places where you can create a dislocation of this project could be not
necessary a museum or a public Gallery, but every space open to the public:
such as a private gallery, an open space, an alternative exposition space, a
park, a theater, in the contest of a festival, of a meeting, and so on.

Time: it is relatively free: since July 4 and during summer you can
operate as you like in a sequence of dates, in an unique period or day,
during the whole summer.

Installation: it is requested to the participating artists: 1. to reproduce
an
installation in form of door, 2. to organize performance, meetings, poetry
readings under or around the door, or using the door as scenery, or using
the door to perform in/around it, 3. we expect you to send to us what you
have done (as video, digital photo, CDROM. More wanted formats: VHS PAL
standard and  jpg files, please no MAC files), we will present what arrives
from you in Rome, 4. we expect you to project  video and jpg materials
arriving from Rome.

Involved persons: experimental artist and poets, performers, operators, who
collaborate; the complexity of realization and organization of an event
which is
preview during a protracted time in a planetary extension, need the
involvement of more persons, so consider the possibility to involve some
organizational staffs of cultural
centers, or already planned experimental festivals. If you have an idea, you
are welcome!

Book of the project and on line catalogue curated by Karenina.it.

Book of the project and on line catalogue curated by Karenina.it.

DEAD LINE: as soon as possible submit your proposal complete of:
1. addresses of the spaces where you can realize your door,
2. time (probably dates),
3. involved collaborators or organizations
4. your bio (education, exhibitions, publications, experiences)


GATES
Caterina Davinio realized since 2001 collaborative projects in the net,
using
e-mail communication and real and virtual spaces, these initiatives saw
  the participation of hundreds of international experimental artists, who
created a new way to do performance art poetry using communication as
fundamental material of art.
General statement and bio
http://members.xoom.virgilio.it/davinio/DAVINIO%20STATEMENT%20BIO.htm
See also:
NET-PERFORMANCE: PROCESSES AND VISIBLE FORMS
Recent experiences. A statement by Caterina Davinio
http://members.xoom.virgilio.it/davinio/statement%20on%20performance.htm

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converge, in a net that counts thousands of contacts in the world.
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