Hey Y'all-
just wanted to pass along a handful of calls and art opportunities that have passed through my email in the past couple of weeks.
A) Books to Prisoners Fundraiser
B) Earth First Journal Art
C) Culture War Now!
D) Archive of Radical Graphics
E) Version>5
get to work!
-josh
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A) Seattle Books to Prisoners Fundraiser:
"Seattle Books to Prisoners are planning the auction for spring/summer 2005 (no venue or date selected yet). This will be our big 'main' fundraiser for the year so we hope to have plenty on display, and invite lots of people/buyers. In terms of what kind of artworks we're looking for, pretty much anything that is 'saleable' (whatever that means) - paintings, prints, cartoons, whatever. They don't have to have any specific connection to prisons, prisoners, or books. If the
donating artist can include a brief bio (including shows they have been exhibited in, or where ther work has been published?), description of the work and any other pertinent info that would be good (perhaps a suggested minimum donation?).
The artist would be donating the work no-strings-attached, with the only recompense being a warm feeling from doing some good (and perhaps a t-shirt if they'd like one). We are an all-volunteer organisation whose income comes primarily from individual donations and benefit events, and that we have been supported in the past by Denise Levertov, Sherman Alexie, Noam Chomsky, and R.E.M."
For more info, email Andy at: andykchan@hotmail.com
-----------------------------------------
B) Earth First Journal needs art:
Create the icons of the movementphotograph, digital, paint, sketch
Submit your work to the
Earth First! Journal
PO Box 3023, Tucson, AZ 85702
collective@earthfirstjournal.org
Include a self-addressed, stamped envelope to have your work returned.
Cover art submissions must be 8.375 x 11 inches and in full color.
All electronic submissions should be high resolution, 300 dpi.
The Earth First! Journal collective knows that the stories we publish always need striking graphics and/or gripping photographs to accompany them. We understand that these images are often as important as the story itself and can be the key that draws readers in and motivates them into action.
The Journal is currently looking for drawings to illustrate articles, as well as photos or artwork to appear on our front and back covers. We welcome submissions of articles, letters, poetry and art that put the Earth first, aid in healthy debate shaping the growth of the movement and advance the creation of a world free of speciesism, classism, racism, sexism, violence, exploitation and oppression.
Earth First!ers come together in their belief that it is essential to take direct action to stop, reverse and ultimately overthrow that which is causing the destruction of the planet's delicate and diverse biosphere. By drawing public attention to the crises facing the natural world, Earth First! takes a decidedly different tack toward environmental issues. We believe in using all the tools in the toolbox, ranging from grassroots organizing and involvement in the legal process to civil disobedience and monkeywrenching. And the Earth First! Journal is the voice of this radical environmental movement.
Please contact the Journal if you are interested or would like any further information:
PO Box 3023, Tucson, AZ 85702; (520) 620-6900;
collective@earthfirstjournal.org.
-----------------------------------------------
C) Journal of Aesthetics and Protest "Culture War Now!" call:
The Journal of Aesthetics and Protest is looking to promote actions, images, projects, and ideas that thrive in spaces of refusal by embodying alternative ways of being.
A function of art is to shape consciousness- a truth embodied demands reality structure itself around it. The Fascist’s' Agenda will not win because it cannot erase all un-conforming bodies. Images of refusal expand collective ideas of truth and possibility.
O’ heretic- what discoveries have you made? Perform your difference, our otherness. You experience the sublime in places other than death. We want your living gay agenda. Show us how you don’'t need their foreign oil. Illustrate your day-to-day diet for a new america. We want to see the means by which you live otherwise.
The truths we live refute the notion that George Bush’'s own God created the universe for him to run. While they believe....
-endless war creates freedom
-the goals of global capitalsm should dictate social policy
-love is only between a man and a woman
-resource depletion and waste are the driving forces of a functioning
economy
... we know otherwise.
If it is a culture war they want then shall we fight!
SPECIFICATIONS.
All media, actions and performances will be considered.
Contributions will be published online or in our pocket sized book (ideally fitting on one or two pages). Please consider these formats
with your submission.
Questions/problems: contact(at)journalfofaestheticsandprotest.org
Submissions must be received by 3/15/05
Email to contact(at)journalofaestheticsandprotest.org
or
self-addressed, stamped envelope to JoAP 3424 Council Street LA, CA 90004.
Please enclose your contact information.
The Journal of Aesthetics and Protest is a site for critical and creative inquiry and, now, incitement.
In print it is distributed internationally and online it is available
at www.journalofaestheticsandprotest.org
--------------------------------------------
D) Archive of Radical Graphics:
Artists may like to donate their political graphics to: ARG!!!The Archive of Radical Graphics is germinating in the 56a Radical Archive.. We have folders of cool old flyers, posters, drawings and clippings.. contributions so far include Anarchist Graphics, Class War, Fly, Monkey-Wrench Graphix and Paul Petard amongst an array of random stuff. If you make art or agit-prop, then add to this growing public-access project.
Write "ARG!!!" c/o the 56a, visit the infoshop or email
arg(at)eroding.org.uk
NOTE: We are not accepting graphics via email because of problems with aggressive spam and cyber-VD.. please send ALL contributions via good ol' snail mail.
Anarchist space. 56A Infoshop, 56 Crampton St., Kennington SE17, UK
http://www.56a.org.uk/
--------------------------------------------
E)
VERSION>05
APRIL 22- MAY 1, 2005
CHICAGO
Call for Proposals and Work
Deadline February 28, 2005
Version is a hybrid form of festival, conference, arts fair and online project. The fourth annual Version convergence is an experimental approach at navigating the activities of emerging cultures that combine visual arts, activism, social practices, creative use of new technologies as well as tactics and strategies of intervention.
Version>05>Invincible Desire
Version>05-Invincible Desire is a summit of the underground and the everyday. Version>05 aims to practice, examine, and strengthen the activities of local configurations and their external networks.
Version>05 is a drunken boat on a river whose flow has been reversed by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.
Driven by an irrepressible urgency for intervention in the roaring bullshit carnival that has become reality, Version>05 will investigate, debilitate, and agitate contemporary US culture through a diverse program featuring an experimental art expo, artistic disturbances, networked urban events, screenings, interactive software applications, performances, workshops, parties and street action. We envision a New Renaissance summit of aggressive cultural workers organizing their shared interests and networking a distribution of ideas; a rendez-vous of friends & lovers who’ve never yet met.
We will convene in Chicago for a ten-day open laboratory to explore a diversity of tactics and strategies for activating our communities, amplifying our ideas, and ultimately creating viable permacultures parallel to consumer society ˆ and capable of superceding it. The city itself will be used as a map to stage microactions. Blueprints for strengthening emerging alliances and counter-institutions will be unveiled. Alternative spaces will be open for staging actions. Public space, corporate and otherwise, will be our terrain of intervention.
Version>05-Invincible Desire is a cultural summit and call for creating and strengthening connections among artists, writers, wingnuts, curators, vigilante gardeners, activists, surrealists, scientists, musicians, pirates, filmmakers, activists, space hijackers, tactical media provocateurs, radical cartographers, students, designers, dreamers, architects, adventurers, critical thinkers and cultural workers of all kinds.
Send us your critiques of the society of Control and help us examine the rhizomatic systems now confronting the monoculture. We want to enlarge our
little utopias and expand participation across today's multiple fronts of countercultural emancipation and cultural reclamation.
We dictate no format and only require your desire to make it happen.
CALL FOR PROPOSALS AND WORK.
Deadline February 28,2005
Go to: http://versionfest.org
SEND US YOUR IDEAS AND PROPOSALS FOR: papers, workshops, films, street art (stickers, cut-outs, xeroxable pages, stencils), anti-corporate actions,
tactical media projects, culture jamming activities, public art interventions, micro actions, billboard modifications, DIY urbanism, office pranks, social and technology hacking ideas, agit prop posters, how–to guides, creative disturbances in public space, profiles of space invaders and hijackers, lists of tactics and strategies, psychogeographic adventures…
For an idea of projects that were part of version>04 check out:
http://submissions.versionfest.org/submissions/view_submissions.php
And
http://www.versionfest.org/default/
You may mail your proposal and work to:
Version>05
960 W 31st St
Chicago Il 60608
USA
Please use the online submission form to submit a thumbnail sketch of your project. Multiple submissions are encouraged. All online submissions are open for viewing by the public.
There are a few sections of Version that are regularly featured:
GENERAL PROJECT PROPOSALS
Alterations of everyday life. Space hijackings and invasions, occupations and disruptions in corporate space: Psychogeographers, writers, artists, performance artists, tactical mediaticians, and creative interventionists are invited to share their ideas and proposals for projects to be realized at this year’s Version. Please use the online submission form to provide a brief description of the work.
VERSION NFO ART XPO
For SPACES AND COLLECTIVES AND DOCUMENTATIONS Alternative spaces are hubs for encouraging little utopias. Social and cultural places act as laboratories for collaboration and explorations of emerging cultures. Version>05 will be hosting an NFO ART EXPO and space summit. We extend an invitation to members of artist run spaces, alternative institutions, cultural and social spaces, open universities, and individual artists and activists to present their work and mission within a booth or table at the version expo. A space summit will be organized to share stories, strategies and methods of survival and connectivity. Please use the online submission form or contact Ed Marszewski directly at ed@lumpen.com for further information.
TECHNOLOGY AND NET BASED SUBMISSIONS
An online/offline network of projects that are selected for wider dissemination and exhibition. Please use the online submission form to provide a brief description of the work.
CONFERENCE AND WORKSHOPS
Discussions, presentations and documentations of projects, ideas, theories and situations. Email texts directly to ed@Lumpen.com
FILM AND VIDEO
We are seeking work to screen in microcinemas, theaters, the net and to broadcast on cable access tv and low power UHF tv. Shorts, features, experimental and documentary work is preferred. We encourage submissions from individual curators, festivals or media collectives. Television programs can be 28.5 minutes and 58.5 minutes long.
When submitting video work please mail us your work along with the following information:
Title
Year made
Director
Country of orgin
Runnin time
Description of work [up to 500 words]
Contact information (your name, address, phone number, email address, web site)
Moving image entries may be produced on any film or video format, however they must be submitted on DVD (NTSC only), Mini DV (NTSC only), or VHS (NTSC
only). Each film or video must be accompanied by a bio, description and stills.
PERFORMANCE:
Experimental presentations, new forms of audio visual engagement, live musical performances. Submit urls or send cds to the Version address listed above.
VERSION RADIO:
Audio projects of up to 90 minutes will be accepted for broadcast on our low watt radio and web streaming stations during the convergence. Send Cds
to the address above.
/////
Disclaimer:
We will be unable to return any submitted works. So please do not send original or masters.
just wanted to pass along a handful of calls and art opportunities that have passed through my email in the past couple of weeks.
A) Books to Prisoners Fundraiser
B) Earth First Journal Art
C) Culture War Now!
D) Archive of Radical Graphics
E) Version>5
get to work!
-josh
-----------------------------------------
A) Seattle Books to Prisoners Fundraiser:
"Seattle Books to Prisoners are planning the auction for spring/summer 2005 (no venue or date selected yet). This will be our big 'main' fundraiser for the year so we hope to have plenty on display, and invite lots of people/buyers. In terms of what kind of artworks we're looking for, pretty much anything that is 'saleable' (whatever that means) - paintings, prints, cartoons, whatever. They don't have to have any specific connection to prisons, prisoners, or books. If the
donating artist can include a brief bio (including shows they have been exhibited in, or where ther work has been published?), description of the work and any other pertinent info that would be good (perhaps a suggested minimum donation?).
The artist would be donating the work no-strings-attached, with the only recompense being a warm feeling from doing some good (and perhaps a t-shirt if they'd like one). We are an all-volunteer organisation whose income comes primarily from individual donations and benefit events, and that we have been supported in the past by Denise Levertov, Sherman Alexie, Noam Chomsky, and R.E.M."
For more info, email Andy at: andykchan@hotmail.com
-----------------------------------------
B) Earth First Journal needs art:
Create the icons of the movementphotograph, digital, paint, sketch
Submit your work to the
Earth First! Journal
PO Box 3023, Tucson, AZ 85702
collective@earthfirstjournal.org
Include a self-addressed, stamped envelope to have your work returned.
Cover art submissions must be 8.375 x 11 inches and in full color.
All electronic submissions should be high resolution, 300 dpi.
The Earth First! Journal collective knows that the stories we publish always need striking graphics and/or gripping photographs to accompany them. We understand that these images are often as important as the story itself and can be the key that draws readers in and motivates them into action.
The Journal is currently looking for drawings to illustrate articles, as well as photos or artwork to appear on our front and back covers. We welcome submissions of articles, letters, poetry and art that put the Earth first, aid in healthy debate shaping the growth of the movement and advance the creation of a world free of speciesism, classism, racism, sexism, violence, exploitation and oppression.
Earth First!ers come together in their belief that it is essential to take direct action to stop, reverse and ultimately overthrow that which is causing the destruction of the planet's delicate and diverse biosphere. By drawing public attention to the crises facing the natural world, Earth First! takes a decidedly different tack toward environmental issues. We believe in using all the tools in the toolbox, ranging from grassroots organizing and involvement in the legal process to civil disobedience and monkeywrenching. And the Earth First! Journal is the voice of this radical environmental movement.
Please contact the Journal if you are interested or would like any further information:
PO Box 3023, Tucson, AZ 85702; (520) 620-6900;
collective@earthfirstjournal.org.
-----------------------------------------------
C) Journal of Aesthetics and Protest "Culture War Now!" call:
The Journal of Aesthetics and Protest is looking to promote actions, images, projects, and ideas that thrive in spaces of refusal by embodying alternative ways of being.
A function of art is to shape consciousness- a truth embodied demands reality structure itself around it. The Fascist’s' Agenda will not win because it cannot erase all un-conforming bodies. Images of refusal expand collective ideas of truth and possibility.
O’ heretic- what discoveries have you made? Perform your difference, our otherness. You experience the sublime in places other than death. We want your living gay agenda. Show us how you don’'t need their foreign oil. Illustrate your day-to-day diet for a new america. We want to see the means by which you live otherwise.
The truths we live refute the notion that George Bush’'s own God created the universe for him to run. While they believe....
-endless war creates freedom
-the goals of global capitalsm should dictate social policy
-love is only between a man and a woman
-resource depletion and waste are the driving forces of a functioning
economy
... we know otherwise.
If it is a culture war they want then shall we fight!
SPECIFICATIONS.
All media, actions and performances will be considered.
Contributions will be published online or in our pocket sized book (ideally fitting on one or two pages). Please consider these formats
with your submission.
Questions/problems: contact(at)journalfofaestheticsandprotest.org
Submissions must be received by 3/15/05
Email to contact(at)journalofaestheticsandprotest.org
or
self-addressed, stamped envelope to JoAP 3424 Council Street LA, CA 90004.
Please enclose your contact information.
The Journal of Aesthetics and Protest is a site for critical and creative inquiry and, now, incitement.
In print it is distributed internationally and online it is available
at www.journalofaestheticsandprotest.org
--------------------------------------------
D) Archive of Radical Graphics:
Artists may like to donate their political graphics to: ARG!!!The Archive of Radical Graphics is germinating in the 56a Radical Archive.. We have folders of cool old flyers, posters, drawings and clippings.. contributions so far include Anarchist Graphics, Class War, Fly, Monkey-Wrench Graphix and Paul Petard amongst an array of random stuff. If you make art or agit-prop, then add to this growing public-access project.
Write "ARG!!!" c/o the 56a, visit the infoshop or email
arg(at)eroding.org.uk
NOTE: We are not accepting graphics via email because of problems with aggressive spam and cyber-VD.. please send ALL contributions via good ol' snail mail.
Anarchist space. 56A Infoshop, 56 Crampton St., Kennington SE17, UK
http://www.56a.org.uk/
--------------------------------------------
E)
VERSION>05
APRIL 22- MAY 1, 2005
CHICAGO
Call for Proposals and Work
Deadline February 28, 2005
Version is a hybrid form of festival, conference, arts fair and online project. The fourth annual Version convergence is an experimental approach at navigating the activities of emerging cultures that combine visual arts, activism, social practices, creative use of new technologies as well as tactics and strategies of intervention.
Version>05>Invincible Desire
Version>05-Invincible Desire is a summit of the underground and the everyday. Version>05 aims to practice, examine, and strengthen the activities of local configurations and their external networks.
Version>05 is a drunken boat on a river whose flow has been reversed by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.
Driven by an irrepressible urgency for intervention in the roaring bullshit carnival that has become reality, Version>05 will investigate, debilitate, and agitate contemporary US culture through a diverse program featuring an experimental art expo, artistic disturbances, networked urban events, screenings, interactive software applications, performances, workshops, parties and street action. We envision a New Renaissance summit of aggressive cultural workers organizing their shared interests and networking a distribution of ideas; a rendez-vous of friends & lovers who’ve never yet met.
We will convene in Chicago for a ten-day open laboratory to explore a diversity of tactics and strategies for activating our communities, amplifying our ideas, and ultimately creating viable permacultures parallel to consumer society ˆ and capable of superceding it. The city itself will be used as a map to stage microactions. Blueprints for strengthening emerging alliances and counter-institutions will be unveiled. Alternative spaces will be open for staging actions. Public space, corporate and otherwise, will be our terrain of intervention.
Version>05-Invincible Desire is a cultural summit and call for creating and strengthening connections among artists, writers, wingnuts, curators, vigilante gardeners, activists, surrealists, scientists, musicians, pirates, filmmakers, activists, space hijackers, tactical media provocateurs, radical cartographers, students, designers, dreamers, architects, adventurers, critical thinkers and cultural workers of all kinds.
Send us your critiques of the society of Control and help us examine the rhizomatic systems now confronting the monoculture. We want to enlarge our
little utopias and expand participation across today's multiple fronts of countercultural emancipation and cultural reclamation.
We dictate no format and only require your desire to make it happen.
CALL FOR PROPOSALS AND WORK.
Deadline February 28,2005
Go to: http://versionfest.org
SEND US YOUR IDEAS AND PROPOSALS FOR: papers, workshops, films, street art (stickers, cut-outs, xeroxable pages, stencils), anti-corporate actions,
tactical media projects, culture jamming activities, public art interventions, micro actions, billboard modifications, DIY urbanism, office pranks, social and technology hacking ideas, agit prop posters, how–to guides, creative disturbances in public space, profiles of space invaders and hijackers, lists of tactics and strategies, psychogeographic adventures…
For an idea of projects that were part of version>04 check out:
http://submissions.versionfest.org/submissions/view_submissions.php
And
http://www.versionfest.org/default/
You may mail your proposal and work to:
Version>05
960 W 31st St
Chicago Il 60608
USA
Please use the online submission form to submit a thumbnail sketch of your project. Multiple submissions are encouraged. All online submissions are open for viewing by the public.
There are a few sections of Version that are regularly featured:
GENERAL PROJECT PROPOSALS
Alterations of everyday life. Space hijackings and invasions, occupations and disruptions in corporate space: Psychogeographers, writers, artists, performance artists, tactical mediaticians, and creative interventionists are invited to share their ideas and proposals for projects to be realized at this year’s Version. Please use the online submission form to provide a brief description of the work.
VERSION NFO ART XPO
For SPACES AND COLLECTIVES AND DOCUMENTATIONS Alternative spaces are hubs for encouraging little utopias. Social and cultural places act as laboratories for collaboration and explorations of emerging cultures. Version>05 will be hosting an NFO ART EXPO and space summit. We extend an invitation to members of artist run spaces, alternative institutions, cultural and social spaces, open universities, and individual artists and activists to present their work and mission within a booth or table at the version expo. A space summit will be organized to share stories, strategies and methods of survival and connectivity. Please use the online submission form or contact Ed Marszewski directly at ed@lumpen.com for further information.
TECHNOLOGY AND NET BASED SUBMISSIONS
An online/offline network of projects that are selected for wider dissemination and exhibition. Please use the online submission form to provide a brief description of the work.
CONFERENCE AND WORKSHOPS
Discussions, presentations and documentations of projects, ideas, theories and situations. Email texts directly to ed@Lumpen.com
FILM AND VIDEO
We are seeking work to screen in microcinemas, theaters, the net and to broadcast on cable access tv and low power UHF tv. Shorts, features, experimental and documentary work is preferred. We encourage submissions from individual curators, festivals or media collectives. Television programs can be 28.5 minutes and 58.5 minutes long.
When submitting video work please mail us your work along with the following information:
Title
Year made
Director
Country of orgin
Runnin time
Description of work [up to 500 words]
Contact information (your name, address, phone number, email address, web site)
Moving image entries may be produced on any film or video format, however they must be submitted on DVD (NTSC only), Mini DV (NTSC only), or VHS (NTSC
only). Each film or video must be accompanied by a bio, description and stills.
PERFORMANCE:
Experimental presentations, new forms of audio visual engagement, live musical performances. Submit urls or send cds to the Version address listed above.
VERSION RADIO:
Audio projects of up to 90 minutes will be accepted for broadcast on our low watt radio and web streaming stations during the convergence. Send Cds
to the address above.
/////
Disclaimer:
We will be unable to return any submitted works. So please do not send original or masters.