<nettime-ann> Fwd: [spectre] Radiator Festival Jan 2009 - Call for Artists

[Mason Dixon <mason@artafternext.org>]

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> From: "Anette Trampoline UK" <anette@trampoline.org.uk>
> Date: October 24, 2008 8:54:59 AM CDT
> To: <info@radiator-festival.org>
> Subject: [spectre] Radiator Festival Jan 2009 - Call for Artists
>
>
>
> CALL FOR ARTISTS
>
> RADIATOR: Going Underground *
>
> * Sousveillance - the counterpart to surveillance, where the  
> ‘observed’
> turns around, to face and watch the ‘observer’, recording the  
> observers
> actions and movements.
>
>
>
> Radiator Festival & Symposium
>
> part of the Performing Space series
>
> Nottingham 13th - 18th of Jan 2009
>
>
>
> WHEN AND WHERE
>
> January 2009 in Nottingham, Derby and Leicester, East Midlands, UK
>
> WHAT IT IS
>
> Even as we enter a period of recession, there may be yet a glimmer  
> of hope.
> Are we facing an about turn from the last 30 years of Milton Friedman
> inspired economics that has left our cities wastelands of corporate
> monoculture? If so, there are still a few questions left unanswered…
>
> In an era when the phrase "affects a conservation area" has been no  
> obstacle
> to the planning application for a shopping centre housing solely  
> global
> brands; when 12 million pounds has been spent in the East Midlands for
> extending CCTV systems that have miserable figures for reducing  
> crime; when
> urban regeneration means the extension of the corporate high street  
> to the
> exclusion of independent, local communities; when half of the entire  
> UK
> population now shops in barely 1000 giant superstores….
>
>
>
> Where do we go for explanations?
>
> Why are our everyday movements constantly monitored and the details  
> of our
> lives banked?
>
> How is where we live a reflection of our wants, desires and taxes or  
> the
> interests of powerful outside forces?
>
> Who are the self proclaimed guardians that watch over us in our  
> cities and
> who are the gatekeepers to Fortress Britain?
>
> .
> To unpick these questions and more, Radiator will place 5 artists at  
> the
> urban coalface - the offices and backrooms of companies and  
> institutions -
> where the fates of our city spaces are stamped and sealed.
>
> Architects, planning departments, telemarketeers, city council  
> offices,
> surveillance and monitoring centres – just some of the types of  
> agencies we
> want our artists to infiltrate as sleeper agents, biding their time in
> observation, gathering information, doing work for the agency and  
> for us.
>
> During this time we expect our artist agents to file daily copy, to  
> write
> blogs, to post pictures and draw thought maps and to eventually give a
> thorough account of their activities and their discoveries at a  
> debriefing
> meeting, otherwise known as the Radiator Symposium on Performing  
> Space that
> will take place this Autumn 08 in partnership with Nottingham Trent
> University.
>
> .
> WHAT WE ARE LOOKING FOR
>
> We are looking for proposals from artists and practitioners  
> outlining ideas
> for covert research into the effect of everyday business and  
> government on
> the technologies and architecture that shape our cities and working  
> day
> environments.
>
> Included in the proposal should be details of how these findings  
> obtained
> could be exhibited to the public.
>
>
>
> WHAT WE OFFER
>
> - We offer a research stipend of £1200 plus production expenses  
> towards
> exhibition
>
> - Exhibition during the Radiator Festival in the East Midlands
>
> - A position in the Radiator Symposium on Performing Space at Broadway
>
> - A chance to develop work further for touring internationally in 2009
>
> .
> WHAT WE REQUIRE
>
> - A proposal, which shouldn’t be more than 2 sides of A4 (excluding  
> biogs,
> CVs etc) which includes details of:
>
> - Organisation, institution, department or company your residency or
> research will be with
>
> - What question, approach or method you plan to use as the axis of  
> your
> research
>
> - Details of how your research might be collected, collated and  
> exhibited
> including budget.
>
> - A biography and/ or CV of past and current work
>
> - Visual material on DVD or CDROM or internet
>
> - a filled in submissions form (link below)
>
>
>
> DEADLINE: Fri 14th Nov 08
>
>
>
>
>
> To download the submissions form please go to
>
> http://www.radiator-festival.org/content/news.php?id_artist=63
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