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FADO E-LIST (February 2007)
INDEX
1. FADO NEWS
2. EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY: Assistant Professor, Interdisciplinary Fine Arts (Toronto)
Deadline:February 15, 2007; Source: Akimbo
3. CALL FOR PROJECTS: AgenceTOPO.qc.ca (Montréal)
Deadline: February 15, 2007; Source: Agence TOPO
4. CALL FOR PROPOSALS: "ANTI Festival" (Finland)
Deadline:February 28, 2007; Source: ANTI Festival
5. CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS {PUBLICATION): "Nature and Technology" Locus Suspectus Magazine (Montréal)
Deadline: February 28, 2007; Source: Locus Suspectus
6. CALL FOR PROPOSALS (PUBLICATION): "Canular" la revue esse arts + opinions (Montréal)
Deadline: March 1, 2007; Source: esse
7. CALL FOR APPLICATIONS: "International MFA in New Media" Transart Institute (Austria)
Deadline: March 15, 2007; Source: ARTSERVIS
8. RESIDENCY: "Lower East Side Rotating Studio Program" (USA)
Deadline:March 15, 2007; Source: Artists Alliance Inc.
9. REQUEST FOR COLLABORATORS: "Mehora" Performance art / political campaign (Philippines)
Deadline: mid-March, 2007; Source: Bobby Nuestro
10. CALL FOR PROPOSALS: "Accumulation" The Present Tense (USA)
Deadline: March 21, 2007; Source: The Present Tense
11. CALL FOR PROPOSALS: "Re·Use " New Forms Festival 2007 (Vancouver)
Deadline: April 1, 2007; Source: New Forms Festival
12. RESIDENCY: Klondike Institute of Art & Culture (Dawson City)
Deadline: April 1, 2007; Source: Klondike Institute of Art & Culture
13. CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: Galerie Sans Nom (Moncton)
Deadline: April 15, 2007; Source: Galerie Sans Nom
14. CALL FOR PAPERS (PUBLICATION): "La Peur" esse arts + opinions numéro 61 (Montréal)
Deadline: April 15, 2007; Source: esse arts + opinions
15. CONGRESS: "Corralling Art - Aboriginal Curatorial Practice in the Prairies and Beyond" (Saskatoon)
Event date: May 17- 18, 2007; Source: TRIBE Inc.
16. RESIDENCY: Elsewhere Artist Collaborative (USA)
Deadline: not given; Source: Instant Coffee
17. CALL FOR PARTICIPANTS: PERFURBANCE #3 (Indonesia)
Deadline: not given; Source: performance_art_network
18. REQUEST FOR MATERIALS: Cultural Center of Ministry of Culture (Uruguay)
Deadline: not given; Source: Clemente Padín
19. NEWS: Conservative government cuts international arts promotion budget (Canada)
Source: The Globe and Mail
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1. FADO NEWS
In a special e-list supplement in mid-January, Performance Art Curator Paul Couillard announced that he will be leaving his job at the end of June of 2007. Also included with this notice were two job calls, one for a permanent Artistic and Administrative Director, and a second contract position for a Special Projects Coordinator. We remind potential applicants that the deadline for receiving applications is February 26, 2007. For details, visit http://www.performanceart.ca/news/jobcalls.html
Show your love to that special someone, and to Fado, too! As a special fundraising project, Fado members and friends are offering Toronto residents the opportunity to buy Performance Valentine-Oh-Grams! "Some lovers give chocolates, some splurge on roses, and if you're lucky you'll get a card. This Valentine's Day give the gift that will charm your sweetie for the entire year!
In the modern world, what better way is there to say 'I love you' than a Performance Valentine-Oh-Gram!" For details, visit our website at http://www.performanceart.ca/fundraisers/valentine/ogram.html. But hurry, they're going fast!
Upcoming programming: In our Emerging Artists Series: Enter-gration, curated by Nahed Mansour and featuring Tejpal S. Ajji, Rachel Gorman, Rita Kamacho, Reena Katz, Karilynn Ming Ho, Jesus Mora, Idil Mussa and Bojana Videkanic. March 1 -4, 2007 at Toronto Free Gallery. See http://www.performanceart.ca/emerging/enter/home.html for details. Also in March, David Khang and Elvira Santamaria. Stay tuned for more information.
Also, recently added to the Fado website, a new text on the recent Fado project featuring Vassya Vassileva. Visit http://www.performanceart.ca/idea/vassileva/essay.html to read Searching for an Empty Signifier, or How to Read Vassya Vassileva's Work? written by Bojana Videkanic.
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2. EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY: Assistant Professor, Interdisciplinary Fine Arts (Toronto)
Deadline:February 15, 2007; Source: Akimbo
York University, Interdisciplinary Fine Arts
Position Rank: Full Time Tenure Stream - Assistant Professor
Position Start Date: July 1, 2007
Applications are invited for a tenure-track appointment at the Assistant Professor level in Interdisciplinary Fine Arts. The program seeks applicants with proven expertise in at least two disciplines drawn from dance, design, film, music, theatre or another related arts discipline. Strength in popular/world music would be an asset. The successful candidate will have the ability to examine and contextualize his/her areas of expertise across the fine and popular performing and new media arts using interdisciplinary methodologies, and will engage in the development of theories and practices that provide the intellectual foundations of cultural studies in a popular and fine arts context. The candidate will be required to contribute to teaching at a variety of levels, from a large, interdisciplinary course at the first-year level to participating in the development of a graduate program in Fine Arts Cultural Studies, and teaching at the graduate level. Applicants must have a PhD, a recognized record of scholarly research and the ability to demonstrate excellence in teaching. Evidence of a studio-based practice will be taken into account. Experience teaching large lecture classes as well as seminar courses will be an asset. The successful candidate should be suitable for prompt appointment to the Faculty of Graduate Studies.
The Fine Arts Cultural Studies Program (FACS) focuses on the fine, performing and new media arts and offers a unique opportunity to explore them from various interdisciplinary perspectives. Courses consider relationships between the arts, the artistic forms that may emerge when boundaries are blurred, and the place of the arts in both local and global contexts. The program currently has 300 majors and offers BA, BA Honours, BA Interdisciplinary Honours Double Major, and Honours Minor in Fine Arts Cultural Studies. A BA Digital Media will begin in 2008, and plans for a graduate program are underway.
York University is an Affirmative Action Employer. The Affirmative Action Program can be found on York's website at www.yorku.ca/acadjobs or a copy can be obtained by calling the affirmative action office at 416-736-5713. All qualified candidates are encouraged to apply; however, Canadian citizens and Permanent Residents will be given priority.
Qualified applicants are invited to submit a letter identifying their research and teaching interests and indicating how these might be compatible with the Fine Arts Cultural Studies program, together with a curriculum vitae, a one-page statement of teaching philosophy, and the names of three referees to:
Ms. Christine Gooljar, Administrative Assistant
Fine Arts Cultural Studies, Room 283, Winters College
York University, 4700 Keele Street
Toronto, ON Canada M3J 1P3
Tel: 416.736.5822, Fax: 416.650.8034, E-mail: cgooljar@yorku.ca
The deadline for completed applications is February 15, 2007.
All positions at York University are subject to budgetary approval.
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3. CALL FOR PROJECTS: AgenceTOPO.qc.ca (Montréal)
Deadline: February 15, 2007; Source: Agence TOPO
New media creation
Residency program for web art production
AgenceTOPO.qc.ca
At the crossroad of visual arts, literature and new media
Featuring works of fiction for the web, Agence TOPO supports the convergence of visual arts, literature and new media, the renewal of narrative genres on the web and a presence in the network of artists coming from diverse artistic and cultural horizons.
We invite all artists with a contemporary practice in any discipline to submit an individual or collective proposal for a web art project involving new approaches in terms of narrativity, visual design and interaction. The projects could include another component, such as performance, installation, exhibition, mobile device, etc., that may be complementary to the expanse of web features and possibilities.
The selected artists and projects will benefit from technical support by an experienced multimedia designer for a period of 4 to 8 weeks within a residency program that can be spread out over time depending on the artists needs and agenda.
We offer :
- Production fees
- Access to a computer and audiovisual equipment
- A technical support (programming and multimedia integration)
- The organization of a launching event in Montréal
Necessary documents / Due date : February 15, 2007
- Project proposal
- Description of technical needs
- Proposed agenda (Spring 2007 - Winter 2008)
- Summary of artistic approach
- Press kit
- Curriculum vitae
- Visual/audiovisual documentation
- A pre-stamped envelope for the return of the documentation
Agence TOPO
Michel Lefebvre, General Director
5455 de Gaspé, suite 1001
Montréal (Québec) H2T 3B3
T 514 279 8676
agence@agencetopo.qc.ca
www.agenceTOPO.qc.ca
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4. CALL FOR PROPOSALS: "ANTI Festival" (Finland)
Deadline:February 28, 2007; Source: ANTI Festival
ANTI Festival will be organized in Kuopio in September 27–30, 2007. ANTI is a forum for experimental, radical and non-commercial art. It offers an international and visible arena to introduce art works in a city environment. The emphasis of the ANTI festival is on live art and environmental art, including light, sound, installation and performances. JOIN US!
Artists and students as well as designers from all artistic fields are encouraged to submit their new ideas and works of art.
CONTENTS OF ANTI PROPOSALS
This festival aims to activate sites/environments selected beforehand in the city of Kuopio. Art works can take place directly in the proposed location or conceptually in- or outdoors. The participating artists select the location for their works from the proposed location options. The list of sites can be viewed on our festival website.
It is essential for the proposals to take the audience and customers that are already present at each location into consideration. Site-specificity is an extremely important factor as regards assessing and selecting momentary performances as well as sculptural works. In addition to the physical location, the idea of the work can deal with the notion of space through people who work in that particular place or the values, actions or contemporary events which the location represents. Please note that the art works may also combine various locations and themes. In addition to the site-specific elements of each location, it is possible to use sound and lights in the environmentally-oriented art and performances.
FORM OF PROPOSALS AND REQUIREMENTS
The proposals must include the name of the artist and a CV, working title of the work, place, contact details, budget, technical requirements and a working plan (max. 1 page) and only one appendix (i.e. photograph, video, CD-ROM). Appendices will not be returned. The proposals do not need to be technically ready before submission as the idea can be developed afterwards. However, it is important that the main idea of the work and the estimated costs are clearly stated in the proposal. Estimated costs should include all the necessary materials, travelling costs and the artist fee. Photos and descriptions of the sites are available at www.antifestival.com.
The sites of the ANTI 2007 festival are Open College (Puistokartano), the reduction of the city paper Viikko-Savo, Uppo-Nalle children’s park, Grill Teatterigrilli, skateboarding spot, Vasikkasaari Island and Kuopion Osuuspankki Bank. Site-specific information will be available on our website.
The deadline for applications is 28 February, 2007. Please post your application to
ANTI – Contemporary Art Festival,
Koljonniemenkatu 2, 2nd Floor,
70100 Kuopio, Finland
or e-mail info@antifestival.com.
Please note that the appendix (if necessary) should be sent by post.
FURTHER INFORMATION:
Johanna Tuukkanen
artistic director
mobile +358 50 3052 485
johanna@antifestival.com
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5. CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS {PUBLICATION): "Nature and Technology" Locus Suspectus Magazine (Montréal)
Deadline: February 28, 2007; Source: Locus Suspectus
Locus Suspectus Magazine is a contemporary arts magazine that seeks out the stranger sides of visual culture for an interdisciplinary dialogue between contemporary critical theory and art practices. Founded in Montreal in 2005, by Jolene Pozniak, Kinga Araya and Ruth Burns, the magazine continues to evolve and expand as we settle into our new head office in Edmonton, Alberta. Now a non-profit organization, our membership and distribution base is on the rise and spans across Canada and Europe.
As an uncanny site for visual culture, Locus Suspectus blends elements of publishing and curating to create an alternative magazine that explores up-and-coming artistic talents within the context of established artistic accomplishments and scholarship. Our organization believes in the important social function the arts hold in society. We seek to bring about greater public awareness of both local and global socio-political and cultural issues. Ultimately, Locus Suspectus strives to be an active agent in cultivating support for the arts across disciplines and communities within Canada and abroad.
NATURE AND TECHNOLOGY
Currently planning for our fourth issue, we are seeking submissions from writers and artists on the topic of 'technology and nature'. The pervasive presence of new and increasingly sophisticated technology in our society has affected our relationship to the natural world and to our own bodies. The editors are interested in exploring these issues through both the visual arts and articles, which address broader social concerns.
Artist Guidelines
Artist submissions will be considered for profiles, feature interviews and the gallery section (an exhibition on paper). We only accept digital submissions. Please include a maximum of 20 images (jpg, psd, bmp, tiff format), image list, artist statement and cv. In addition to the above digital formats, we will also accept short video submissions for electronic publication in our "Featured Artist" section on <http://stats.r8g.us/sendlink.asp?HitID=1169508614000&StID=14717&SID=0&EmID=52698899&Link=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.lsmagazine.ca>www.lsmagazine.ca.
Writer Guidelines
We are interested in the following: profiles of artists whose work addresses this topic, or articles which address the socio-economic and/or historical aspects of the changing relationship between nature and technology. We accept digital submissions in the following formats: a) near to complete draft (500-3000 words), with a 50 word bio OR b) proposal of no more than 500 words, accompanied by a publishing resume.
Send To
Email your submissions to <mailto:submissions@lsmagazine.ca>submissions@lsmagazine.ca, with "Nature and Technology - Your Name" in the subject heading.
Deadline: February 28th, 2007
Locus Suspectus Magazine
#1801, 10180 104 Street
Edmonton, Alberta
T5J 1A7, Canada
<mailto:submissions@lsmagazine.ca>submissions@lsmagazine.ca
<http://stats.r8g.us/RWCode/subscribe.asp?SiteID=14717&SID=0&Email=info@performanceart.ca&hitid=1169508614000><http://stats.r8g.us/sendlink.asp?HitID=1169508614000&StID=14717&SID=0&EmID=52698899&Link=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.lsmagazine.ca>http://www.lsmagazine.ca
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6. CALL FOR PROPOSALS (PUBLICATION): "Canular" la revue esse arts + opinions (Montréal)
Deadline: March 1, 2007; Source: esse
(FRENCH TEXT ONLY)
CANULARS RECHERCHÉS
Pour son dossier Canular, la revue esse arts + opinions souhaite répertorier ou dévoiler des canulars artistiques.
Les auteurs de canulars sont donc invités à envoyer une proposition à esse avant le 1er mars 2007.
Ces propositions devraient comprendre une ou plusieurs images du projet (maximum 5, format tiff ou jpeg 300 dpi, 10 x 15 cm) et un court texte (environ 100 mots) expliquant le canular en question (intention, description, contexte de diffusion).
Seuls les auteurs des propositions retenues seront contactés.
Envoyez vos propositions d’ici le 1er mars à revue@esse.ca
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7. CALL FOR APPLICATIONS: "International MFA in New Media" Transart Institute (Austria)
Deadline: March 15, 2007; Source: ARTSERVIS
Transart Institute, Krems, Austria
An international MFA in New Media program for working artists to develop a sustainable creative praxis
This innovative program focuses on content and context.
http://www.transartinstitute.org/#
- Three summer residencies (two weeks each) in Linz, Austria; optional winter residency in New York.
- One-on-one mentorships during two school years - wherever you work and live.
Work in the genre(s) which best communicate your ideas including animation, architecture, curating, cyberart, digital and experimental media, film, gaming, graphic design, installation, painting, performance, photography, robotics, sculpture, sound, text, video, virtual reality.
The program is intended to lift the boundaries between applied and fine arts, traditional and new media, artists and scholars. Students are free to pursue work in any media art-related genre and to create their own course of study.
Winter Residency and Open House 2007:
February 1-4, 2007, Point B, Brooklyn, New York
Summer Residency 2007:
July 11-28, 2007, O.K. Center for Contemporary Art, Linz, Austria
Deadlines:: 01/03/07 (early), 01/06/07 (final)
Transart Institute
Danube University Krems
Dr. Karl-Dorrek-Strasse 30
3500 Krems
Austria
tel: (+43) 699 1169 0277, (+1) 415 367 3470
fax: (+1) 508 682 2853
info@transartinstitute.org
http://www.transartinstitute.org/
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8. RESIDENCY: "Lower East Side Rotating Studio Program" (USA)
Deadline:March 15, 2007; Source: Artists Alliance Inc.
AAI is pleased to announce its 2007 Open Call for the Lower East Side Rotating Studio Program (LES-RSP).
Funded through generous grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts and the Greenwall Foundation, the Lower East Side-Rotating Studio Program offers two free six- month residency sessions to 8 visual artists a year plus a small stipend to each artist.
Session 1 begins June 4, 2007 - November 27, 2007
Session 2 begins December 4, 2007 - May 31, 2008
Located in the vibrant and historically significant multicultural neighborhood of the Lower East Side, the AAI Studio Programs underscores AAI&Mac226;s mission to support the careers of emerging and mid-career artists working in all fields as well as hard-working artists who fall outside the system.
The Studio Program is open to emerging, mid-career and hard-working artists who fall outside the system. All disciplines including painting, photography, sculpture, video, installation and new media will be accepted.
Artists may apply for both sessions.
Application Deadline: March 15, 2007 (postmarked)
AAI is grateful to the following funders for their generousity and commitment to the arts: The National Endowment for the Arts, The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts and the Greenwall Foundation.
AAI is thankful for the continued support of the New York Foundation for the Arts, to the City of New York for their continued commitment to preserving 107 Suffolk Street as a Community Arts Center and to the numerous AAI members and interns who dedicate their time and resources to these programs.
Please use the link below to obtain an application and more information about the Studio Program.
Application & More Information:
http://www.aai-nyc.org/Studio_Programs/AAI_open_call/index.html
Artists Alliance Inc
107 Suffolk Street #411
New York, New York 10002
212-420-9202
<mailto:aai@aai-nyc.org>aai@aai-nyc.org
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9. REQUEST FOR COLLABORATORS: "Mehora" Performance art / political campaign (Philippines)
Deadline: mid-March, 2007; Source: Bobby Nuestro
I am an Artist based in the Province Island of Oriental Mindoro Philippines This coming May 14 2007 our country will have a mid-term Local and National election starting on March 30 the 45 days campaign period will begin I would like to Invite interested Performance Artists, New Media Practitioners, Video and Film makers, to collaborate with me in my art project titled MEHORA [which comes from Spanish term 'mejora' meaning amelioration, betterment, the act of relieving ills and changing for the better. The term 'Mehora' is used by Filipino politicians as basis for their services to his / her constituency].
The project is a 45-day Performance Art/ reality video documentation/ political campaign of mine to win a provincial legislative seat in my district in Mindoro under the platform of ART and Culture as a tool in socio-economic change in our province. My purpose is to campaign and the same time document my actions to show the world how politics is practiced here in the Philippines.
What I want is to invite Interested artists to collaborate with me and document my works. In exchange, I will shoulder his/her Board and Lodging for the 45-day campaign and share all the rights of the documentation that will be transformed into a documentary film. I will send the necessary information to those who want to be a part of MEHORA project.
My time table is until the Middle of March to accept intentions and proposals.
Thank you and more power to all your endeavors.
Bobby Nuestro
<bbby_nuestro@yahoo.com>
Artists-run Independent Art Space
Lri Business Plaza Makati City Philippines
Telefax: 8959837
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10. CALL FOR PROPOSALS: "Accumulation" The Present Tense (USA)
Deadline: March 21, 2007; Source: The Present Tense
The Present Tense is now accepting proposals for "Accumulation," a gallery exhibition that will showcase installation that is activated by live performance. Over the duration of the exhibition, each participating artist will create a performance that will build off of the installation created by artifacts left from the previous artist/s. Each artist will be allotted an amount of time in the space to work individually. Each artist will also be given the opportunity to give an artist lecture. Our goal is to create an evolving collaborative installation that will challenge ideas about performance documentation by establishing a visual representation of community. If you are interested in this project please send:
Artist Statement/ Bio
CV/ Resume
and Documentation from previous work
to:
ThePresentTense@hotmail.com
or
attention: Fryer/Schaefer
15 Channel Center Street
Studio 414
Boston, MA, USA
02210
by: March 21st
www.ThePresentTense.TestPerformance.org
The Present Tense
Sandra Schaefer
Philip Fryer
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11. CALL FOR PROPOSALS: "Re·Use " New Forms Festival 2007 (Vancouver)
Deadline: April 1, 2007; Source: New Forms Festival
The New Forms Festival is an annual cross-disciplinary festival exploring installation, performance, music, film, and electronic arts.
The theme for NFF07 is Re·Use
To use something again, often for a different purpose and usually as an alternative to throwing it out.
NFF 07 looks at the ideas of reuse in the media arts. These forms have been able to come from different areas all around us. Whether involving the recycling of equipment, the change in its use, reprogramming material, the sample and mash-up of sound/images and reconstruction of ideas; the concept of reuse has become one of the major entities behind invigorating, changing, and growing media and electronic arts.
Over history art has always seen recontextualization at its very core. Warhol once asked if there was ever really an original idea. Shakespearean tales become modern films, ancient sounds become electronic music anthems. Pop culture drives home sounds and imagery that have changed, grown, and evolved over time. Within this we have seen our cultures mix, grow, and shape shift as ideas get recontextualized and reapproapriated from generation to generation, and culture to culture.
For Re:Use NFF is looking for pieces that challenge these models and trends, recognizing shifts that have taken place as well as new and innovative works that re:use works on formats and in ways not yet seen. As the amount of information we receive on a daily basis increases at a pace far faster that at any other time in history, NFF 07 will become a platform for this mixed media world, and a indicator of what might lie ahead in the years to come.
NFF EXHIBITION 07
Re-Use: Everything Knows Itself
The world is round.- Gertrude Stein
Clocks are thinking, Earth is spinning, people are ticking...
Furthering the New Forms Festival’s 2007 direction of exploring things unseen the exhibition will centre on the theme of re-constructing, re-shaping and re-mixing the already extant. The aim of this reincarnation is to reflect the sameness and the difference of things revealed by repetition, iteration, rhythm and phase.
Sameness requires difference; the very regularity of a beat, of drumming, can be enhanced and overwritten. The second repetition is invariantly different then the first by being second. Difference resolves into more complex kinds of sameness.
We are interested in form as much as content. We shall invite works that are spare, astringent, and display a simplicity of means coupled with transparency of technique. Works purged of metaphor and stripped down to their most fundamental features. "Less is more, more is less. The eye is a menace to clear sight." [Ad Reinhardt]. We would like to show self-contained works that shed light on the underlying systematic action of their construction, exhibiting regularity of behavior in the elements they use. We welcome audio/visual installation, kinetic sculpture, networked and telematic art submissions. The key words, again, are: repetition, iteration, rhythm and phase.
UNCONFERENCE: ArtCamp07: Re:use
ArtCamp07: Re:use follows up on ArtCamp06, the World’s First Un-Conference on Art, a groundbreaking day-long event co-produced by New Forms Festival and Upgrade! Vancouver, which was attended by over a hundred artists, designers, programmers, critics, theorists, curators and practitioners from all fields who presented over 30 workshops, talks and hybrid events throughout a single inspiration-filled day. The theme of Re:use will be brought into the framework of ArtCamp in order to offer an opportunity for participants from all fields working creatively with technological or material frameworks to come together in an open window of time and space to meet, show work, talk about ideas, try things out, and learn new hands-on practices.
Bring your turntables, laptops, or sewing machines, your old mp3s, National Geographics, bridesmaid’s dresses, or liquor tickets. Come with something, and leave with something else. We invite all manner of on-the-spot engagements including but not limited to: DIY projects that transform discarded materials in something beautiful, cool or useful; showing people how to cut and paste code to make quick and dirty websites or applications; strategies for revisioning experiences or environments; workshops for recycling photographs, cassettes, CDs or other technological or manufacturing detritus; conceptual detournement; discussion or demonstration of interventionist practices relating to performance, psychogeography or street art; collaborative drawing events; experimentation with found materials; realtime mixing of cameraphone pictures, text messages, video, photostreams or something else; swaps, exchanges or tricked-out marketplace mods for circulating, disseminating or evolving objects, subjects or frameworks; presentation of cultural objects or artifacts that relate to reuse or recycling; discussion tracing the circulation and “reuse” of strategies or ideas; or grand schemes for social or environmental engagements. You get the idea: it’s up to you. Bring something -- object, material, idea, technology, or just bring yourself – and put it in the mix.
ArtCamp is a self-organizing event that gear up in the form of a collaborative wiki in the months and weeks leading up to the festival. To look at last year’s wiki, visit <http://artcamp.pbwiki.com>http://artcamp.pbwiki.com <http://artcamp.pbwiki.com><http://artcamp.pbwiki.com>
FILM
Deconstruction
Deconstruction looks to films made entirely out of sample based material. Whether coming from a found art, archival, scratch video or other mode of presentation, deconstruction looks to those works that alter the reality of the original clips, creating new context through the finished result. Works are encouraged from a wide range of sources including poltical, pop-cultural, surreal, home-video, and the internet.
MUSIC AND VISUALS SERIES
Scratch Video
Aiming to present a comprehensive look at the world of scratch-video, one of the most prominent sub-genres of live video production and interfacing, this night takes live video mixing/scratching under the context of hip-hop/beat music production as its focus. Assembling National and International artists, software developers, and scenemakers, NFF07 affords a mash-up of sub-genres, styles, and methods, picturing where this Form has been and where it is going. Live movement within the image, movement, and sound is crucial to this evening.
Cross-Pollination
Articulating the crossovers and variances between traditional band/instrument structures and electronically-mediated production and performance, this event allows audiences to see committed efforts on both sides in order to facilitate cooperation and communication between Forms. Cross-Pollination features 30-minute sets from bands, which are sampled live and then restructured and remixed by a laptop/live p.a. artist immediately thereafter, which effectively is a live remix. This format encourages both artists and audience to stretch their understanding and appreciation to the limit, as it lays bare both the capabilities, but also inadequacies, of the Forms, while pushing both all involved to further their skills and the scope of their art.
Electronic Heritage
Electronic music as a musical art form has been in existence for nearly a century. From early modulating and noise creating machines like the intonarumori to modern day audio computer software like ACID and Pro Tools electronic musicians have been at the forefront of musical innovation since its existence. 2007 will mark the 100th anniversary of the first electronic instrument the teleharmonium. In celebration of the birth of this now antique musical art form the New Forms Festival would like to pay tribute to yesteryears electronic pioneers by inviting contemporary electronic innovators to interpret their sound. Electronic Heritage will invite artists to incorporate electronic theories, instruments and samples from their electronic forefathers into live performances that will both address the old and bridge the new. This night will show where we’ve come from and where electronic music is yet to go.
Manglification
Building off the success of the "Where We Are" and "Timestretch" nights from the Low/Music & Visual Series of NFF05 & 06 respectively, Mangling plans to showcase those at the forefront of modern dance culture and its subsequent music production. These artists provide necessary alternatives, reconsiderations, and subversions of the vast machine that has occured as the music industry has overtaken branches of the electronic music scene and its pop tangents. The event will complete the spectrum of the modern club environment, pairing the music sets with visual installations and live video performance.
RESIDENCY PROGRAM
New Forms has begun to work with Artist Run Centres in the city to produce works specifically around the festival. The goals are to create a maximum audience for these local artists works that might not be available otherwise, and also to give these artists a forum to display works in an international context. The first of these partnerships will be with OFMAS (Open Forum Media Arts Society) for 2007. We will be contacting further Artist Run Centres in Vancouver concerning this in the months ahead. The Residency Program is only applicable to local artists and community projects are encouraged. Please contact curatorial@newformsfestival.com <mailto:curatorial@newformsfestival.com><mailto:curatorial@newformsfestival.com> for further information on the program.
All submissions should be done through the online form at www.newformsfestival.com <http://www.newformsfestival.com/submissions><http://www.newformsfestival.com/submissions>, with accompanying material sent to:
New Forms Festival 06 / Transformations #200-252 East 1st Avenue, Vancouver, B.C. V5T-1A6. Submission Deadline: April 1st, 2007.
(No Submissions arriving after April 1st will be accepted)
For any further information please email submissions@newformsfestival.com.
Malcolm Levy
New Forms Festival : Revised Films
#200-252 East 1st Avenue. Vancouver, B.C. V5T-1A6
malcolm@newformsfestival.com
604.648.2752
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12. RESIDENCY: Klondike Institute of Art & Culture (Dawson City)
Deadline: April 1, 2007; Source: Klondike Institute of Art & Culture
The Klondike Institute of Art & Culture is accepting applications from visual, media and interdisciplinary artists for it's 2008 Artist in Residence Program.
The residence accommodates up to 2 artists concurrently - for research, development and production of ongoing or new bodies of work. Artists may also have the opportunity to facilitate outreach programs such as talks, open studios, workshops and exhibitions, intended to promote interaction and professional development, and provide exposure and access to a diverse range of contemporary arts practices and theories within the community.
Residencies are 4 to 12 weeks in duration starting from January 1, 2008 through to December 31, 2008. Artists are provided at no cost with individual studio space and bedroom, with shared living facilities.
The Artist in Residence program is located in the Macaulay Residence. Built in 1901, the home is now owned by Parks Canada as part of the Dawson Historical Complex National Historic Site of Canada.
For more information, complete application guidelines and an application form, visit our website: <http://www.kiac.org/programs/residence.html>http://www.kiac.org/programs/residence.html
Klondike Institute of Art & Culture
Dawson City, Yukon CANADA
Tel: 1.867.993.5005
<mailto:dawsonarts@yknet.ca>dawsonarts@yknet.ca
<http://www.kiac.org><http://www.kiac.org>www.kiac.org
KIACArtist in Residence Program Coordinator: Mike Yuhasz
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ODDGallery - Artist Run Centre
Call for Artists : ODD Gallery
Deadline: 1 April 2007, Canada
The Odd Gallery is accepting proposals for exhibition from artists and curators for it's 2008 Exhibition Program.
The Odd Gallery&Mac226;s year-round programming features solo and group exhibitions - juried by committee - by regional, national and international visual artists, and a wide array of outreach programming including artist&Mac226;s and curator&Mac226;s talks, open studios, workshops and youth programs.
Gallery programming aims to foster professionalism and appreciation of regional visual arts practice, and provides the community with exposure and access to a diverse range of national and international contemporary visual arts practices and theories.
The Odd Gallery is an artist run initiative based in Dawson City, Yukon Canada.
For more information and submission guidelines visit:
<http://www.kiac.org/odd/proposals.html>http://www.kiac.org/odd/proposals.html
Klondike Institute of Art & Culture
Dawson City, Yukon CANADA
Tel: 1.867.993.5005
<mailto:dawsonarts@yknet.ca>dawsonarts@yknet.ca
<http://www.kiac.org><http://www.kiac.org>www.kiac.org
ODDGallery + KIACArtist in Residence Program Coordinator: Mike Yuhasz
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2008 The Natural & The Manufactured &Mac246; An ODDGallery and KIAC Artist in Residence Thematic Project
Call for Artists : ODD Gallery
Deadline: 1 April 2007, Canada
The Odd Gallery seeks proposals from visual artists working in all media for gallery-based and temporary off-venue exhibitions such as outdoor and site-specific installations. Artists may propose completed work or new work and are encouraged to apply for a concurrent residency with KIAC&Mac226;s Artist in Residence Program.
Currently, project activities are presented as part of KIAC&Mac226;s annual Yukon Riverside Art Festival &Mac246; taking place in mid-August &Mac246; and include exhibitions, opening receptions, artists&Mac226; talks and guest lectures that are intended to stimulate and engage audiences in a re-examination of the various cultural and economic values imposed on the environment, while exploring alternative political, social, economic and aesthetic agendas and strategies towards a re-interpretation of the regional landscape and social infrastructure.
For more information and submission guidelines visit:
<http://www.kiac.org/odd/proposals.html>http://www.kiac.org/odd/proposals.html
<http://www.naturalmanufactured.org>http://www.naturalmanufactured.org
Klondike Institute of Art & Culture
Dawson City, Yukon CANADA
Tel: 1.867.993.5005
<mailto:dawsonarts@yknet.ca>dawsonarts@yknet.ca
<http://www.kiac.org/><http://www.kiac.org/>www.kiac.org
ODDGallery + KIACArtist in Residence Program Coordinator: Mike Yuhasz
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13. CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: Galerie Sans Nom (Moncton)
Deadline: April 15, 2007; Source: Galerie Sans Nom
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GALERIE SANS NOM CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
DEADLINE : APRIL 15 2007
Galerie Sans Nom is the only Acadian artist-run centre dedicated to the presentation of visual and multidisciplinary art. Since 1977, the centre has supported artists’ initiatives, encouraging experimentation and innovation. Galerie Sans Nom’s programming takes into account current artistic tendencies and reflects contemporary issues while remaining relevant to its social and artistic community. GSN extends its activities to a variety of artistic practices and disciplines including, but not limited to, visual arts, media arts, performance, audio art, new music and interdisciplinary practices.
GALERIE SANS NOM
- cover letter
- detailed description of project
- technical requirements of proposed project
- curriculum vitae or biography
- 10-15 examples of recent work on slides, cd (jpg only), dvd, video or audio tape
- detailed list of support material
- self-addressed stamped envelope
- press kit (optional)
Selection committee
Galerie Sans Nom
140, Botsford Street
Moncton, NB E1C 4X5
Canada
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GALERIE SANS NOM APPEL DE DOSSIERS DATE LIMITE : 15 AVRIL 2007
La Galerie Sans Nom est le seul centre d’artistes acadien voué à la présentation des arts visuels et multidisciplinaires. Depuis 1977, elle appuie les initiatives d’artistes, favorisant l’expérimentation et l’innovation. Sa programmation tient compte des tendances de l’art actuel et reflète les préoccupations et les réalités contemporaines, tout en étant pertinente pour son milieu et sa communauté d’artistes. La GSN étend ses activités à une variété de pratiques et de disciplines incluant, mais ne se limitant pas, aux arts visuels, aux arts médiatiques, à la performance, à l’art sonore, à la musique actuelle et aux pratiques interdisciplinaires.
- lettre de présentation
- description détaillée du projet
- besoins techniques du projet proposé
- curriculum vitae ou biographie
- dix à quinze exemples de travaux récents en diapositives, sur cd (jpg seulement), dvd, cassette audio ou vidéo
- liste détaillée du matériel d’appui
- enveloppe de retour pré-affranchie
- dossier de presse (facultatif)
Comité de sélection
Galerie Sans Nom
140, rue Botsford, local 12-B
Moncton, (N.-B.) E1C 4X5
Canada
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14. CALL FOR PAPERS (PUBLICATION): "La Peur" esse arts + opinions numéro 61 (Montréal)
Deadline: April 15, 2007; Source: esse arts + opinions
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CALL FOR PAPERS
FEAR
esse arts + opinions N. 61
Deadline : April 15, 2007
Whether related to a real or an imagined danger, the psychological state of fear is a concrete part of our daily lives. For years writers, artists and filmmakers have toyed with creating environments that instill this emotional state within their audiences. However, in recent years this state has also been provoked by politicians, religious fanatics or terrorist groups whose aim is to generate a general state of paranoia among the populace. Fear has now become a veritable tool of propaganda – one that gives the powers-that-be an almost unlimited and effective ability to exercise an even greater control.
In this current context, what do artists explore as recourse, or response, to the increasing pervasiveness of horror, anxiety, phobias and psychosis? While certain creators are interested in the strategies that may provoke fear, others prefer to invoke a nomenclature or iconography of various types of anxieties and human phobias and yet others, those who lean on the side of activism, tend to put the emphasis on exposing the campaigns of fear and tactics that governments employ in the name of civil “security.”
For our upcoming issue, esse would like to reflect upon the states of fear that inhabit our daily lives through an exploration of the diverse artistic approaches and practices that address this increasingly ubiquitous state.
Texts (from 1000 to 2500 words) can be sent to s.babin@esse.ca By April 15, 2007.
Submissions are accepted three times per year: January 10, April 15 and September 10. Writers are invited to propose articles of between 1000 to 2500 words. These can be sent by e-mail in Word format or RTF to s.babin@esse.ca.To facilitate the editorial and correction process, writers should include their postal address, telephone numbers and e-mail address, as well as a short biography. If the article is related to a specific work, the Editorial Board may ask the writer to provide images.
Sylvette Babin
Directrice
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APPEL DE TEXTES
Dossier : La Peur
esse arts + opinions numéro 61
Date de tombée : 15 avril 2007
Phénomène psychologique lié à un danger, réel ou imaginaire, la peur fait partie de notre quotidien. Longtemps, écrivains, artistes et cinéastes se sont amusés à produire les conditions nécessaires à sa mise en place, afin de divertir le public ou d’y trouver une forme de stimulation émotionnelle ou un exutoire. Cependant, depuis quelques années, la peur est aussi employée par les différentes instances du pouvoir, religieux, politique ou encore par les groupes terroristes pour orchestrer de véritables campagnes visant à installer un climat de paranoïa générale auprès de la population et ce, à l’échelle planétaire. La peur semble donc être devenue un véritable outil de propagande permettant d’exercer une forme de contrôle et de manipulation sociale extrêmement efficace.
Dans ce contexte, que peut signifier aujourd’hui le recours à l’horreur, aux angoisses, au monde du cauchemar, des phobies et des psychoses pour les créateurs? Si certains s’intéressent particulièrement aux stratégies qui permettent de susciter la peur, d’autres préfèrent convoquer une iconographie troublante ou encore établir une sorte de nomenclature des différentes formes d’angoisse et de phobies humaines, tandis que les plus activistes préfèrent montrer du doigt les campagnes de peur et les différentes attitudes utilisées par les gouvernements au nom de la protection civile.
Dans ce dossier, nous souhaitons réfléchir sur le sentiment de peur qui nous envahit au quotidien à travers le questionnement de diverses pratiques artistiques qui y ont recours ou qui tentent de le neutraliser.
Les textes proposés (de 1000 à 2500 mots) pourront être envoyés à s.babin@esse.ca avant le 15 avril 2007.
Inclure une courte biographie, ainsi que l’adresse postale et courriel de l’auteur.
Les propositions non liées aux dossiers (critiques, essais, analyses) sont aussi bienvenues –
(tombée : 10 septembre, 10 janvier et 15 avril de chaque année).
Pour plus de renseignements sur notre politique éditoriale, consultez notre site Web ( http://www.esse.ca/ ) à l’onglet Soumission.
esse arts + opinions
C.P. 56 succ de Lorimier, Montréal, Qc H2H 2N6
Tél. : 514-521-8597 Fax : 514-521-8598
www.esse.ca
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15. CONGRESS: "Corralling Art - Aboriginal Curatorial Practice in the Prairies and Beyond" (Saskatoon)
Event date: May 17- 18, 2007; Source: TRIBE Inc.
Corralling Art - Aboriginal Curatorial Practice in the Prairies and Beyond
May 17- 18, 2007
Saskatoon, Saskatchewan at the Bessborough Hotel.
The Aboriginal Curatorial Collective (ACC), in collaboration with TRIBE Inc. is hosting its second annual conference, aptly entitled "Corralling Art -Aboriginal Curatorial Practice in the Prairies and Beyond" on May 17-18, 2007 in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan at the Bessborough Hotel.
Under the thematic umbrella, "Corralling Art - Aboriginal Curatorial Practice in the Prairies and Beyond", the ACC will bring together curators, scholars, visual artists, critics, art educators, art dealers, art collectors, arts administrators and program officers from the provincial and federal level and the general public, who not only represent our diverse national curatorial and critical communities, but those who are contributing and strengthening the presence of contemporary Aboriginal art. The two-day presentations explore existing programs and cited opportunities available for the development, funding, presentation, publication and dissemination of all areas pertinent to a contemporary Aboriginal art presence in Canada and abroad. As well, the colloquium will articulate and examine emerging trends and important issues in and around curatorial and critical practices related to such topics as: historical and theoretical perspectives, institutional and non-institutional representation; locating spaces, trends and perspectives on Aboriginal curatorial practice and its relevance.
The Aboriginal Curatorial Collective / Collectif des Conservateurs Authochtone (ACC/CCA) supports, promotes and advocates on behalf of First Nations (Indian, Inuit and Métis) art, artists and curators, and representatives of the art and cultural organizations in Canada and internationally.
Download the registration form at: http://www.aboriginalcuratorialcollective.org/PDF/registration%20form.pdf
For more info: http://www.aboriginalcuratorialcollective.org/whats_on/news.html
Barry Ace
Director and Co-Founder
Aboriginal Curatorial Collective
<bace@rogers.com>
<http://www.aboriginalcuratorialcollective.org/>http://www.aboriginalcuratorialcollective.org
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16. RESIDENCY: Elsewhere Artist Collaborative (USA)
Deadline: not given; Source: Instant Coffee
Elsewhere Artist Collaborative
Posting for Artists in Residence
Elsewhere, a living installation, museum of process, and art production space in downtown Greensboro, NC, is seeking artists-in-residence for its Spring, Summer, and Fall 2007 residency seasons. Set within a former thrift store housing a 58-year inventory of American surplus, thrift, and antiques, Elsewhere invites artists-in-residence to utilize the immense collection of objects to pursue site-specific material, conceptual, and/or technologically-based projects. Elsewhere’s buildin — two full stores on the ground level, a 14-room boarding house on the second, and warehouse on the third — provides dynamic architectures for the creation and installation of works. Artists live and work within changing installations, engaging interactive environments for re-conceptualizing the theory and practice of art-making. Experimenting with museum-as-medium within a store where nothing is for sale, Elsewhere offers an unparalleled framework for merging art practice and everyday life. The complete call for artists is available at.
www.elsewhereelsewhere.org/callforartists.html
Email George Scheer, Collaborative Director, at wanderingzoo@elsewhereelsewhere.org for a residency brochure and
application. Elsewhere is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization.
Elsewhere Artist Collaborative
606 South Elm St.
Greensboro, NC 27406
www.elsewhereelsewhere.org
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17. CALL FOR PARTICIPANTS: PERFURBANCE #3 (Indonesia)
Deadline: not given; Source: performance_art_network
Dear Friends, Activist, Artists, and Performers,
After doing volunteer work in the earthquake disaster areas in Jogjakarta (Java), we did research about the villages and the people. Finally we will work together with villagers to organize an art festival. This festival will focus not only on art aesthetics, but more on the problems from urbanization-globalization that affects these areas :
expensive education, worsening environment, how to produce cheap and healthy food, how to keep old spirit to help each other between them like big family in the village, because now people so easy getting to be individual etc.
The festival will focus on seminars, workshops, and actions about the issues above. We invite all of u who want participate, please send us your 1 page biography and any ideas of your action, and we will send u official invitation letter.
Better we don't put the dead line, just when the artists list already full, we will say OK sorry to any new applicant.
We will serve you everything here except air ticket, we can pick u up in Jogjakarta airport, bus station or railway station in town.Everybody will stay together in the village, altogether 60 (artists Indonesian and international and crews) will stay in various houses of villagers that were re-built after the disaster.
This festival is still open for everybody who is concerned about our problems in this confusing global situation.
Need more info please tell us!
Iwan Wijono
festival director
Jl.Gampingan 1 (Jl.Amri Yahya)
Wirobrajan, Jogjakarta, 55253 Indonesia
Tel.+62 8122767607
Fax.+62 274 381298
Email: iw.wij@lycos.com
wijonoster@gmail.com
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18. REQUEST FOR MATERIALS: Cultural Center of Ministry of Culture (Uruguay)
Deadline: not given; Source: Clemente Padín
(el texto español sigue )
Dear friends and colleagues:
Clemente Padin is writing you with a solicitation. We are arming a space of performance and alternating arts in the Cultural Center of Ministry of Culture of our country, Uruguay.
Appealing your generosity, we are soliciting you to send publications, pamphlets, catalogs, DVD, booklets and all type of related material on performance and alternative arts in order to arm our own file - library in order to satisfy the necessities of young practitioners of these disciplines in our country. This service that we are being organized will distribute for all our country and, periodically, it will be published a list of publications and reviews of received shipments that will be sent to all the contributors.
We solicited, if it is possible, the shipment of 2 (two) copies of each sending at following postal address:
Clemente Padín
C.Correo C. 1211
11000 Montevideo
URUGUAY
Thanks in advance, fraternal greetings,
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Estimados amigos y colegas:
les escribe Clemente Padín con una solicitud. Estamos armando un espacio de performance y artes alternativas en el Centro Cultural del Ministerio de Cultura de nuestro país, Uruguay.
Apelando a su generosidad estamos solicitando nos envíen publicaciones, folletos, catálogos, DVD, booklets y todo tipo de material concernientes a esos rubros: performance y artes alternativas para armar nuestro propio archivo - biblioteca para satisfacer las necesidades propias de los jóvenes adeptos a estos nuevos géneros artísticos en nuestro país. Este servicio que estamos organizando se distribuirá por todo nuestro país y, periódicamente, se publicará una lista de disponibilidades y reseña de los envíos recibidos que será enviado a todos los contribuyentes.
Solicitamos, si es posible, el envío de 2 (dos) ejemplares de cada item a la siguiente dirección postal:
Clemente Padín
C. Correo C. 1211
11000 Montevideo
URUGUAY
Gracias de antemano, saludos fraternos,
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19. NEWS: Conservative government cuts international arts promotion budget (Canada)
Source: The Globe and Mail
(This recent opinion piece in The Globe and Mail was pointed out to us by Clive Robertson via the Artist-Run Centres and Collectives of Ontario (ARCCO):
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20070127.COATWOOD27/TPStory/?query=atwood
And no flowers bloomed
Why did the Conservatives take the weed whacker to Canadian arts promotion abroad? asks MARGARET ATWOOD
MARGARET ATWOOD
During the last days of September, I was at a trilingual literary festival in Vincennes, near Paris. It's called Festival America: Littératures et Cultures d'Amérique du Nord. It was Canada's year of honour, so there were 26 Canadian writers there, as opposed to two Cubans, four Mexicans, and 24 Americans. The festival was attended by 23,000 people over three days, and generated a million mentions of Canada in the French press.
The Canadian Embassy staff in Paris did a lot of work for the festival but the embassy didn't spend much money. It couldn't even afford to throw its own reception. Thus it was while attending the U.S. Embassy's reception for its own authors that I first heard an astonishing fact: The Canadian government had just cut every penny once budgeted for the promotion of Canadian artists abroad.
That's it -- every penny, for everything cultural and Canadian, around the world. Some of those pennies have now been "unfrozen" but they're not enough to save the programs and networks that have been built up over the past 40 years (in part by art-savvy Tory cabinet ministers such as Flora MacDonald, Marcel Masse and Barbara McDougall). Staff remain in place, but they can't do much. It's like a dance floor with no more dancers.
Not that there were that many pennies to begin with. The amounts of money removed were minute -- a fraction of a fraction of a per cent of Canada's federal budget. And the Harper government had just posted a $13-billion surplus. So why had they taken this bizarre step?
The axing of culture abroad is even stranger when you consider the following facts: The money generated by Canadian-based artists' works that sell abroad flows into the country and is taxed here, a net gain to the economy. The arts and creative industries in Europe now earn "more than double the cash produced by European car-makers and contribute more to the economy than the chemical industry, property or the food and drink business," according to The Independent of Dec. 26. There are comparable statistics for Canada -- some say $40-billion, but even if it were half that it wouldn't be a number to blow off easily. Or so you'd think.
So why had the Conservatives taken the weed whacker to Canadian arts promotion abroad? Was it just part of Finance Minister Jim Flaherty's shoot-first, ask-afterwards habit -- familiar now to anyone with money in an income trust -- of slicing the heads off anything in sight, leaving the mangled stems to be dealt with by later regimes?
Due to the impenetrability of Fortress Harper -- colder than the Kremlin, more secret than the Inquisition -- it was unlikely we'd get any answers. But we are still free to speculate, so here's what I came up with to explain why they did it:
1) Ignorance. The Harperites have no idea how much money the arts generate.
2) Willed ignorance. They've seen the figures, but have labelled them "junk economics" in the same way they once labelled global-warming statistics as "junk science."
3) Hatred. The Harper Conservatives think artists are a bunch of whiners who don't have real jobs, and that any money spent on the arts is a degenerate frill.
4) Frugality. There's lots of arts around. We can get them cheaper from across the border than it costs to make them here, and if you've seen one art, you've seen them all.
5) Stupidity. They thought they were gassing a hornet's nest, not poking it with a stick.
6) More hatred. They tried to slash local museums, until too many people screamed. They've cut the Canada Council top-up proposed by the Liberals down to a sixth of its size. They've stuck the knife into the National Literacy Program, perhaps on the theory that they won't be able to set up a working dictatorship if too many people can read. And that's just for starters. If these things can be done in a minority government, lo, I say unto you, what things shall be done in a majority?
The banner under which the Conservatives have been ditching stuff that displeases them has been "waste." They're trashing programs that "don't work." They want things that "get results." (That went for the environmental plans they once binned, and have now hastily revivified.) Arts promotion is like supporting entrepreneurs, or local hockey teams, or school systems. But how do we define "results" in relation to the arts? And what exactly does "work" mean? Does it mean that money must flow back in the same year it's invested? If so, the Conservatives should get rid of all primary education, since no 10-year-old marches right out of Grade Five and gets an executive job.
Typically, cultural money is arranged so that younger artists who need to build their audiences can piggyback on old poops like me who have already done that. That's how you support the next generation, and the one after that. Not to do so is truly wasteful. Yes, you might save a lot of money by killing all the children: You'd cancel those pesky education expenses. But you wouldn't survive long as a society.
But maybe the Harper Conservatives don't want a society in which the arts and the creative industries are important. Maybe they don't want the jobs in those fields to exist. Maybe, as in so many other areas of their thinking, they want to turn back the clock to the good old days -- some time back in the golden fifties, when there wasn't all this bilingualism and multiculturalism, or indeed any lingualism or culturalism at all, and most Canadian artists left the country, and those who remained could be referred to jokingly in Parliament as a bunch of fruits jumping around in long underwear.
That's a lot of maybes. But maybes are all we have in the absence of any coherent cultural policy or even any explanation for the lack of one. Who was it said that there's more culture in a cup of yoghurt than in the Harper Conservatives? Let's hope that person was wrong.
Margaret Atwood is the author of more than 40 volumes of poetry, fiction and nonfiction. Her latest is a collection of short stories, Moral Disorder.
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