Call for proposals for new critical writing: The KIOSK Group, Canada

Call for proposals: deadline 15 February 2005

"Don't start from the good old things but the bad new ones." *

The KIOSK Group invites proposals of up to 500 words for new critical writing.

Responses can include but are not limited to: a discussion of recent tendencies in artistic practice; approaches and models for time and temporality; the "new" in new media; modernity and progress; scientific approaches to randomness, complexity and chaos as generators of the new; old as new; critical practice and the "canon" as antithetical to "new"; social practices as new art forms; revolution; utopias and failed utopias; the news; new funding models; repetition and revisiting old ideas again and again; artist-run culture, public museums and galleries and new modes of operating; approaches to change and flux; engaging new audiences.

All proposals will be considered. KIOSK invites participation from all artists, writers and curators, but encourages response from those working in Canada who are at early stages of their careers, with minimal publishing history. Those whose proposals are selected will be invited to contribute a finished manuscript for a publication planned for 2006, contingent on funding. These writers will receive a fee for their contribution.

Please submit on or before 15 February 2005:
* a proposal of up to 500 words detailing your research direction
* a c.v., up to 3 pages, including publishing history if applicable

Email proposals to: (Word attachments preferred) or mail to The KIOSK Group: 1032 Pape Avenue, PO Box 60070, Toronto, Ontario Canada M4K 3Z3.

The KIOSK Group is a project-driven collective that, through its transitory nature, offers possibilities and structures for thinking critically about artistic practice through publication, exhibition, dialogue and more. For more information, visit

* Bertolt Brecht, as quoted by Walter Benjamin in Understanding Brecht (London: 1973)