Gates Call: node in NYC needed

* Apologize for our English *

Urgent:

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

A new 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), in collaboration with the Art
History Department, presents the exhibition
ArtConFusion, in
which artists will meet, who use a plurality of languages and media,
numerous art expressions are called to
interact and coexist in a common context, open to all possible
influences.

In this context 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
decentralized in the world, involving many international artists, as it
was
with the Global Poetry Project 2002.
See the link below (referred to Global Poetry 2002) to have an idea of
what
the spirit of the project is:
http://members.xoom.virgilio.it/kareninazoom/

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

But GATES has numerous new aspects we are going to create
together! This is the call for entries to join and participate.
A quick reply is needed urgently, 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 in 2002, 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'Universita 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 decentralized spaces of the project:
digital
video, e-mail, photos, slides, etc. will be projected.

We are looking for artists/operators/groups, who can reproduce this
installation-performance-projection ensemble in places decentralized 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 IN ROMA
The central installation in La Sapienza University Museum in Roma:
It is a white door (only the frame of the door) in a white environment,
installed in
a way it 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 the concept of communication,
but
also poetic,
referred to the idea of transit, passage, opening, with computer and
telematic echoes, with possibility to
project what arrives from the decentralized spaces (video, CD ROM,
slides,
etc.) on the wall behind the door.

This installation/environment 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 decentralized spaces there will be a continuous
exchange
of materials
(videocassettes, and CD ROM, digital videos, and images, photos, e-mail,
poems).
We will realize videos and photos of what happens around or under or
through
the door in Rome (performances, lectures, projections), and we will
send it
to the locations in the world, where a similar door is reproduced.
We expect you do the same in your city. What happens very far in the
decentralized gates will be presented in
Rome in video, what happens in Rome will be projected in the
decentralized
spaces.

CONCEPT
The Gates Project is based on the concept of
decentralization/dispersion, enlargement of the real / virtual
space of action, and on the duration in time of a collaborative action
in progress that will develop during the whole summer.
Through Internet and e-mail communication will be coordinated the
decentralized 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.


Places:
The places where you can create a decentralization 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 VHS PAL, digital photos jpg, 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
previewed during a long time in a planetary extension, needs 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!

This event will be part of a book containing the best of Karenina.it
texts
and net projects. On line catalogue.

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


ARTCONFUSION is sponsored by: Trenitalia s.p.a., Apple Italia, Redbull,
American Academy in Rome, Village catering.
Curators: Maria Egizia Fiaschetti, Agnese Malatesti.
Official Patronage: Roma Municipality.
Realized in collaboration with: Art History Department of Rome
University La
Sapienza,
Museo Laboratorio di Arte Contemporanea of University Roma I La
Sapienza.
Museum Director: Simonetta Lux.



KARENINA.IT (poetry in phatic function) On line since 1998 - By
Jakobson,
phatic is the use of the language which has the finality to maintain
open
and operative the communication channel among the interlocutors. On the
limit between art and critic, happening and net performance,
Karenina.it is
a virtual meeting place around the theme of writing and new
technologies, in
which experiences of international artists, curators, theoreticians
converge, in a net that counts thousands of contacts in the world.
http://members.xoom.virgilio.it/kareninazoom/kareninarivista.html


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