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Subject: oppurtunity for artists–please post
From: "claire barliant" <[email protected]>
Date: Wed, July 23, 2003 3:48 pm
To: [email protected]
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Hello: Art in General wishes to alert as many artists as possible to the
following opportunity. Please post this document at your institution so
that artists may see it, or pass it on to people you think may be
interested. Thanks for your help!
OPEN CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
A GROUP EXHIBITION OF SOUND WORKS AT ART IN GENERAL
Exhibition Title: Rock's Role (After Ryoanji)
Curator: Ronald J. Kuivila,
composer and professor,
Music Department, Wesleyan University
Venue: Art in General
Deadline for submission: September 27, 2003
Accepted formats: CD and cassette
PLEASE INCLUDE A DESCRIPTION OF YOUR SUBMITTED WORK, A RESUME/BIO & A
SELF-ADDRESSED STAMPED ENVELOPE FOR RETURN.
Rock's Role (After Ryoanji) is a group exhibition of sound works by
artists responding to John Cage's musical transliterations of the famed
Japanese Zen rock garden, Ryoanji.
Cage's view of Ryoanji was that the specific arrangement of the 15 stones
was only as important as the way in which the emptiness of the garden and
the regularity of the lines of raked sand intensify their individuality.
In Cage's pieces, the stones become solos consisting of glissandi derived
from the tracing of 15 different stones he collected. The raked sand
becomes an irregular pulse.
Rock's Role (After Ryoanji) will follow this same approach, breaking
contributions into "continuous" and "discrete" elements corresponding to
the stones or the raked sand of the garden. Up to 20 artists' individual
sound works will be selected to be mixed into a new whole; an aural
mapping based on the original Ryoanji garden. In the exhibition,
continuous elements will be mixed and overlapped; discrete elements will
be played in succession. We hope for contributions employing sounds and
sound-making means of all kinds. The only requirement is that
contributions be able to co-exist with any other sounds in the exhibition.
In the case of CD submissions, continuous elements should be a series of
individual tracks suitable for "shuffle play," with no single track
exceeding four minutes in duration. Discrete elements should take the form
of a single long track ranging from 15 minutes to an hour. When
submitting work, please specify whether it is meant to be discrete or
continuous.
For further information, please view Art in General's website:
www.artingeneral.org
PLEASE SEND YOUR SUBMISSIONS BY SEPTEMBER 27, 2003 TO:
Attn. Rock's Role Exhibition
Art in General
79 Walker Street, 6th Floor
New York, NY 10013
ALL SUBMISSIONS MUST HAVE A SASE IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO HAVE YOUR WORK
RETURNED.
Art in General is conscientious about receiving artists' submissions but
cannot be held responsible for lost slides, CDs, videos, or other
materials. Do not send original or irreplaceable materials. Please label
all materials clearly with name, address, phone number and inform us of
future address changes.
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