[spectre] more info about “TALKING MONUMENTS” festival

[Tania Goryucheva]

“TALKING MONUMENTS”
Public Art Festival, Perm, Russia
September, 2006

CALL FOR PROPOSALS

The art group " Archeopterix" (Izhevsk, Russia) is pleased to invite  
artists working with different media  to take part in the public art  
project "Talking Monuments," which will be realized in the framework  
of the cultural marathon "Perm Cultural Capital 2006."
The event will take place in September 2006 in Perm city, Russia.
Please submit your project proposals before July 20, 2006.
Further dissemination of the information will be highly appreciated.


IDEA OF THE PROJECT “TALKING MONUMENTS”

The ten-days public art festival “Talking Monuments” aims to bring  
together artistic reflections upon the role of monuments in  
contemporary urban spaces. The idea is to question nowadays city  
environments from the position of monuments within them as living  
objects of city public life. How are they integrated into social  
activities around them? How does public relate to them? How do they  
participate in the public discourse? Can we make them sound and speak  
on their own? What kind of observations can be grasped then?
We are looking for new myths and stories about monuments.
Within rapidly changing nowadays reality monuments are both cross- 
historical traces and witnesses of passing epochs and mythologies.  
They seem to be silent and immobile objects, but what about giving  
them an opportunity to speak out, to talk back to the public, to turn  
them into active subjects of communication?


GUIDELINE FOR PROPOSALS SUBMISSION

Please submit your project proposals according to the following four  
categories:

1. “Talking Monument”
Art projects in formats of multimedia, kinetic installation; staged  
visual, musical, poetic
performance. Your works are expected to be related to already  
existing monuments in the city  and/or their context. Especially  
works aiming at bringing dynamics and new contextual experiences are  
welcomed. Works in this category will be selected in cooperation with  
the city administration.
Please pay attention to special criteria for the projects in the  
category “Talking Monument”:
 > Your project should not cause any damage or material loss to  
monuments.
 > The project idea should correlate as much as possible with the  
festival theme “Talking Monuments ."
 > References to the specific topics and aspects of cultural and  
social context of Perm are encouraged.

Authors of selected projects will be provided with the assistance for  
their realization, including materials, assistants, expenses.  For  
more details please contact the organizers.

2. “Monumental Video-Scape”
Video art works of the total length of 10 min maximum. The video art  
works are supposed to provide new environment or background for a  
monument, so it is going to be presented next to a monument which  
would be incorporated into the video-scape. The presentation of the  
project assumes that between the screen and spectators there will be  
a monument.
For further information and assistance in choosing monuments and  
location please contact the organizers.

3. “SMS Perm Novel”
Projects in the form of short text messages.
One of the ideas of presentation of projects in this category  
assumes: on a pedestal of a monument the board with running line   
with text is mounted and transmitted. This category is open to your  
creative suggestion as well.

4 " USB Stall or Art into the Masses!"
Any multimedia projects, which would suggest original ways of  
distribution of contemporary art content via portable and mobile  
devices widely used especially by youth: players, phones, PDAs, etc.
For that a small mobile stall-poster with USB and flash ports is  
going to be established,
where everybody could download the art, not only the detailed program  
and
documentation of the festival, but also media art works as such.  
Visually the
object will be similar to the flying device from planet Pluke from  
the cult Russian sci-fi movie "Kin-dza-dza" with mounted screens,  
speakers and video projector to broadcast the documentation and  
multimedia projects.

For more information on project, the list, photos and description of  
Perm
monuments look at http://dacha.tyros.ru

DEADLINE for submission of project proposals is July 20, 2006

Please use the electronic form in DOC format.

Put your last name in the name of your file, for example: (smith.RTF)  
and send it to
anfimx at yandex.ru.
Please send your files with brief description of the project and  
pictures illustrating the description in JPG or GIF format together  
with the electronic form to anfimx at yandex.ru

For any questions and suggestion contact: anfimx at yandex.ru

Further detailed information can be found at the web site http:// 
dacha.tyros.ru


The form for the application in categories “Talking Monument,”  “USB  
Stall.” “Monumental Video-Scape” is below:

AUTHOR FULL NAME

ADDRESS

PHONE

TITLE

CONCEPT

BRIEF DESCRIPTION

TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS