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Kuopio, Finland
Datum dogodka: 11.-14.9.2003
North Savo Arts Council
ANTI Festival
contemporary art festival seeks artists
For the second time Kuopio is the scene for the ANTI-festival from the 11th to the 14th of September 2003. The ANTI -festival offers a venue for new and unexpected ideas to be realised in a city environment by means of environmental and live art. Artists are sought to fill the program with works that engage in interaction with city culture.

The program for this event consists of works by artists that have been either invited or chosen on the basis of applications. The ANTI-platform opens the stage for all forms of new ideas. The pieces or performances will be selected on the basis of applications that need not heed any specific format. The applications need to have been received by the 28th of March 2003. The platform welcomes applications from artists, designers, artistic teams and art students of all disciplines.

The ANTI -event acts as a forum for radical arts, offering an alternative route for presenting non-commercial art outside the conventional mainstream channels. In choosing successful applicants the ANTI -event gives priority to fresh forms of artistic expression like environmental art, light, sound and installation work, as well as performance art.

THE CONTENTS OF ANTI-APPLICATIONS

The event seeks to activate 12 previously selected sites/environments either conceptually or through the use of inside/outside space. The artist(s) choose(s) a location for his/her/their piece from the ones given on the list (see next page). In terms of the spirit of the event it is essential for the applications to take into consideration the audience and punters that are already present at each location. The piece can also somehow combine various locations. In regards to works of a limited duration it is advisable to also consider the time of day in which they will be presented.

Being tied to a location is an extremely important factor when it comes to assessing and selecting performance- as well as sculptural works. It is hoped that, on top of the elements already present in a given space, full advantage is taken of the opportunities awarded by the use of light and sound as constituents of environmental and performance pieces.

The ANTI -event will not necessarily pick a suggested work that is not accompanied by a proposal regarding its placement into one of the locations listed. Although, after a suggestion has been submitted the event's artistic management team may suggest that the artist(s) do(es) the piece in one of the 12 locations on the list if one has not been chosen but the suggestion is otherwise interesting.

THE FORM OF APPLICATIONS AND REQUIREMENTS

Applications must include a work plan and a construction schedule (1 page), technical requirements of the piece, estimated costs and the applicant's CV. Technical details of suggested pieces need not be entirely thought through and their technical development can proceed after the decisions of inclusion have been made. However, the essential idea and the maximum of estimated costs for the piece have to be given precisely already at this stage as the budget for the entire event will be set right after making the selections. The estimated costs must include the materials for the piece, travel expenses and a performing fee. In addition to the aforementioned, the event will also provide the chosen artists with accommodation and daily allowance. After the artists have been selected the size of their performance fees will be agreed upon and individual contracts will be signed with each artist.

Below is a list of the performance locations. It is hoped that the artists take the specific nature and audience of each into consideration and then make their work fit into the given space and environment. Photographs taken of the locations will be made available from the 15th of January onwards at www.antifestival.com. More pictures will be sent via e-mail if necessary.

The locations of the Anti -event are:
* A hairdresser's* * A child health advisory clinic* * A retirement home* * A post office and tax office in the old fire station building* * A restaurant* * A social welfare office* * A petrol station* * An apartment building/shopping centre under construction* * A bus station* * An old mill and its yard* * An underground sports hall (a cave)* * A home

APPLICATIONS ARE TO BE SENT WITH THE WORDS 'ANTI APPLICATION' CLEARLY MARKED ON THE ENVELOPE.
Rok prijave: 28/03/03
North Savo Arts Council
Jere Ruotsalainen Producer
Kuninkaankatu 15
70100 Kuopio
Finland
tel: +358 17 264 5342, Mobile: +358 40 555 0352
jere.ruotsalainen@nic.fi
http://www.antifestival.com











Arte France, Editions Glénat
FIRST ARTE / GLENAT EUROPEAN COMIC BOOK COMPETITION

This competition is open to every person legally of age having never published a comic book album in France, Belgium or Germany. Participants must be nationals of one of the following European countries: France, Germany, Belgium, Netherlands, Luxembourg, Great Britain, Ireland, Greece, Spain, Portugal, Italy, Switzerland, Austria, Poland, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Slovenia, Bosnia, Croatia, Serbia, Montenegro, Rumania, Bulgaria, Denmark, Sweden, Norway or Finland.

Submitted projects must show a European city to advantage, while presenting a recurrent character. The author(s) has/have freedom of choice regarding the genre, with the exception of recourse to the didactic register. The plot may also take place in the past, the present and/or the future.

In order to compete, participants must send a project that is conceived with a view to realising a 32-page album of comic strips.

The elements of the dossier to be furnished are as follows:
· the first 5 to 8 plates of the album on a paper support (choice of homothetic format 19 x 27, black and white or colour), in English or French language
· the synopsis of the complete project typed out on 4 pages maximum, relating the whole story, in English or French language.

Participants must write their name, address, telephone number and e-mail address (if need be) on the back of every plate and the typewritten manuscript.
Elements of the project are to be submitted at latest by 31 July 2003 at midnight (as proved by postmark) to the following address:
Rok prijave: 31/07/03

Kontakt:
Editions Glénat
Concours Européen de la Bande Dessinée
31/33 rue Ernest Renan
F-92130 ISSY-LES-MOULINEAUX
Francija
www.glenatbd.com










Graz, Austria
Landesmuseum Joanneum GmbH
Media Lab in Kunsthaus Graz
looking for projects to incorporate in a media art lab from mid-2003
These should consist of proposals for a two year period of operation. Information regarding conditions is available from Gabriele Lind.

Submissions may be both from individuals and from groups. During the period of operation of the project, it is expected that the operator will have a highly visible presence in Graz and contact with the local media and net-art scene.

Applications should be submitted to the Landesmuseum Joanneum.
Rok prijave: 21/03/03

Kontakt:
Landesmuseum Joanneum GmbH
Gabriele Lind
Raubergasse 10
A-8010 Graz
Austria
gabriele.lind@stmk.gv.at
www.kunsthausgraz.at










Utrecht, The Netherlands
European Journal of Women's Studies
Call for paper, special issue: Spectacular women
A special issue of EJWS (2004/3) will be published about women in the performing arts.
Women's studies have highlighted how crucial the field of representation is to the shaping and definitions of gender and sexuality. We would like to focus on the arenas of theatre and the live performance, trying to approach these areas with special attention to the perspective of women practitioners.

Actresses and performers, women playwrights, directors, choreographers, and women managers are social subjects, in several respects:
* as artists, they create ways of performing, representing and enacting 'femininity' and 'masculinity', they are the agents and authors of cultural experimentation with the issues of gender;
* as professional women with a long tradition of 'public characters' they shape their lives on the ridge of the couplet "public/private", and have often emerged in time as influent role-models for female identity.

We call for a (scholarly) approach to the performing arts, focusing on women, not so much as the object of the politics of representation, but as subjects actively involved in the shaping of such practices.

Possible areas of investigation:
Languages and codes of expressions
Which languages, aesthetic codes, forms of expressions have been privileged by women practioners? Which specific representative, rhetoric and narrative devices have they adopted and developed?
Narrating the body
Which 'body' do the artists of live performance narrate in the theatre, in dance, in body art? How do the different and opposite 'mythologies' of the natural body and the cultural body inform these narratives?
Leadership and power in the performing arts
Given the collective nature of the performing arts, it is important to investigate the relational outlook and the working methods of women choreographers, directors and managers. How do they practice authority; what specific modes and strategies do they adopt or invent for exercising their artistic leadership?
The female gaze
Can we speak of a gendered audience and of gendered reception? Which are the strategies of women practitioners for addressing the gaze of their audiences, and when/why do they develop specific needs or modes of structuring the female gaze? What kinds of relations do evolve between a performer (or a group of performers) and its female public?
Off stage
Theatre and the performing arts offer powerful channels of expression and self-expression, of role-playing and of social playing. In the last century they have found a specific place (and market) in social life and education through the widespread practice of workshops and courses. The time has come to start a history and sociology of these forms of self- and social/collective expression that takes into account their gendered nature.

Articles should be prepared according to the Manual of Style available on request.

Editors: Paola Bono and Roberta Gandolfi

For more information please contact Paola Bono.
Rok prijave: 30/06/03

Kontakt:
European Journal of Women's Studies, Utrecht University
Attn. Akke Visser (Managing Editor)
Heidelberglaan 2
3584 CS Utrecht
The Netherlands
tel: +31 30 253 1857
fax: +31 30 253 1277
EJWS@fss.uu.nl











Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten
International application for 2004
The Rijksakademie is one of the leading Dutch 'Institutes for practical study in the visual arts'. Each year the Rijksakademie invites 30 new participants, with a work period of 12 up to 24 months.
Work period and annual fee

A work period at the Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten runs from January to December. Admission is in the first instance for one year. Possible continuation for a second work period is decided by mutual agreement. Every year, about thirty of the studios become available for new applicants.
During the work period, the Rijksakademie offers a wide range of facilities: a studio, work budget, technical workshops, a library, a canteen etc.
Participating artists can take advantage of guidance from, advice by and discussions with artists and theoreticians (advisors) and other professional from all over the world.
A participating artist will receive an annual stipend of €8.850 per annum for living expenses (€737 per month). The annual fee of €1.500 must be paid before commencement of the work period.

Participation contribution
The Rijksakademie depends on financial support from governments, business community and non-profit foundations for the maintenance and development of its activities. Every participant is requested to cooperate in raising funds to support the actual cost of participation, e.g. from sources in the country of origin. The target funding is €10.000 per work period per participant. The staff of Stichting Trustfonds Rijksakademie can advise on this.

The application and selection process
Every year, the Rijksakademie receives over 700 applications from which about 30 artists, roughly half of whom come from the Netherlands, are selected for participation. An initial selection is be made on the basis of visual material (slides, videotapes, cd-rom and in certain cases original work) and a work plan. A committee of about 10 of the Rijksakademie's associated advisors make the selection on grounds of demonstrable quality and potential for future development. A number of selected candidates are invited for an interview (in June). The interview takes place at the Rijksakademie and is followed by final selection. Following the interview, applicants will be informed of the decision by post by the end of June. If selected, this leaves some six months for practical matters such as arranging accommodation in Amsterdam and raising the participation contribution mentioned before.

The applications procedure for the work period 2003 has closed.
Applications for the work period 2004 must be sent by March 31, 2003.
Razpisni obrazec
Rok prijave: 31/03/03

Kontakt:
Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten
1018 Amsterdam
The Netherlands
tel: 020 527 0300
fax: 020 527 0301
info@rijksakademie.nl
http://www.rijksakademie.nl/





Artist/Writer Retreat
Creative Response
(Newagen ME)

Island Retreat for artist or writer, winter or summer, year round. Quiet, serene rustic one room retreat located on a salt marsh overlooking tidal pond, islands, and more. By week or month.

Application Date: 12/31/2003

Call 207-633-5496 or email: aline@capepondstudio.com







Artists - all media
SummerArt 2003, Steamboat Springs Arts Council
(Steamboat Springs CO)

All media juried fine art exhibit and sale. Cash Awards. Show judge, Mimi Moore, Denver International Airport Art Program Manager. Download prospectus at http://www.steamboatspringsarts.com

Application Date: 5/16/2003

Steamboat Springs Arts Council
PO Box 774284
Steamboat Springs, CO 80477
970-879-9008
> http://www.steamboatspringsarts.com









Artists - The Plain Paper Show
Eastern New Mexico University - Roswell
(Roswell NM)

This international competitive exhibition seeks participation from artists all over the world. Cash and Scholarship awards. Request prospectus via e-mail. Jennie.Bower@roswell.enmu.edu

ENMU-R Art Dept. is sponsoring the event, taking place June 25 – July 18, 2003



Application Date: 6/20/2003

Address:
ENMU-R Art Dept.
P.O. Box 6000
Roswell, NM 88202

phone: 505-624-7226








Longwood Cyber Residency and Exhibition Program
Bronx Council on the Arts - Longwood Arts Project
(Bronx NY)

Since 1981, The Bronx Council on the Arts’ (BCA) Longwood Arts Project has provided emerging artists exhibition opportunities and low-cost studio space. The Longwood Arts Project was originally located in the Southeast Bronx adjacent to the Longwood Historic District and situated in a former public school building that was converted for cultural and community use. The Longwood Cyber Residency, located at the new offices of Longwood Arts Project at 571 Walton Avenue in the Bronx, is equipped with the Cyber Studio and technology consultants.

ARTIST CYBER RESIDENCY SCHOLARSHIPS
The nine-month Longwood Cyber Residency begins in Fall 2004 and provides artists with free access to hardware, software, Internet connectivity, workshops, technical consultants, and artist honoraria so they may begin to experiment with on-line technologies as creative tools. The Longwood Cyber Studio is equipped with four PC workstations networked through an NT hub, high-resolution scanner, zip drive, and color printer. Workstations include software such as Mac Drive 2000 (which allows artists to work between Mac and PC platforms), Macromedia Director with Shock-wave module, Flash (animation program), Dreamweaver (web design program), Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator, Microsoft Office, QuarkXpress, and CD/CVD. The Cyber Studio is accessible six days a week, Monday to Friday from 9 a.m. to 10 p.m. and Saturday 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. There is a 10-hour weekly attendance requirement. At the conclusion of the Residency, artists will present their completed projects at www.longwoodcyber.org. Please submit the completed application along with 10 to 20 slides with four (4) copies of a slide list/narrative, or videotape or Compact Disc, or four (4) manuscripts for writers. In addition, include four (4) copies of a one-paragraph artist statement, a one-paragraph Internet or web-based project proposal, and a current resume. You must also provide a self-addressed envelope with sufficient postage for return of materials. Note: Please place the slides in a slide sheet and label the materials with your name, medium, size, running time, date, and indicate “top” on all slides. The first four slides will be projected for the selection panel process. The remaining slides will be available for further consideration.

Application Date: 3/7/2003

For Applicationand Guidelines, please call Melissa at(718) 931-9500 ext. 21 or Edwin (718)401-7866
Bronx Council on the Arts
Longwood Cyber Residency Program
1738 Hone Ave
Bronx, NY 10461









Photography Exhibition Celebrating NYC Night Life
New York Foundation for the Arts
(New York NY)

Discipline: Photography

Tanqueray No. TEN NightLife New York
a celebration of New York City night life

Tanqueray No. TEN and the New York Foundation for the Arts are presenting an exhibition in May 2003 celebrating nightlife in New York City. (Tanqueray No. TEN is presenting similar exhibitions in Miami and Chicago with local partners.) There will be a press preview and opening reception for the exhibition, with every effort made to bring the exhibition to the widest possible notice.

Photographers are invited to participate in the New York City exhibition, which will be held May 15 through 26 at HERE, 145 Avenue of the Americas. Deadline for receipt of applications for this exhibition is February 28, 2003. Photographers interested in participating should read the full requirements of this exhibition, which are available by clicking here.

Application Date: 2/28/2003

Inquiries to artists@nyfa.org







Public Art Opportunities
UrbanArts Institute at Massachusetts College of Art
(Boston MA)

Boston, MA - UrbanArts Institute at Massachusetts College of Art invites professional artists to submit qualifications for three new public art projects. Projects are restricted to Massachusetts artists. They include:

* Fallen Heroes memorial, Dorchester, MA, estimated budget: $150,000
* North End branch library exterior improvements, Boston, MA, estimated budget: $10,000
* Packards Corner gateway project, Allston, MA; estimated budget: $150,000
If you are an artist already represented in our Artist Registry, simply drop us a note (fax or email acceptable-no phone calls) to let us know that you would like to be considered for any of the projects.

If you are NEW to our registry, we invite you to submit your materials for consideration. Please send


* Resume with current contact information.
* Up to sixteen clearly labeled slides of relevant past work (leave top row of slide sheet empty).
* A corresponding annotated image list with title, media, dimensions, brief description and date of the work, project budget, and project partners, if any.
* Additional support material, including press clippings or other relevant information on past projects.
No faxes or emailed entries will be accepted. Materials will not be returned. Submissions will become part of the UrbanArts Institute’s Artist Registry for consideration in future projects.



Application Date: 2/28/2003

Christina Lanzl, Registry/Project Coordinator
UrbanArts Institute at Massachusetts College of Art
621 Huntington Avenue
Boston, MA 02115-5801
Tel: 617-879-7973
Fax: 617-879-7969

Email: christina.lanzl@massart.edu