[artinfo] call for proposals / URBAN FESTIVAL 2005

[Urban Festival]

 CALL FOR PROPOSALS - URBAN FESTIVAL 2005
(Zagreb, Croatia, 1 - 14 September 2005)
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APPLICATION DEADLINE: 15 December 2004
NOTIFICATION ABOUT THE RESULTS DEADLINE: 15 February 2005
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IMPORTANT: Filled-out "Application form" (see below) should be sent to
info at urbanfestival.hr ONLY.
Any ADDITIONAL MATERIAL should be sent to:
BLOK - MAMA
Preradoviceva 18
10 000 Zagreb
Croatia
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_GENERAL INFORMATION_
ORGANIZER: Local Base for Culture Refreshment [BLOK], Zagreb, Croatia
PARTNER: Platform 9.81, Zagreb, Croatia
FRAME: "Invisible Zagreb"
THEME: conversion, adaptation, alternation of "forgotten" places into 
spaces of cultural production
PLACE: abandoned, out-of-use locations in ex-industrial zone of eastern Zagreb
TEASERS: | creation of a parallel city | revitalization of abandoned 
places | culture as art + social + political practice | interaction, 
direct communication, participation | local community | 
transformation, transition, change | creating "cultureplex" |

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_WE ARE LOOKING FOR ART AND CULTURE PROJECTS THAT ARE:_
1. RELATED TO:
*the place/space/venue - art/culture in the close surrounding, and/or
*the place's position in the city's master plan - art/culture in the 
urban surrounding, and/or
*the other (existing or imagined) cultural, artistic and social practices
2. DIRECTED TO FOUR DIFFERENT PARTICIPANT/AUDIENCE TYPES:
*those who visit because of art/culture, who are there because of 
particular cultural event (usual art audiences), and/or
*those who were attracted by the possibility to have fun, to be 
entertained and to participate in basic social 
interaction(entertainment audience), and/or
*those who are living in the areas surrounding festival places/spaces 
(found audiences), and/or
*those who came to learn something new, to participate and to get 
actively involved (participants)
3. SHAPED IN THE FORMS OF WHAT CAN BE CALLED CONTEMPORARY ART/CULTURE, SUCH AS:
*performing art/culture (theatre, dance, performance art, happenings, 
actions.),
*visual art/culture (space interventions, installations, performance art.)
*new media and technology (multimedia, intermedia, tactical media, 
hybrid media.)
*other new, hybrid or formally undefined forms
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_WE WILL PREFER ART/CULTURE PROJECTS THAT ARE:_
*combining different art forms,
*interdisciplinary intertwined with other fields of human activities 
(social, political, business.),
*interactive / dependent on interaction with and on action of audience,
*dealing with subjects/themes of new cultural, political and social 
practices and their spatializations.
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_EXPLANATION_
Urban Festival (UF) was founded in 2001 by gathering international and
Croatian artists working with diverse art forms (performance, visual and
sound installations, dance, urban interventions,  web projects, etc.)
with basic tendency to "infiltrate" art in urban life, to change urban
landscape and human behavior patterns in it by using urban
infrastructure - streets, squares, buildings, shopping malls, the
traffic network.  During four years of its existence, UF has focused on
concrete issues concerning particular public places, and, simultaneously
raising general matters on public, publicity and public space. After
working on different levels, using various methods and including diverse
specific themes, this year we have decided to conclude one part of this
"research" and to direct program towards the articulation of a clearly
visible need: pointing out new possibilities of urban and culture
development throughout reanimation of unexploited, vacant spaces and
their transformation in dynamic urban zones - by using cultural events
as catalyst for possible changes. According to that, UF 2005 will be
part of the project "Invisible Zagreb", which is initiated by Platform
9.81 to experiment with innovative ways of culture programming and space
implication of culture, focusing mostly on larger ex-industrial and/or
ex-business spaces, such as factories, transportation points, storages,
etc., but also including other abandoned venues (like ex-cinemas and
similar smaller places). UF 2005 is going to be the central and largest
event in the serial of temporary inhabitations of those places that
will, by using space resources of unused or underused eastern, ex
industrial zone of City of Zagreb, put in the center of the public
interest of the city questions of transition and transformation of these
spaces, with the specific stress on their cultural usefulness. In two
festival weeks we will try to create new culture, art and entertainment
zone, new public gathering-place and space of new social attractions.
Through this specific form of "temporary colonization", we are going to
put clear and strong light on the need for creation of new model of
exploiting industrial architecture of Zagreb. We will try, out of almost
forgotten and in itself collapsed east "cityplex", to create a new 
"cultureplex".

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APPLICATION FORM
Please answer as clearly and as shortly as possible to ALL of the 
following questions:
1. NAME OF THE PROJECT:
2. APPLIED BY:
3. CONTACT PERSON:
4. POSTAL ADDRESS:
5. E-MAIL ADDRESS:
6. PHONE:
7. FAX:
8. WEB:
9. SHORT DESCRIPTION OF THE PROJECT CONCEPT:
10. PRECISE AND CLEAR DESCRIPTION OF THE PROJECT REALIZATION:
11. DETAILED LIST OF THE EQUIPMENT NECESSARY FOR THE REALIZATION OF 
THE PROJECT:
12. DETAILED LIST OF ALL THE COSTS AND POSSIBLE FINANCIAL RESOURCES:
13. SHORT BIOGRAPHY OF THE AUTHOR(S) OF THE PROJECT:
14. HAS THE PROJECT BEEN REALIZED YET?
If YES, please send us the project documentation to the above 
mentioned POSTAL address. If NO, please send us the documentation of 
ONE of your previously realized projects to the above mendtioned 
POSTAL address.