[artinfo] re: Call for Submissions/CESTA's 12th Arts Festival of International, Interdisciplinary Collaborations

[Adele Eisenstein]

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WASTE

CESTA's 12th Arts Festival of International, Interdisciplinary Collaborations
August 2007

"The greatest wastes are unused talents and untried ideas." - William 
Shakespeare

Without question, waste is a polemic. We treat the object with 
abandon and the concept with contempt. But waste is full of 
complexities, and resting in these complexities are dichotomies, 
integral to development.

We can consider waste as:

everyone's
something
valued
product
natural
necessary
beneficial
an icon for growth
a harbinger of the future

AND

no one's
nothing
ignored
by-product
artificial
useless
toxic
a monument to decay
a residuum of history

For WASTE, CESTA invites artists in all disciplines to collaborate in 
creating works which seek to define the origins, ramifications, uses 
and abuses of one the most ubiquitous and prevalent elements in our 
behavior and environment.

CESTA's festival themes and parameters of cross-national 
interdisciplinary collaborations represent the center's commitment to 
improving communication through creative expression. We base our 
selection of artists on a review of applications resulting from our 
annual open call. Applicants request CESTA to connect them with one 
or more collaboration partners or apply as a pre-formed collaboration group.

For WASTE all final festival collaboration groups must be:

1) Cross-national: more than one nationality
2) Interdisciplinary: more than one artistic medium
3) Collaborative: conceptualizing and creating interdependent artistic work
AND must contain work created exclusively for WASTE.

Festival Application Deadline: November 15, 2006 (postmarked for 
material submitted by post)

On-site collaborations in progress:                     August 1-23
Presentations of participants' past 
work:                                     August 10-15
Seminars, workshops and educational programs on the festival theme:August 10-15
Final presentations of the collaboration 
groups:                           August 24-26
Daily reviews of the presentations:                     August 25-27
Festival closing forum:              August 27

For application guidelines, forms or other information, please visit 
our website or contact us at:

CESTA
Novakova 387, Tabor 39001, Czech Republic
tel: +420-381-258-004
<mailto:>cesta at mbox.vol.cz
www.cesta.cz