[artinfo] ERSTE Foundation PATTERNS_Call For Submissions

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> Vienna, 8 November 2007
>
> Dear colleagues,
>
> Please find enclosed information on our call for
> submissions. Please forward if you know about
> interesting projects and submit if you have one
> yourself.
>
> PATTERNS_Researching And Understanding Recent Cultural
> History
> Call For Submissions
> PATTERNS is a transnational programme that aims to
> research and understand recent cultural history.
> PATTERNS initiates, commissions and supports
> contemporary culture projects in a variety of formats
> and media. The programme focuses on the visual arts
> and culture of the 1960s until today.
>
> Call For Submissions
> As an addition to projects already underway within the
> framework of PATTERNS
> <http://www.erstestiftung.org/index2.php?lang=en&contentid=g>
> <www.erstestiftung.org/culture>, we are launching an
> open call for submissions. This call addresses
> projects in Central and South Eastern Europe that
> share PATTERNS' areas of interest. We support
> research, publications, as well as artistic and
> cultural projects and initiatives.
> PATTERNS aims to document, analyse and investigate
> different aspects of and practices related to the
> transformation of daily life and culture in Central
> and South Eastern Europe, while accounting for the
> pluralities that describe the region. PATTERNS seeks
> to promote understanding and knowledge of a
> differently lived past, which can facilitate a shared
> present and future. In doing so, it takes on the role
> of a "contemporary witness". The initiative focuses on
> the 1960s and 1970s, as well as on the transition
> period leading up to the present. The period commonly
> known as the "transition" is, without question, an
> important historical turning point, not only in the
> sense of reshaping and redefining what art and culture
> could mean in a post-totalitarian society: At
> historical and geographical fault lines, stories and
> historical documents emerge. The concern of the
> project is to chronicle these.
>
> Whom We Support
> The call addresses projects in the framework of
> non-profit organisations (NPO) in Central and South
> Eastern Europe. Since PATTERNS is an international
> programme, projects from other countries are also
> invited to apply if the topics they tackle are
> connected to the region or operate in at least one
> country of the region.
> We offer funding exclusively to non-profit
> organisations. Grants are not made to individuals or
> political parties. Individual project work must be
> embedded in the framework of a NPO.
>
> Timetable And Selection Process For Projects
> Deadline for submitting projects is Friday, 11 January
> 2008.
>
> Projects are selected by the PATTERNS Advisory Panel:
> Cosmin Costinas (author and curator, Bucharest /
> Vienna), Veronica Kaup-Hasler (director of Steirischer
> Herbst, Graz), Piotr Piotrowski (art historian,
> Poznan), Georg Schöllhammer (editor of Springerin and
> documenta 12 magazines, Vienna) and ERSTE Foundation.
>
> Projects will be selected during a meeting; the
> results will be published by the end of March 2008.
>
> Please check our website for detailed information:
> www.erstestiftung.org/patterns-call or contact us:
> culture at erstestiftung.org
>
> With compliments,
>
> Christine Böhler and Christiane Erharter
>
> CULTURE Programme
>
> ERSTE Stiftung
> Graben 21
> A-1010 Vienna
> www.erstestiftung.or <http://www.erstestiftung.org> g
>
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