[artinfo] International Prize for Performance

[Flash Art international]

GALLERIA CIVICA DI ARTE CONTEMPORANEA OF TRENTO

International Prize for Performance. Fourth edition

last days for sending applications

Applications for the fourth edition of the International Prize for 
Performance are due to arrive by Sunday, August 31st, 2008 at 12:00 
PM (Italian time).

The International Prize for Performance, which is organized by the 
Galleria Civica di Arte Contemporanea of Trento, in collaboration 
with Centro Servizi Culturali Santa Chiara and with the support of 
Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio of Trento and Rovereto, can be 
characterized as the first an only prize for performance that exists 
in the world and proposes the same formula as last years, which saw 
high participation numbers from both the public and the artists.

All artists of all nationalities, from all formative backgrounds 
(visual arts, dance, music, poetry, etc.) and born from January 1st, 
1973 are invited to participate. The first prize is fixed at 5,000 
euros and there will also be minor prizes awarded.

The initiative aims to select among the participants twelve young 
performers from all over the world, who are invited to realize a 
previously unseen performance on the evenings of October 10th and 
11th, 2008 at the Teatro Sociale of Trento.

At least one place will be reserved amongst the finalists for the 
artists born or resident in Trentino-South Tyrol, the province of 
Verona or the Austrian Tyrol.

Performances will run under the eyes of an international jury 
composed of specialists with different backgrounds, in order to 
guarantee the Prize a multidisciplinary character; they are: Carlos 
Amorales (artist and performer, President of the jury), Carlo 
Antonelli (music critic and Director of "Rolling Stone" Italia), 
Helena Kontova (Co-director "Flash Art"), Gian Marco Montesano 
(artist, Artistic Director of Teatro Stabile dell'Innovazione, 
Pescara), Catherine Wood (Curator of Contemporary art and performance 
at Tate Modern, London), Franco Oss Noser (Director of Centro Servizi 
Culturali Santa Chiara of Trento) and Fabio Cavallucci (Artistic 
Director of Galleria Civica di Arte Contemporanea of Trento).

Applications must include all materials, as specified in the official 
announcement, and be sent via email to performance at galleriacivica.it 
(posted materials will not be accepted).

The official announcement is available at 
<http://www.workartonline.net>http://www.workartonline.net

Info:

Galleria Civica di Arte Contemporanea

Via Belenzani 46 - 38100 Trento - Italia

E:  <mailto:galleria_civica at comune.trento.it>galleria_civica at comune.trento.it