The Performance Art
Festival+Archives is mounting Confessions of the Avant-Garde,
an exhibition of the photo and video archives of the Performance Art Festival
from May 27 through June 21, 2003 at the Cleveland State University Art Gallery
and Cleveland State University Library Special Collections in Cleveland, Ohio
USA. Gallery performances will take place at 7PM on May 29, and the exhibition
opening reception will take place 5-7PM on May 30. This is to celebrate and
announce that the Cleveland State University Library Special Collections will be
hosting the Performance Art Festival Archives and making them available to
researchers, scholars, journalists and the public.
These extensive Archives, consisting of over 6000 photographs, 2000 hours
of video tape, Artists Fact Sheets, biographies, news clips, and ephemera, were
collected from 1988-1999 during which time the Performance Art Festival, known
as the largest festival of its kind, presented over 1000 performance artists
from over 24 countries at venues throughout the Cleveland area. Virtually all
performances were photographed and videotaped with two camera angles, and all
pertinent ephemera and materials have been retained and collected in the
Archives. The exhibition includes video or images of:
Blue Man Group,
Guillermo Gomez-Pena, Lorena Wolffer, Julie Laffin, Annie Sprinkle, John Fleck,
Reno, Ivan Rados, Seiji Shimoda, Rachel Rosenthal, Ping Chong, Goat Island, and
Raphael Montanez Ortiz, among others.
Video compilation programs include Performance Art As Controversy,
Task & Durational Performance Art, Women Performance Artists, and
International Performance Art, among others.
Thomas Mulready, Founding Director,
Thomas@Performance-Art.org http://www.performance-art.org
Please send the following information to: Thomas@Performance-art.org by April 15 or (extention deadline) April 22.
1)
Contact Information (Full Name, Company Name, Address, Home Tel, Work Tel,
Mobile Tel., Fax, E-mail); a) Artist or Group Name; b) Indicate how many
performers would travel to Cleveland; c) Title of proposed piece (if any); d)
Length of proposed piece.
2) Complete description of proposed work of
performance art (500 words max), including most basic tech
requirements;
3) Artist’s Statement or artistic philosophy and how it
relates to the proposed work (250 words max);
4) Biography of artist
or group, including an overview of your artistic career, education, major works,
awards and current activities (250 words max);
5) All above questions
should be typed out in the body of an e-mail, rather than included in
attachments. Additional attachments may be attached to the e-mail, not to exceed
1MB of PC-compatible documents.
6) Video & Photos: For videos,
please enclose five-minute VHS NTSC format (not European PAL). To send
photographs, please send up to two black & white or color photos or digital
photos in GIF or JPEG format on a CD-ROM in PC-compatible format.
7) All
applications from outside the US received before April 15, 2003: no
fee
8) All US applications postmarked on or before April 15, 2003:
Enclose $10 fee
9) Extension: All US applications postmarked on or
before April 22, 2003: Enclose $30 fee
10) Send videotapes, photos, and
fee to: 1365 Webb Road, Cleveland, Ohio 44107 USA. Please include adequate
international postage for return of materials. Make check or money order payable
to Performance Art Festival.
Featured performers will be offered a
small stipend and accommodations at the Ritz-Carlton Cleveland. Remaining
performers will be offered an honorarium and the opportunity to present 30
minutes of lo-tech work in the Performance Open, an unjuried, uncensored and
uninhibited forum.
As a complement to the exhibition, the Performance Art Festival+Archives will host a symposium project entitled Archiving the Avant-Garde, on May 31, 2003 at Cleveland State University focusing on the archiving of performance art. Symposium participants will join other participants from this collaborative project that includes representatives from the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, The Walker Art Center, Franklin Furnace, the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, and Rhizome.org. See http://www.bampfa.berkeley.edu/ciao/avant_garde.html. Featured symposium guest is Dr. Barry Smith of The Nottingham Trent University in Nottingham, England. To apply for symposium participation, please send a complete description of materials you’d like to discuss related to archiving performance art to: Thomas@Performance-art.org by April 15, 2003.
Confessions of the Avant-Garde and Archiving the Avant-Garde are made possible by the Ohio Arts Council, Cleveland Public Theatre, Cleveland State University Art Gallery, Cleveland State University Library Special Collections, The Nottingham Trent University, The Wexner Center for the Arts, and CoolCleveland.com Cool Cleveland.
The Ritz-Carlton Cleveland is the
official hotel of the Performance Art Festival+Archives.