Nominations of artists and architects are now invited for Eleventh Plateau Festival, the annual international exhibition held in July till September in the island of Hydra at the Hydra Historical Archives Museum, the Kountouriotis Museum and in four cities (Berlin, London, Osaka, Prague), under the auspices of the British Council.
One submission will be chosen as a recipient of the Out Of The Box Intermedia Prize. The winner will be given the opportunity to present her/his project at the exhibition. The prize covers the budget of the nominated project and its publication. The other two shortlisted artists will be given the opportunity to present their research with leading figures from a broad range of professions who will address the complexity surrounding the concept of “nature” at the conference:
Eleventh Plateau: Perceptual Ecologies and Territorial Assemblage
Details will be announced at a later date.
The open call for nominations initiates an international research process that enables Out Of The Box Intermedia to support contemporary visual & performance artists, scientists and architects who engage with:
- The Critical Eco-philosophical issues of today
- The Role of Art in Promoting New Ecological Thinking
- Fostering New Environments: land and energy use
- Addressing Climate Change: politics, environment, society
You are invited to submit project proposals with a 100 word abstract, visual material, bios and full contact information by June 10th 2011 to eleventhplateau@gmail.com
No late submissions will be considered.
Contributions can include text (DOC) and image files (JPEGs or PDFs), and Videos.
The project Eleventh Plateau examines a meticulous kind of compositional practice in which the machinery of nature and the machinery of art become one, in eleven different “sites-terrains” in the Is/land of Hydra. With the collaboration of architects, environmentalists, archeologists, artists and community involvement an interdisciplinary practice and discourse on the subject of eco-aesthetics, ecosystems, landscape reconstruction and its meaning for traditional cultural heritage will be instigated.
Hydra is unique in the world as a vehicleless oasis, thanks to the diachronic presence of the mule and donkey culture in the island. The preservation of the distinct historical and architectural landscape is formed as a result of community involvement, however, tensions occur between the community and investors who want to alter this traditional landscape.
The project outlines the ways in which the collaborators of Out of the Box Intermedia draw on scientific and eco-philosophical developments to explore temporal and spatial interrelations, new forms of art interventions and to unfold the wide range of disciplines, theoretical, and artistic positions that comprise the relationships between spectator and artist/scientist.
Keywords: Representational Shifts, New Dramaturgies, Eco-Aesthetics, Eco-systems, Intermediality
COLLABORATING ARTISTS, ARCHITECTS AND ACADEMICS:
Kate MccGwire | Danae Stratou | Mat Chivers | James P Graham | Augusta Ogilvy | Martin Sexton | Mischa Twitchin | Vladimiros Levidis | Evaggelos Kaimakis | Kom.Post Collective| MediaElectronique |
Eleanna Martinou | George-Icaros Babasakis | Filipos Tsitsopoulos | Yiannis Christakos | Dimitris Makris | Vital Space Projects | Fixatif Works | EDW | Room For Thought | Space Syntax
Concept/Artistic Direction: Sozita Goudouna
Scientific Associate/ Landscape Architecture : Architect Io Karydi
Architectural Committee: Lina Dima | Thomas Doxiadis| Io Karydi | Patricia Sendin
Architects:
Maximilian Simin Vogels | Tamiko Onozawa| Thomas Amargianos | Andrea Marcuccetti | Alexandros Mykoniatis| Patricia Sendin | Valentini Kaimaki | Anna Lascari | Dimitra Stamatiou | Agape Proimou | Panagiotis Malefakis | Aspassia Kouzoupi | Athina Lazaridou
Production: Out Of The Box Intermedia
Production Associates: Christina Stribacu | Emy Sotirchou | Opus Integrated Communication
Consultants on Green Design: Busy Building
Out of the Box Intermedia is a non-profit interdisciplinary arts organization actively committed to the research, development and presentation of site-responsive and intermedia projects. The organization aims to promote international exchange of practice and knowledge in the arts (visual and sound art, dance, architecture, theatre), to research on the methods used in theatre and curatorial practices and to investigate points of intersection between the arts and the public sphere by means of interventions, collective actions, educational programmes and publications.
For more information please visit: http://www.outoftheboxintermedia.org">http://www.outoftheboxintermedia.org