Public art program of PERMM (Perm museum of modern art) in cooperation with the Ministry of Culture of Permsky Krai region, city government of Perm invite street artists, visual artists, designers, architects, illustrators, graffiti artists to participate in contest of festival Long Stories for Perm 2012. Visual Poetry.

Festival of contemporary art on concrete fences, residential and industrial constructions in Perm. The festival is planned to paint with a facade acrylic paints 580 sections on 26 concrete fences and 10 end walls of constructions in the center of Perm.

DEADLINE for submission of applications and sketches of projects – April 15, 2012

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Results of the competition – April 25, 2012

Realisation of selected projects from 1 to 30 May, 2012 with a help of volunteers under the guidance of the author

Opening of a project – May 31, 2012

Places – concrete fences, residential and industrial constructions

Curators: Arseny Sergeyev, Erken Kagarov. Literary consultants: Ivan Sabyrov, Vyacheslav Kyritsin. Producer: Andrew Vaskin. Coordinator: Daria Vassil’eva

The theme of the festival "Visual Poetry” is synchronous to the property of Perm being a “Library capital” of the Perm region in 2012. Artists will deploy the visual equivalents of poetry on a very long concrete fence. Projects will focus on the expression of the poetic text – rhythm, structure and texture of the verse. Long stories for Perm will be consisted of a visual image of the text, of the relationship of artists to the verse, word, letter as to the image. The theme of the festival is a challenge for the participants, not only because the artistic projects should be formulated for extremely non- standard elongated horizontal format of concrete fences, encircling the industrial facilities in Perm, but also because the art projects will have to coexist and resist in spontaneous and aggressive in many ways graphic and font environment of the city (visual identity and navigation, outdoor advertisements, running lines, signs).

The festival is divided into two platforms.

ARTIST-POET platform updates and sets a new scale of rich and varied traditions of visual poetry – from the pictographic and hieroglyphic writing, calligraphy, frieze compositions and ornaments, to the poetry albums, animated stories, riddles and visual stories in children’s magazines (when replacing the words in the text to images) until the experiments of the modern art (Merz-Dadapoems, constructivist and pop art play with the font and image, concrete poetry of conceptualism, lettrism of postmodernism). Especially for designers working in the field of typography the festival has a platform

FORM OF STANZA where they will be able to demonstrate their skills and artistic talents, to show the meaning and give the energy to poetic lines of Russian poets. Poems dedicated to contemporary life in the city and its citizens “constructed” by designers, will not only be a transcription of poetic texts in visual language, artists will give a monumental scale to the rows of classical and modern Russian poetry, will make them proportionate to the public spaces of the city. The organizers will pay for partisipants’ travel, accommodation and meals, assume all the costs of implementing art projects of partisipants of the festival – paint, tools and transport.

Technical ways of implementations: Acrylic painting on a surface of concrete fences with brushes and rollers

Conditions of participation in the festival: ARTIST-POET – a platform for experimental visual poetry project. Participation in the festival is on a competitive basis. Participation is free. The participants – artists, designers, architects The selection of the project participants comes by the jury (curators, artists, poets). Curators select a long list of artists, the jury chooses from the list participants of the festival. To participate you should send your sketches and completed application form with your photo until April 15, 2012. Number of sketches is not limited. Only one project of one author will be chosen to implement. Sketches for implementation are chosen on a competitive basis in two stages. On the first stage the curators form a long list of projects: not more than 40 projects. At the second stage the jury chooses 10 projects for realization in the city – on industrial and structural facilities in Perm.

Project requirements:

A. You must create a “long” artwork, a detailed descriptive and poetic narrative. “Poetic story” should be read as we move along it. The choice of art forms, motifs, stylistic and expressive means for creating stories, as well as using or not using typefaces, the degree of abstraction or literary remains with the author – the art work should be “read” successively and understood as a “poetic text”.

B. Sketches should be taken into account of the module structure of fences. Sketch may be structured as a storyboard, comic strip or scrolling.

C. Sketches’ length must be at least 10 sections (the real size of the section in 250 x 250 sm, see the picture of it in the attachment), with a possible increase depending on the length of the fence (in fact, most of the fences are much longer than 40 sections).

D. Authors must be prepared to finalize the design in a 7-day period, tying the project to a particular fence provided by the organizers. Curator of the festival carries the choice of the location of the project. E. The visual story must have at least 2 of the plan of perception – the plan “a big plastic” is perceived as close as 10 meters or more at high speed (from the window of a car or public transportation), as well as the finer detailed plan, perceived by pedestrians at close range.

F. You can’t use more than 3 colors in your project, including black and white colors. The colors should be in a palette of the automatic tinting machine (RAL).

G. The project should be prepared for implementation by a team of 5-6 volunteers in a period of 2 to 5 days under the direct supervision of the artist, either without his supervision – by the provided sketches if for some reason the author can not participate in the implementation process.

H. The project will be performed by hand with brushes, rollers, and facade paint. The surface of the fence will be primed with white paint. Contour drawing will be transferred through a video projector. I. The organizers pay for participants’ travel, accommodation and meals.

J. The organizers cover all production costs for realization the art project of the author. To participate in competition: - Send confirmation of participation on an e-mail: longstories2012@gmail.com. Please, indicate your name, e-mail, phone number, Skype, post address. - Fill the entry form in DOC. Name file of entry form with your surname (e.g.: jones.DOC). - Name files of designs with your surname and number (e.g.: jones_001.jpg). We accept files in JPG (Image height should be at least 400 pixels), AI (Adobe Illustrator ver. 3-9-CS2), EPS (Adobe Illustrator EPS, ver 3-9-CS2), CDR (Corel Draw! Ver 4-7), PDF ( Adobe Acrobat ver 5) - Attach to application your photo in JPG (Image high should be at least 400 pixels) - Send files of entry form, designs and photo to e-mail: longstories2012@gmail.com

DEADLINE for applications – April 15, 2012

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Contacts:

Dasha Vasilyeva (project coordinator) – longstories2012@gmail.com +7 (919)492-85-94.

Arseny Sergeyev (curator of  “ARTIST-POET” platform) arsush@gmail.com +7 (965)575-33-69 skype artpolitik

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