OPEN DIALOGUES: NEW LIFE BERLIN is a critical writing initiative exploring online and offline communities during the NEW LIFE BERLIN Festival in June 2008.
Through the OPEN DIALOUGES program, we are asking local and international writers to participate in the development of critical responses to the NEW LIFE BERLIN Festival.
In collaboration with the participating writers, OPEN DIALOGUES: NEW LIFE BERLIN will investigate the implications and role of critical writing as discourse and practice. We will explore critical writing in relation to communities of contemporary art, and develop organic responses to the Festival as it unfolds.
OPEN DIALOGUES: NEW LIFE BERLIN is devised and organized by Mary Paterson and Rachel Lois Clapham of Open Dialogues. Open Dialogues is a UK-based critical writing initiative that supports, fosters and promotes international networks for critical debate around contemporary art.
Previously, Mary Paterson and Rachel Lois Clapham have collaborated with such events and biennials as The National Review of Live Art (Glasgow 07 and 08), SPILL (London 07), VITAL (Manchester 07) and the Performa 07 Biennial (New York 07).
SELECTED PARTICIPANTS
Rachel lois
Mary Paterson
Christina Irrgang
Charlotte Morgan
Mary Kate Connolly
Anga'aefonu Bain-Vete
Matthew MacKisack
Ann Rapstoff
Eleanor Hadley Kershaw
Joanna Loveday
Alexandria Clark
Carali McCall
Claire Louise Staunton
Valerie Palmer
Cheree Mack
Clare Carswell
Heiko Schmid
Kathryn Fischer
APPLICATION INFORMATION
1.) To apply for this project, you must have a WOOLOO.ORG account. Please click here to sign up for free
2.) The application deadline for OPEN DIALOGUES: NEW LIFE BERLIN is midnight May 12th, 2008. (Pacific Standard Time.)
3.) The application is FREE.
4.) OPEN DIALOGUES: NEW LIFE BERLIN is part of the NEW LIFE BERLIN Contemporary Art Festival taking place from June 1st -15th 2008.
5.) Applicants must be fluent in written and spoken English (you will also have the opportunity to write in German), have a strong interest in contemporary art practice and be willing to write accessibly for art and non-art audiences. You will also need to have a minimum of a university degree (BA) in a related field and a strong interest in contemporary art practice
6.) Applicants must furthermore be able to commit to one full day’s writing workshop, two 2 hour peer-critique sessions, at least one OPEN DIALOGUES: NEW LIFE BERLIN event and to writing at least three texts throughout the festival (June 1-15 2008).
7.) Writers keep the copyright to their own texts.
8.) All selected writers will receive their own Wooloo.org Website and Blog and will be credited on the official Festival Program, as well as in all post-festival documentation material in both printed and other form.
9.) You will receive an entry confirmation via email, as soon as your online application has been received by Wooloo.
10.) All applications must be made in English through your Wooloo account. Do not send physical material to us, as this cannot be returned.
11.) By submitting an application, you agree that this application and all its accompanying material can be displayed to Mary Paterson and Rachel Lois Clapham of Open Dialogues, as well as any other individuals or groups that Wooloo Productions deem appropriate.
12.) Wooloo Productions reserves the right to modify the project information at any time. Any modifications go into effect the day they are posted and apply to all individuals registered for the project.
DISCUSS THIS PROJECT
agualicia
ARGENTINA
May. 09, 2008 23:10
may I join this project even living in Buenos Aires
greetings from buenos aires
alicia
silvinader
GERMANY
Jun. 17, 2008 02:44
Dear people of Open dialogues,
the Laboratorio Berlin would like to thank you so much for your work!
Personally, I think that this project was very strong and helped to link in a way or the other the different New life Festival projects. It cristallizes and filled up inbetween spaces. Reading the texts I came the projects that I couldn't see or participate much closer. For me as visual artists it is a very intresting experience to see reflections about the visual and performative acts in texts and words. I see a very fruitfull cooperation and as visual artists the feedback of which aspect are relevant, or how our work was percieved in the texture of a text gives another angel and a very enriching point of view.
Thank you very much!!
Silvina Der-Meguerditchian
from
Laboratorio Berlin
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The critical writing initiative OPEN DIALOGUES: NEW LIFE BERLIN is devised and organized by Mary Paterson and Rachel Lois Clapham.
Previously, Mary Paterson and Rachel Lois Clapham have collaborated with such events and biennials as The National Review of Live Art (Glasgow 07 and 08), SPILL (London 07), VITAL (Manchester 07) and the Performa 07 Biennial (New York 07).
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OPEN DIALOGUES is part of the NEW LIFE BERLIN Festival
