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Indepth Arts News:
"Call for Artists : Thanatopolis"
2010-06-21 until 2010-07-05
I-Park
East Haddam, CT,
USA United States of America
Call for Proposals - Thanatopolis at I-Park has an application deadline on July 5, 2010.The I-Park Foundation, a not-for-profit international arts community sited within an expansive nature preserve in East Haddam, Connecticut (USA), is seeking creative proposals in the
following disciplines: Music Composition/Sound Sculpture, Visual Arts/Environmental Sculpture, Theater/Choreography/Performance Art, Landscape/Garden Design
Architecture, Landscape Architecture.
Thanatopolis, an alternative memorial park/space in the advanced
conceptual phase of its development, is looking for works that
harmonize with the long-term goal of the project, which is to
re-imagine our cultural and personal relationship to death,
memory and memorialization â013 and to engage the above creative
fields to bring about a new, profoundly sacred and evocative
landscape/sound-space.
Selected projects will be presented at the Thanatopolis
Exhibition on October 2, 2010.
Judging will be by a distinguished panel on the basis of
creativity, site-responsive, cultural relevance, feasibility
and, perhaps most importantly, efficacy in engaging the issues
of death, memory and memorialization.
Those invited to execute their physical, performance or
music/sound sculpture pieces for the Thanatopolis Exhibition
will receive a creative fee of $2,000 plus a budget for travel,
materials and incidental expenses. Applicants invited to
exhibit â018paperâ019 (un-executable, future, conceptual)
projects will receive a creative fee of $700. Additional
funding may be available depending on the scope of the
individual projects.
See links below for details on the submission process and
elaboration on the inter-disciplinary and collaborative nature
of the Thanatopolis Project.
Application Fee: waived for this project
Application Format: online submission through the I-Park website.
Deadline: all submissions must be received by July 5, 2010
Thanatopolis Overview: http://www.i-park.org/Thanos.html
FAQ: http://www.i-park.org/Thanatopolis2010_FAQ.pdf
I-Park Website: www.i-park.org
Detailed Call for Entries, Music/Sound Sculpture:
http://www.i-park.org/MusicandSound.html
Questions: contact Agnes Miyuki at Thanatopolis@gmail.com
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