There’s another great art / curatorial project coming up from Cape Town-based Ralph Borland, and this one is calling for work for him to bring to a big ole festival in Australia:
I am a South African artist looking to document or exhibit your work – artwork, design and technology projects, tools, appliances, activist campaigns, sampled objects, as well as music, games, publications and other media – for my contribution to the Next Wave Festival in Melbourne, Australia, in March 2006. The Next Wave Festival this year is part of the cultural program of the 2006 Commonwealth Games, and it takes as its provocative theme the old name for the games – ‘Empire Games’.
I am acting as artist and curator, producing an exhibition and social space called ‘Sideshow’ within and around a shipping container, one of over 30 in a large warehouse space. My focus is on creative tactics for resistance and subversion.
For more information and images around the project, examples of the kind of projects I’m looking for, and information about myself and my work, please consult this link:
http://ralphborland.net/art/nextwave.html
For practical reasons, most projects will be represented through printed and digital documentation, except where the work does not need to be returned – there aren’t sufficient funds available for the transportation of work.
Please contact me at the email address below with information about your work. No large attachments to start with please. I look forward to hearing from you! I would also appreciate you passing this email on to appropriate forums and individuals.
Please contact me as soon as possible, and before the 20 February 2006.
His sideshow call for work uses has keywords:
progressive technology. appropriate technology. subversive technology. illegal technology/ political art. resistance art. subversive art. illegal art. brand art/ hacking. modding. sampling. remaking. satirising/ politricks. tricknology/ gallery. workshop. museum. carnival. clubhouse. shebeen. sideshow
