critical animals; tina; 2009

Sound the bugle, Critical Animals is calling for proposals for the 2010 festival.

Applications close Wednesday 31 March.

Critical Animals is the creative research arm of This is Not Art, held each October in Newcastle, NSW. We welcome proposals for papers, panels, presentations, performances, exhibits, installations and happenings. The symposium is interdisciplinary and unthemed – it is an opportunity to present research material and creative practice with the thought to generating discussion and collaboration. In particular we look for artists that engage with creative research, challenge their medium or reflect upon their practice.

Please distribute this callout to any artists, researchers, writers, students, performers, academics and thinkers – anyone who’s critically engaged in creative and experimental art practices.

Download proposal info and guidelines here or here.

From the Open Fielders:

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Open Fields 2010 is now calling for submissions.

This inaugural unthemed academic camp will be held at the University of Technology, Sydney, and Serial Space Gallery, April 28-30, 2010.

It has been our intention to create a virtually limitless forum harbouring the inner excitations of academics, researchers, students, artists and practitioners. By allowing themes, tangents, or circles of thought to appear organically, Open Fields is an ideal opportunity for presentations, engagements, and collaborations that are experimental, obscure and uncompromised.

We encourage you to present your thought, work in progress, or to present on the work of another in the spirit of creativity, stimulation, and cross-pollination. This may take the form of an exhibition, installation, paper, presentation, performance, recital, round-table discussion, seminar, or any combination you feel appropriate.

The camp will feature self-catering, a program of nightly performances and events at Serial Space, and the Rizzeria zine machine.

For more information, visit: openfieldssydney.wordpress.com

To apply, find our application form here.

Admire the poster, here.

Applications close 31 January, 2010.

Registration for contributors and attendees will open in February, 2010.

Feel free to email us with any queries at: openfields2010@gmail.com

Godspeed,
Open Fields.

Critical Animals, the 3-day creative research symposium that takes place annually in Newcastle as part of This is Not Art, is looking for a Co-Director for the 2010 and 2011 festivals.

The position information can be found here.

If you know any interested artists, organisers, academics, students, polymaths, multitaskers or lateral thinkers, please point them in our direction.

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Participant-photographer Tim Wright took the following shots during the Stanzas in Meditation in the Park event.

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As separate from the Critical Animals survey, a This is Not Art survey can be completed here, for those conscientious procrastinators among us. If you only complete one survey, however, we’d prefer it be the Critical Animals one, but don’t tell anyone we said that…

Just a reminder that our survey about this years festival is live. If you could please click through and fill it out, this would be greatly appreciated. It will only take about 2mins of your time.

The answers help us make wonderful informative arguments for funding and support.

Thank you again.

Calling all Steinians,

To coincide with Stein 09 festivities, Critical Animals is hosting a public reading of Gertrude Stein’s Stanzas In Meditation in its entirety. The continuous audition of the work will be an act of criticism emphasising certain of its essential qualities: its music, its process, that it is a monument, and that it creates an environment.

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To mark the end of Critical Animals we are holding Diversity Dinners on Sunday 4 October, an event to bring people, food and stories together. This should be a lovely opportunity to debrief on the festival, as well as take part in a very thoughtful piece of art. An installation that unfolds in situ, the dinner will also be recorded and in turn become a reflective audio work.

Emma Konnaris is the mind and the stomach behind the concept of Diversity Dinners. She is a young artist operating out of a too-small studio. When she’s not creating art, she’s subtly force-feeding friends and family members.

Click here for invite and details.

Places are limited, so be sure to RSVP to emma_konnaris@hotmail.com by Saturday 26 September, and tell her what dish you intend to bring!

Using but a modicum of layout knowledge, we have put together both the Events and Visual Arts programs in a more consumable format, for those of you who like to print things off and read them, rather than scroll a screen forever.

As last minute changes inevitably occur, these – along with the former program posts – will be updated, but for the time being, enjoy! (Current versions are dated 250909.)

Aden and Britt

Strap yourselves in for the updated Critical Animals Program. If you’ve previously downloaded the program, throw it away. Put it in the recycling, write on the back of it, line your kitty litter. Whatever you do, don’t refer to it. Instead, look below or here for your up-to-the-minute schedule. (Current programs are dated 250909)

You’ll find the Visual Arts Program one post below, and for download here.

The full This is Not Art program can be perused and downloaded here.

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