Critical Animals :: This is Not Art

It’s true, we’re on the lookout for two new Directors for the 2011 and 2012 festivals. We hope that our new Directors will be able to attend this year’s This is Not Art and Critical Animals.

The position description can be found here. Applications are due by 1 September.

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

Those interested should send their cover letter and CV as one document to criticalanimals@gmail.com, subject line “CA Director Application”.

Likewise, queries can be sent to criticalanimals@gmail.com.

Yours in anticipation,
Sarah and Aden

The task of putting together an amazing program for 2010 has begun. We’ve received a record number of submissions, brimming with energy and ideas, and we will have something amazing to present soon.

Pop back closer to August to see what and who Critical Animals will be in 2010…

The Crack Theatre Festival is seeking a Co-Director for the 2010 and 2011 festivals. Crack is a national festival and forum for emerging and experimental performing artists. Over four days, Crack presents a series of panels, workshops and performances showcasing the breadth and diversity of Australian performing arts practice.

The festival takes place annually in October as part of This Is Not Art, Australia’s largest media arts festival. It is held in Newcastle, NSW, along with Electrofringe, National Young Writers Festival, Critical Animals and Sound Summit.

Crack is looking for a creative, energetic and highly organised individual to work with current festival co-directors David Finnigan and Gillian Schwab. 2010 dates are 30 September – 4 October.

For further information and application guidelines visit http://cracktheatrefestival.com

Deadline: Friday 7 May 2010
Contact: Gillian Schwab, 0431 452 859, cracktheatrefestival@gmail.com

The gate has shut and the yard is littered with ideas, plans, suggestions and elaborate schemes. We now have the task of sifting through the mail, of picking apart the various projects, papers, presentations, performances, exhibitions and installations that people have proposed. This, for us, is the good part.

As for you, if you were gracious enough to submit an application, you’ll receive confirmation of this by the end of the week.

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Due to overwhelming demand and public protest, we are extending our deadline for submissions for the 2010 festival to:

WEDNESDAY 14 APRIL

We already have an inbox brimming with incredible proposals, but because we understand that people (a) forget, (b) get sidetracked, (c) fail to prioritise effectively, and (d) are lazy, we present you this amnesty.

Download submission info and guidelines in word or pdf, you choose.

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

Applications close Wednesday 31 March.

Deadline for applications extended to WEDNESDAY 14 APRIL

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…