CALL FOR PROPOSALS: "Artist as Activist", an International Performance Art event to be held in Tokyo in October 2007. Live performance in the gallery, site-specific work in the city and video screenings welcome. Deadline: October 25, 2006

Please download the guideline PDF at http://www.niwa-staff.org/aaproject.html

We'd like to invite artists or artist groups to international performance art event "Artist as Activist" which will take place in Tokyo in middle October 2007.The aim of the event is to create a new relationship to society and the city of Tokyo. With cultural deference we can discovery how to live with others together.

We welcome any type of action art and project art, Not only live performance at the gallery, but also off-site action in the street or public space. Of course it depends on your proposal. As an artist and as an activist, we want to create new scene of action art. Unfortunately we cannot offer you travel expenses or any finance support. We don't return your proposal material.

There are following 3 sections;
A : City project: All projects in the public space or the street are welcome.
B : Live Performance art: New performance works are welcome.
C : Video screening of performance art: Documentations of performance art or Project art. (Should be on DVD)

Proposal should include;
Contact information
Proposal project description(Please choose one section)
-Title
-Description of the project
-Duration
-Equipment requirement
-Space requirement
-Technical assistant
-Other requirement
C.V./Resume/Short statement
Support Material(DVD,CD-ROM,Catalog,etc.)
Digital Photo data of proposal works on CD-R(if possible,350 high solution)
!! Don't send original works!!

Send to:
AA project team
c/o Yoshinori Niwa
5-7-11-101,Himonya,Meguro-ku,Tokyo,1520003,JAPAN

Artist as Activist (AA Project team)
niwa@niwa-staff.org
http://www.niwa-staff.org/aaproject.html

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