The Gordon Institute for Performing and Creative Arts (GIPCA) invites proposals for the 2013 Live Art Festival, the only festival on the continent dedicated to Live Art. This sprawling series of events and research colloquium will take place from 18 – 27 November 2013 in various venues across Cape Town.
Conflicting ideas about how we perceive and not just what we perceive, the collapse of established systems based on prejudice, and the emergence of postcolonial subjectivities have all contributed to a healthy and robust bewilderment around contemporary art, particularly that emerging from South Africa. As interdisciplinary and genre-crossing work appears increasingly at the fore of local and international art practice, understanding and appreciation of these practices and their various manifestations is continually evolving.
The inaugural Live Art Festival was commended by critic Mary Corrigall in SA Arts 2012: A year in Review as ‘mark[ing] a new era in our cultural landscape, as it brought the work of performance artists, visual artists, dancers and theatre practitioners under one banner, thus erasing the sometimes superficial boundaries between these disciplines. This is a first in SA and should in the future encourage artists to expand the way they conceive of their practice.”
Building on this, the main focus for the 2013 Live Art Festival is to create a more definitive platform of international interest, with a strong basis in innovative Live Art work from the African continent.
‘Live Art’is a broad term that has come to encompass not only performance art, but also new media installations, experimental theatre and dance, and time-based or ephemeral work that exists on the fringes of visual and performing art practice. The pioneering Live Art Development Agency (LADA) also suggests that Live Art should not be understood as a description of an art form, but rather as a strategy to include a diversity of practices and artists that might otherwise find themselves excluded from all kinds of policy and provisions, curatorial contexts and critical debates.
Live Art practice in South Africa is gaining momentum and public recognition; the Live Art Festival is a way of giving weight, history and focus to this ephemeral art form that has emerged from the fringes of art-making as well as from the core of ritual.
In line with these thoughts, GIPCA invites proposals in three categories for the 2013 Live Art Festival:
Main festival: Priority will be given to large scale, full-length works of authority. While GIPCA will endeavour to fund as many aspects of projects as possible, applicants are encouraged to also find other funding partners. New and restaged works will be considered.
Fringe festival: Budgets for projects by young / emerging artists in this category will only be considered to a value of R5,000.
Presentations and academic papers: Applications will be considered for presentation at a research colloquium and/or related publication.
Applications should be submitted via email to fin-gipca@uct.ac.za with the subject line ‘2013 LIVE ART FESTIVAL APPLICATION’. A single PDF file, no larger than 3MB, containing the following should be submitted:
• name, email address, landline and mobile numbers
• concept document or abstract of no more than 400 words
• no more than 4 images (if relevant)
• a detailed budget of all expenses (including accommodation and transport if relevant)
• technical requirements (if relevant)
• an abridged one-page CV, highlighting previous experience in creating such work
The application deadline is Wednesday 31 July 2013. No late or incomplete applications will be accepted.
For more information, please contact the GIPCA office on +27 (0) 21 480 7156 or fin-gipca@uct.ac.za.
About GIPCA: The University of Cape Town’s Gordon Institute for Performing and Creative Arts (GIPCA) facilitates new collaborative and interdisciplinary creative research projects in the disciplines of Music, Dance, Fine Art, Drama, Creative Writing, Film and Media Studies. Interdisciplinarity is a key theme of the institute and projects are imbued with innovation, collaboration and dialogue with urbanism and community. GIPCA was launched in December 2008 with a substantial grant from Sir Donald Gordon, founder of Liberty Life. An Advisory Board comprising Heads of Departments of all Performing and Creative Arts Departments at UCT helps to shape contexts for the instigation an d development of projects by students and staff, as well as a wide range of institutions and individuals outside the university. For more information on the 2013 GIPCA programme, visit www.gipca.uct.ac.za, or phone 021 480 7156.
GIPCA Director: Associate Professor Jay Pather
GIPCA Project Manager: Adrienne van Eeden-Wharton
Chair of the GIPCA Board:Professor Paula Ensor
URL: http://www.gipca.uct.ac.za/about/
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A Whole New Bible at GIPCAs Live Art Festival Photographer: Photographer Ashley Walters
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Strand at the Gipca Live Art Festival Photographer: Photographer Ashley Walters
