11th Plateau Festival, call for entries

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Nominations of artists and architects are now invited for Eleventh Plateau Festival, the annual international exhibition held in July 8th till September 4th in the island of Hydra at the Hydra Historical Archives Museum, the Kountouriotis Museum and in four cities (Berlin, London, Osaka, Prague), under the auspices of the British Council.

One submission will be chosen as a recipient of the Out Of The Box Intermedia Prize. The winner will be given the opportunity to present her/his project at the exhibition. The prize covers the budget of the nominated project and its publication. The other two shortlisted artists will be given the opportunity to present their research with leading figures from a broad range of professions who will address the complexity surrounding the concept of “nature” at the conference:

Eleventh Plateau: Perceptual Ecologies and Territorial Assemblage

Details will be announced at a later date.

The open call for nominations initiates an international research process that enables Out Of The Box Intermedia to support contemporary visual & performance artists, scientists and architects who engage with 1. The Critical Eco-philosophical issues of today, 2. The Role of Art in Promoting New Ecological Thinking, 3. Fostering New Environments: land and energy use, 4. Addressing Climate Change: politics, environment, society.

You are invited to submit project proposals with a 100 word abstract, visual material, bios and full contact information by June 10th 2011 to eleventhplateau@gmail.com

No late submissions will be considered.

Contributions can include text (DOC) and image files (JPEGs or PDFs), and Videos.

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from elevent plateau 2010 blog

The project ELEVENTH PLATEAU examines a meticulous kind of compositional practice in which the machinery of nature and the machinery of art become one, in eleven different sites-terrains in an Is/land of Greece. With the collaboration of architects, environmentalists, archeologists, artists and community involvement an interdisciplinary practice and discourse on the subject of eco-aesthetics, landscape reconstruction and its meaning for traditional cultural heritage will be instigated.

The project outlines the ways in which the collaborators of Out of the Box Intermedia draw on scientific and eco-philosophical developments to explore temporal and spatial interrelations, new forms of art interventions and to unfold the wide range of disciplines, theoretical, and artistic positions that comprise the relationships between spectator and artist/scientist. ELEVENTH PLATEAU as a performance as research project provides a form of compositional practice that generates critical points of view and operates in‐between the realities and different layers of the island: the archeological past, contemporary economic culture, the excluded and the popular. The project is engaging meditation on landscape, zoology (animal/human interrelations), land art and shifts in the representation of nature. The conjunction of cultural and perceptual ecology points in one direction toward a conceptualization of art practice as a process, one that is directly in touch with the natural world.

ELEVENTH PLATEAU is a cross-border, site-specific project that aims to practically address the role of art in promoting new and critical ecological thinking and in creating innovative social ecosystems in Europe. From a post-environmentalist perspective, the project considers the intrinsic connection of nature to the wider social, political and economic forces and does not isolate the environment from other aspects of life. The project consists of a series of initiatives including art exhibitions, public interventions, conferences, ongoing discourse, education pilots and a publication, with the collaboration of organizations from eight European countries. Its central mission is to bring together politicians, artists, geographers, ecologists, economists, sociologists, architects and philosophers from across Europe to challenge each others thinking for an enquiry into the critical ecological issues of today and to discuss the shared concerns of these disciplines with regard to fostering new environments and sustainability in a longer term interdisciplinary exchange.

ELEVENTH PLATEAU sees the land itself as a living form of archaeology; given that it registers the impact of governmental policy, human migration, technological developments, changing environmental values, commercial interests and the shifting boundaries of urban and rural areas. The project examines a meticulous kind of compositional practice in which the machinery of nature and the machinery of art become one, in eleven different “sites-terrains” in an uninhabited island (Dokos-Hydra: In the 70s the most ancient shipwreck of the world has been found in the area around Dokos dated in the second half of the third millennium b.C.) and in 5 other cities of Europe. With the collaboration of architects, environmentalists, archeologists, artists and community involvement an interdisciplinary practice and discourse on the subject of eco-aesthetics, ecosystems, landscape reconstruction and its meaning for traditional cultural heritage will be instigated. ELEVENTH PLATEAU takes place in collaboration with the Ecological Association of Hydra (founded in 1988, the association is responsible for preserving Hydra as one of the few places in the world without vehicles). Hydra is unique in the world as a vehicleless oasis, thanks to the diachronic presence of the mule and donkey culture in the island. The preservation of the distinct historical and architectural landscape is formed as a result of community involvement, however, tensions occur between the community and investors- developers who want to alter this traditional landscape.

Concept/Artistic Direction: Sozita Goudouna

Scientific Associate/ Landscape Architecture: Architect Io Karydi

Architectural Committee: Lina Dima | Thomas Doxiadis| Io Karydi | Patricia Sendin

Production: Out Of The Box Intermedia

Production Associates: Christina Stribacu | Emy Sotirchou | Opus Integrated Communication

Consultants on Green Design: Busy Building

Source: via wooloo.org and Out Of The Box Intermedia