CESTA's 13th Arts Festival of International

Please feel free to forward this to those who may be interested. CESTA's 13th Arts Festival of International, Interdisciplinary Collaborations August 2009 Hidden and naked. Protected and endangered. Forgotten and targeted. The duality of undercovered is inescapable - the concealed to the unveiled, the censored to the recognized. The current unprecedented access to information encourages discovery, yet we attack the conspicuous.  We guard our histories, and suffer as the ignored. We pursue knowledge to achieve progress, yet illumination creates shadows, and definition creates margins. When do we seek protection through visibility and when through anonymity? In our quest for recognition and representation, what do we discard or overlook, and why? For UNDERCOVERED, CESTA invites artists in all disciplines to collaborate in creating works implicating this duality through their choices of artistic content, process, or discipline. CESTA's festival themes and parameters of cross-national interdisciplinary collaborations represent the center's commitment to improving communication through creative expression. We base our selection of artists on a review of applications resulting from our annual open call. Applicants request CESTA to connect them with one or more collaboration partners or apply as a pre-formed collaboration group . For UNDERCOVERED all final festival collaboration groups must be: 1) Cross-national: more than one nationality 2) Interdisciplinary: more than one artistic medium 3) Collaborative: conceptualizing and creating interdependent artistic work AND must contain work created exclusively for UNDERCOVERED. Festival Application Deadline: December 19, 2008 (postmarked) For application guidelines and forms, click here . UNDERCOVERED festival schedule On-site collaborations in progress: August 1-26 Presentations of participants' past work: August 13-18 Seminars, workshops and educational programs on the festival theme: August 13-18 Final presentations of the collaboration groups: August 28-30 Daily reviews of the presentations: August 29-31 Festival closing forum: August 31 For other information, please visit our FAQs page  or contact us at: -- CESTA Novakova 387, Tabor 39001, Czech Republic tel: +420-381-258-004 cesta@vol.cz www.cesta.cz All About Him - project 2008 http://a-a-h.info ventsislav zankov E80 board chair http://e-80.info mobile: +359 887 51 97 94 http://zankov.net art and bulgaria http://art-bg.blogspot.com/ 39grama news online: http://39grama.blogspot.com/ 39grama newspaper http://39grama.info