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Art Research on Context pARADOX-fABRIC pX-fABRIC p-fABRIC
3rd- 14th September 2013, Granada.
A ‘paradox’ is a powerful stimulus for reflection and creation. Often philosophers find in paradoxes a way to reveal the complexity of reality. Thus, identification of paradoxes based on concepts that at first glance seem simple and reasonable has driven significant advances in science, philosophy and mathematics. The Paradox Fabric event is an opportunity for postgraduate students of art from across Europe to develop and share their research in a new environment. Displaced from their normal places and spaces of research the selected students are tasked with responding to Granada and their experiences of new communal space exploring their research in a different context. This is the aim of Paradox Fabric. Each participant is required to bring an example of his or her work with them to Granada and during the week of the project develop new work in response to their experiences. At the end of the project the original work and an example from the new work, a companion piece, will be exhibited in a professional space and contribute to an open panel discussion about their research. Paradox Fabric (Art Research on Context) is a parallel event to the Paradox Biennial Conference that aims to engage students in the debate. Initially Paradox Fabric developed as an art biennale, known as Urban Fabric, commenced in Palermo in September 2009 and subsequently in Cork in September 2011. In Granada in September 2013 it will be called Paradox Fabric with a relevant focus on research.
Urban Fabric Palermo, Sept. 2009 (Paradox Student Field Project)
Urban Fabric Cork, Sept. 2011 (Paradox Student Field Project)
PARTICIPATING AS THIRD CYCLE STUDENTS AND RESEARCHERS THROUGH THE
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ostgraduate students and researchers will be selected in their home institutions and will send a portfolio and a project proposal where they will explain how the art piece proposed links to the research lines they are working on in their Doctoral or Master programmes. OBJECTIVES: - Promoting an international meeting of third cycle students and researchers from different nationalities. - To show the artistic work of the participants in Paradox Fabric Granada made during the ten days before the presentation at the Paradox Conference. This artwork will be directly related to the Research Lines participants are working in at their Research Groups, Masters or Doctorate programs at their home institutions. - Students participating will present their artwork in the Conference together with a short explanation on the relation to their artistic research line or program. These presentations can be made as a short text, a poster or any other suggested performance on-site. - Promoting Intercultural dialogue through an international exhibition providing with the Fine Arts Faculty labs and work spaces for creation so that artists from different countries can work together in a common space. - Promoting ethical values and contesting the legacies through artistic interventions.
PROCEDURES: - Home institutions will make a selection and pay for the fee (100 €) and the travel expenses. - Hosting institution University of Granada (UGR) will provide with spa es, labs and work shops at the Faculty of Fine Arts (UGR) for the students to work in their art pieces - Hosting institution (UGR) will select a group of local third year students to provide with accommodation and mentor their pals during the time they are working in Granada. They will work together with the international students to produce a collaborative piece of art when possible. - Presentation of the artwork and artistic research links during the Conference in an Exhibition space. - These presentations will show an open outlook of artistic Research methodologies and variety throughout Europe by means of student’s orientation. - Overall, fifteen researchers will be chosen from European Art institutions. The institution will do their own selection and their candidates will be sent to the Paradox Fabric panel to take the final decision, according to the quality of their research and the adequate and viability of their project to the event. - The art researcher should send a portfolio, a brief about their actual research and a project proposal for p-f in one single .pdf document to paradoxfabric@gmail.com . - Before arriving the artist will receive by mail some information about the Granada context he/she will be working in.
Download PARADOX FABRIC call for projects .doc here: 2013 PARADOX FABRIC call_for_projects
“PARADOX FABRIC 2013” The pF Art Research on Context will be coordinated by a team of experienced researchers on Art as Rocío Avidad, artists who already participated in U-Fabric Desirée Moraga in Palermo and Javier Álamo in Cork. The Vicedecan of Culture of the Fine Art Faculty Belén Mazuecos and some curator advisors as the prestigious: Fernando Frances and Fernando Frances Jr. (http://cacmalaga.org), plus to a team of young researchers that will help during the event. All this will be coordinate by the Artist Professor and Curator Isidro López-Aparicio (http:// www.aptglobal.org/Curator/Show/503). The final work will be showed, performed, displayed… in one of the most important art places of Andalucía the Cultural Center CajaGranada http://www.memoriadeandalucia.com/informacion/informacion.html
Fernando Frances, Fernando Frances Jr. and Isidro López-Aparicio
DATES AND CONTACT: • The participant must send their portfolio, a brief about their actual research, a project proposal for p-f and a letter confirmation from their institution by: 20th of May to paradoxfabric@gmail.com
Cultural Center CajaGranada
UNIVERSIDAD DE GRANADA
Exhibition´s Areas of Cultural Center CajaGranada
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Final selection will be done by 30th of May
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Participants’ fees must be paid by 15th of June
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Participants’ arrival to Granada by Sept 3rd and leave the 14th