Co-LAB’08
CALL OUT for Group Residency
Estonia, 06 – 12 October, 2008
ProtoPLAY is currently searching musicians, visual artists and live/performance artists to take part in Co-LAB’08, an exciting collaborative residency, taking place in Estonia in October 2008. Based out of Art Container, an art centre run by Estonian collective Non Grata.
Co-LAB’08 focuses on a series of open-ended collaborative projects, and a rapid turnover or creation and public presentation. Questioning the notions of individual authorship, cultural-recycling and the taboo of plagiarism, the project takes individual works as a starting point for collaboration and attempts to build, from scratch, a collective identity – or at least, a shared creative space. Both the premise and the context aim to facilitate artistic risk, as well as time for reflection and conversation.
Co-LAB’08 is for artists who want to be challenged in their collaborative, creative and devising abilities, and wish to explode the boundaries of their individual practice.
In addition to the first weeks activities, there is also an optional second week.
Time-table:
06 – 11 Oct: Deconstruction/Reconstruction Collaboration (documentation)
12 – 14 Oct: ‘Survival’ project / Estonian History project / free-time (documentation)
15 – 16 Oct: Workshop with Artist Mike Hentz – leading to group performance
17 – 18 Oct: 48h non-stop group performance (optional)
19 Oct: End
Please note it is possible to come for only a portion of the project.
Please contact Orion Maxted orionmaxted@hotmail.com, to express an interest, and to receive more detailed information about the projects, spaces, and practical things.
As we are now searching for the last artists to take part, applications will now be accessed on a rolling basis, until all places have been allocated. Please contact ASAP if you would like to take part.
The project is collaboratively produced by Orion Maxted (protoPLAY) and Non Grata.
See www.nongrata.ee for further info on Non Grata.