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Brooklyn International Performance Festival (BIPAF)

July 4-28, 2013

Grace Exhibition Space, Panoply Performance Laboratory, The Woods Co-Operative, The Super Coda, Silent Barn, Gowanus Ballroom, CAVE Art Space, Glasshouse, IV Soldiers, 109 Gallery, Fitness Center for Arts and Tactics, ARTerial Performance Lab (APEL), Goodbye Blue Monday, JACK, No Collective, and the No Wave Performance Task Force and 100+ individual curators, artists, organizers, and cultural entities
in Alliance and Collaboration Present

A month-long project designed as a festival of live art, including action art, performance art, social/relational art, public art, and interdisciplinary conceptual performance. Organized and framed as a large-scale collective performance, BIPAF self-cognizes as a form of "constructive institutional critique,"

For more information www.bipaf.net.

OPEN CALLS for how to get involved as an artist and/or organizer, the developing calendar, and more can be found on the wiki: http://www.bipaf.net/bipafwiki/
BIPAF deals with live art outside of major institutions, self-designing via open-source online systems including a public wiki, public work sessions, and alternative platforms as a “festival” that brings together over a hundred working performance artists from around the world. In addition to presenting performances, talks, workshops, and exhibitions, BIPAF charts performance practices, exposes and documents economic and practical relationships with curators and spaces, and involves all participants in the construction of the project at large.

The festival catalogue and full calendar will be released on June 21 and the festival opens on July 4th with a special appearance by Barbara Bush and a few words on the responses of performance artists to current arts economies and situations by Martha Wilson.

Artists and projects involved include: Guillermo Gomez-Pena, FF Alumn, and La Poche Nostra, Kathina Walter, Teena Lange and dolanbay of Gruntaler9, Roberto Sifuentes, Hector Canonge, FF Alumn, with curatorial work from Latin America through ARTerial Performance Lab (APEL), artist-organizers Vest and Page, drearysomebody, Dovrat Meron, No Collective, as well as performances by 100+ members of Brooklyn’s current performance art community.

Over the last decade, Brooklyn NY has become known around the world for its thriving and self-aware performance art scene and community. As performance artists self-organize and auto-frame their practices, we create our own spaces and ways to relate with our diverse audiences. Major questions arise from within our discipline in response to the economic climate, questions about the “marketability” or “value” of our transient medium and performance art’s historically “anti-product” ideology. In addition, the collective organizing strategies of political movements such as Occupy raise questions about definitions of the discipline and its techniques, and as we attempt to interface with both the art world and local and global communities. Ultimately, questions about institutional hierarchies, curation, craft, and modes of exhibition continue to present themselves inside the work itself, and often as the work itself.

BIPAF is framed as a performance. It is a collaboration between members of the performance art community, including local, national and international artists, critics, curators, gallery directors, and theorists. None of the BIPAF events will conflict: it will be possible for a single audience member/festival participant to experience everything.

BIPAF as a performance will be presented in culminating documentation form at BIPAF home-base Glasshouse Projects for the entire month with selected gallery hours. Grace Exhibition Space will also serve as a hub for documentation and for a final auction of ephemera, in addition to hosting live performances and a culminating live "ephemeral auction." The above list of spaces and entities will host live performances throughout the month.

Simultaneous curated by Ivy Castellanos is a series that will occur twice during BIPAF July 22nd and 23rd 9:01pm-1am. I am looking for *artists for both events. The concept is 4 artists will perform at the same time in the same space. You will begin at the same time, and everyone ends when their individual work is done. This style of curation frames performance art in a very different way for an audience to engage with the work. For the artist it creates a new challenge and opportunity. The performance is up to one hour.
During BIPAF I am interested in hosting 4 different artists each evening. If you are interested in participating and have a general idea please submit a proposal to ivsoldiers@gmail.com Please include a brief proposal (250 words or less) including up to 4 images of your work, and a link to videos if you have any.

Durational Performances at Goodbye Blue Monday are being curated by Valerie Kuehne and Esther Neff. This space is a semi-indoors barn space on Broadway in Brooklyn. Durational performances are encouraged, length for performances can be 1-10 hours and the dates are July 6th, 10th, and 21st each day from 2pm to 2am.
To respond to this open call, please "reply all" and maintain the subject line. DEADLINE: May 27
Include:
Name, address, website
Brief performance description/idea
Technical needs (note: there is no projector)
Proposed duration
Which date (see above)
Links to your past work or attach images
Please also feel free to contact us with any questions.

NOTE: The 15th is an OPEN at Goodbye Blue Monday: 10-minute performance slots for which anyone can sign up by e-mailing bipafbipaf@gmail.com with "OPEN" as the subject line by May 27. NO TECH (clip lighting, no sound), minimal set-up and clean-up time.

PUBLIC AND SITE-SPECIFIC PERFORMANCES, INTERVENTIONS:
To include any performances in public spaces or sites, send information to bipafbipaf@gmail.com by June 15, 2013. There will also be a roundtable discussion/panel on Tuesday evening, July 23 organized by Dovrat Meron in conjunction with Chloe Bass and Esther Neff.

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