[call for applications] PACT Zollverein: IMPACT10 / deadline: 15. 10. 2010. / Germany

AN INTERACTIVE SYMPOSIUM IN 3 EPISODES

With Philippe Quesne (FR), Tino Sehgal (GB/DE), Jim TRAINOR (US)

13 - 14 November 2010


IMPACT10 is aimed at artists, advanced students, academics and journalists working in the fields of dance, theatre, art, media art and film. The working language is English.


PACT Zollverein

Bullmannaue 20a 

45327 Essen
 Germany

http://www.pact-zollverein.de

For the sixth time in succession, the transdisciplinary symposium IMPACT invites artists, practitioners theorists and advanced students in the fields of dance, theatre, visual arts, new media and film to take part in a critical discussion of artistic strategies and working methods presented by prominent guest artists.IMPACT encourages its participants to test the premises introduced by these artists in action and examine them in relation to their own backgrounds.

In Philippe Quesne (FR), Tino Sehgal (GB/DE) and Jim Trainor (US), IMPACT10 brings together three artists whose work present radical, subtle and humorous designs for operating in a world that is obsessed by things and by science. They place the audience, animals or cunning object-worlds into the centre of consciousness and then propose alternative spheres of activity. QUESNE creates model worlds on stage which test by proxy "real" life models: man as scientist, artist, entertainer. In his "constructed situations"SEHGAL addresses the relationships between man and object, between art and the market, and transforms actions instead of material. In his animated films, TRAINOR pursues the traces of evolution or human culture and gives voice to animals as well as people playing animals. 

IMPACT10 offers a concentrated and motivating space for exchange, action and reflection beyond one's own limitations and perspectives. The daily schedule is determined by the artists themselves and influenced by all participants together. Artists who have contributed to IMPACT to date include : BLAST THEORY (GB), RIMINI PROTOKOLL (D), XAVIER LE ROY (F/D), ANTONI MUNTADAS (ES/US), MIRANDA PENNELL and JOHN SMITH (GB), FORCED ENTERTAINMENT (GB), WERNER NEKES (D), OFFICE FOR METROPOLITAN ARCHITECTURE (NL) and ROMEO CASTELLUCCI (IT). 

Workshops with:
PHILIPPE QUESNE (FR): Quesne builds pieces in the manner of experiments with a few select constants. His highly acclaimed productions have been shown at the Wiener Festwochen, the Festival d'Avignon, at the Centre Pompidou and other important venues worldwide. 

TINO SEHGAL (GB/ DE): In 2005 he represented Germany at the Venice Biennale, in 2010 he had a solo show at New York's Guggenheim Museum, and his works are included in the collections of the Centre Pompidou, Tate and MoMA.

JIM TRAINOR (US): His animated films have been shown internationally at important festivals and biennales, as well as in well-known museums and other contexts: Whitney Biennale, Museum of Modern Art (New York), Sundance Film Festival, New York Animation Festival, Rotterdam Film Festival, Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen. In 2000, Jim Trainor accepted a teaching position at the prestigious School of the Art Institute of Chicago. 

Application deadline : 15. October 2010

Fee: 100 € (Which includes: The 3-day symposium, 1 film program, 1 performance and 6 meals)
Contact Isa KöhlerTel : +49 (0) 201. 289 47 24 isa.koehler@pact-zollverein.de