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Mildura Palimpsest Biennale #10 invites artists to propose a new work which responds to the curatorial theme, everywhere all at once …here.

Mildura Palimpsest Biennale #10

everywhere all at once …here

1 – 5 October 2015

Applications are due by COB 17 November 2014. 

Mildura Palimpsest Biennale #10, 2015 : ‘everywhere all at once …here’iscommitted to exploring experimental new areas of contemporary art practice grounded in the particularities of our global region. Intercultural collaboration is inherently experimental in that it challenges the hegemonic western canon of contemporary art and provides a platform for art that re-examines the diversity of contemporaneity and all its histories and possible futures.

Mildura Palimpsest Biennale #10 is an experiential opportunity for artists & audience to merge; and to expand contemporary discussion about global-intercultural identity through six International, durational & intercultural projects. Mildura Palimpsest Biennale can be experienced in its entirety for four days only – during the long weekend 2-5 October 2015.

The theme of Mildura Palimpsest Biennale #10: ‘everywhere all at once …here’ explores the nexus between ‘the virtual and the grounded’, contemporary intercultural site-specificity and the virtual reality of contemporary global culture. Walking as durational art practice is one key medium of intercultural exchange in Mildura Palimpsest Biennale #10. Walking is a slow movement that brings us into the present time …here.  Walking together provides significant new opportunities for intercultural dialogue and collaboration.

Two ambitious walking projects: ‘Walking the Murray: Weaving Stories’ and ‘Unmapping The End of the World’, which provide the curatorial frame for the Biennale.  New residency based site-specific projects form the core of Mildura Palimpsest Biennale #10, along with several major new intercultural collaborative projects curated across three continents and many Aboriginal Nations.

The opening weekend features the Palimpsest Symposium ‘art is a time machine’; an audience tour with the artists of all exhibited works; artists’ talks; performances and dinners with participating artists and thinkers.  Mildura Palimpsest Biennale is an intensely experiential event, an adventure into new philosophical terrain, inviting artists and audiences to be curious about the world beyond our comfort zones. The Mildura Palimpsest Biennale has always been interested in art that can be experienced as a form of material philosophy, art that makes us think about the world and our place in it.

The Palimpsest Symposium ‘art is a time machine’ brings together world renowned artists and thinkers speaking on Contemporary Intercultural Collaboration; Walking Together as Creative Practice; and Art as Material Philosophy; all in the context of global contemporaneity. Opportunities to meet and talk with the artists, speakers and provocateurs are available all weekend as artists travel with audiences on the art tour and dine with the audience each evening.  A new symposia series will also run in Melbourne and Sydney in the lead up to the Biennale to begin the discussions that will be fully experienced during the Biennale Opening long weekend 2-5 October 2015.

The Palimpsest Postgraduate Student Mentorship Program invites ten leading Australian Universities to nominate their most promising post graduate student(s) for a Palimpsest residency so that they can make a new site-specific work for the Biennale.

Application 

Artists can apply under one of 2 categories:

  1. A site-specific work responding to the natural and cultural environment of the Mildura region.
  2. A site-specific work responding to Rio Vista House, Mildura Arts Centre, Cureton Ave, Mildura.

Please, find the application form here.

Applications are due by COB 17 November 2014. Late applications will not be accepted.

Image: Juan Ford, The Reorientalist, 2013, Oil on linen, 122 x 183cm, Image courtesy the artist and Dianne Tanzer Gallery + Projects