For VIOLENS we are informed by, but not limited to, defining art as social discourse and violence as the display of power and the expression of dominance. CESTA invites artists from all disciplines to explore through collaboration violent portrayals, acts or themes towards critical analyses of their origins, impact and meaning.
CESTA's festival themes and parameters of cross-national interdisciplinary collaborations represent the center's commitment to improving communication through creative expression. We base our selection of artists on a review of applications resulting from our annual open call. Applicants request CESTA to connect them with collaboration partners or apply as a pre-formed collaboration group. For VIOLENS all final festival collaboration groups must contain:
1) more than one artistic medium 2) more than one nationality 3) work created exclusively for VIOLENS 4) artists with experience in artistic collaboration Festival Application Deadline: February 15, 2002 For an Open Call Application Form or more information, please contact us at: CESTA Nov kova 387 39001 T bor, Czech Republic tel/fax: +420-361-258004 cesta@mbox.vol.cz http://www.cesta.cz