agora8.org is creating an online research resource of contemporary time-based and contextual art activity. As a beginning the project PAC is focusing on East European and Balkan Performance Art, 1960’s to present day.
Artists throughout these territories whose work inhabits Performance, Action, and related time-based activity including video and installation are invited to submit material to an evolving e-zine that aims to further develop understanding of the formal, social, cultural, political, and philosophical complexities of performance art, and its related contextual activity more generally.
PAC welcomes submissions on the following:
actions to lens; the installed body/interventionist actions; actions made in the home; actions made at borders; covert actions; durational actions; actions leading to detention/imprisonment/exile; periphery/center/re-mapped borders; Orient/Occident aesthetics; new media/electronic landscapes; lectures; video art; installation; artist’s texts; events/festivals: documents of work that for one reason or another could not be made.
agora8 is a digital resource. To preserve material please send in the following formats.
IMAGE: GIF,TIFF, (please try not to send JPEGS) TEXTS: RTF, MS Word (first language and/or English) SOUND/AUDIO: MP3, AAC, WAV VIDEO: MPEG-1, MPEG-4 with common codec, AVI with common codec, Quicktime, DVD/ CD-Rom (Mac compatible), 3gp
Please enclose full contact details, CV, a text describing the work in discourse/context, date and place it occurred. All submissions will be considered a gift to PAC archives.
Please forward to others who may be interested.
Warm regards,
Kenny McBride
Director
About: PAC adopts a particular behaviour towards archival culture that generates a re-animation and examination of contextual art practises.
PAC engages with works that happened in other places in other times, while simuntaneously providing access to an audience that could not be physically present in the space and time of the production.
PAC is involved in process-based opportunities and retrospectives, as well as artist and material exchange and contemporary art education.
As an artist Kenny McBride’s works generate performance, installation, architectural intervention, and lens-based work. They operate within the architectonics and pathology of mediated and lived experience to inhabit alienation, hallucination, being and becoming visual phenomena. It approaches the image as a physical space.
He has presented work professionally in England, Hungary, Ireland, Poland, Romania, Scotland, Serbia and Montenegro, Slovakia, Spain, Transylvania, and the United States. He holds an AHRC doctoral award and divides his time between Poland and the UK.
