[Floor2] CRYPTIC PROVIDENCE - Artist Opportunity

[Chloe Mandel]

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>>     *FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE//*
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>>     */CRYPTIC /**/PROVIDENCE/** ISSUES A REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS FROM
>>     ARTISTS AND PERFORMERS FOR THE HISTORIC NORTH BURIAL GROUND;
>>     ARTIST JAY CRITCHLEY TO DIRECT THIS UNIQUE, SUMMERLONG ARTS  
>> PROJECT.*
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>>     *PROPOSAL DEADLINE IS **APRIL 1, 2008**.*
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>>     Providence, RI. An historic Rhode Island cemetery will be opened
>>     up to artists and performers this summer for temporary art
>>     installations and performances for the project /Cryptic
>>     Providence/. Provincetown, MA artist Jay Critchley will direct
>>     this unique undertaking, funded by a New Works grant from the
>>     Rhode Island Foundation and sponsored by the City of Providence
>>     Parks Department and the Department of Art, Culture & Tourism,  
>> and
>>     AS220. Cryptic Providence will open Friday, June 13.
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>>     A request for proposals has been issued for visual artists,
>>     photographers, poets, writers, dancers, actors, historians,
>>     musicians, hip hop and spoken word performers, new media artists,
>>     filmmakers and cultural organizations. The submission for
>>     proposals is April 1. Applicants are invited to a project review
>>     and tour of the cemetery on February 23 and March 1 at 1:00 pm.
>>     For more information and application details contact:
>>     reroot at comcast.net <mailto:reroot at comcast.net>
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>>     Artists are asked to examine and interpret the history of North
>>     Burial Ground, established in 1700, and burial practices in
>>     relation to the rich history of Rhode Island. Applicants should
>>     send: a one page written proposal with requested cemetery
>>     location, time and technical requirements; resume; and
>>     documentation of work (only one of the following): DVD (five
>>     minutes), CD or photographs - up to 10 images; or, five to ten
>>     pages of text (poetry, narrative, drama, lyrics). Small stipends
>>     are available. Proposals should be sent to: Jay Critchley,  
>> Cryptic
>>     Providence, Providence Parks Department North Burial Ground, 5
>>     Branch Avenue, Providence, RI 02904. Postmark date is
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>>     April 1, 2008.
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>>     *Cryptic Providence* is meant to increase understanding of the
>>     history of Providence and Rhode Island, create new ideas,
>>     perspectives and images about our relationship with death,  
>> dying and
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>>     burial customs, and bring awareness of the historical and  
>> cultural
>>     resources of North Burial Ground.
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>>     North Burial Ground, Providence’s oldest public cemetery, was
>>     established in 1700 “for the use of military affairs for
>>     training of soldiers…& also a place to be for the use of Buireing
>>     of the dead.” By 1870 it had expanded to 150 acres, with 100,000
>>     burials, and re-imagined itself as a garden cemetery and park. In
>>     1939 2,000 people visited the cemetery to honor Samuel Willard
>>     Bridgham.
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>>     Critchley is a multi-media artist who lives year round in
>>     Provincetown, MA and is represented by artSTRAND. From
>>     performances, rituals and Boston State House legislation to his
>>     Big Dig /BigTwig/ project and award-winning Martucket Eyeland
>>     Resort & Theme Park, his eco-activist art goes back to the early
>>     1980s with his Provincetown “sand car” series. Last summer he
>>     created the public art project, Beige Motel, on Route 6, North
>>     Truro, MA encrusting a 1955 A-frame structure - soon to be
>>     demolished - with sand.
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>>     His work has been shown throughout the world - last year a
>>     performance project at the Hemispheric Institute in Buenos Aires,
>>     Argentina and shows at the Andy Warhol Museum and The LAB in San
>>     Francisco. His project /GLOBAL YAWNING for a small planet/ is
>>     presently on view at the Boston Center for the Arts through March
>>     31, 2008. He was an artist in residence at AS220 in 2000,
>>     producing his first movie: Providence Dirt Newsreel.
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>>     Jay Critchley
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>>     P.O. Box 819
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>>     Provincetown, MA 02657
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>>     reroot at comcast.net <mailto:reroot at comcast.net>
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