[microsound-announce] Ghetto Biennale

[robert peterson]

I have recently been invited to produce a sound work for the Ghetto
Biennale, but I need your help to get there. The Ghetto Biennale will be
held in and around the Grand Rue in downtown Port-au-Prince, Haiti in
December of 2009. The Grand Rue is home to a community of internationally
renowned sculptors. Due to the political and cultural climate there they are
being denied United States entry visas and government support to participate
in major biennales elsewhere in the world. Because of this they have invited
a select group of international artists, architects, designers and thinkers
to Port-au-Prince to make work and discover what happens when radically
different cultures come together. As the organizers and curators for the
event have said, " What happens when first world art rubs up against third
world art? Does it bleed?"

As there is no internal funding for this event I, along with all of the
other artists, am having to raise all funds privately.

My proposal for participation in the event follows:
Firsthand accounts of the apprenticeship system and the Grand Rue artists’
relationship to materials are at the core of this project. Using sound
recording technology and displaying the finished work as a four channel
audio sculpture the goal is to engender a dialog from which both cultures
can take away something meaningful. My approach will encompass documentary,
deep listening, recording that focuses on the sounds that are often caught
between the labels of ‘background’ and ‘foreground’ in our consciousness,
and environmental sound recording.

I am hopeful that what I make there will be useful to both cultures. I hope
it will be something that I can bring back here to the United States and
share with my students and others in order to engender a dialog on the
lessons we can learn from one another across seemingly incomprehensible
cultural barriers.

For more info please visit ghettobiennale.com and
kickstarter.com<http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/danholepond/the-1st-ghetto-biennale-in-port-au-prince-haiti>


-- 
Robert August Peterson
MFA Candidate, Studio Art
University of Georgia
http://www.danholepond.com
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