Where am I

THE PROMPT: Participants are invited to provide an answer to the question WHERE AM I by way of a field guide to the campcamp site. Field guides provide information to the unknowing about objects and events within an environment: these can take printed form as Audobon bird books, guides to wine or foreign countries, or placards at national parks; they can also take human form, as literal guides to the field, as in a safari or a combat mission. In all of these cases, the field guide asserts what a thing might be called, what its history is, and what its function might be, and is thus empowered with an enormous persuasive capacity. The field guide assures the user of what to look at and how to look at it, providing a lens through which to view the unknown while simultaneously defining it.

THE COMPETITION: You are invited to create (or be) a field guide to the campcamp site. Your guide can be in any media – pamphlets, audio guides, etc – or it can be yourself. Your mission is to take advantage of the persuasive capability inherent in the field guide and convince the visitors to the campcamp site of your version of (un)reality. During the site’s open hours, there will be an Information Department booth, with all of your physical materials (or yourself), should you choose to provide them, as well as a voting box. Visitors to the booth will be able to vote on the most convincing guide. Winners will be announced Saturday, April 31^st.

THE PAYOFF: At stake is the very identity of campcamp. If you win, you will have provided the information and gestures that form an understanding of a place. Regardless, your efforts will be documented on the Information Department website, information-department.net.

Details:

E-mail proposals to contact@information-department.net by April 10^th, 2011. Please keep all attachments to less than 4MB.
Accepted proposals will be notified by April 15^th, 2011
campcamp will be open to festival attendees Friday April 30, 7-11 pm and Saturday April 31st, 7-11 pm. The courtyard may be on the parade route for Sunday’s Pedestrian Services Exquisite, but campcamp will not be a part of the daytime programming. Artists are strongly encouraged to be on site during the open hours of campcamp.
Installation for campcamp will commence Saturday April 23 for larger-scale Installation build and materials drop-off. Special needs for storage or installation must be addressed in your proposal as stated above.
Deinstall will commence Sunday May 1st.