<html><head></head><body><div style="font-family: Verdana;font-size: 12.0px;"><div style="text-align: center;"><b><font face="Verdana" size="5"><span style="font-size: 18.0pt;font-family: Verdana;font-weight: bold;">Festival of Art as Research</span></font></b><br/><font face="Verdana" size="1"><span style="font-size: 9.0pt;font-family: Verdana;">
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Ottersberg, Germany</span></font><br/></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br/></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br/></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Verdana" size="4"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;font-family: Verdana;"></span></font><img src="cid:b3fda82788f3e9bec06f2ead64f47e5973fee1eec23fd12850f176564e41acfa"/><br/></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br/></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br/></div><div style="text-align: center;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt;"><font face="Verdana" size="1"><span style="font-size: 9.0pt;font-family: Verdana;">&nbsp;</span></font><br/></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><font face="Verdana" size="1"><span style="font-size: 9.0pt;font-family: Verdana;font-weight: bold;">From the 7th to the 14th of May 2012 the Festival of Art as Research (FAR) brings together artistic
 researchers from all over the world to explore the phenomenon of TRANSLATION.</span></font></b><font face="Verdana" size="1"><span style="font-size: 9.0pt;font-family: Verdana;"></span></font></p>
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 provides an opportunity for 20 artists to discover methods of artistic 
research and explore their own work in a discourse with other artists:</span></font></b><font face="Verdana"><span style="font-family: Verdana;"><br/>
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</span></font><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size: 9.0pt;font-family: Arial;">&#9658;</span></font><font face="Verdana" size="1"><span style="font-size: 9.0pt;font-family: Verdana;">Three days of intense artistic work and
 research around the topic &bdquo;TRANSLATION&ldquo;.</span></font><font face="Verdana" size="1"><span style="font-size: 9.0pt;font-family: Verdana;">
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</span></font><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size: 9.0pt;font-family: Arial;">&#9658;</span></font><font face="Verdana" size="1"><span style="font-size: 9.0pt;font-family: Verdana;">A practical introduction to the fi</span></font><font face="Verdana" size="1"><span style="font-size: 9.0pt;font-family: Verdana;">eld
 of art as research.<br/>
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</span></font><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size: 9.0pt;font-family: Arial;">&#9658;</span></font><font face="Verdana" size="1"><span style="font-size: 9.0pt;font-family: Verdana;">Exploration of methods and concepts of
 art-based research.</span></font><font face="Verdana" size="1"><span style="font-size: 9.0pt;font-family: Verdana;"><br/>
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</span></font><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size: 9.0pt;font-family: Arial;">&#9658;</span></font><font face="Verdana" size="1"><span style="font-size: 9.0pt;font-family: Verdana;">Development of existing work and investigation
 in cooperation with international interdisciplinary artists.</span></font><font face="Verdana" size="1"><span style="font-size: 9.0pt;font-family: Verdana;">
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</span></font><b><font face="Verdana"><span style="font-family: Verdana;font-weight: bold;">FAR
 invites artists and spectators to experience a festival that&nbsp; includes 
presentations of all different artistic disciplines under the common 
theme of art as research:</span></font></b><font face="Verdana"><span style="font-family: Verdana;"><br/>
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Three days of public presentation of&nbsp; the work, focussing on creating modes of presentation<br/>
that include the spectator in the process of discovery.<br/>
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<b><span style="font-weight: bold;">An exciting transdisciplinary art festival with performances, exhibitions, concerts, combinations of all and more....<br/>
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With this festival we invite artists to design the present cultural landscape.<br/>
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We see the festival as a platform for transdisciplinary art. <br/>
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You will have the chance to become part of an international network of artistic researchers.<br/>
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We are looking for artists who are curious to explore the process of discovery in their work.</span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt;"><b><font face="Verdana" size="1"><span style="font-size: 9.0pt;font-family: Verdana;font-weight: bold;">FAR invites all interested artists, researchers, artistic researchers, and whoever else is interested, to get
 together and discover the phenomenon of TRANSLATION in it's wide range of manifestations:</span></font></b><font face="Verdana" size="1"><span style="font-size: 9.0pt;font-family: Verdana;"></span></font></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><font face="Verdana" size="1"><span style="font-size: 9.0pt;font-family: Verdana;">How do we translate from the inside to the outside and the other way round?<br/>
What gets lost on the way of translation and what emerges?<br/>
How can we impart artistic knowledge?<br/>
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These questions and many more are waiting for your inspiring contribution.</span></font></p>
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<b><font face="Verdana" size="4"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;font-family: Verdana;font-weight: bold;">If you are interested in participating, please send us your application until the 15th of April 2012.</span></font></b><font face="Verdana" size="1"><span style="font-size: 9.0pt;font-family: Verdana;"><br/>
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</span></font><b><font face="Verdana"><span style="font-family: Verdana;font-weight: bold;">For further information about the festival and application details, see attachment.<br/>
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We look forward to hearing from you!</span></font></b><font face="Verdana" size="1"><span style="font-size: 9.0pt;font-family: Verdana;"><br/>
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Festival&nbsp;of&nbsp;Art&nbsp;as&nbsp;Research <br/>
7&nbsp;-&nbsp;14&nbsp;May&nbsp;2012 <br/>
Ottersberg&nbsp;/&nbsp;Germany <br/>
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<a href="#">www.art-as-research.org</a>
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Festival&nbsp;of&nbsp;Art&nbsp;as&nbsp;Research <br/>
Neele&nbsp;Ruckdeschel&amp;Laura&nbsp;von&nbsp;Raffay <br/>
Am&nbsp;Bahnhof&nbsp;2 <br/>
28870&nbsp;Otterberg <br/>
Germany </span></font><br/></p>

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