Peepshow 2008: "That's It"... Architecture

You can enact your apostrophic forms onto sites in Calgary to at 1:1 scale for the Art-City festival. It will be a collaborative affair with the other winners, volunteers and public to take place September 10, 11, 12, 13, with the opening Sept. 12th at Olympic plaza. Winners will receive free flight and accomodations and $1000 CDN ($2000 local). The winning submissions/constructions will be published.

Description
APOSTROPHE
A city is the sum of its parts. A building, being one of those parts, can be defined by what it is not, i.e.; a street, alleyway, another building, etc. These defined "edge spaces" between what a building is and what a building is not thus must each contain elements &/or information about the other, locked within, simply by this act of negation. If we metaphorically connect this building/street edge space condition to another medium, such as a comic strip, children's book or film strip, time is revealed. Within the cell of a comic strip a random narrative "moment" (chosen by the artist) is represented in some fashion. When these moments are collected they are read in narrative by the eye (act of reading, Time). Again like the city, each cell has an edge space which is in most cases represented by a black border (no time, no space). This is similar to the movie strip. With the children's book, rather than a black border, it relies on the act of page turning and is contained in space by paper thickness. In prose, an apostrophe contains the elements of both Time and space. It's function is to collapse the edge space of two previous adjoining words to form one word. The apostrophe must therefore be aware of Time, but not necessarily abound by it, as it predicts the word following it. Thus, as the apostrophe has this knowledge of the future, it must be attributed by the revealing of such information by (from, out of) the primary word. If an apostrophe can represent all space, all time (informed by a catalyst in a Time sequence between objects/signifiers/moments), then what is the true form of an apostrophe?

COMPETITION
Choose an "edge condition" of your liking from anywhere or select one from our website and investigate the occurrence of an apostrophe between the objects (...etc.). In other words, if a 'structure' were to exist between particular objects (ex. building & street) what would it look like and what emotional characteristic would it possess? We are looking for interesting methods of representation; graphic novel, video, collage, .etc. that incorporates the form of the apostrophe as well as what it may appear like travelling through it (in narrative). The experiencal quality of the apostrophe with the relevance of what is being 'apostrophe-ed' will be what is judged.
Any format is welcome.

Jury
Sami Rintala (Osloarchitect, artist, prof essor, www.samirintala.com)
Thomas Mical (Prof essor, Author of 'Surrealism and Architecture')
Michl Sommer, Cecilia Hendrikx, Victor Leurs (www.ilovelivearchitecture.com)
Sharif Khan (www.studioexit.ca )
David Down (City of Calgary)
Michael Coolidge (www.michaelcoolidge.com)
John Frosst (www.thearbourlakesghool.com)
Mike Johnson (Ka s ian, Edmonton)
Wayne Malaka (Housebrand, Calgary)
Wednesday Lupypciw (artcity)
Matt Zess (artcity)

Prize
There will be 3 winners. All 3 winners will be flown to Calgary, Alberta, Canada to enact their apostrophic forms onto sites at 1:1 scale for the Art-City festival. It will be a collaborative affair with the other winners, volunteers and public to take place September 10, 11, 12, 13, with the opening Sept. 12th at Olympic plaza. Winners will receive free flight and accomodations and $1000 CDN ($2000 local). The winning submissions/constructions will be published.

Entry Fee
$25 CDN or $25 USD

Entries
Digital video or Digital images

Submission Address
Matt Zess c/o
Richard Lindseth Architecture Inc.
1023 Cameron Ave. S.W.
Calgary, Alberta
T2T 0K2
Canada

Timetable
Judging, Winners contacted and arrangements made soon after: June 13th
Sami Rintala's lecture @ Engineered Air Theatre: Sept 8th
Panel discussion, Location TBD: Sept 10th
Design, workshop - build constructions on site: Sept 11-12th
Opening night for architecture: Sept 12th

Links
Past winners

Promoter
ArtCity & Peepshow International

Official Website
http://www.art-city.ca/submissions.htm