[NetBehaviour] BILLBOARD TEXT ART - EMERGING WOR(L)DS

[marc garrett]

BILLBOARD TEXT ART - EMERGING WOR(L)DS
TINA B. 2008 - The Prague Contemporary Art Festival

Galerie Vernon
Janovskeho 23
Praha 7 170 00
Phone: +420 604 237 974
Fax: +420 220 874 963
Contact: Marek Tomin
marek.tomin at tina-b.com

www.tina-b.com

June 2007 – October 2008

The third edition of TINA B. – The Prague Contemporary Art Festival 
would like to announce the continuation of one its major projects – 
Billboard Text Art: EMERGING WOR(L)DS. Organised by Prague"s Galerie 
Vernon, TINA B. strives to combine the creative energy of the cultural 
scene in Central and Eastern Europe with emerging talents and trends 
from around the world.

Billboard Text Art is a one-year international site-specific project 
featuring textual and word-based artworks on billboards at various 
locations in the Czech Republic"s capital Prague. Entitled EMERGING 
WOR(L)DS, the project is a platform for diverse art interventions, 
messages and statements, tackling a broad spectrum of issues and 
subjects concerned with the complex social, political, corporate and 
cultural structures currently emerging within the context of the 
post-Cold War – and post 9/11 – world.

Rather than using billboard spaces dedicated to the project for its 
entire duration - performing the function of a public art gallery - 
EMERGING WOR(L)DS" artworks are interspersed among commercial 
advertising hoardings. Each month, the website www.tina-b.com (under 
Sections – Billboard Text Art) carries maps displaying the locations of 
the current billboards, as well as providing details about each artist 
and a translation of the key textual element of each artwork. The first 
phase of the project runs until October 2007 and about 100 artists are 
expected to participate.

EMERGING WOR(L)DS is curated by the collective Grey Zone. So far, 
contributors have included Kendell Geers, Kay Rosen, Vittorio Santoro, 
Jonathan Monk, Bethan Huws, Koki Tanaka, Adam Pendleton, Solange Fabiao, 
Lisa Anne Auerbach, Claire Fontaine, Kimberley Rugg, as well as 
internationally renowned Czech artist Jiri Kovanda and emerging Czech 
artists Guma Guar, Pode Bal, Jiri Skala, Jan Serych, Tomas Vanek, Adam 
Vackar, Zbynek Baladran and Jan Nalevka.

TINA B. 2008 – THE MAIN EVENT

The Main Event of TINA B. 2008 will take place from September 25 until 
October 15, 2008. TINA B."s third edition has adopted the leitmotif 
FORMS OF ENGAGEMENT. By focusing on art in public space, including 
billboards, video screenings and light art, as well as on the new media 
generated by digital and mobile technologies, TINA B. 2008 places 
emphasis on the role of contemporary art, artists and artistic practice 
as socio-cultural agents that not only provide a critique of social 
order, but also serve a direct, positive and symbiotic social function.

Artists interested in the Billboard Text Art: EMERGING WOR(L)DS project, 
or TINA B. 2008 in general, should contact us via email at the address 
above.