The Evolutionary Girls Club is a group of artist, activists and scholars. Our membership is made up of folks working in many media. You can read more about us at www.evolutionarygirls.com. Each year we publish a book that focuses on the work of our members. In addition we include featured artists who have submitted works that can be connected to the conceptual theme for that years' book. To see last years book you can visit these pages at Amazon.com or Lulu.com. Click on preview. The theme and submission procedures for our 08-09 book are described below. We tend to interpret themes widely. You may include a paragraph that locates your work within the theme that would be printed at the start of your piece. Click here to download the submission form. _____________________________ This past November (2007), Evolutionary Girls embarked on a group art tour that presented a range of the collective's works in galleries in Malaysia and Singapore. Hong Kong was also visited as part of the final stretch of the journey, though not in an official capacity. Our commitment is to further the conversations that surfaced during the visit, by addressing such issues as transnationalism, transqueering, Americanisms, Asianisms, Europeanisms, Asians in Africa, the rise of Asia, and by extension Islam, as the economic player on the developing world's stage. We are interested in revisiting the 'voices' that refuse to be muffled in this global expansion. (One such example is the ongoing class/ethnic/religious tension articulated by Hindus in Kuala Lumpur.) Collectives often serve as the public representations of the private self. They define how we see and are seen in the complex web of social networks and the systems that drive and organize them. How is the idea and practice of collective shaped by the cultural and social polyglots of gender/race/ethnicity/politics/tribal intersections, immigration, exile, and language? Other themes to be explored can include but are not limited to hybrid/hyphenated identities, cross-cultural production, performing culture, and real world/virtual world disseminations of art and knowledge. How can we connect to and communicate with one another? How/Why do fragmented, multiple, or hybrid identities threaten the black and white of world order? Is a global collectivity possible? What does it mean to be a member of a collective? How does the collective empower or (dis) empower the individual? How are multiple interpretations of a collective reconciled? Is organized dissent effective? Our next book publication (2008-09), will focus on the creation and structure of borders and voice in context with global and domestic relationships and of how we define ourselves in these terrains as artists, educators, activists, scholars and witnesses. It is our hope that, by facilitating these discussions, we can explore how and where they overlap, share commonalities, generate constructive conflict and demonstrate how we 'mind the gap.' We welcome submissions on this broad range of topics and from all disciplines, including visual artists, writers, performing artists, activists and scholars. Postmarked Deadline is May 31, 2008. We will notify you of acceptance by June 30. You are invited to submit documents of up to 30 double-space pages for essays, fiction, hybrid narratives, photo essays, scripts or longer works/series of poetry. These submissions should be on a CD/DVD labeled 'submission for featured artist/writer' and your name and email. Artists/Writers retain all rights/copyright to their work. All materials must be mailed and submitted on CD or DVD to: Evolutionary Girls, 186 Henrietta Street Rochester, NY 14620 A $10 Production Fee in the form of a check or an $11 payment via paypal to spiraltri@hotmail.com must also accompany the submission. International submissions ONLY may be done by email if you make arrangements. Please contact Tara at t.smelt@mac.com. Nobody will be turned away for the inability to pay. If you need to ask for a scholarship please email Erica at spiraltri@hotmail.com to negotiate a work exchange. Materials to include: -Short bio (1 paragraph) -1 image of yourself (300 dpi, no larger than 3x3', RGB) -Any images you might want with your work (same specs as with image of yourself) -artist/writers statement (a 1 page statement about your work/philosophy/the concepts that preoccupy you/inform your work) -Copy of attached form (burnt to CD/DVD and a hard copy mailed with CD/DVD) -You text files (article, poetry, etc.). All text files should be Word documents. Times Roman,12 pt. font. If you are writing scholarly articles please follow MLA format and include proper citation and works cited. Poetry should be formatted in the way that you want it to appear. If you are using a different font with poetry for artistic purposes please specify that font. Label all files with yourlastnametitleofwork.theextention. So, for example, it might be Smithuntitled1.jpg or Smithbio.doc. Proceeds from the books go to support Evolutionary Girls. Postmarked Deadline is May 31, 2008. Contact: Tara at t.smelt@mac.com for further information/questions regarding specifications for the book. Click here to download the submission form.