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ABSTRKT Manifest Gallery

A B S T R K T
An International Exhibit Exploring Works of Abstraction
(Manifest's Season 8 Opening Exhibit)
Deadline for Entry: August 17, 2011
Exhibit Dates: September 30 - October 28, 2011

A full-color catalog will be produced. Each exhibitor will receive one free copy.

There are at least three components to a work of art. Often one of them, Subject, supersedes the others, bordering on distraction and flirtation with nostalgia. Abstraction diminishes or sublimates the role of Subject in such a way as to allow Form a chance to take center stage. In essence, Form becomes the Subject. Ironically, this rebalancing gives way to a clearer, and perhaps more truthful, experience of a work of art as a real thing - something that is itself rather than a reference to some external 'other.'

Manifest launches its exciting eighth season with a project intended to feature and explore contemporary abstraction. From non-objective, geometric, expressive... to figurative abstraction (works in which there is a recognizable subject that is distorted, is in some way not 'realistic', or is clearly secondary to the overall formal nature of the work).

Eligibility: ABSTRKT is open to everyone. Professionals as well as students are encouraged to enter. The only limitation is that entries must represent original works of art that are a sincere representation of abstraction.

Media: Open to any and all traditional and non-traditional visual arts genre and media, (including video, photography, etc.)
 
Deadline for Entry: August 17, 2011

For details and to enter visit: http://www.manifestgallery.org/abstract

 

Vessel Plymouth UK

INTERNATIONAL OPEN CALL FOR ARTIST PROPOSALS :
WHO: Artists working in all mediums including, two/three dimensional art, sound, installation, sculpture, performance, video/new media.
WHERE: Stonehouse, Plymouth, UK
WHEN: 22 September – 30 October 2011
DEADLINE: Monday August 22th 2011
 
BRIEF OUTLINE:
VESSEL is pleased to announce an open call for sited works for an exhibition space in a large disused industrial building in Plymouth. Within the fabric of the building we are looking to facilitate a group show of experimental and innovative work, encouraging artists to expose and deliver new avenues in contemporary arts practice. We are interested in work that critically interrogates the situation that is post-industrial, a set of conditions in time and place - a convergence of site, non-site, locality, context and time. Encouraged are submissions of a site-specific / site-responsive nature, taking into account the site's physical surroundings, historical reference or geographical location. Both new proposals or adapted existing work will be selected.

Housed in over 6000sqft of exhibition space, VESSEL will coincide with the British Art Show 7 and will run alongside other contemporary art events in the city.

DEADLINE: Monday August 22th 2011

GUIDELINES:

Please fill in our CONTACT FORM and tell us your email address to request an application form.
We encourage submissions of proposals as early as possible so additional information can be requested if required.

Collaborative / Group proposals accepted.
Proposals will be submitted as a single PDF document.
PLEASE NOTE: Pre-site visits are unavailable at this stage. Depending on the basis of your proposal this can be arranged at a later date for succesful applicants.
If you have any further or specific questions please email us.

SPONSORSHIP PARTNERSHIP
VESSEL is currently working with sponsors and funders to support successful applicants. TBC on a case‐by‐case basis.

SIGNIFICANT DATES:

22 August 2011 Submission Deadline
1st September 2011 Decision Announced
10 September 2011 On‐site Preparations/installation commence
22 September 2011 Exhibition Starts

http://www.vessel2011.com/

 

ITCH - Infinite submissions welcomed

Infinite submissions welcomed
Visual and textual work in any genre accepted.
Submissions will be open until 31 July 2011

Artists working in any medium and writers expressing themselves in any form or genre are invited to submit work for the ninth issue of ITCH Online. The "theme" is:

 

 

Intertwined arms, self-embracing, reaching across, beyond and back again. A race track for formula one Ferraris or electric toy cars? A number, defeated, exhausted, collapsed upon the floor? Everything is everything, what is meant to be will be? As seen from the heavens: two people kissing? Ying and yang, before they worked out the summarised symbol? Winding roads and hairpin bends? Universal time? The totality of space? A sophisticated chignon? Doubling back on the self, trying to rerun old scenes from a life already lived and passed? A looping riff from some gloomy old blues tune? All the numbers that could ever be counted? Things promised and then revoked? A pair of lips twisted into a snarl? A thousand clichéd tattoos? A doughnut; a diet? A waist cinched into a corset? Forever and ever, amen?

What does ∞ mean to you?

You are free to interpret this theme in any way that you wish, to speak to or against it, to explore or ignore it. 

Visual and textual work in any genre accepted. Submissions will be open until 31 July 2011. Contact the editor (mehita@itch.co.za) if you have any suggestions or questions.

http://itch.co.za/submissions/

 

elysium gallery & ART-E-MOTION - Venice Vending Machine

elysium gallery & ART-E-MOTION
Venice Vending Machine: An Installation
Deadline Friday 12 August 2011

Opportunity for 100 Welsh or Wales based visual artists to create small scale work, to be part of an installation sited at two prestigious locations in Venice, Galleria Perela & Serra dei Giardini, reflecting the theme of the 54th Venice Biennale, Illuminations and the global environment., during September 2011.
The work, in any media, maximum dimension 9 cm will be packaged with the artists' name and contact details in one of 220 transparent plastic spheres, seeds of creativity, placed in the vending machine and will be available through random selection by the viewer & operator of the machine.

Deadline Friday 12 August 2011.
Submission fee for handling, transport & marketing £10, payable by cheque to Elysium Art or through Pay Pal at www.elysiumgallery.com
Each artist may produce up to 3 pieces of work in one submission.
The work will be curated & catalogued.
Hand in: elysium gallery, 31 Cradock Street, Swansea, SA1 3EP or by post to: Vending Machine, 1 Keats Grove, Killay, Swansea, SA2 7BS.
Work not chosen to be collected or returned to artist by post, please include SAE.

For further information contact:
Ann Jordan 07743699861 info@elysiumgallery.com
Marina Moreno 07873927110 artemotion@virginmedia.com

 www.elysiumgallery.com

 

DRAWING CONNECTIONS at the Siena Art Institute

OPEN CALL - PARTICIPATE IN ‘DRAWING CONNECTIONS’ at the Siena Art Institute
Deadline: Sept 15th 2011

Call for Artists to take part in an exhibition based on the theme of drawing. The title of the exhibition is “Drawing Connections” and brings artists from all over the world together to celebrate the act of drawing on a postcard-sized work.  All work will be documented and exhibited during the inaugural exhibition of the Siena Art Institute, 24th Sept 2011.  We will also make a free downloadable catalogue from the exhibition with the names of each of the artists, medium and title.   There is no limit to the number of submissions you can send.  While we intend to display all submitted postcards, a selection committee will choose the winning postcard to be published as the cover design for the exhibition catalogue.   We reserve the right to not display artwork with profane or pornographic imagery since the "Drawing Connections" exhibition will take place alongside our community arts programming.

What we request:

Format: Artwork should be on a postcard-sized surface, paper, card, canvas or other material (15 x 10.5cm)  Included with work a separate sheet of paper with title, name, date and medium.

Entry Fee: None
Title: Drawing Connections
Medium: Any! Must fit within the dimensions of (15 x 10.5cm)  Please only send original works of art, not scans or digital copies.

Deadline: Sept 15th 2011
Send to: Drawing Connections, Siena Art Institute, Via Tommaso Pendola 37, 53100 Siena, Italy.   Submissions will only be accepted via post, not via email, since we are looking for original works of art, not scans or digital copies. 

Contact : info@sienaart.org www.sienaart.org

Return of works : Work cannot be returned to the artist, unless you wish to make payment-on-delivery arrangements through UPS for the return of your postcard.  At the end of the exhibition, the original pieces along with the label information will be collected into a bound portfolio to remain in the collection of the Siena Art Institute library.

Details on the "Drawing Connections" call-for-submissions can be found at

http://www.sienaart.org/call-for-submissions.html

 

 

Development Assistant Studio Voltaire

Development Assistant
£18,000 pro rata, 2 days per week
6 month contract, potentially renewable, 2 months probationary period

Application Deadline:  Friday 29 July 2011

Studio Voltaire are wishing to appoint a Development Assistant.  This is a new position whose role will be to carry out administration for aspects of Studio Voltaire’s fundraising activities. This includes managing relationships with Benefactors, sponsors and key advocates for the organisation and assisting with the delivery of House of Voltaire.

Working closely with Studio Voltaire’s Artistic Director, General Manager and Development Committee, the Development Assistant will help ensure that the organisation reaches its target level of funding to sustain Studio Voltaire’s growing ambitions and to continue to build up its reserves to a desired level.

More details and application form can be found at;

http://www.studiovoltaire.org/opportunities.htm

 

CGP LONDON open exhibition

CGP LONDON open exhibition
3-14 Aug 2011
Submission Dates: Saturday 23 - Sunday 24 July 12pm-6pm.

Unselected exhibition, which has led the field in hang the lot aesthetics since 1984.

Hundreds of small and various works at affordable prices, the legendary Cafe Gallery Open Exhibition, representing all artists, consolidates its position as the summer exhibition!

Our emphasis continues to be on the display of small works, accessible to the public. Thereby, the exhibition retains its original intention, maintaining a tradition of a well established annual event.

Submission Dates: Saturday 23 - Sunday 24 July 12pm-6pm.

Preview: Sunday 31 July, 2pm-5pm.

Exhibition: Wednesday 03 - Sunday 14 August.

Times: Weds-Sun, 12pm-6pm.

Venue: Cafe Gallery, Southwark Park, London, SE16 2UA.

SUBMISSION DETAILS

Most importantly, there will be no advance application forms. Works must be delivered directly to Cafe Gallery. Another person can deliver your work provided that they have your written permission for the works to be entered and they have the correct information to complete the Entry Form (Artist's name, address, Title(s) of the work, number of copies if it is an edition, artist's contact details, sale price inclusive of 33% gallery commission, payment in cash or by cheque).

Works from the same artist will not be hung together. In the event of there being more work submitted than can be accommodated, each artist will be represented in the exhibition.

Up to 3 two-dimensional works can be submitted. Two dimensional work must be no larger than 635mm (25 inches) in width, length or depth (including frame). Works must be ready to hang with wire or mirror plates (we are sorry but we cannot accept clip frames). All works will be rigorously measured when submitted. No exceptions will be made.

One three-dimensional work can be submitted. Three-dimensional work must be no larger than 635mm (25 inches) in width, length or depth (including plinth if supplied). All works will be rigorously measured when submitted. No exceptions will be made.

Video works must be supplied looped (this means that the DVD must be programmed to automatically loop without relying on the loop feature of the DVD player) with a 14 inch combo unit (14inch TV with built in DVD player). Only ONE combo unit can be supplied by each artist. The limit of 3 works still pertains (i.e A maximum of three works in video can be looped onto one tape). No exceptions will be made.

Each work submitted must be labelled with Name, Address, Title, Date and Price (inclusive of 33% gallery commission).

FEES: The submission fees must be paid in cash or by cheque (sorry, but we have no facilities to accept any form of payment by card) at the time of submission and are as follows:

FULL PRICE: £6.00 per piece submitted.

CONCESSIONS: £5.00 per piece submitted.

PAID-UP MEMBERS OF THE BERMONDSEY ARTISTS' GROUP / FRIENDS OF CGP LONDON SCHEME: £6.00 irrespective of whether 1, 2 or 3 works are submitted.

IMPORTANT: Regarding collection of work

All works must be collected by 4pm on TUESDAY, 16th AUGUST 2011.

Uncollected work will be disposed of on 17th August 2011. We are sorry but, due to a lack of space for storage, ABSOLUTELY NO EXCEPTIONS CAN BE MADE.

The collection dates are:

Sun, 14th August from 12 – 6pm, Mon, 15th August from 11am – 4pm and Tue, 16th August between 11am – 4pm

Make sure that you can collect on these dates BEFORE you submit work for the Open Exhibition.

http://www.cgplondon.org

 

GO11 Award Exchange Radical Moments

GO11 AWARD - CALL FOR SUBMISSION - € 500 PRIZE
Deadline: 5 September 2011.

More information: go.11moments.org

 

 
 

EXCHANGE RADICAL MOMENTS! Live Art Festival
DIE FABRIKANTEN

Promenade 15
4020 Linz, Austria
+43 732 795684-0
moments@fabrikanten.at

To encourage and celebrate resourcefulness in the city, EXCHANGE RADICAL MOMENTS! Live Art Festival is awarding a prize for the most innovative re-use of an urban object or area for a new purpose. From telephone boxes being re-used as tree planters to street signs being used as musical instruments, the urban landscape is no longer the end of a creative process, but the beginning. The city has become
source material and urban residents around the world are finding new uses for the existing infrastructure of their city. Do you have an idea for how an existing object or area in the city could be put to better or
unusual use? Have you seen or created an alternate use for something in the city?

The GO11 Award is a €500 prize for the best examples of re-using existing objects and areas of the
city for a new purpose.

Contest Deadline: 5 September 2011.
More information, submissions:
go.11moments.org

 

3331 Open Residence, Japan

3331 Open Residence
Deadline 25th July (for July/August residence)
23rd September for residence between January-June 2012

3331 Open Residence is a unique program bringing together artists from all over the world to engage with 3331's colourful and eclectic community and vast range of events.

There are currently availabilities on the program from throughout July to August 31 2011, and we are currently inviting applications from artists and curators of all genres who are interested in conducting a one-month residency in order to undertake research and production in Tokyo.

3331 is able to provide accommodation, coordination support, and studio facilities to artists, as well as an opportunity to give a presentation of their work to a select audience/general public. If you would like to take up this opportunity please contact us at residence@3331.jp by 25th July 2011 at the latest.

For those interested in joining the program in 2012 our next deadline for applications will be 23rd September 2011.

Please download the application form from and send it along with supporting materials: http://www.3331.jp/news/en/docs/applicationform110714.doc

Please see full details of the residence and costs at the following link: http://www.3331.jp/residence/en/

3331 Arts Chiyoda is dedicated to creating a space where people of all backgrounds and interests are able to come together in a creative environment, and as part of this mission we are proud to be able to offer a unique residency program open to artists, curators and creative practitioners internationally. This includes not only the visual arts but also practitioners in design, architecture, dance and music etc. With a full range of facilities including accommodation, studio and gallery, creative practitioners have the exceptional opportunity to extend their artistic engagement in the heart of Tokyo. Not only will artists be able to pursue their own individual research and practice, but they will be connected to the extensive network of Tokyo's art scene through the hub that is 3331. With the energy of the electronics and anime haven of Akihabara right at one's doorstep and the traditional cultures of downtown but a stone's throw away artists will be able to experience all aspects of this kaleidoscopic city from this convenient base. Artists are not only able to spend time in Tokyo, but are able to create work onsite and then finally exhibit what they have developed during their stay, in the distinct setting of 3331 Arts Chiyoda. We are pleased to be able to offer these facilities to artists who can contribute to the diverse creative expressions of this cosmopolitan metropolis and engage its inhabitants in new ways.

http://www.3331.jp/en/

 

McNeill Street Pumping Station New Music Festival

OPEN CALL TO SOUND ARTISTS
Deadline Monday, 1 August 2011

MSPS New Music Festival 2011 seeks to bring together a community of emerging and established artists from around the world whose work challenges the reality of space and desires to arrive at new modes of thought and meaning-making surrounding the potentials of our architectural environments through the sonic arts. We are looking for artists who will bring to the exhibition a unique set of tools, techniques and theoretical positions with which to call into question and explore the potentials of sound as a medium through which new definitions and conceptions of space may be divined.

MSPS New Music Festival 2011 is an exhibition set in the historic McNeill Street Pumping Station located on Cross Bayou, Shreveport, Louisiana. The pumping station house is a 124 year old brick building that has both indoor and outdoor spaces available for installation. Massive brass tanks, deep wells and concrete separation pool structures are but a few of the potential sonic environments to choose from.

APPLY UNTIL MONDAY, 1 AUGUST 2011

READ THE FULL PROSPECTUS:

DATES :: ARTWORK :: LOCATION :: FORMS :: FEE :: JURY :: DEADLINE :: SUBMIT :: RESULTS

Please read the guidelines carefully. Artists worldwide, at any career-stage may submit an application.

DATES
The exhibition will take place on Friday 14 October 2011.

ARTWORK
Artwork may be embedded in your submission documents or simply included as email attachments.

        PERFORMANCE CATEGORY:::

        -In reference to the thematic information above, send the best representative original
         sound work or segment of an original sound work no longer than 10 minutes in          
         length.
        -You may also send us links to sound works or video documentation of performances
         currently online. Please prepare it for review as above, nothing in excess than 10
         minutes will be reviewed for entry.

        -Include title, date, and (maximum) 250 word description of the submitted work
        -Please send work made within the last two years
       
       LISTENING CATEGORY:::

        -In reference to the thematic information above, send two to three samples of original
         sound works or segments of original sound works no longer than 8 minutes
         each.-Include title, date, and 250 word descriptions of all works-Please send works
         made within the last two years

LOCATION
The exhibition will be held at the McNeill Street Pumping Station, 142 North Common Street, Shreveport, LA 71101

FORMS
Requested information to include with all proposals:::
        -Artist biography (500 words max)
        -Artist statement (500 words max)
        -Curriculum Vitae

JURY
The exhibiting artists will be chosen by MSPS curatorial team.

DEADLINE
Application deadline midnight MONDAY 1 AUGUST, 2011

SUBMIT
Artists both nationally and internationally are invited to submit a proposal.
Submission of proposals are free and open to all.In order to save resources email submissions preferred

        SUBMIT.MSPS@GMAIL.COM

RESULTS
Artists chosen will be notified late August.

IMPORTANT: DO NOT SEND ORIGINAL COPIES. WE WILL NOT RETURN ANYTHING VIA POST.

McNeill Street Pumping Station New Music Festival 2011

MSPS Curatorial Team
1810 Market Street
Shreveport, Louisiana 71101
http://mspsnmf2011.tumblr.com/
submit.msps@gmail.com