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A ConceptPlus Call for Works, Exit Art, New York

Happiness / Sadness will open in Exit Art's main gallery in Spring / Summer 2010
Deadline: January 29, 2010

ABOUT
This exhibition is an exploration of the dynamic of opposites. For Exit Art, the study of paradoxes is a vital purpose of culture. We are looking for works in any media that express, metaphorically or concretely, the notions of happiness and sadness. Artworks can explore one or both issues. Identifying happiness helps to understand sadness; one cannot exist without the other.

For thousands of years, philosophers, psychologists, neuroscientists, theologians and cultural critics such as Aristotle, Confucius, Locke, Camus, and the Dalai Lama have tried to understand, define or attain the elusive and desirable state of “happiness.” Is happiness a state of mind, an emotion, or neurologically coded? Are there true external sources of happiness, as pop-culture and mass marketing seem to suggest? Can happiness be produced through the use of modern pharmaceuticals?

There has been a recent surge of media attention on the topic of happiness. For instance, the country of Bhutan has declared happiness as its index of growth. Instead of a Gross Domestic Product, Bhutan has a Gross National Happiness Index, which is measured by the “four pillars of a happy society": the economy, culture, the environment and good governance. The most popular course at Harvard University in Spring 2006, taught by Tal Ben-Shahar and attended by over 800 students, was on the topic of happiness. The Dalai Lama has said that happiness is the ultimate enlightenment, the state of being that we all strive for and that lies within our grasp. Even the Declaration of Independence names happiness as one of our unalienable rights in stating life, liberty and "the pursuit of happiness."

Amidst stories of recession, war, and personal and political struggle, we want to offer artists a chance to think about and express the notions of happiness / sadness. Responses can be as varied as a presentation of one's own sources of happiness and sadness; aesthetic or formal interpretations of the subject, whether critical or affirmative; a cross-cultural study on happiness and sadness; or a geographic, anthropologic, or scientific investigation of the concept.

We want to know what aesthetically and artistically these two concepts mean to the creative mind.

HOW TO APPLY
Please submit the following:

• a description of the project, no more than one page
• a brief resume

AND

• up to 10 JPGs of the proposed project on CD or on the web (please send images at a low resolution to open quickly); up to 5 JPGs of previous work; and an image list with descriptions

OR

• a 3-5 minute NTSC DVD or Quicktime file on the web (if the DVD is longer than five minutes, be sure to indicate which part the panel should view)

Submissions will not be returned. Please send submissions to:

Exit Art
c/o Happiness/Sadness
475 Tenth Avenue
New York, NY 10018

Or email your submission to Assistant Curator Lauren Rosati at lauren@exitart.org. Please put “Happiness/Sadness” in the subject heading.

NO PHONE CALLS PLEASE.

ABOUT CONCEPTPLUS
Exit Art currently works with a curatorial model called ConceptPlus, which begins with a theme or concept that is then publicized through a call for proposals. For each ConceptPlus idea, the curators first chose a group of artists that form the base of the exhibition. Then Exit Art issues an international call for artists to propose new or newly-contextualized work in response to a given theme or cultural condition. The exhibition is then curated by Exit Art's curatorial staff, who view all the proposals for new work and work samples submitted by artists and select projects to be presented and/or commissioned for the exhibition. Every artist who submits a proposal has equal access to the curators, regardless of their previous experience, making ConceptPlus a highly democratic curatorial model.

exitart.org

 

 

Call for exhibition proposals and new members, SOIL, Seattle, WA

CALL FOR NEW MEMBERS
CALL FOR EXHIBITIONS

What is SOIL?
Founded in 1995, SOIL is a not-for-profit, artist run gallery established, supported and operated by local artists.  SOIL exists as an alternative venue for artists to exhibit, develop, and advance their work, and is committed to exhibiting and celebrating art of diverse media and content. Soil has been consistent in showing a different exhibition each month that opens on every first Thursday, and has received substantial local as well as national press attention.  Now is an exciting time to participate in this vital component of Seattle's dynamic arts community.

Call for New Members
SOIL will soon put a call out for new members. Check Soil's website for new membership applications. Deadline for applications will be January 16,2010.
see the link below for further details,
http://soilart.org/calls/call_member-prev.htm

Call for Show Proposals
SOIL is now accepting proposals for shows. Next Review Deadline: February 13, 5pm, 2010.
Below is a link on how to submit a proposal,
http://soilart.org/calls/call_show.htm

SOIL ARTIST-RUN GALLERY, 112 3rd Ave S, Seattle, WA 98104

Call For Media Artists: Cheshiahud Lake Union Loop, Seattle

Seattle seeks artist for Cheshiahud Lake Union Loop artwork
Selected artist to create new media work for urban trail
Deadline: January 12, 2010

SEATTLE— Seattle's Office of Arts & Cultural Affairs, in collaboration with Seattle Parks and Recreation and the Seattle Department of Transportation (SDOT), seeks an artist or artist team to create a new media artwork for the Cheshiahud Lake Union Loop.

http://www.seattle.gov/arts/publicart/calls_for_art.asp

Named for a Duwamish chief, the six-mile loop links more than 35 pocket parks and waterways around Lake Union. The multi-use trail connects diverse neighborhoods and passes through a variety of urban spaces, including residential areas, industrial areas and a working waterfront with historical maritime uses.

The selected artist or artist team will create a new media project drawing on the history and/or context of the site. Possible media include podcast- or cell-phone based audio work, audio and/or video tours using mobile media and GPS, and walking tours or interactive events using the Web.

The call is open to professional artists living in Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Montana, California or British Columbia. The $18,000 budget includes design, fabrication and installation costs. The application deadline is Tuesday, Jan. 12, 2010. A link to the online application and guidelines is available at www.seattle.gov/arts.

 

 

 

Constellations Project - inbetweenspaces, Brisbane

Call For Video Art Proposals: Constellations Project
Deadline: December 31, 2009

inbetweenspaces is seeking submissions for the video art project ‘Constellations’. Scheduled to coincide with the APT, the project will install contemporary video art from the Asia- Pacific Region in a range of gallery, business and private sites across the Brisbane CBD. The project aims to exhibit different types of video art from a range of practitioners including collaborative, performative and multi-channel works.

*The first round of submissions closes 27/11/09 but works will be continuously reviewed and accepted until the end of February 2010.

for more information contact: info@inbetweenspaces.org
visit: http://www.inbetweenspaces.org/constellations

In the submission please include
- name and contact information (including phone number and email address)
- brief artist statement and bio (max A4 page)
- title, date and brief description of proposed work
- DVD of proposed work

please enclose a self addressed, stamped envelope if you would like your submission returned

mail the submission to:
inbetweenspaces PO BOX 16121 Brisbane QLD AUSTRALIA 4000

 

 

 

 

CAMP art at the DRAKE HOTEL, Toronto, Ontario

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS/PROPOSALS
CAMP art at the DRAKE HOTEL, Toronto, Ontario
Deadline: January 31st, 2010

Camp, a [kÊmp]
Adj.noun

1. Providing sophisticated, knowing amusement, as by virtue of its being artlessly mannered or stylized, self-consciously artificial and extravagant, or teasingly ingenuous and sentimental.
2.  Adopting of a teasing, theatrical manner, esp. for the amusement of others.
3.  So extreme as to have perversely sophisticated appeal

“Indeed the essence of Camp is its love of the unnatural: of artifice and exaggeration…The whole point of Camp is to dethrone the serious. Camp is playful, anti-serious. More precisely, Camp involves a new, more complex relation to "the serious." One can be serious about the frivolous, frivolous about the serious.”
           - Susan Sontag, “Notes on Camp,” 1964

Camp has been defined as an aesthetic of the tasteless and the ostentatious – iIts appeal comes from its gaud.  It has been used to throw conventional values into question, and to point out the fallacies in the concept of style by embodying them.

We seek submissions of existing or proposed works of any shape or medium that reflect the theme of camp.

The selected works will respond to and accentuate the dynamic nature of the lobby and stairwell spaces of the Drake Hotel. The show is scheduled to take place in summer 2010.

Venue - http://www.thedrakehotel.ca/

Please submit 3-5 images with an explanation of the work or proposed work, as well as 3-5 images of previous work and artist bio to drakecamp@gmail.com by January 31st, 2010. 

This show will be curated by York University graduate students Meghan Bissonnette, Anastasia Hare, and Colleen O’Reilly.

 

Neck of the Woods Exhibition, Manchester, UK

Neck of the Woods Exhibition, Manchester, UK
Deadline: 18 December, 2009

Blank Media Collective is seeking proposals for an innovative exhibition in conjunction with Nexus Art Cafe, Manchester. Neck of the Woods will be a platform to investigate artists' responses into the concept of community and how this is evolving.

Open to emerging artists from the UK and internationally.

Practitioners are encouraged to submit work or performances using a range of media, questioning and even attempting to answer your own preconceived ideas of community. Proposals for live art, site-specific, new or existing work will be accepted.

There is a small budget available to cover artists' expenses for this exhibition, include a breakdown of your expected expenditure.

Further Information -  exhibitions@blankmediacollective.org
 www.blankmediacollective.org

Exhibition Proposals - Westspace, Melbourne

West Space invites artists / collectives / curators to submit proposals to exhibit July - December 2010.
Deadline: 11 December 2009
 

The Gallery
West Space operates three exhibition spaces.
Visit www.westspace.org.au to download the foorplan.

• The floor is polished concrete and the walls are plasterboard.
• A quality gallery lighting system provides flexible illumination of the spaces. Galleries 1 and 2 feature
theatre-type spotlight systems or bright fluoro bank lighting, while Gallery 3 has halogen lighting.

Who can apply
• West Space welcomes proposals by practitioners working in all fields of creative endeavour. These fields
broadly include visual and audiovisual arts, new media, sound, design, craft, literature, performance.
• West Space welcomes proposals by emerging and established practitioners.
• Applications for solo or group exhibitions are welcome.
• West Space does not exhibit work by current undergraduate students, but accepts proposals from
undergraduate students for exhibitions that will commence after their studies are complete.
• West Space selects proposals with a view to programming a first class calendar of events. We seek to
balance emerging and experienced artists, while presenting a broad range of media and critical
approaches.

Exhibition Fees
Gallery 1: ( AUS) $990 (including GST)
Gallery 2: ( AUS) $700 (including GST)
Gallery 3: ( AUS) $500 (including GST)

Please note that West Space will maintain the duration of exhibition length at 3.5 weeks in 2010.
* Please note, West Space does not take a commission on sold works.

Please visit our website at www.westspace.org.au
for further details and Proposal Guidelines

West Space
PO Box 12425
A'Beckett Strett
Melbourne VIC 8006

 please contact Acting Program Coordinator Kelly Fliedner on +61 3 9328 8712 or at
info@westspace.org.au

 

the fiction project, Art House

The first ever Art House literary project.
Help us build the Brooklyn Art Library's collection.
Deadline: February 15th, 2010

Get Involved
We have plenty of sketchbooks. Now we're looking for authors, writers, 'zine makers, and children's book illustrators to create fictional based narratives and much more to be added to the library.

Sign up and receive a 5.5 by 8.5 inch Moleskine Cahier notebook and a randomly selected theme. Create your narrative using words and images and send it back to be a part of the permanent collection at the Brooklyn Art Library.

http://www.arthousecoop.com/projects/fictionproject

The ideaThis project is a sister project to The Sketchbook Project. The Fiction Project sets its sights on literature and creating a narrative book that fuses writing with art.

Each book submitted will be housed at the Brooklyn Art Library in Red Hook.

Your Book
The only rules are that your book must be 51% writing based, the journal we send you is used in some way, and that it stays the same size when closed (5.5x8.5 inches). We encourage mixing writing with art.

Grab a friend
You don't have to be alone in this! Art House is all about collaboration, and this is no exception. Find someone to illustrate while you do the writing or vice-versa. Or work on all the areas together. Grab an entire group of friends and pass the book around. Nothing is off limits.

The theme
When you sign up, your book will be randomly assigned a theme. This is just a guideline to give you a gentle push in a direction. You are by no means absolutely bounded to this theme. You can even be as loose as using words from the theme in your story.

The Exhibition

May 14th, 2010, Brooklyn, NY

Brooklyn Art Library
201 Richards St #16
Brooklyn, NY

Brooklyn Art Library
Art House is moving to Brooklyn in February and opening The Brooklyn Art Library. Art House always believed that art should be accessible to everyone, and with the new library we are able to not only provide the opportunity to create art but also house it all.

The Brooklyn Art Library will archive artwork from artists all around the world. It's a gallery in a library format.

Your book will be a part of the library's permanent collection and will be able to be pulled off of the shelf and looked through.

Project overview
After you sign up to participate in the project, we'll mail you a package containing a lined Moleskine sketchbook with a barcode on it, a randomly picked theme to create your book around, and detailed instructions about the project.

Themes
To give visitors to the library variety and to aid in choosing what to look at, we are assigning each person a theme for their book. Themes are assigned at random upon signing up and are pulled out of a list of 30 different themes.

The Exhibitions and Permanent Collection
After the exhibition in brooklyn, the books will be on view at the Brooklyn art Library where the public is free to come and read through the books.

Where to mail your completed journal:

Art House Co-op
C/o The Fiction Project
201 Richards St. #16
Brooklyn, NY 11231

The submission fee
Entry fee is $18 for a United States shipping address and $21 if it is shipped over seas. The entry fee covers the journal, shipping the journal to you, inclusion into the exhibition(s), and a spot in the permanent collection at Brooklyn Art Library.

Please note that we do not jury entries. We believe art should be accessible to the masses and we therefore included every entry submitted.

 

 

2010 Guandu International Outdoor Sculpture Festival

Nature, Art &  Life
Guandu Nature Park, Taipei, Taiwan, April 23– August 29, 2010
Deadline: December 31, 2009

Send entries by e-mail only to guandunaturepark@gmail.com

Artists from all countries are invited to submit proposals for temporary site-specific sculpture installations that raise awareness of “Nature, Art & Life.” Works must be suitable for an urban nature park with an emphasis on wetlands conservation and environmental education. Artists selected for the 2010 Festival will create their artworks during a 3-week residency in Taiwan, April 4 – April 26, 2010, with the public opening participation on weekend April 24 and 25.  The time frame to create the installation will be 19 days, and artists must have their works completed by the Press Conference Opening on Friday, April 23.  The selected artists will receive a fee of NT$60,000 (about US$1,800), a round-trip economy airfare from their home country to Taiwan, accommodations from April 4 – April 25, some meals provided and assistance from volunteer to create and complete their works.

The Selected artists will create their works at Guandu Nature Park (outdoor and indoor) using sustainable natural materials found on site such as reeds, rice straw, earth, small stones, branches, and some small bamboo as well as recycled bamboo. The park also collected lots of driftwoods. Artists are welcomed to use this new material to design and create a nature installation if they prefer. The artworks should be made by nature materials and last for at least the full 4 months of the exhibition and should survive from potential typhoons, heavy rains as well as hot and dry summer weather.
Artists will design the installation as a semi-permanent artwork, the Guandu Nature Park reserves the right to keep the installation after the 2010 Festival. The artworks will act as opportunities for public interactions and appreciation. The artists are encouraged to work with volunteer to share ideas. A symposium and opening conference will take place during the work period. The artists will be expected to participate in the public interaction during the opening weekend on April 24 and 25.

Yang, Chun-Sen, a well-known contemporary Taiwanese artist, will be the curator for the 2010 Guandu Sculpture Festival. Mr. Yang has a special gift in creating and observing sculpture, earth art and environment art displace.

Contact the curator at guandunaturepark@gmail.com  if further question occurs.

See the website at http://www.2009guandu.url.tw/ for information about Guandu Nature Park and the 2009 Festival.  All entries will be reviewed, selected and notified by January 12, 2010.

Proposals must be submitted by e-mail and should include the following
materials:

·   Resume or curriculum vitae should include the mailing address and
contact information of the artist. The artist’s website and e-mail address is preferable in relation to the consideration for the entries.

·   6 images of previous outdoor works that should be related to nature
and the environment (small jpg files up to 1 MG each.)

·   Image list must give the title, date made, dimensions, media or
materials used, place of the installation and brief description of each work.

·   Based on the theme of “Nature, Art & Life,” the artist should write
a one-page descriptive proposal to express his/her artistic concept, material use, technical process and interaction to support the proposed project.

·   Sketch or render the proposed work (scanned or digital image up to
1MG) and include proposed dimensions and materials.

For further information of the 2010 Festival call for:
Call for proposal:
http://www.gd-park.org.tw/wen/2010CallFroProposal.doc

Suggested locations:
http://www.gd-park.org.tw/wen/MapOfSuggestedLocations.jpg

Exhibition Proposals & Source Festival - Flashpoint Gallery, Washington DC

Exhibition Proposals & Source Festival - Flashpoint Gallery, Washington DC
Deadline: December 17, 2009

Proposals for Flashpoint Gallery's September 2010 - August 2011 season

Cultural Development Corporation (CuDC) is requesting proposals for Flashpoint Gallery's September 2010 - August 2011 season. Open to all artists, independent curators and arts organizations presenting contemporary work in any medium.

The Request for Proposals may be found online:
http://www.flashpointdc.org/venues/Gallery_RFP_10-11.html

All proposals must be received no later than 5 pm on Thursday, December 17, 2009.

Flashpoint Gallery presents cutting-edge contemporary art and provides a springboard for talented artists and curators to enhance their careers. The gallery seeks to inspire creativity and encourage the creation of new work by emerging and under-represented artists and curators. CuDC is seeking inventive, original proposals in any media.

This year, for the first time, CuDC is partnering with The Community Foundation of the National Capital Region to make grants to artists participating in the Flashpoint Gallery Program. The Creative Communities Fund (CCF) will provide grants of up to $2500 to artists to support the creation and presentation of new work. DC area artists applying to the Flashpoint Gallery are encouraged to submit grant applications in conjunction with their program applications.

Visit flashpointdc.org for more information on the request for proposals and the Creative Communities Fund

Source Festival:

Cultural Development Corporation (CuDC) seeks artists to participate in the 2010 Source Festival's Artistic Blind Dates.
All applications for Artistic Blind Dates and Directors & Designers programs must be received no later than 5 pm on Thursday, December 17, 2009. For more information and applications visit sourcedc.org.

Artistic Blind Dates
Up to twelve diverse artists will be teamed up on a five-month creative process that will culminate with performances at the 2010 Source Festival.
Selected artists will receive grants of up to $750 that may be used as a stipend and/or to provide any necessary materials for the project.
Open to individual DC area artists of any discipline, including  dance, installation, film, literary arts, multidisciplinary, music, new media, performance art, playwrighting, sound art, spoken word, storytelling, theatre, video and visual arts.