| 04 October 2006
No. 44
AWARDS / PRIZES
London Artists' Film and Video
Awards (LAFVA)
Jerwood Sculpture Prize 2006,
UK
BENEFIT
Postcards from the Edge benefit for Visual
AIDS, New York
COMPETITION
The 22nd UBE BIENNALE '07,
Yamaguchi, Japan
EXHIBITIONS
Jerwood Artists Platform
and Cell Project Space, London : NOMINATE
Redux Contemporary Art
Center, Charleston, SC, USA
ATHICA: Athens Institute for
Contemporary Art, GA, USA
EVENTS
Interval06,
Manchester, UK
Artist as Activist -INTERNATIONAL PERFORMANCE ART
EVENT 2007, Tokyo, Japan
FILM & VIDEO
Open Video
Projects, Rome, Italy
48 Hour Run, Normal Space @ Flux Factory,
Long Island City, New York
POSITIONS
Director, FACT,
Liverpool, UK
RESIDENCY
Pump House Gallery, London -
Take Over - Artist residencies programme
SOUND
GRAIN,
Artist Placement. Grain Power Station, Kent,
UK
AWARDS
London Artists' Film and Video Awards (LAFVA)
Deadline
: November 23, 2006
London Artists' Film and Video Awards
(LAFVA) 2007 is now open for applications. Offering awards up to a
maximum of £20,000 for the production of new work.
LAFVA is
an open submission awards scheme for artists' living and working in
the London region. Awards are available to artists' working in the
context of contemporary fine art moving image practice.
Submitted projects can be any format, length and genre
whether single or multi screen and produced for exhibition in
galleries, festivals, specialist venues or cinemas.
Now in
its seventh year, LAFVA is one of the largest publicly funded award
programmes for artists in the UK.
MORE
INFORMATION
Jerwood Sculpture
Prize 2006
Deadline: 15 December 2006.
The Jerwood
Charitable Foundation invites artists to submit proposals for the
Jerwood Sculpture Prize 2006.
Since its creation in 2001, the
Jerwood Sculpture Prize has become one of the most significant
commissioning prizes for sculpture in the UK to date. Every two
years the Jerwood Charitable Foundation awards one artist £25,000 to
create a piece of outdoor sculpture which will be exhibited at the
Jerwood Sculpture Park at Ragley, Warwickshire. In previous years,
sculptures by Benedict Carpenter, Gereon Krebber, and last year’s
winner, Judith Dean, have been added to the Jerwood Sculpture Park’s
collection.
The prize is structured to promote and award
emerging talent in the creation of outdoor sculpture and is open to
UK artists within 15 years of graduation. Artists are invited to
submit drawings, written statements and plans for their proposed
commission.
More
information, guidelines and application form
BENEFIT
Postcards from the Edge benefit for Visual AIDS, New
York
Deadline : November 10, 2006
Visual AIDS
invites artists to participate in our ninth annual Postcards From
the Edge benefit. We are looking for artists to donate a 4"x6"
original work on paper for the exhibition and sale. Painting,
drawing, photography, printmaking and mixed media are all
welcome.
Hosted by Sikkema Jenkins & Co.
Preview Party: December 1-3, 2006 World AIDS
Day
Benefit Sale: December 2 & 3,
2006
DEADLINE for submissions is postmark Friday,
November 10, 2006 (NO late entries)
Postcards From the Edge
is a show and sale of original, postcard-size artworks on paper by
established and emerging artists. All artworks are $75 and sold on a
first-come, first-served basis. The works are signed on the back and
exhibited so that the artists' signatures cannot be seen. While
buyers have a list of all participating artists, they don't know who
created which piece until it is purchased and the signature is
revealed. A collector might end up with a work by a famous artist or
one they don't yet know. Either way, they walk away with a great
piece of art while supporting Visual AIDS's important
work.
To
participate, download Submission Forms
If you can not
download submission forms and/or would like a blank Canson postcard
mailed to you, please send a 6" x 9" SASE to Visual AIDS, 526
West 26th Street #510,New York, NY 10001
All proceeds
support the programs of Visual AIDS. Founded in 1988, Visual AIDS
promotes AIDS awareness through the visual arts. Through the Frank
Moore Archive Project, we assist and provide services to artists
with HIV/AIDS: free photo-documentation of artwork, inclusion in the
slide registry, exhibition opportunities, material and emergency
grants, career advice and advocacy.
Click
here for examples of our work.
COMPETITION
The 22nd UBE BIENNALE '07 : International Open Sculpture
Competition, Yamaguchi, Japan
Deadline : Octorber 13,
2006
The outdoor competition will be held in autumn of
2007. The site of the Biennial Competition has taken place in Tokiwa
Park for more than 40 years. As a tradition, the goal of the
competition has been to pursue the possibility of contemporary
sculpture, and to create a relation between sculpture and townscape.
The final pieces will be selected for placement throughout the
surrounding community with consideration to the harmony of the work
and nature or the city.
The competition takes place in two
phases. The first phase is the submission of maquette/model works
from all participants. These will be judged by a panel and 15 works
will be selected to advance to the second phase. Participants
advancing to the second phase will receive funds from organizer to
create their maquettes/models as real size works. These 15 works
will join another 5 works created by invited artists in a final
competition followed by a one and a half month exhibition.
More
information and application
UBE BIENNALE
Secretariat
Ube Board of Education, Sculptual Promotion
Division
Address: 1-7-1 Tokiwa-cho Ube Yamaguchi 755-8601
Japan
Telephone +81-836-34-8616 Facsimile +81-836-22-
6066
EXHIBITIONS
Jerwood Artists Platform and Cell Project Space,
London
NOMINATE
Deadline : October 31, 2006
Jerwood
Artists Platform and Cell
Project Space seek to identify and promote emerging and talented
visual artists, providing them with their first London solo
exhibition at a pivotal time in their career. Nominations are
welcomed from those professionally involved in the visual arts
including artists, curators, critics, collectors and
tutors.
To nominate an artist simply send their name, contact
details and email address to sheenaetches.fsbusiness.co.uk
Redux Contemporary Art
Center, Charleston, SC, USA
Deadline : October 20,
2006
ART EXHIBITIONS & ARTIST RESIDENCIES
Call for entries from emerging and established artists for
40-day solo, group, and 2-person exhibitions as well as artist
residencies in Charleston, SC, during 2007.
Residencies
includes free studio and 24-hr facility access for 1 month, $700
work stipend, and solo/2- person exhibition of work created during
the residency (directly following residency). Application fee
(includes Redux membership).
Please send application;
portfolio of 10-20 recent works which can be in slide/CD/DVD/video
format (both MAC and PC); Inventory list including titles, dates
completed, sizes, and mediums; artist statement; resume; and SASE,
for returns, to:
Seth Curcio,
Redux
Contemporary Art Center,
136 St Philip St, Charleston SC
29403
843-722-0697
reduxartcenter@bellsouth.net
ATHICA:
Athens Institute for Contemporary Art, GA, USA
Call for
Entries
Deadline : November 09, 2006
Call for work
dealing with Ephemerality/Transience. All media.
ATHICA:
Athens Institute for Contemporary Art invites proposals from
curators, collectives & artists with challenging, progressive or
innovative projects. We can accommodate large-scale sculpture and/or
installation. We generally look for focused themes that are timely
and not media specific. Please read our Mission Statement and visit
our Past Exhibitions pages to get a more specific sense of our
criteria for inclusion.
Athens Institute for Contemporary Art
(non-profit, 501 (c)(3) ) is dedicated to exhibiting challenging,
provocative and innovative contemporary art in a non-commercial
setting, solely for the cultural enrichment of the Northeast Georgia
community. Work may be formally adventurous, such as conceptual
objects and installations, or politically or socially engaged, or
both! Visual artists are encouraged to create for the space
specifically. Area writers, performance artists, musicians and other
creative people are invited to bring events of an experimental
nature to the space.
No prospectus, no fee, no sales, no
insurance.
Curators: Katy Logue Thompson and Christopher MacKay
E-mail low-res jpgs or urls to transience@athica.org, or
mail short proposal with SASE (self-addressed stamped envelope) to
ATHICA, 160 Tracy Street, Unit 4, Athens, GA 30601
EVENTS
Becoming Electric - Interval06, Manchester, UK
Deadline
: October 20, 2006
Interval invites artists working in
new media to submit works that respond or relate to the concept of
'Becoming Electric', for inclusion in the third event in the
Interval06 programme. The selected work will be showcased in an
exhibition in November 2006 in an empty Public House in Central
Manchester.
Interval is an independent artist led platform
with a focus on new media practice. Established in 2005, it acts as
a critical springboard, offering collaborative exhibition
opportunities to both emergent and established practitioners using
technology as a key component within their work.
For
more information and a detailed brief and go to Upcoming
Events
Or
download guidelines and a submission form here:
Artist as Activist
-INTERNATIONAL PERFORMANCE ART EVENT 2007, Tokyo, Japan
Deadline
:October 25th,2006
We'd like to invite artists or artist
group to international performance art event "Artist as Activist"
which will take place in Tokyo in middle October 2007.The aim of
event is to create new relationship to society and the city of
Tokyo. With cultural deference we can discovery how to live with
others together. We welcome any type of action art and project art,
Not only live performance at the gallery, but also off-site action
in the street or public space. Of course it is depend on your
proposal. As an artist and As an activist, we want to create new
scene of action art. Unfortunately we cannot offer you travel
expense and any finance support. We don't return your proposal
material.
There are following 3 sections;
- City project - All of projects in the public space or the
street are welcome.
- Live Performance art - New performance works are welcome.
- Video screening of performance art - Documentations of
performance art or .. - Project art. (Should be on DVD
More
information
Proposal Send to: AA
project team, c/o Yoshinori Niwa,
5-7-11-101,Himonya,Meguro-ku,Tokyo,1520 003,JAPAN
FILM & VIDEO
Open Video Projects, Rome, Italy
OPEN CALL FOR
SUBMISSIONS: Season 2
Open
Video Projects (OVP) is a video archive currently based in Rome,
Italy which facilitates screenings throughout the city in
conjunction with a weekly appointment at the Blueroom evening at
Rialto Santambrogio, a contemporary cultural center in Rome's
historic district; Blueroom features a dynamic mix of live
experimental electronic music, a rotating DJ line-up, live
video-mixing, site-specific video installations and 3500 cm² (a
weekly exhibition of poster art specially designed by a contemporary
artist for free distribution at the event). There has been
overwhelming public response with over 1000 guests in attendance
each week. (www.blue- room.it). OVP’s participation in large scale
cultural events exposes the public to work it would normally not
see, as well as provides a unique form of visibility for the
participating artists and filmmakers.
For its second season
of screenings Open Video Projects is looking to expand its
international network of artists working with film and video. All
artists working in these media are invited to submit work to be part
of OVP. All submitted materials will be evaluated for inclusion,
however, only selected pieces will be screened. Lorenzo Benedetti
and Sarra Brill are responsible for the selection of all video
entries and will curate the weekly selections. All submitted
materials will be collected in a searchable database, accessible on
the program's website, www.openvideoprojects.org In addition to the
database, the site will feature a program guide, screening times,
and links to websites of participating artists and filmmakers (if
provided).
GUIDELINES FOR SUBMITTING VIDEO-WORKS
- Subject matter is unlimited;
- Each submitted video must include the name of the artist,
title, duration, year of production, contact information (e-mail
and home address), biography, and any additional information;
- The sender is responsible for mailing costs of submission;
- Works will not be returned to the senders from Italy and the
United States unless a stamped, self- addressed envelope is
included in the package. For submissions outside these two
countries, please contact Blueroom by email for return postage
instructions.
- Acceptable formats: Dvd , Mini DV, CD
There is no
deadline for submissions, however it is advised that work be sent
promptly as screening slots are limited.
Please confirm your
submission with an e-mail to submissions@openvideoprojects.org
Inquiries may be directed to
info@openvideoprojects.org
Submissions can be sent
to:
Open Video Projects, c/o Lorenzo Benedetti, via Ottorino
Gentiloni, 41, 00139 Roma, Italia
or:
Open Video
Projects, c/o Sarra Brill, 177 Garfield Place, Brooklyn, NY
11215
Lorenzo Benedetti is an independent curator, Project
Curator of Volume! non-profit gallery, and curator of the Sound Art
Museum, RAM, in Rome. Sarra Brill is an AV artist as well as
co-director of the New York- based art collective, Aviate,
organizing audio/visual events in New York and Rome.
Curatorial contributions provided by Andrew Cappetta,
Adrienne Drake, Giuliano Lombardo, and Irene Di Maggio.
48 Hour Run, Normal Space
@ Flux Factory, Long Island City, New York
48
Hour Run will be a screening of exactly 48 hours of video
art by an array and diversity of artists working with video. the
screening will take place inside the studio of artist Nick Normal in
his temporary exhibition space Normal Space @ Flux Factory. the
deadline is ongoing, and the work will be complete once 48 hours of
video art are accepted and compiled.
please visit the blog
for further details and instructions on how to submit. this call is
open internationally and is free to submit. please contact
nick@geekathon.net if you have any questions, comments or
concerns.
Nick Normal, c/o Flux Factory, 38-38 43rd Street,
Long Island City, NY, 11101
USA
POSITIONS
Director, FACT, Liverpool
Deadline: 20
October
Based in Liverpool, European Capital of Culture
2008, FACT is one of Britain's most innovative and enterprising arts
organisations. Its flagship project, the £11m FACT Centre, opened to
public and critical acclaim in 2003 and is the only cultural venue
in the UK which is dedicated to the support, development and
presentation of artists' work in film, video and new
media.
Following the appointment of FACT's Director, Gill
Henderson as the first Director of CreateKX in London, FACT is
seeking to appoint a Director with outstanding creative leadership
qualities to build on FACT's past and present achievements in the
context of the Capital of Culture year and beyond.
For more
information or to request an application pack please contact:
Alan Smith, Operations Director, FACT, 88 Wood Street,
Liverpool. L1 4DQ, Tel: 0151 707 4444
Email:
asmith@fact.co.uk
Interviews in Liverpool.
We welcome
applications from any individual regardless of ethnic origin,
gender, disability, religious belief, sexual orientation or age. All
applications will be considered on merit.
ABOUT
FACT
RESIDENCY
Pump House Gallery, London - Take Over - Artist
residencies programme
Deadline : November 06, 2006
We
are inviting five UK-based visual artists with an established
professional practice to take over and use the gallery as their
studio or working base for a five-week period commencing January
2007. The residency aims to be non-restrictive and flexible,
providing a stimulating and creative environment for artists to work
in. Artists may use the gallery as a conventional studio, or engage
with the space in other ways, such as transforming it into an
installation, performance studio or workshop area. Exchange of
ideas, dialogue and debate amongst the selected artists will be
encouraged, as well as experimentation and risk taking. Bespoke peer
critique will be key to this residency to enable professional and
critical development. The gallery will be to open to visitors
throughout the five-week period, allowing for public interaction
with the residency process. During the last week there will be an
informal exhibition of work or ideas in progress.
Each artist
will receive a £1,000 fee
Selection panel: Nigel Cooke,
Artist; Sandra Ross, Pump House Gallery Curator; David Thorp,
Independent Curator.
More
information, guidelines and application form
Pump
House Gallery
Battersea Park, London, SW11 4NJ
Telephone:
020 7350 0523
Fax: 020 7228 9062
Email:
pumphouse@wandsworth.gov.uk
SOUND
GRAIN, Artist Placement. Grain Power Station, Kent,
UK
Deadline : November 06, 2006
A unique placement
for an established artist working with sound, inside the imposing
Grain Power Station on the Medway estuary, north Kent. The placement
is an important component of Grain, a series of sound works by
artists to be presented in the landscape surrounding the power
station in spring 2007.
An artist (or partnership) will be
selected to spend up to 15 days on placement starting from January
2007. The successful artist/s will be given a bursary of £3,000 to
undertake research inside the power station and nearby Grain village
to produce a new sound work for presentation during the Grain event.
Additional support will be provided for equipment and technical
assistance during the event itself.
Grain
is supported by Arts Council England, Medway Council and
E.On.
info @
grain244.com
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