| January 20, 2008
No.88
COMPETITION
BP Portrait Award 2008, National
Portrait Gallery, London
EVENT
On Common Ground,
Kelowna BC
EXHIBITION
3rd Ward, Brooklyn, NY
Anonymous Drawings N° 8, bluetenweiss, Berlin
PROJECTIONS: A
Survey of Wall-based Sculpture, Manifest, Cincinnati, Ohio
FESTIVAL
ANTI - Contemporary Art Festival, Kuopio,
Finland
12th Annual Arizona State University Art Museum Short
Film and Video Festival
VIDEOEX - Experimental Film & Video
Festival, Zurich, Switzerland.
POSITIONS
Around
the Coyote - Visual Art Coordinator
WORKSHOP
Braziers International Artists Workshop,
Oxfordshire, UK
2008 Triangle Workshop, Dumbo,
Brooklyn
COMPETITION
BP Portrait Award 2008, National Portrait Gallery,
London
Deadline : 17 February, 2008
The Portrait
Award, sponsored by BP, is an annual competition aimed at
encouraging artists to focus upon and develop the theme of
portraiture in their work. The competition is open to everyone aged
18 and over, in recognition of the outstanding and innovative work
currently being produced by artists of all ages working in
portraiture.
With a substantial first-prize of £25,000 the
exhibition has proved the launch pad for the careers of a number of
successful portrait artists.
The entire competition is
judged, on an equal and anonymous basis, from original paintings. An
exhibition is then created from a selection of the entries. Since
1990 the Award has become the foremost portrait of its kind. In
2007, a record 1,870 artists submitted their work and the
exhibition, which featured sixty paintings, was seen by over 195,000
people in London alone, an indication of the continuing popularity
of the competition.
More
Information and Application
EVENT
On Common Ground, Kelowna BC
June 10 - 14,
2008
The Alternator Gallery for Contemporary Art, in
partnership with the Independent Media Arts Alliance, the National
Indigenous Media Arts Coalition, the Ullus Collective and UBC
Okanagan, is proud to present On Common Ground in Kelowna BC, the
traditional territory of the Syilx Nation.
On Common Ground
is a four-day national conference and festival that allows artists,
cultural workers, funding agencies and policy makers to celebrate
national and international indigenous media artists and
organizations. Participants from across Canada will pay tribute to
the history of indigenous media art, with the goal of building new
connections between geographically and culturally diverse
communities. Keynote speakers include Alanis Obomsawin, one of
Canada's most distinguished indigenous documentary filmmakers, and
Barry Barclay, a leading Maori filmmaker from New
Zealand.
This event plays a vital role in supporting
independent film, video and new media artists while showcasing
cutting-edge works that reflect authentic stories from diverse
communities.
Please join us!
For conference registration,
please visit www.imaa.ca,
call 514- 522-8240 or e-mail info@imaa.ca.
For festival
information please visit www.alternatorgallery.com,
call 868-2298 or email
info@alternatorgallery.com.
EXHIBITIONS
3rd Ward, Brooklyn, NY
Deadline : February 1st,
2008
This SOLO SHOW is open to artists working in
sculpture, photography, painting, printmaking, motion graphics,
illustration, installation, industrial design, graphic design,
and/or film & video. If your work falls outside these
categories, drop us a line - we're pretty flexible. And if it falls
between them, even better...
The Selected Artist will
receive a $1000 cash grant provided by the kind folks at Pernod plus
a 2-month residency at 3rd Ward with FULL access to studios and
facilities along with an exhibition at 3rd Ward in June with a huge
opening reception and city-wide press exposure.
The Judging
panel for this show will include Eric Singer, Director of LEMUR
(Lemurbots.org), Jason Goodman, founder of 3rd Ward and others,
TBD.
To
submit
1.) Email us a link to your website (if you don't
have a site set up a Flickr account, or YouTube channel to provide
us with images) with a resume, photos, videos or otherwise-recorded
documentation of your work. Make sure you also include your paypal
account information if it is different from the email you are using
to submit your work, or if someone else is paying your submission
fee.
2.) Use Paypal to pay the $25.00 Submission
Fee:
OR :
Mail 3-5 COPIES of your work (whatever you
send wont be returned), your CV & Artist Statement with a $25.00
check made out to "3rd Ward" to:
3rd Ward
ATTN: Spring
Solo Show
195 Morgan Ave
Brooklyn, NY 11237
All
Submissions must be received by (pay-pal) / post- marked
(snail-mail) February 1st,
2008
Anonymous
Drawings N° 8, bluetenweiss, Berlin
- Idea / Call for Entries
Deadline for submission: March, 6,2008
bluetenweiss
- a temporary project space - opened in October 2006 with the one
evening show titled Anonymous Drawings.
The Anonymous
Drawings project was initiated by the Berlin based artist Anke
Becker for bluetenweiss. Due to the huge amount of international
submissions and the positive public response, already the eighth
edition of Anonymous Drawings will take place on April 5/6 2008.
Since blütenweiss by now is a nomad-art- project without an own,
permanent exhibition space, Anonymous Drawings N° 8 will be host at
the venues of meinblau e.V., Christinenstraße 18-19, Berlin,
Germany.
Concept and Idea of Anonymous
Drawings
A selection of about 300 Drawings by
international artists will be presented anonymously on the scheduled
evening:
Every Anonymous Drawings show is preceded by an
international open call for entries on the Internet. There are no
specifications regarding the content of the works. The artist's
anonymity can be lifted by means of purchasing a drawing for the
symbolic unit sale-price of 150 EUR. The buyer can take his drawing
right off the wall and s/he is then told the name of its author. The
empty space the drawing leaves behind will be marked with the
artist's full name.
The predefined unit sales price of 150 EUR is
not to be understood as a real market price but rather as a
placeholder-fee for any possible amount of money. The exhibited
drawings will be work of both established and lay-artists. Due to
this fact blütenweiss asks the viewer him/herself to draw the line
between Art and Non-Art. The participating artists agree to withdraw
themselves and their usual pricing in favor of the subject: the
drawing itself.
Typical mechanisms of the art-market, like
pricing, the artist's own ego, and predefined concepts of quality
are turned upside down and questioned in an experimental way. A
priori for the evaluation of the work is not the name and the
biography of the individual artist, but the work
itself.
Participation for Anonymous Drawings N°8
Please
send in the following:
- 1-3 original drawings on paper,
maximum size DIN A3 (11"x 17" inches),Signature and Name at the back
of the drawing (no prints, mats, frames, objects, please!)
-
On a separate sheet the name, address and email address of the
artist
- please transfer 8 Eur for the return postage at the
blütenweiss-paypal-account: info@bluetenweiss- berlin.de In case
that you are based in Germany you may add German stamps instead.
Enclose a self- addressed envelope.
to:
bluetenweiss/office
Choriner Straße 52
10435
Berlin
Germany
www.bluetenweiss-berlin.de
info@bluetenweiss-berlin.de
Notice:
Works cannot be returned without the payment for the postage! A
personal delivery or pick up of submissions is not possible due to
organizational reasons. bluetenweiss does not accept submissions
that are subject to customer's taxes (it is therefore advisable to
indicate a low value on your package). Please note that applications
are not insured.
Deadline for submission: March, 6,2008
(postmark) A confirmation of receipt and the result of the selection
will be sent out by email by March 27, 2008 at the
latest.
bluetenweiss reserves the right to choose which works
will be exhibited; our priorities, however, are formal and content
variety.
The artists receive 100 EUR of the sale-price. The
other 50 EUR will be used by blütenweiss for the realization of
further Anonymous shows and projects.
In the case of a sale
the artist will be informed via email directly after the show. Some
of the works will be archived by bluetenweiss for future exhibits.
Such works will be returned to the artist at the latest in December
2008. The works are not archived will be returned about 2 weeks
after the exhibition.
The participant releases blütenweiss
from all liability for damage to submitted works (including theft
and fire) incurred during transport,while held at the exhibitions or
while being returned.
bluetenweiss will publish a brochure
in limited edition (black/white - 60 pages), showing a selection of
anonymous works, for each Anonymous Drawings exhibit which is
available for 10 Eur at the opening and on line via bluetenweiss.
Artists selected for publication will be informed prior to the
opening.
concept and realization: Anke Becker / www.anke-becker.de
For
any further request please contact bluetenweiss in English, German
or Italian: info@bluetenweiss-berlin.de
The
Call for Submissions is also available German/ Spanish/Italian and
French
Anonymous Drawings N° 8
April 5/6, 2008, 1 - 8
pm
opening: Friday, April 4, 2008, 7
pm
location:
blütenweiss hosted by
meinblau
e.V.
Christinenstraße 18-19,
Haus 5, 10119
Berlin/
Prenzlauer Berg,
Germany
PROJECTIONS:
A Survey of Wall-based Sculpture, Manifest, Cincinnati, Ohio
Postmark Deadline for Entry: February 1,
2008
Projections invites artists to submit works of art
that are clearly sculptural, with three-dimensional space a key
element, but which are not in any way floor (or pedestal) based.
Works will be either wall or ceiling mounted. This concept pushes
the boundaries of the general expectation regarding the weightiness
of sculptures, so often seen as being earth-bound and
gravity-defined.
Full
Online Info and Online Submission Form
Downloadable
prospectus/entry form
[pdf]
FESTIVAL
ANTI - Contemporary Art Festival, Kuopio, Finland
September 25th - 28th 2008
The closing date for proposals is
February 18th 2008
ANTI is an international contemporary
arts festival presenting site-specific works made for public space.
Over the past six years ANTI has presented live, sonic, visual and
text-based art from today's most exciting and innovative artists. A
truly international festival and Finland's foremost presenter of
Live Art, ANTI is a meeting place for artists and audiences
fascinated by how art shapes and responds to the places and spaces
of everyday life.
Artists and students from all disciplines
are encouraged to submit proposals to this year's
festival.
The proposal process
ANTI Festival
pre-selects a number of sites/contexts/environments that we ask
artists to respond to by proposal. Details of the 2008 sites can be
found on the festival website www.antifestival.com
All
proposals must be sent using the electronic form on the festival
website, the form is sent directly to the festival through the
website.
The form allows a link to be made to any online
documentation artist's may have of previous work and for artists to
attach their CV and one image of their work. In addition ONE piece
of supporting material (i.e. VHS, DVD, CD-ROM) can be submitted as
hardcopy.
The proposal deadline is February 18th 2008. Please
send your supporting material, clearly marked with your name and
project title, to: ANTI - Contemporary Art Festival,
Koljonniemenkatu 2, 2nd Floor, 70100 Kuopio, Finland. All materials
must reach the above address by February 18th 2008.
Further
information:
info@antifestival.com
12th
Annual Arizona State University Art Museum Short Film and Video
Festival
Deadline for Entering Work Friday, February 8, 2008
Festival is scheduled to take place SATURDAY, APRIL 12,
2008, 8:00pm
Brief history of the festival, guidelines for
entry, a complete list of the works that have been screened at past
festivals and a few success stories can be found online at the
following address: http://asuartmuseum.asu.edu/filmfest
"The
single most impressive venue in the state for contemporary art is
the art museum at Arizona State University, which also boasts a new
research center for ceramics."
-Raphael Rubinstein of Art in
America
Arizona
State University Art Museum
Tenth Street and Mill Avenue
Tempe, AZ 85287-2911
t. 480.965.2787
f. 480.965.5254
e. asuartmuseum@asu.edu
VIDEOEX -
Experimental Film & Video Festival, Zurich, Switzerland.
Deadline: 2 February, 2008
The Festival will present
:International Competition;Swiss Competition; Guest City London;
Expanded Cinema Liveacts and more.
Videoex , international
experimental film and video festival, is a place of exchange between
filmmakers and the audience. The festival is constantly trying to
examine the perception of images, different aestethic strategies,
new ways of using technology in experimental film and video works
and serves as a get-together for experimental film makers and video
artist.
More
Information
POSITIONS
Around the Coyote - Visual Art Coordinator Wanted for
Chicago-based Non-Profit
This is a full-time position,
requiring a base commitment of 40 hours per week. More hours will be
necessary in weeks leading up to art festivals, and evening/weekend
hours are required in order to staff gallery openings and special
events.
Duties include:
- Assist Executive Director in management of interns and team of
approximately 8-10 curators
- Exhibition and program coordination, curation and development
for twice-yearly visual and performing arts festivals and
year-round gallery space
- Grant writing and sponsorship development
- Daily correspondence with artists and frequent correspondence
with members of the press, sponsors, and volunteers
- Must represent Around the Coyote at events and promote the
organization to artists and potential sponsors
- Maintain archives
- Recruit new artists
- Coordination of monthly exhibition installation and
de-installation
- Coordinate sales, packaging and delivery of artwork
- Gallery maintenance and light cleaning
Applicants must
have demonstrated experience in writing grants and visual and
performing arts press materials. Strong editing experience helpful.
Applicant should have experience in gallery management or other
types of visual arts administration. Applicant should have excellent
written and verbal communication skills. Event planning, curatorial
and art education experience is a must. Masters in Art History or
Arts Administration preferred.
Applicant must be highly
motivated, organized, independent worker and team player with strong
leadership skills and the ability to work with a wide variety of
people. Familiarity with the Chicago art community (visual,
literary, film and/or theatre) a plus.
$23,000 salary per
year plus $75/monthly reimbursement for medical benefits and at
least two weeks paid vacation per year. Hours are at least Monday
through Friday from 10-6; however, during events and during event
preparation more is often required. Position to begin as soon as
possible.
For more information on Around the Coyote go to www.aroundthecoyote.org
or call 773-342-6777.
If you are interested in applying for
the position send a cover letter and resume to
Allison@aroundthecoyote.org.
WORKSHOP
Braziers International Artists Workshop, Oxfordshire,
UK
3 - 19 August 2008
Application Closing date: Monday 25
February 2008
Full details are available at www.braziersworkshop.org
or by email to: bernie@braziersworkshop.org
Established
in 1995, Braziers International Artists Workshop is recognised as a
unique and highly valued opportunity for artists wishing to examine
their practice in critically engaged and global contexts. Though
Braziers provides a highly successful artistic model for creative
enquiry, the success of the workshop has sometimes lead to artists
creating extensions of their existing practice and the focus has
often moved away from artistic risk-taking. Braziers 2008 seeks to
redress these imbalances by inviting artists to work
collaboratively, to move away from their practice in terms of
materials and style and to show a genuine willingness to place
themselves and their practice into question; truly exploring areas
of artistic and cultural uncertainty and seeking creative solutions
through the collaboration, exchange and cultural/artistic dialogue
that is the hallmark of the Workshop. Braziers 2008 will ask for a
high level of commitment from its members and it is recommended that
potential applicants think carefully about their own expectations
and willingness to take risks before they apply for this workshop
experience. The structure of the workshop will be determined by the
selection panel's choice of applicants.
The workshop is open
to professional artists from all countries, who have been out of
college for at least 2 years. There is a rigorous selection process
from an open submission. The selectors take into account not only
quality of work but also the artist's commitment to taking risks and
their ability to embrace different working methods and
strategies.
2008
Triangle Workshop, Dumbo, Brooklyn
DEADLINE: FEBRUARY 15th,
2008
Triangle Workshop is an international two-week
workshop held in Dumbo, Brooklyn. 30 inventive artists from all over
the world are selected to make art in an open studio setting, a
setting that stimulates vigorous exchange and dialogue among the
participants. Artists are housed and fed and excellent studio space
is provided. Throughout the two weeks, two panel discussions and
critical dialogues are held and prominent critics and artists visit
the studios and make themselves available to the participants for
conversation or critiques.
The two week Triangle Workshop is an
intense, high- energy experience with artists renewing critical
perspectives and stimulating their practice in the company of their
peers from the world over. The Workshop concludes with a festive
open-studio celebration which draws hundreds of visitors each
year.
A limited number of travel grants can be arranged for
foreign participants. 2008 workshop dates have not been solidified
but IT will take place in the month of September.
Application deadline is February 15th, 2008. Contact Sarah
Walko at the address and phone number below for any additional
questions.
Sarah Walko
Executive Director
Triangle Arts
Association
20 Jay Street, Suite 318
Brooklyn, NY 11201
718
858 1260
www.triangleworkshop.org
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