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 [email protected] by January 31st, 2010.
This show will be curated by York University graduate students Meghan Bissonnette, Anastasia Hare, and Colleen O’Reilly.
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