AN OPEN CALL AT NGBK BERLIN FOR AN EXHIBITION FROM 9/1–10/14/2012
Deadline: 15 January, 2012
Application fee: None
Being under stress, reaching one’s limits, feeling empty and exhausted: Burnout is a phenomenon of our times that omits hardly any professional group. Persons not affected themselves at least know someone in their circle of acquaintances who is. As of late, the term burnout has changed from a stigma of social or helping professions to an almost “chic” diagnosis – for it provides evidence of the willingness to do the utmost and enable what appears unworkable, to exceed limits and surpass oneself.
Artists and creatives are regarded as cultural entrepreneurs, as forerunners and models of flexibilised and deregulated worlds of work. We’re fed up with this! We demand a departure from the dilemma of self-exploitation that is conducive to burnout! Beyond the same old popular and often pseudo-thera-peutic discourse in the media, we would like to provoke a different view of the burnout phenomenon.
For the show “A Burnt-Out Case?” at the NGBK from 09/01 to 10/14/2012, we therefore invite artists, artists’ groups, activists and interdisciplinary pro-jects to cast a view from the future back to the present and create complex perspectives on burnout – not only as an individual but above all as a social symptom. We are looking for disturbing, contrary, illogical, associative positions and strategies that evade appropriation and victim discourses and instead describe a utopian and fictitious future. Will we still be familiar with burnout in the year 2062, and how will the exhausted society of 2012 be remembered? Are there signs of learning from the effects of neoliberal work models? What kind of alternative concepts exist?
http://ngbk.de/development/images/stories/PDF/burntout_ausschreibung_englisch.pdf
Deadlines
Until 5 December, 2011 enquiries related to the open call can be sent via email to: [email protected]
> Entry deadline for outlines of works yet to be realised or documentations of existing works: 15 January, 2012
An interdisciplinary jury will select a total of up to 10 positions from the submissions. The jury’s decision will be presented by 31 March, 2012. The selected artists will receive up to 1,400 euros incl. VAT (fee and material) to realise their work, which they will present at the NGBK Berlin from 09/01 to 10/14/2012.
Neue Gesellschaft für Bildende Kunst e.V.
Study group “A Burnt-Out Case?”
Oranienstraße 25
D 10999 Berlin
http://www.ngbk.de/
