CALL FOR PROPOSALS
IT'S NOT EASY-Due Friday, July 11
E.P.A. (Environmental Performance Actions)-
Proposals ongoing
IT'S NOT EASY
Opening July 24, 2008
DUE FRIDAY JULY 11, 2008
Exit Art is asking for responses to the question: What does green mean to you? for the exhibition It’s Not Easy, a show inspired by the recent tidal wave of efforts to go “green”. Curated entirely through email submissions, responses will be printed on 8½” x 11” paper and exhibited in Exit Art’s subterranean gallery venue, Exit Underground.
As buildings seek LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) certification, as major corporations seek to “green” their practices, and as global warming puts the need to be green at the forefront, we are virtually inundated with social pressures to be environmentally sustainable. But what does the word ‘green’ really mean? Does it adequately describe a movement to be sustainable? What does green mean to you? Exit Art wants to investigate the etymological, historical, environmental and psychological readings of GREEN.
You may respond both in image and text to the question: What does green mean to you? by submitting your work formatted to fit on an 8½” x 11” sheet of paper. Your submission can take the form of a letter, text, drawing, poem, collage, photograph, or any other format that can fit on a piece of paper. Submissions should be sent as a PDF or JPEG in an email attachment. All images must be 300 dpi or greater and all texts should be embedded. Please include your full name, city, state and country of residence in the email. You may submit more than one response.
Accepted submissions will be exhibited in Exit Underground from July 24 – August 29, 2008. Submissions should be emailed to Lauren Rosati, Assistant Curator, at green@exitart.org by Friday, July 11, 2008.
It’s Not Easy will be the second exhibition of SEA (Social Environmental Aesthetics) , a major new exhibition program and archive initiative in Exit Underground that presents social and environmental issues and the way artists respond to them. The first show in the series, EPA (Environmental Performance Actions), closes July 12, 2008. It’s Not Easy opens concurrently with Summer Mixtape Volume 1: the Get Smart edition , on view at Exit Art through August 29, 2008.
E.P.A. (Environmental Performance Actions)
Opening January 2008
Proposals ongoing
Each day brings news of another environmental crisis be it the
impending shortage of potable water, global warming or the rapid
extinction of another species of animal or plant. In Winter of 2008, Exit
Art will launch S.E.A. (Social-Environmental-Aesthetics) a new program
committed to presenting artistic visions that suggest solutions or
envision new possibilities to this environmental crisis; art with a
purpose.
E.P.A. (Environmental Performance Actions) - the first exhibition
project of S.E.A. - will present documentation of environmental
performances and actions in the Exit Underground: a digital video
lounge, performance and music space, and a green boat bar. We are
looking for documentation - photographs, texts, video and ephemera -
from performances that addressed contemporary environmental issues in a
substantial way.
EPA is a joint project of Exit Art and Ecoartspace (Amy Lipton and Tricia Watts, Curators)
How to Apply:
Please submit a page description of the documented performance;
documentation of the performance (10 slides or images on CD - please
send images at low resolution to open quickly or 3-5 minute NTSC VHS or
DVD); and a resume. Include a self addressed stamped envelope for the
return of your work and an email address for notification purposes.
Exit Art is not responsible for returning works submitted without a
SASE.
Send Submissions to:
Exit Art
E.P.A.
475 Tenth Avenue
New York, NY 10018
Or email sea@exitart.org
No phone calls please.
ConceptPlus
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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. Join our email list to receive information on future opportunities for artists, as well as our exhibitions and
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ConceptPlus is when the curators have an idea for a show, already have a base of artists to include and open the door to invite new artists to the exhibition by publicizing the idea of the project through email solicitations. In this way we begin with the concept of the show, a base of artists, and we open it up to global participation through the technology of the internet, expanding the possibilities of the exhibition. We enrich the exhibition with more information, more artists whose work we didn't know, expanding the concept of the show by finding other artists outside your own circle and opening the possibilities of the art of curational.
For each ConceptPlus show, we issue 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 founder/directors Jeanette Ingberman and Papo Colo, who view all the proposals for new work and work samples submitted by artists (as many as 600 for each show) 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. Recent ConceptPlus exhibitions at Exit Art have addressed ideas ranging from the reconstruction of global cities (Exit Biennial: Reconstruction, 2003) to the image of America's highest office (The Presidency, 2004), to contemporary Latino icons (L-Factor, 2005), to the global crisis in energy (Electric Lab, 2007), to a show dedicated to investigating our relationship to the 5 year war in Iraq (Love War Sex, 2008) and most recently a poetic and scientific investigation of the brain (Common Senses, 2008). A fundamental precept of the ConceptPlus model is to remove barriers to cultural participation by creating exhibition opportunities limited only by the artistic idea itself. As we have implemented this model over the past four years, Exit Art has seen a dramatic rise in both the number and geographic diversity of artists submitting proposals in response to our ConceptPlus calls. ConceptPlus also enables us to directly support the production of new work, as an increasing proportion of artists propose new projects that are commissioned exclusively for Exit Art exhibitions.
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