ANNOUNCEMENT
As a result of the large number of applications for HeART of the City project, the selection procedure will last longer than we anticipated.
We wish to thank you all for your interest in participating. We will contact you as soon as we have the final results.
CALL FOR APPLICATIONS (Registration Form)
City Bruck GmbH invites young contemporary artists to participate in the program emerging young artists; take pART, be contemporary, that will open in Fall with the project heART of the CITY. The project offers residencies within the section Night and its Light (curator Romelo Pervolovici – 2META), which aims to result in light sculpture-type projects, using alternative sources of energy.
A total number of 10 residencies in Bruck an der Leitha (Niederosterreich, Austria) are offered for a period of 2 weeks, starting with September 12, 2011. Artists’ selected proposals will be shown to the public in June 2012.
„In a first phase, Bruck an der Leitha will accommodate artists in 2-week residencies. On the one hand, the artists will come in direct contact with the city, its history, public space, the local contemporary imprint; on the other hand, the public community in bruck an der Leitha will familiarize with the contemporary artistic practices.
At the end of the residency, the artists will exhibit the drafts for the next step of the project, due to take place in June 2012, when Bruck and der Leitha will come to life in the stream of light generated by sculptures placed in familiar urban spaces: streets, squares, buildings, etc. Rediscovering angles and perspectives that are unknown, hidden, and the emphasis placed on the latent beauty of the city will be made possible by the fascinating experience of light and the contemporary artistic practices.
(…) The artworks can include, alongside light as a medium, movement, interactivity, spatial instalations, color, optical illusion. Gilbert Durand’s „nocturnal order of the image” will not be the only one to magnify the imaginary of the invited artists”.
Submit for selection
All those interested must send their application (digital format) by March 31st to the address metacult@gmail.com, in the attention of Mr. Romelo Pervolovici – curator (2META), with the mention „project heART of the CITY”.
The 10 residencies are distributed as follows: 5 residencies during September 12 –25, 2011, and 5 during October 3– 16, 2011.
Required documentation
- a visual selection of the most representative works in a digital format
- artist’s statement
- up-to-date curriculum vitae
- contact details
Fees and expenses
Each selected participant will be granted the amount of 500 EUR, plus accommodation, travel expenses, lunch.
No application fee required.
Deadline
The deadline for receiving the applications is March 31, 2011. The final list of participants will be published by April 10.
Contact details:
Ana-Maria Dragnea (for Romelo Pervolovici)
+40 771 602 658
Night Public Sculpture
Night and its Light
1. CONCEPT
The project’s curatorial concept originates in the aesthetic paradigm generated at the convergence between environment, technology, social interaction and public space. It develops the idea of urbanizing the aesthetic experience as an experience of specific urban reshaping of the social and public space, and of the public sphere.
2. KEYWORDS
Light- sculpture, alternative energy, ecology, ecosophy, public space, public sphere.
3. SLOGAN
Night and its Light
4. WHERE, WHEN
Bruck an der Leitha, Niederosterreich;
In a first phase, Bruck an der Leitha will accommodate artists in 2-week residencies. On the one hand, the artists will come in direct contact with the city, its history, public space, the local contemporary imprint; on the other hand, the public community in Bruck will have the opportunity to familiarize with the contemporary artistic practices.
“What is not public is not art” – Boris Buden
At the end of the residency, the artists will exhibit the sketches for the next step of the project, due to take place in June 2012, when Bruck and der Leitha will come to life in the stream of light generated by sculptures placed in familiar urban spaces: streets, squares, buildings, etc. Rediscovering angles and perspectives that are unknown, hidden, and the emphasis placed on the latent beauty of the city will be made possible by the fascinating experience of light and the contemporary artistic practices.
The poetic function, „recomposing the universes of subjectiveness” allows us to enter an area of the fantastic, of the imaginary recomposition of familiar urban spaces, otherwise visually depleted.
5. DEVELOPMENT OF THE CONCEPT IN ITS IMPLEMENTATION
The project aims to reconfigure three kinds of experience, while emphasising the correlation between them; thus, we will discuss:
1. the public sphere, the social and public space
2. light art, urban art, site-specific art, environmental art, eco-art
3. alternative energy, ecology, ecosophy
The connection between these types of experiences, interdisciplinary practices, the term intermedia which defines the field of light-sculpture itself, Bourriaud „relational art”, open the path to an integrated, operational and mandatory „representation of complexity”.
Public space, as part of a more comprehensive concept – the social space – generates a proximity to an „state of encounter” imposed on people (Althusser) in the way art itself is a „state of encounter” (Bourriaud). Far from limitting to the geographical space or to public property, and seen from different angles, public space will be re-created, re-composed, in the context of our project. As described by Habermas, public sphere, based on universality, reasoning, normativeness, will be regarded in a different light, that of a reconfigured multiplicity, of a fragmentation, in the spirit of postmodernism. During the residence (September 2011), artists will take for starting point the human interactions in Bruck an der Leitha, their social context, their actors. The exhibition space will not be seen as an autonomous, individual space. In the final phase of the project, the light-sculptures will be a generator of innovative public space and, implicitly, of social space.
2. light-art, urban art, site-specific art, environmental art, eco-art
Defined as intermedia, light art manipulates light into creating the sculptural object. We need to remind that light, as an immaterial medium, is part of the object-like structure of the sculpture, of its materiality; it is the specific opposition material/immaterial (which, in fact, defines the uniqueness of the photon as a duality flux-particle), that gives the singularity of this type of art. Material/immaterial, virtual/real, the tangible, sculptural „object”, develops its materiality under the influence of a new experience of perception.
The works artists are required to create in this project can include, alongside light as a medium, movement, interactivity, spatial installations, color, optical illusion, etc.
The visual representation, as a „social relation between individuals” (Guy Debord) mediated by optical images – physical interventions in the city boundaries – will be a part of the urban regeneration process. Gilbert Durand’s „nocturnal order of the image” will not be the only one to magnify the imaginary of the invited artists.
Not singular in its proposal – we remind The Light Festival – Ghent (January 2011), The Biennial of light art Austria, 2010 – Linz and Langenzersdorf, the Light art from artificial light exhibition – ZKM, Karlsruhe, 2006, or The Light Art Museum in Eindhoven (the Netherlands), to only name a few, our curatorial project operates with contemporary artistic practices and concepts.
One of its specificities is the ECO-ART interface that generate the light-sculpture artworks.
3. alternative energy, ecology, ecosophy
Using alternative, non traditionnal, non polluting, regenerable sources of energy produced from natural sources (solar, eolic energy, etc), with a low impact on environment, the light-sculpture works can be seen as eco-art, reminding us the need for environmentally responsible actions.
It is worth considering the concept of ecosophy, developped by Guattari, as an extension between subjectivity, the social and the environment, more exactly an extension between a set of „ecologies”: political, environmental (the connection to the environment), social (the relation to the „socius”, the economic and social realities), and mental (reference to the psyché, the production of human subjectivity).
Promoting a complex, transdisciplinary thinking, the construction of a new Humanism, which can only be the present-day ecologism, leads us towards a new, reconfigured aesthetics paradigm, with multiple implications and to the reinvention of a subjectivity as much individual as collective, a „transindividual subjectivity”.
To conclude with, Night Public Sculpture acts as project relying on contemporary artistic discourses and practices. As we know, „When Attitudes Become Forms”, and these reflect upon the social, as forms of „transindividual subjectiveness”.
Maria Manolescu – 2META
Notes
1. Nicolas Bourriaud – Esthétique relationnelle, 1998.
2. Louis Althusser, Ecrits philosophiques et politiques, 1995.
3. Jurgen Habermas – The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere – An Inquiry into a Category of Bourgeois Society, 1989.
4. Gilbert Durand – Les Structures anthropologiques de l’imaginaire – Introduction à l’arhétypologie générale, 1992.
5. Guy Debord – Société du spectacle, 1967.
6. Felix Guattari – Les trois écologies, 1989; Chaosmosis, 1992.
Biennial of Young Artists – new sections: film and photojournalism
Part of the exhibitional setting of the Biennial of Young Artists 2010, the film and photojournalism sections test the limits of specific differences. Transdisciplinarity, through its vivid and efficient meaning, implies precisely a great flexibility of the borders that separate genres, subjects, esthetics, visual forms and composition techniques.
The film section tries to illustrate, through recorded images, the main concepts of this year’s edition of the Biennial. The section will include feature films, but also short films, as follows:
O lalea care si-a pierdut mintile (A Tulip that lost its mind) – Mihai Chirilă
Grigore şi Marieta (Grigore and Marieta) - Cătălin Cocriş
Reguli de circulatie (Traffic Rules) – Victor Ion
Braconierul (The Poacher) - Tudor Lucaciu
17 minute întârziere (17 Minutes Late) - Cătălin Mitulescu
Rondul de dimineaţă (The Morning Round) - Tudor Petremarin
Poliţist, adjectiv (Police, Adjective) - Corneliu Porumboiu
Vineri în jur de 11 (Friday, around 11) - Iulia Rugină
Cercul (The Circle) – Mircea Veroiu
What does photojournalism mean to us? What is the relation between documentary photography and artistic photography? What connects documentary photography with the theme of the Biennial? These are only a few of the questions that the photojournalism section will try to answer, at the same time aiming to encourage the development of the interdisciplinary relations which can engage a new dialogue in the international cultural environment.
The artists featured in this section are: Petruţ Călinescu, Ioana Moldovan, Marius Nemeş, Andrei Pungovschi, Mircea Reştea and Dragoş Toader.
CALL FOR APPLICATIONS
The Portfolio Review section of the Biennial of Young Artists gives visual arts students and debutant artists the opportunity to frame their works in an international artistic environment and to meet with important cultural practitioners and theoreticians.
The selected participants will present their portfolio for 15 minutes in an open meeting with an evaluation team.
Visual arts students and young artists are invited to submit their contest records or digital portfolios that contain a photo selection of their most representative works, a short CV and a statement until the 5th of September. Applicants should mention:
Name/ Title of the work/ Year/ The medium on which the works were done.
The application is free of charge. The applications should be sent at the address: Luigi Galvani 61-63, sector 2, 020361, Bucharest or by transfer on the address metacult@yahoo.com, with the mention ”Portfolio Review”.
Registrations can be made until the 5th of September 2010.
For further information you can contact:
Ana Maria Dragnea
metacult@yahoo.com
OPEN CALL FOR ENTRIES!
Meta Cultural Foundation is pleased to announce the opening of the online application for the ESSL ART AWARD CEE 2011.
Please note: Deadline for registration is 30 June 2010!
Registration: 01 May – 30 June 2010
Submission: until 31 August 2010
For further information see here or visit the official site www.essl.museum
ESSL ART AWARD CEE 2011
The ESSL ART AWARD is dedicated to the discovery and support of young creative talents in Bulgaria, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Romania, Slovenia and Slovakia. The ESSL ART AWARD aims at supporting artists who are still in training. Collaboration with the art academies is a central point in this endeavour, as they are the nucleus and well-established centres for the training of future generations of artists.
The ESSL ART AWARD covers the countries besides Austria where bauMax has a business presence: Bulgaria, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Romania, Slovakia and Slovenia. Through local contacts, bauMax essentially supports the organisation and implementation of the ESSL ART AWARD which is designed to promote and disseminate the contemporary art of these countries at an international level.
Young Artists Biennial, IVth edition
The fourth edition of the Young Artist Biennial, organized by the META Cultural Foundation and the Goethe-Institut Bukarest, will take place in Bucharest during October 2010.
According to the event’s symbol, Art is always somewhere else, the 2010 edition having as trademark the motto Police the Police, restates our initial aim of promoting young artists’ creation and making their work more visible on the international cultural scenery as well as establishing new cooperation networks.
The theme of the fourth edition addresses an issue of general concern and interest, whose implications transcend any possible territorial limitation of the approach. From the concept of surveillance, seen as an attribute of power and an instrument of control, the curator Mica Gherghescu develops the idea of a similar phenomenon, sousveillance, that ‘monitors’ the institutional power, not from the outside, but from the inside, from the perspective of art, deeply subjective and creative.
