OPEN CALL FOR ARTIST SUBMISSIONS

Art in Odd Places (AiOP) invites artists working across disciplines to propose projects for the festival's sixth installment (October 1 – 10, 2010). Taking place along 14th Street from Avenue C to the Hudson River in New York City, we encourage proposals that explore this location's rich history, configuration, and heterogeneous communities.

The forthcoming edition of AiOP is informed by various interpretations of the term CHANCE, including proposition, luck, randomness, risk, and opportunity. Within this context, artists are given the opportunity to apply their practice to an unconventional structure—playing off the idiosyncrasies inherent to the
urban plane.

With emerging formats of communication, our culture has become a fertile ground for broad intersections between individuals, ideas and situations. This has resulted in unpredictable exchanges, relinquishment of control, surprise collaborations, and instances of spatial revelation.

*AiOP 2010: CHANCE* intends to provide passersby with a new perspective of an otherwise familiar environment through site-specific installations, social and spatial interventions, video and audio projects, performance, new media, and other inventive practices. In addressing the distinct manifestations of chance, the festival aims to broaden the public’s outlook on art, city dwelling, and
social conventions.

2010 Guest Curators: Yaelle Amir and Petrushka Bazin
AiOP Founder and Director: Ed Woodham

Visit www.artinoddplaces.org for artist application and guidelines.

Application Deadline: May 14, 2010, midnight

Labels: art in odd places, call for art, chance

The above comes by way of my buddy Billi Kid, who is judging entries in the Heavyweight Artist contest together with 14Bolt and Zoltron. Submit your designs by the end of March for a shot at having them printed on apparel and stickers as well as participating in a NYC show. Details at http://www.flickr.com/groups/heavyweightartist.

You are also invited to submit artwork for the 5th annual Papergirl project in Berlin. Like all good things, the idea is simple: rolls of artwork are distributed to random passersby by roving teams of bicyclists. You've got until May, but don't snooze on this. Details at http://www.papergirl-berlin.de/.

Labels: call for art, contest, heavyweight artist, papergirl