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From: nini palavandishvili <[email protected]>
Date: Jan 25, 2012 4:11:16 PM EET
Subject: Fwd: Open Call for Artists / GeoAIR project “undergo. The
parallels”, Tbilisi, Georgia,
Open Call for Artists
GeoAIR project “undergo. The parallels”, Tbilisi, Georgia, May-June
2012
The notion of a “public space” together with an “Art in a public
space”, has acquired a new significance in the last period
worldwide. The word “public” means democracy, and includes
“clearness”, “openness”, “involvement”, “participation” and
“responsibilities” not only from the governmental side towards
people, but between people in general as well. Discourse about Art
in a public space, is not only definition of the word public, but it
is also realization of the idea of democracy.
The exhibition project “undergo the parallels” has to be held in
about 10 underground passages of Tbilisi, images can be seen under: https://picasaweb.google.com/Infogeoair/UndergoTheParallels?authuser=0&authkey=Gv1sRgCL--5rnw8uGFdQ&feat=directlink
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An exhibition project "undergo. the parallels" will take place in
Tbilisi pedestrian underground passages. After the collapse of the
Soviet Union, these underground passages have experienced different
stages of existence: first they were completely abandoned and became
dangerous places of muggings and robbery. The outcome of this was
that people entered them more and more seldom, choosing to cross
streets loaded with traffic arbitrarily, which led to a significant
death toll. Later, these undergrounds became places where
alternative, unofficial selling points arose. The more efficient
sellers developed kiosks, shops, gambling places etc. Some of these
underground passageways developed their own life, parallel to
"normal" city life in the open air. These passages somehow turned
into spaces of meeting and communicating, the youth are gathering in
gambling houses, some musicians and students meet to play and listen
to the music, the shop keepers are in close contact with the
passengers and potential customers.
Today these undergrounds are still under development, in some of
them new “organized” commercial infrastructures are built, some of
them are under the danger of collision, also there appeared some
passages which regardless of their necessity, has lost their
practical function, and became place for garbage, or turned into
public toilets.
There are two direct goals to be achieved with the project „undergo.
the parallels“: practical and artistic.
In term of practical goals we hope to animate the population of
Tbilisi to more frequent usage of underground passageways. For these
artists will work directly on site in the passageways, some of the
works will be displayed during the whole project period, but also
temporal actions and performances will be held in different
passageways... Project guide, which will inform about all the
activities, will be spread out to general population. On the one
hand activities carried out during the project will animate
pedestrians to enter the passageways and on the other hand they will
give an input to officials for improvement of the given situation.
On the artistic level, site-specific works (light installations,
sound installations, photography, street art etc.) produced
especially for the passageways will address socio-political and
concrete practical issues mentioned above. Tbilisi and Georgian
audience is not used to art in public space and in participatory
art. With the project "undergo. the parallels" we aim to confront
the general public with unconventional ways of perceptions of art
and engagement with it. Some artworks as street art, light
installations, produced during the project, could also remain on-
site and act as a long-term attraction in both practical and
aesthetical ways for the passageways.
REQUIREMENTS:
The organizers do not hold responsible for the damage or permanent
loss of the Art work, Due to the fact, that project is planned in a
public space in Tbilisi. Next to the artistic value the priority
will be given to projects which will not be expensive and
technically difficult to realize. Selection procedure will take into
consideration the overall cost of the piece of art to be exhibited.
The artwork presented for the exhibition should be relevant to the
city of Tbilisi and relate thematically to the underground passages.
It is important to know, that the project is of a low budget, thus
GeoAIR can not carry costs of artists’ travel, accommodation and
living costs to work on site, BUT we are more then ready to assist
you in applying in your countries for local funding. Because of the
same financial issues, works can not be returned back after the
project is ended.
FOR MORE INFORMATION & TO APPLY contact: [email protected]
The interested applicants should mail us the following information
in PDF format to:
<[email protected]> in a Subject line: Open Call “undergo. the
parallels”:
The concept of the work an technical description
Approximate budget of the work
Artist’s CV
Portfolio of realized projects/works.
Deadline for submissions is March 2, 2012.
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