Seoul, S. Korea + 2010 Seoul Art Space Geumcheon Artist Residency Program

A printing factory located at Doksan-dong, Geumcheon-gu was turned into Seoul Art Space_GEUMCHEON, which is a new concept art space aimed to be both an international residency and a joint project studio where experiments are made on global aesthetics and local characteristics, as one of Seoul Art Spaces. The creation space development project of Seoul is being supervised by the Seoul Foundation Arts and Culture as the core project of the Seoul ‘Culturenomics’ strategy, which is an attempt to revive idle spaces in the downtown such as factories whose use is identified by the change in urban industrial structure, empty shops in the underground shopping area, empty government office buildings, etc. into spaces of creation and exchange for artists and spaces of enjoyment of culture and arts for citizens.

Seoul Art Space_GEUMCHEON is equipped with 21 residence studios, 5 hostels, joint studios, and performance practice rooms, and 14 domestic artists are residing and active through recruitment of artists-in-residency. Artists in diversified fields including visual arts, installation, video, performance, experimental arts, theory, criticism, science, humanities, urbanology, natural aesthetics, and global aesthetics can work in each studio suitable for their work for 3~12 months (extendable).

Seoul Art Space_GEUMCHEON will grow to be international creation spaces where Glocal art will be realized since it stably provides artists with creation spaces and international exchange venues and citizens with opportunities of cultural enjoyment and education.

Deadline: July 23, 2010
Budget: N/A
Information:  http://geumcheon.seoulartspace.or.kr/eng/index.asp  or call at 82-(0)2-807-4800 or email geumcheon@sfac.or.kr

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Torun, Poland + Art Moves: Billboard Competition "Together or Apart?"

We would like to invite you to take part in a billboard art competition by submitting existing works for consideration. The invitation is addressed to all the interested artists and students. There is no entry fee. The best 10 artworks selected by an international jury panel will be printed and exhibited in the urban space of the city of Torun, Poland in September/October 2010. The competition accompanies 3rd Festival of Art on Billboards Art Moves. The artwork is supposed to be a creative response to this year's competition theme: "Together or apart?". The entries can be sent by electronic mail to the email address below.

Open to international artists and students.

Deadline: August 10, 2010
Budget: $2200 first prize
Information: www.artmovesfestival.org or email Art Moves artmoves@tlen.pl

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Manila, Philippines + Nothing To Declare

We are initiating an independent project entitled Nothing to Declare, an International Contemporary Art Exhibition in Manila, Philippines from 25 October to 25 November 2011 with the possibility of traveling the exhibition to select countries in 2012 and 2013. Nothing to Declare will host a roster of international and local artists.  We will also organize teachers' training workshops, artist talks and group discussions as satellite activities to the program.

 In brief, Nothing to Declare revolves around the following interrelated themes:1.  Shifting geographies emerging from diasporas, migrations, overseas work 2.  Shifting identities arising from movement, mobility, displacement, exchange; implying a sense of rooted-ness and slippage, identification and estrangement, familiarity and alienation, entitlement and distance 3.  Shifting spaces, connoting not just physical relocation, but mental and spiritual dis/position, as well as dislocations, gaps and silences that take place in immediate, virtual and hyper-realities 4.  Shifting positions, implying an appreciation of difference and a willingness to dialogue, work together, listen and engage.5.  Shifting power relations, connoting multiple flows and streams of choices, constraints, control and conditions of creation, dissemination and reception 6.  Shifting possibilities, connoting transformations and breaking grounds where marginality - of having nothing to declare - IS source of intervention and strength, of loss as well as triumphs

Budget: N/A
Deadline: August 30, 2010
Information: http://www.transartinstitute.org/collective.html or email Josephine Turalba at jturalba@yahoo.com

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Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada + Winnipeg Cultural Capital of Canada 2010

The Winnipeg Arts Council invites professional artists to submit expressions of interest for a permanent, contemporary artwork using elements of water and light in downtown Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. This is a national and international competition for a major artwork to mark the designation of Winnipeg as the Cultural Capital of Canada for 2010, a program of the Government of Canada, Department of Canadian Heritage.

This project will be the largest public artwork to be undertaken in Winnipeg to date. Winnipeg's Public Art Program includes permanent installations in several locations in Winnipeg, a unique community art initiative and an artist-in-residence component.

Budget: $575,000
Deadline: September 13, 2010
Information: Interested artists must submit a complete application package to be considered. Please visit  http://www.winnipegarts.ca for full details including eligibility criteria, application requirements and to download the Call-to-Artists as well as site plans and images.

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Derbyshire, England + Sutton Scarsdale Hall Call for Concepts

With this call for entries, the Centre of Attention is seeking concepts and proposals for the re-imagining of Sutton Scarsdale Hall into a pavilion of postcontemporary curating.  This call is open to architects, designers, artists, curators and others. Concepts and proposals can be submitted as drawings, images or texts, by email to the address listed below.  All ideas, gestural, utopian or pragmatic are welcome.  At this stage we need to raise an initial £1,250,000. Fundraiser launch in London: late Autumn 2009

The skeletal remains of Sutton Scarsdale Hall continue to decay. A dilapidated wreck of a structure, you enter at your own risk.  In the very heart of England, Sutton Scarsdale Hall is to become the Pavilion of Postcontemporary Curating.

What is a pavilion of postcontemporary curating? First it will be a new international art facility set in the beautiful Derbyshire countryside. The current Hall is a perfect exhibition/ performance space, lit from above, with high walls, neutral floor. It will be dedicated solely to new curating. Second, the Pavilion of Postcontemporary Curating will be a sculptural work incorporating the remains of Sutton Scarsdale Hall.  Third, the pavilion of postcontemporary curating will provide a home for the Centre of Attention and its archive.

The space will have a special remit to act as a 'patron' to working class artists and curators by providing these facilities for free.  It will facilitate new media production as well as old, it will have a library, archive, research facilities and study resource, studios and accommodation as well as a gallery dedicated to the history of the house.  A sculpture, it will become part of the regional landscape and act as a beacon to advanced ideas and art praxis in the regional and international scene.

Timetable for the pavilion: (2009) secure the remains of the building. ACT NOW to stop the decay; source architects through competition and re-imagine the site; recruitment and announcement of Advisory Board (2010) construction of sculpture/art centre (2011) completion and inaugural exhibition and residency. 

Deadline: on-going
Information: http://www.thecentreofattention.org/ or on@thecentreofattention.org

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Den Haag, The Netherlands + Marcello’s Art Factory/URM Project

An Urban Ready Made (URM) is a street, a building, a view, an object or an event in an urban- or industrial environment, where a conjunction of circumstances cause beauty and art. When an artist or architect declares this (with some ritual proceedings) art, it becomes an Urban Ready Made.  With the Urban Ready Mades Project we would like to bring art closer to people. Art doesn't have to be difficult to understand. You can find beauty everywhere and to enjoy art you don't have to visit a museum or an exposition. We hope our project lets people realize that they can find art and beauty in their own city.
Marcello & Els, the founders of the project, want to give other artists and architects a chance to declare an URM in their own surroundings and join this unique concept. This way there will grow a "gesammtkunstwerk" (a collective work of art) of thousands of URM's, which will go beyond borders. Firstly this is going to take place in the form of a virtual exhibition on the World Wide Web, crossing virtual borders. In the year 2010 it will become a traveling exhibition, kicking off in The Hague.

Deadline: on-going
Information: info@urbanreadymades.com or http://www.urbanreadymades.com