Bjcem and the City of Ancona announce the launch of Mediterranea16
Young Artists Biennial, an international multidisciplinary event, taking
place in Ancona, Italy, from June 6
th to July 7
th 2013, bringing together more the 250 artists.
Started in 1985, the Biennial takes place every two years in a
different city in the Mediterranean area focusing on young artists and
creators. Bjcem is an international network with more than 70 members
and partners from Europe, Middle East and Africa which, thanks to their
support, make the event possible ensuring the participation of artists
from the territories they represent.
The call is open to visual artists, filmmakers, writers, performers,
musicians, designers and cultural researchers under the age of 35 (born
after December 31
st 1977). Artists have to present one
specific proposal related to the concept. There are no submission fees
and the opportunity is open to everyone regardless of gender, religion,
social and political behaviours. Artists that have participated in more
than one previous edition can’t apply, priority will be given to artists
that have never attended the event.
NEW DEADLINE FOR APPLICATION: FEBRUARY, 17th 2013.
Artists will be selected by the curatorial team composed by:
Charlotte Bank, Alessandro Castiglioni, Nadira Laggoune, Delphine
Leccas, Slobodne Veze/Loose Associations, Marco Trulli and Claudio
Zecchi. They will co-operate as a collective for the selection of the
artists and the design of the event.
The curators will select the participants on the basis of the
presented materials. Their decision is final and not subject to appeal.
The results will be documented in a report, presenting the reasons for
the choice of artists. Quality of work and how well your proposal meets
the concept will be basic selection criteria.
If your work is selected you will be invited to attend the event and
present your work. The organisation will provide shipment of the work,
insurance, installation, production of site specific projects, travel,
board and lodging and support for visa requests.
No fees will be provided for the artists participating in the Biennial.
How to participate
Please submit using the online application (the application form has to be filled in
in english):
https://adobeformscentral.com/?f=%2AeKzq1PCOSZAiJKmzer4kg
The submission of an application automatically implies the complete acceptance of the present regulations.
The present announcement shall be governed by the law of the country in which you send your application.
N.B. Artists coming from Austria, France, Italy and Spain are strongly recommended to read the FAQs below.
N.B. Currently the call is not open on Portuguese territory.
Concept
The title is:
ERRORS ALLOWED, which focuses on
regimes of knowledge and self generated education strategies in the arts
and their reflection on the broader society.
We invite artists to participate in this international open call, in
order to offer their views on the concept with the aim of bringing a
number of different contributions to rethinking society as a place where
Utopian ideas still reside, as well as investigating the idea of
education that goes beyond its current status of simply offering tools
and services to increase one’s personal competitiveness on the labour
market.
We encourage risk taking, freedom of thinking, imagining and acting,
and the re-conceptualization of the present, developing critical
potential and questioning hegemonic systems.
In the last two years many countries from the Mediterranean area has
seen massive economic, political and social changes. How have these
changes influenced the production of art? Considering the general
instability and the continuing fluctuations we decided to explore this
and the potential of the social, cultural and political transition and
to exhibit artists who are working on experimental forms, questioning
the role of art in the society.
This new socio-economic situation has led to new forms of artistic
production: artists have to a large degree changed their way of working,
from individual to collective practices, with a growing interest in
anonymous works and actions and a renewed focus on the idea of the
public space as a ground for narrative practices. This has been
paralleled by an increasing necessity to re-claim urban spaces for
citizenship’s practices, experimenting new forms of understanding in
the society.
More over, in this multidimensional crisis context, the simple act of
meeting, discussing and sharing ideas implies the possibility of
expanding the spectrum of our own views, skills and awareness. It is not
just a purely practical opportunity but a necessity in terms of
planning self strategies of evolution.
Finally, it means to take possession of a common narration (method)
and, therefore, of a community (principle) which can propel the process
of sharing. Implementing narrations and stories growing for cellular
proliferation, without boundaries. This process follows a circular path
and it is set in a collective space, where free and independent
practices of learning and artistic production occur.
These “Informal strategies“ are employed in many regions of the world
not out of choice but a necessity born out of limitations due to
factors such as class, ethnicity or the degree of social connectedness.
With access to official education severely limited, self-education –
undertaken individually by seeking alternative means of learning or
through a process of sharing and exchange – represents a powerful form
of resistance. In this way, self-education becomes an active and dynamic
reaction to the attempt to impose set patterns of knowledge, typical of
systems run by state authoritarianism and censorship.
This Biennial also deals with resistance, in every possible form, to
the regimes of knowledge. That’s why we are looking for artists who
pursue, challenge and push the limits of their work, investigating:
possible
realities, structures and systems of communication, dynamics of
information, methodologies of educations and the practices of sharing.
