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: www.transartinstitute.org/collective.html or email Josephine Turalba at jturalba@yahoo.com

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Multiply Locations + Creative Works Competition

The Aesthetica Creative Works Competition is internationally recognised for identifying new artists and writers and bringing them to international attention. Previous finalists have achieved success and recognition with accolades including: writing commissions from Channel 4, selection to represent Australia in the Florence Biennale, exhibitions at DACS (London), John Martin Gallery (London), Flores Fine Art Gallery (New York), inclusion in the International Drawing Competition exhibition (Poland) and the National Geographic International Photographic exhibition. The Aesthetica Creative Works Competition represents the scope of creative activity today, and provides an opportunity for both new and established artists to nurture their reputations on an international scale.

There are three categories: Artwork & Photography, Fiction and Poetry.

Budget: Ł500 for three winners. One from each category.
Deadline: August 31, 2010
Information: www.aestheticamagazine.com/submission_guide.htm

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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 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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Toronto, ON, Canada + Weekend Outdoor Exhibition Opportunities

Artscape is currently accepting submissions from visual artists, craftspeople and designer/makers who wish to participate in the Distillery Art Market, taking place September 24 through October 31, 2010.
The Distillery Art Market will feature 30+ exhibitors in various outdoor spaces at The Distillery Historic District over the course of a series of six weekends starting September 24, 2010. The Distillery Art Market is a pilot project born out of a collaboration between Artscape and The Distillery Historic District to produce a creator-to-market opportunity for Toronto-based artists, craftspeople and designer/makers. The pilot project will take place for six consecutive weeks until the final market weekend of October 29, 2010.

Applicants can choose to participate in one weekend or a series of weekends for the Distillery Art Market’s duration. Artists, craftspeople and designer/makers have the opportunity to utilize provided Art Carts (6’ x 3.5’ or 8’ x 3.5’ cart sizes, allocated on a first-come, first-served basis by jury approval) or a 10’ x 10’ booth space (for which they need to supply their own booth structure). Participants in the Distillery Art Market will be selected by a professional jury with consideration to diversity of medium and quality of work being sold.

Jewelry artists will not be considered at this time due to the abundant representation of jewelry artists shown at shops on-site. Artscape will assess feedback from participants at the end of the pilot project to determine the viability of future Distillery Art Markets that are being considered to begin in the Spring/Summer of 2011.

Budget: N/A
Deadline: October 31, 2010
Information: www.torontoartscape.on.ca/node/927

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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 Ł1,250,000. 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