January 10, 2006
S O U T H E R N E X P O S U R E
CALL FOR PROPOSALS: SoEx OFFSITE
An opportunity for emerging artists to develop and create new public works in San Francisco that investigate diverse strategies for exploring and mapping public space. Southern Exposure will commission a series of public art projects that investigate diverse strategies for exploring and mapping public space. Artists selected through this open call will be commissioned to produce new work.
SoEx: OFFSITE is informed by the legacy of the Situationists, an international artistic and political movement that emerged in the 1950s and 1960s. The Situationists sought to radically redefine the role of art in society with a particular interest in everyday experiences in public space. They developed key concepts such as the dérive the practice of drifting through urban space - and psychogeography the study of the effects of the geographic environment on the emotions and behavior of individuals. In addition, a goal of these projects is to reconsider the Situationists¹ strategies in light of new technologies such as Global Positioning devices and wireless communication, which have fundamentally transformed our ability to navigate public space.
This series will feature a range of projects that utilize strategies such as simple acts of walking and note taking, to projects that employ high-tech and technological apparatuses as a means to fuse virtual and real experiences or to disseminate geographical and historical information, to performances, actions, or events. These projects may involve the audience¹s participation, enabling the public to engage in acts of urban mapping and reflect on their own experiences in public space.
Southern Exposure seeks proposals for artwork in various media including 1) artwork with a physical presence such as: installation, sculpture, or public intervention; 2) ephemeral and participatory artwork such as: performance, tour, walk, discussion, or lecture; 3) technology-based work such as new media or sound art; or 4) projects that combine the above categories. Projects will be presented between September 2006 and Spring 2007. The duration of the projects can range from a single performance to repeating events or a long-term installation. Selected artists will receive an honorarium and production budget ranging from $500 - $5,000 depending on the scope of the project. Southern Exposure will work with artists to provide support, promote their projects, and will create a publication that documents the program series after the projects have been presented. Southern Exposure will also provide a home base for artists to work, with space for information about the projects to be accessible to the public.
APPLICATION & REVIEW PROCESS:
The proposals will be reviewed by several members of Southern Exposure's Curatorial Committee. We are seeking proposals from artists who demonstrate a potential for creative growth working in the public realm, or artists who would like to extend their practice into the public realm but have yet to work this way.
Please mail or deliver your proposal package to Southern Exposure. Southern Exposure does not accept electronic submissions.
SoEx OFFSITE
Southern Exposure
401 Alabama Street
San Francisco, CA 94110
Application Deadline: Materials must be received at Southern Exposure's office by 5 p.m. on Friday, February 28, 2006 (this is not a postmark date). Hand deliveries will be accepted.
Notification Deadline: Artists will be notified by later no later than March 31, 2006. Please do not call before this date.
INQUIRIES:
You can find all of this information and more at www.soex.org in the SoEx OFFSITE section. If you have questions regarding the application process, please contact us by email: programs@soex.org. Subject heading of the email should read: "SoEx OFFSITE."
About Southern Exposure: Southern Exposure is a 31 year old, non-profit, artist-run organization dedicated to presenting diverse, innovative, contemporary art, arts education, and related programs and events in an accessible environment. Southern Exposure reaches out to diverse audiences and serves as a forum and resource center to provide extraordinary support to the Bay Area's arts and educational communities. Activities range from exhibitions of local, regional, and international visual artists' work, education programs, and lectures, panel discussions, and performances. Southern Exposure is dedicated to giving artists--whether they are exhibiting, curating, teaching, or learning--an opportunity to realize ideas for projects that may not otherwise find support.
SOUTHERN EXPOSURE OFFSITE:
Southern Exposure's 2006-2007 Exhibition and Artists in Education programs will move beyond the gallery walls in order to present new forms of work in public space. Southern Exposure will temporarily relocate in the summer of 2006 so that the building that we have always called home at Project Artaud can undergo a seismic retrofit and upgrade. Southern Exposure is utilizing this unique opportunity to extend our programs into the public realm. Southern Exposure, founded in 1974, has a long history of presenting community-based projects. Through this new program, Southern Exposure has a goal of encouraging artists to work experimentally in public space, enabling artists to develop new works that could not otherwise be realized, and generating a critical dialog about emerging creative practices.
For more information go to www.soex.org or call 415-863-2141.
This program is made possible through the generous support of the National Endowment for the Arts and the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. Submission Application: SOEX OFFSITE
ELIGIBILITY:
Open to local, national and international artists, with a focus on supporting San Francisco Bay Area artists.
WHAT TO SUBMIT:
Please complete the following form and submit it with your application:
NAME:
ADDRESS:
CITY/STATE/ZIP:
PHONE:
EMAIL/WEBSITE:
1. Submit up to TWO forms of visual support material: up to twelve digital images saved as JPEG files. (May not exceed 800 x 600 pixels 72 dpi). Each image file should be labeled or saved with your name and a number that corresponded to an annotated image list (see below). We are not accepting slides. One DVD with up to three works or three excerpts of works. We will view up to five minutes of work. One VHS tape, cued. We will view up to five minutes of work.
2. Annotated image list of your support materials: indicate artist name, title, year, medium, brief description of each work (digital image or video).
3. Artist statement, no more than one page in length.
4. Current resume, including name, address, phone number and email address.
5. Proposal. In 300 words or less, describe the project that you would like to develop, include: the form your project will take (i.e. public sculpture, performance, action, event, etc); the motivations for the work and concepts behind it suggest possible locations, types of locations, or a specific location you intend to use. OPTIONAL: You may include a schematic or visual example of your project.
6. Preliminary budget in narrative form estimating material costs and required production time.
7. A self-addressed stamped envelope (SASE) large enough to return submitted materials and containing the correct amount of postage. MATERIALS WITHOUT A SASE WILL NOT BE RETURNED AND WILL BE DISCARDED AFTER 2 MONTHS IF THE ARTIST HAS NOT CONTACTED SOUTHERN EXPOSURE
Please include 3 copies of items #'s 2- 6. Do not submit binders,
folders or original artwork.
S O U T H E R N E X P O S U R E
Dynamic, cutting edge art, education, and community programs since 1974.
401 Alabama Street @ 17th
San Francisco, CA 94110
t: 415.863.2141
f: 415.863.1841
e: soex[at]soex.org
w: www.soex.org
Posted by jo at January 10, 2006 08:23 AM
