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Call for Entry/Open Call
Description:
NOoSPHERE Arts has announced an open call for a site-specific art installation that will remain on view on the Upper Meadow of the Kingsland Wildflowers rooftop community garden throughout the entire outdoor season of 2024.
The installation should be non-intrusive, focus on sustainability, reflect on nature, and take into consideration the mission and vision of the WE ARE NATURE Series and the surrounding environment on and around the Kingsland Wildflowers rooftops, and reflect this season’s theme.
Important Dates:
Submission Deadline: April 10th, 2024
Winner Announced: Early May
Installation Timeline: Early-Mid June
Opening Night: June 20th, 2024
Takedown: Last week of October – Early November
Disciplines:
Sculpture, installation, mixed-media
Financial Support:
The award winner receives $1500 for artist fees, travel costs, art supplies, and all other production expenses.
Artist Contribution:
They expect the awardee to install the piece between June 10th – 19th and attend the season-opening event (June 20th) where they will present their work to their audiences. The artist is fully responsible for installing and de-installing their work within the noted timeframes. They prefer that the artist is NY (or TriState Area) based so they can attend other events during the season where their work would be highlighted and do monthly check-ins on their work to ensure it is still in the right state.’
Residency Period: June 20th – October 27, 2024
Season’s Title + Theme:
The theme for the 2024 A Vibrant Tapestry:
NOoSPHERE Arts’ guiding philosophy is the holistic view that sees the world not as a collection of separate objects, but rather as a web of relations between the various parts of a unified whole. Modern physics proves what mystical traditions have always known: all parts of the cosmos are interconnected and everything is in a state of dynamic flow.
The constant flux of nature gives rise to novel and diverse forms. A healthy organism integrates emerging variations without losing balance. In these times of opposing factions at seemingly every turn, it is helpful to remember that a multitude of colors and shapes are needed to make up the rich, resplendent, and resilient tapestry that is life. We are all part of a web in which no part is more fundamental than any other.
NOoSPHERE Arts’ long-time mentor and collaborator, leading systems thinker Fritjof Capra, says that ecological awareness, at the deepest level, is the intuitive awareness of the oneness of all life, the interdependence of its multiple manifestations and its cycles of change and transformation. He suggests that spirituality could be defined as the mode of consciousness in which we feel connected to the cosmos as a whole. We now know that whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves.
Presented by NOoSPHERE Arts as part of the annual WE ARE NATURE Rooftop Series / @noospherearts, sponsored by Broadway Stages.
References
How to Apply
Application Deadline: 04/10/2024 (before midnight EST)
Application Fee: $0.00
SUBMISSION GUIDELINES:
1) Work Samples:
Choose up to 7 digital images of your best work from the past three years.
Your files must be in jpg format, max 1MB in size, and named as follows:Your Last Name_Your First Name_Entry Number_Title of Work_Medium_Year of Production, (e.g. Picasso_Pablo_1_Guernica_Painting_1937)
For applicants submitting video and/or sound works, please provide URL(s). Max 7 mins. If longer, we’ll only look at the initial 7 minutes. Hence, trailers are preferred to full-length films.
2) Proposal:
In a SINGLE-PAGE* PDF-document named Your Last Name_Your First Name_KWBS Award 2024, please provide the following information:
a) Personal Details:
(Your name; email; nationality; current place of residence; artistic field and website)
b) List of Works:
In the same order as your jpegs, list your 7 works with title, medium, and year.
For applicants submitting video and/or sound works, indicate the relevant URL(s) here.
c) Artist Statement:
In no more than 200 words, explain what your work is about. Please use plain language.
d) Artist Bio:
In one paragraph, please provide a concise summary of your artistic career to date. Max 200 words.
e) Residency Project:
Briefly describe your installation proposal. Take into consideration that the installation must be 100% non-invasive, as it will be placed on the green rooftops of Kingsland Wildflowers. Using sustainable practices and materials is highly recommended. Adding a project sketch or digital rendering is encouraged. *Any such conceptual drafts will not be counted towards the 7 artworks submitted as work samples and may constitute a second page of your PDF proposal.
3) Submission:
In an email with the subject line: KWBS Award 2024, attach a Zip folder named Your Last Name_Your First Name_KWBS Award 2024 containing your 7 jpgs and 1-pg PDF Proposal (*a second page allowed for conceptual sketches only). Your complete Zip folder — no other compression format will be accepted — must be sent as an attachment; please do not upload your material to WeTransfer or any other storage service with expiring links. In the body of your message, please copy and paste the same Personal Details appearing in your Proposal, i.e. the data listed under item 2a) above — nothing more, nothing less.
Email your application to kwbs-award@noosphere-arts.nyc by April 10th, 2024
PLEASE NOTE: ENTRIES THAT ARE NOT IN COMPLIANCE WITH THE GUIDELINES ABOVE WILL NOT BE CONSIDERED