+ FAQ //// OPEN CALL_2009
OPEN CALL // residency programme @ Sparwasser HQ
//// public sphere and rhetoric / offentlighed og retorik
Our aim is to research internationally and to invite two Nordic/Baltic artists to Berlin.
Visual artists and other arts related producers who use the public sphere, better described with Scandinavian 'offentligheden' or german die 'Öffentlichkeit' can apply. We are also interested to know how you would consider the use of rhetoric practically and critically.
We are not expecting descriptions of sculptures for an open square but rather works reflecting situations, performance of life itself. The works do not necessarily grow out of a local context but rather a set context.
We are looking for artworks which deal with strategies for the public realm/'offentligheden', and artworks, which create a public attention/'en offentlighed'. Or, how the process of campaigning is directed into something else?
Questions among many could be: What is the constellation of the public sphere/ offentlighed and time? Interconnected pasts and presents, of people, places, and events comprise histories. The public sphere/ offentligheden is there to navigate and possibly reclaim. Is the public sphere/ offentligheden singular? What public rights, what common spaces do we have?
For this reason you are invited to send in applications.
We need to launch two calls in one:
- One international call for texts only, 10 small grants will be given away, which might suggest future collaboration.
- and one call for traveling. Two Nordic/Baltic applicants can be invited to Berlin within the residency program.
See also:
// OPEN CALL___WHAT TO SAY AND TO NOTICE
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