ARTICULATE: CALL OUT - TAKING UP SPACE

TAKING UP SPACE ARTIST CALL OUT

Articulate project space invites proposals from artists and writers who identify as feminist to participate in Taking Up Space, a 3-week project at Articulate that is planned to coincide with the March 2015 launch of ‘Future Feminist Archives by Contemporary Art and Feminism (CAF)’. CAF has timed the launch to celebrate the 40th anniversary of International Womens Day, and is supported by several exhibitions at regional and university galleries and artist run spaces.

As Articulate has a spatial focus and CAF’s focus is on an 'archive' of Australian women’s artwork, for Taking Up Space we are asking contemporary artists to respond spatially to an artwork from the Women’s Art Movement in Australia or from elsewhere in the oeuvre of women’s artwork—from Australia or from wherever you live or come from (and which could even be one of your own earlier works). Examples and short bibliography are given at the end of this post.

Preference will be given to proposals for experimental and spatial artwork…installation, performance, projection, 3D work…2D work that acknowledges its own location in space, et cetera.

We envisage 25 artworks occupying all Articulate spaces: upstairs and downstairs spaces, in-between spaces, and even outside (if this can be achieved safely). Participants who are writers could perform their work, or their text could be put on the Articulate blog site.

KEY DATES in 2015

30 January, or asap after that, proposals/expressions of interest due, notification asap

3–6 March install at Articulate (Tuesday to Friday)

6 March opening 6–8pm (Friday)

8 March International Women’s Day (Sunday)

22 March exhibition closes 5pm (Sunday)

22–23 March deinstall (from 5pm Sunday 22 March)

ACCESS TO SPACE

Participants are invited to devise or construct their work in the space, or adapt their work to the space (with 24-hour access) in the four days prior to the opening. To see what the space is like, please visit in person, or virtually at http://articulate497.blogspot.com.au/p/proposals.html

ARTICULATE OPENING HOURS

11am–5pm Fri, Sat, Sun (or by arrangement).

Participants will be invited to sit the space for a half-day where possible during the project.

FEE

As Articulate is an unfunded artist-run initiative, participants will be asked to pay a fee of $110 to cover rent, the opening and documentation.

SELECTION CRITERIA

1. Quality of artwork and political insight (humorous and serious works welcome).

2. Preference will be given to experimental spatial artwork…installation, performance, projection, 3D work…2D work that acknowledges its location…other work that incorporates/recognises actual space.

3. Preference will be given to recent/new work (made within the last year or not exhibited before).

PROPOSALS SHOULD INCLUDE

1. A brief description of your proposed work.

2. Image, title and date etc of the artwork you plan to respond to.

3. Your contact details (name, phone, email).

4. A link to a website with images of your work etc (or your CV and images).

SEND PROPOSALS TO:
etalucitra@gmail.com or
497 Parramatta Road, Leichhardt NSW 2010

ARTWORK DELIVERY/REMOVAL

Each artist looks after installation/deinstallation and transportation of their own artwork.

By ‘archive of Australian women’s artwork' we mean work made by women artists in Australia. Here are a few examples: