http://culture-asef.org/english/txt/2008/madrid_abierto
(Published: July 2008, print version)
Madrid Abierto
Call for Submissions
The Cultural Association, MADRID ABIERTO calls for projects for the 6th edition of its international public art programme, which will be held in 2009 and 2010. The programme will hold debate sessions on public art and will generate a series of interventions of an ephemeral or temporary nature in the centre of Madrid. A specific call for presentations of sonorous work, which includes collaboration in the audiovisual TV Interventions project, is also announced.
1. The purpose of this call for applications is to select artists to produce interventions of a temporary or ephemeral nature aimed at contributing to activate the public space, reflecting from the stance of contemporary art on our cultural, social and political environment. The initiative includes two specific projects for the Casa de América and Círculo de Bellas Artes buildings, which will be incorporated into Madrid Abierto with other invited projects and selected sonorous and audiovisual works.
This edition of Madrid Abierto will be dedicated to emerging practices that critically engage with the urban environment. Madrid Abierto 2009-10 will show examples of a variety of practitioners and art forms that have established their strengths in an expanded role; that aim to work in the social realm of art practice and audience participation. The idea is to produce and show work that connects various disciplines and that opens up for collaborations between artists, architects, designers, computer programmers, social scientists, capital, urban planners, and more. It will also focus on spaces we have been taken for granted as ‘public’, but that increasingly show signs of privatisation.
For cities to thrive, to be communicative and alive, and to function as catalysers of public life, it is necessary to stimulate civic participation and community involvement. Given the current framework, where society often fail to negotiate some of the most immediate challenges, how can pooling resources such as the ones found in interdisciplinary groups, develop alternative work methods? How can inertia and nostalgia be substituted by visionary and inspiring tools acting as catalysts for change?
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2. The programme schedule is as follows:
- Presentation deadline: until September 10th 2008.
- Selection of artists: until October 31st 2008.
- Preparatory meeting and debate tables: February 2009.
- Elaboration of definitive projects: until April 30th 2009.
- Assessment of projects and issue of installation permits: until June 30th 2009.
- Execution of artistic interventions and transmission of sonorous and audiovisual works: February 2010.
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3. Coinciding with ARCO, the interventions will be take place in February 2010 in Madrid, with some form of presence or reference in the junctions Paseo de la Castellana-Recoletos-Prado and Calle de Alcalá-Gran Vía.
The sonorous works will be transmitted by Radio 3 of Radio Nacional de España in February 2010, as in the case of the audiovisual works.
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4. Artists of all nationalities are free to present their applications (except for the Casa de América project, which is only open to Latin American artists), either individually or as a collective, in the latter case a representative must be appointed.
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5.
a) Artistic interventions
Each participant must include:
Curriculum of no more than 2000 characters with a photocopy of the author or authors’ National Identity Document (or equivalent).
Description of a p roject already executed and a specific draft project for Madrid, in both cases of no more than 4000 characters.
A maximum of six sketches or images of the project or draft project in jpg format with a maximum resolution of 72 dpi.
Description of the set up system and technical needs of the draft project.
Estimated and broken down budget of the draft project, providing details of the items that could possibly be self-financed.
All the files must be PC compatible. Files sent from a MACINTOSH must have the respective extension (doc, xls, pdf, jpg, tif, etc.).
Should the above-mentioned information fail to be received in full, the participation will be rejected.
The maximum allowance for each selected artist is 15,000 euros, in all cases including the expenses derived from the preparatory meeting in February 2009, as well as travel, accommodation, production, transport and set up of the intervention in February 2010, the author or authors fees (up to a maximum of 2000 euros) and any applicable taxes.
b) Sound works
Each participant must include:
Curriculum of no more than 2000 characters and a photocopy of the author or authors’ National Identity Document (or equivalent).
Description of the piece of no more than 4000 characters.
The work will be of a maximum length of 10 minutes per author and must be sent on a CD.
The selected artists will receive 500 euros. A direct master copy of the work will form part of the documentary collection and public archives of Madrid Abierto. The work may possibly be placed on the website www.madridabierto.com, for non-profitable purposes and with the prior consent of the authors.
c) Audiovisual works
The audiovisual works selected in the 2008 and 2009 calls for applications for TV Interventions (www.intervenciones.tv, www.fundacionrdz.com) will form part of the Madrid Abierto 2009-2010 programme in collaboration with Fundación Rodríguez and Centro Cultural Montehermoso. Those selected will receive 500 euros and a direct master copy of the work will form part of the documentary collection and public archives of Madrid Abierto. The work may possibly be placed on the website www.madridabierto.com, for non-profitable purposes and with the prior consent of the authors.
Audiovisual work applications will not be accepted through Madrid Abierto.
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6. All the proposals must be sent by electronic mail to:
abierto@madridabierto.com
prior September 10th 2008.
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7. The advisory committee of Madrid Abierto, presided by the Programme’s Director, Jorge Díez, and comprised of Cecilia Andersson, Guillaume Dèsanges, Ramon Parramon, Mª Inés Rodríguez , Fito Rodríguez and Democracia, will participate in the different phases of this edition. Casa de América and Círculo de Bellas Artes will appoint a representative for the task of selecting each institution’s intervention.
Cecilia Andersson will be this edition’s curator and, with the collaboration of the advisory committee of Madrid Abierto, will select the participating artists on the basis of their track histories, the quality and viability of the proposals and the total reversibility of the interventions. The organiser may round off the selection with invited artists, up to a maximum of 50% of the total number of selected artists in the open invitation. Since these projects will occupy public spaces, Madrid Abierto will obtain the necessary municipal permits to the set up the interventions.
Should the selected artists use images or elements belonging to third parties, they must provide the express authorisation of the proprietors to use such images or elements in the project.
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8. Madrid Abierto reserves the right to publish and reproduce the selected artistic interventions for all purposes associated with the promotion of the programme, and shall incorporate all generated documentation into its documentary collection and public archives. The selected projects and works are the property of the authors and, as the case may be, the promoting institutions shall have a preferential right to purchase them.
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9. Participation in this call for applications entails full acceptance of the conditions of entry.
More information:
Marta de la Torriente
General Coordination
Tel: 91 524 02 19. Fax: 91 531 93 14
E-mail: abierto@madridabierto.com
Website: www.madridabierto.com
(Press release)
Call for submissions for artworks in the public space
Interventions
Soundworks
Audiovisual
Deadline:
10 Sept. 2008
Madrid Abierto
Asociación Cultural
Madrid
Spain
Website: http://www.madridabierto.com
Email: abierto@madridabierto.com
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