[Nettime-ro] Fwd: Open Call for Artists / GeoAIR project “undergo. The parallels”, Tbilisi, Georgia,

[stefan rusu <suhebator@gmail.com>]

On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 4:11 PM, nini palavandishvili
<designini@gmail.com>wrote:

> *Open Call for Artists*
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> *GeoAIR project “undergo. The parallels”, Tbilisi, Georgia, May-June 2012*
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> The notion of a “public space” together with an “Art in a public space”,
> has acquired a new significance in the last period worldwide. The word
> “public” means democracy, and includes “clearness”, “openness”,
> “involvement”, “participation” and “responsibilities” not only from the
> governmental side towards people, but between people in general as well.
> Discourse about Art in a public space, is not only definition of the word
> public, but it is also realization of the idea of democracy.
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> The exhibition project “undergo the parallels” has to be held in about 10 underground
> passages of Tbilisi, images can be seen under: *
> https://picasaweb.google.com/Infogeoair/UndergoTheParallels?authuser=0&authkey=Gv1sRgCL--5rnw8uGFdQ&feat=directlink.
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> An exhibition project "undergo. the parallels" will take place in Tbilisi
> pedestrian underground passages. After the collapse of the Soviet Union,
> these underground passages have experienced different stages of existence:
> first they were completely abandoned and became dangerous places of
> muggings and robbery. The outcome of this was that people entered them more
> and more seldom, choosing to cross streets loaded with traffic arbitrarily,
> which led to a significant death toll. Later, these undergrounds became
> places where alternative, unofficial selling points arose. The more
> efficient sellers developed kiosks, shops, gambling places etc. Some of
> these underground passageways developed their own life, parallel to
> "normal" city life in the open air. These passages somehow turned into
> spaces of meeting and communicating, the youth are gathering in gambling
> houses, some musicians and students meet to play and listen to the music,
> the shop keepers are in close contact with the passengers and potential
> customers.
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> Today these undergrounds are still under development, in some of them new
> “organized” commercial infrastructures are built, some of them are under
> the danger of collision, also there appeared some passages which regardless
> of their necessity, has lost their practical function, and became place for
> garbage, or turned into public toilets.
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> There are two direct goals to be achieved with the project „undergo. the
> parallels“: practical and artistic.
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> In term of practical goals we hope to animate the population of Tbilisi to
> more frequent usage of underground passageways. For these artists will work
> directly on site in the passageways, some of the works will be displayed
> during the whole project period, but also temporal actions and performances
> will be held in different passageways... Project guide, which will inform
> about all the activities, will be spread out to general population. On
> the one hand activities carried out during the project will animate
> pedestrians to enter the passageways and on the other hand they will give
> an input to officials for improvement of the given situation.
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> On the artistic level, site-specific works (light installations, sound
> installations, photography, street art etc.) produced especially for the
> passageways will address socio-political and concrete practical issues
> mentioned above. Tbilisi and Georgian audience is not used to art in
> public space and in participatory art. With the project "undergo. the
> parallels" we aim to confront the general public with unconventional ways
> of perceptions of art and engagement with it. Some artworks as street art,
> light installations, produced during the project, could also remain on-site
> and act as a long-term attraction in both practical and aesthetical ways
> for the passageways.
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> *REQUIREMENTS*:
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> The organizers do not hold responsible for the damage or permanent loss of
> the Art work, Due to the fact, that project is planned in a public space in
> Tbilisi. Next to the artistic value the priority will be given to projects
> which will not be expensive and technically difficult to realize.Selection procedure will take into consideration the overall cost of the
> piece of art to be exhibited. The artwork presented for the exhibition
> should be relevant to the city of Tbilisi and relate thematically to the
> underground passages.
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> It is *important to know*, that the project is of a low budget, thus
> GeoAIR can not carry costs of artists’ travel, accommodation and living
> costs to work on site, BUT we are more then ready to assist you in applying
> in your countries for local funding. Because of the same financial issues,
> works can not be returned back after the project is ended.
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> *FOR MORE INFORMATION & TO APPLY contact:* infogeoair@gmail.com
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> The interested applicants should mail us the following information in PDF
> format to:
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> <infogeoair@gmail.com> in a Subject line: Open Call “undergo. the
> parallels”:
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>    1. The concept of the work an technical description
>    2. Approximate budget of the work
>    3. Artist’s CV
>    4. Portfolio of realized projects/works.
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> *Deadline for submissions is March 2, 2012.*
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> www.geoair.blogspot.com
> www.archidrome.blogspot.com <http://archidrome.blogspot.com/>
> www.geoairresidency.blogspot.com
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