THE SCREEN

Please submit your proposal by Thursday, March 16th at the stroke of midnight.

Often disguised as a blank slate, the digital screen frames our interactions, realities, and socio-political formations. Sometimes a lens, sometimes a medium, how does the the screen perform? We encourage proposals that experiment with the possibilities of the screen; as proxy, as cipher, as mediator, as apparatus, etc.— these are merely suggestions of potential ways to approach the prompt. We’re specifically interested in proposals that take into account the very nature of DISSOLVE as a digital project.

If you’ve any questions or would like to speak with us about your ideas before sharing a proposal, please write to DISSOLVE at info@dissolvesf.org. Selected contributors will participate in an exchange with their assigned editor.  

ROOT DIVISION: Call for Curatorial Proposals

Deadline: Wednesday, March 1, 2017

Root Division's Second Saturday Exhibition Series annually showcases the work of over 400 artists, and offers up to eight emerging curators the opportunity to explore conceptually rigorous group exhibitions in our galleries.

Strong proposals to our curatorial program are innovative, engaging, and conceptually driven group exhibitions.

Full Application + Instructions

ROOT DIVISION: BACK TO THE GARDEN

Extended Deadline: Sunday, February 12, 2017

Root Division invites artists working in all media to submit work for an exhibition entitled Back to the Garden curated by Lauren Etchells.

Presented in conjunction with Root Division’s annual culinary event, TASTE, Back to the Garden examines the ways in which artists create order, find inspiration, and craft identity through the natural sublime.

FULL APPLICATION + INSTRUCTIONS

2017 Call for Proposals—Justice

Proposals are due at 11:59pm on October 31, 2016. 

Curatorial Statement:
Justice is the theme of the 2017 Open Engagement Conference. The weight of historical injustice interrupts daily life nationally and internationally. There is no better time than now, and no better city than Chicago, for examining pathways to create justice and exploring the manifold artistic strategies that demand and enact fairness, and equality. Chicago is a city that is under the spotlight and in the news for horrific gun violence, devastating public school closures, and police brutality that is carried out with impunity. These are conditions, of course, that have been a part of black and working class peoples’ lives in our city and across this nation for a long time, but only most recently with the rapt attention of the media.

Open Engagement 2017 — JUSTICE will take place April 21–23, 2017 at the Chicago Cultural Center and a constellation of sites across the city. This year’s conference, guided by the curatorial vision of Romi Crawford and Lisa Lee, will explore the centralized theme of Justice, and will feature presenters including Theaster Gates, Maria Gaspar, Maria Varela, and Laurie Jo Reynolds.

Link to application instructions and application HERE. 

Me and You and This Other Thing

Southern Exposure's 25th Annual Entry-Fee-Free Juried Exhibition

Proposals Due Saturday, October 29th @ 3:00PM

Northern California visual artists are invited to submit work for Me and You and This Other Thing, our 25th Annual Juried Exhibition. This year, the title of our juried show is an imperative! Submitted works must be made in collaboration by at least two people. Contributors can take any form (co-creator, performer, fabricator, etc) but must be acknowledged. The exhibition will be juried by Mexico City-based artist and curator Francisco Cordero-Oceguera.

SUBMISSION DETAILS HERE

Performative Work: OPEN CAll

APPLICATIONS DUE: October 19th @ midnight

We are extending a call for diverse performative works that engage the viewer in the creation of social space and/or seek to transform viewership from passive to active. Works should consider notions of the gallery as an ever-evolving space, exploring dynamic modes of presentation and the potential of collaboration.

Performances will be allotted specific time frames to occupy any one of 4 rooms, situated within a larger context of new media and installation works in the gallery’s main spaces. Performances/Performative works can be durational, looping or have a specific timeline that will be enacted and then switched out with another performer. The directors will support and curate this flow of work in collaboration with selected artists.

TO APPLY

Email info@rsfprojects.com with a description of the proposed piece (500 words max), a link to your website/portfolio, and your CV/Bio. Feel free to attach supplemental imagery that will help you to communicate your concept/aesthetic.