Submissions are due by October 25, 2020, and require high-quality photos or videos of the 3D work. Work will be displayed at Das Schaufenster Gallery in the artistically hip burgh of Ballard, Seattle, WA.
The theme of the work should be, "An authentically lived experience from the year 2020, a time that is 'No Longer and Not Yet' ". The project was developed as a collaboration between and Ken Winnick at , with additional support from of King County, WA.聽
This Art Call is based on the thinking of Hannah Arendt and Vil茅m Flusser (although, knowledge of either of these two thinkers is not a requirement for artists to submit). Learn more about Arendt, Flusser, and their ties to this art project below.
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Please note that the digital call for 3D works is a worldwide call. The 3D artwork will be displayed as still photographs and video, on a high-resolution display in a sidewalk viewable gallery space. Selected works will also be on a Vimeo display, hosted on the site.
Take a look attheUnsettling the Apparatus Archive, where five speakers discuss questions about seeing, thinking, politics, and art in our common world through the work of Arendt and Flusser. If you attended the WCGS Grimm 2020 lecture, you will recognize one speaker, Dr. Samantha Rose Hill, as she talks about images and where they exist in our thoughts.聽
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About the Art Call from Ken Winnick:
Philosophical Background: Overall, the project was (and is) an experiment in, firstly, exploring how ideas might motivate and educate artists 鈥 especially ideas that are grounded in real and empirical truth, and secondly, how art and an art show might then be used to push back against the societal patterns warned about by Arendt and Flusser. You could say that it is activist art, but mostly I think the entire project is an artistic experiment in and of itself. 聽The theme of 鈥渁rchives鈥 permeates the project, and it鈥檚 worth noting that the outcome of this project, the art show itself, will be 鈥渁n archive of true and lived experiences, represented in physical form, from the year 2020鈥.
Motivation:As we went through the distillation process鈥 from 鈥渋deas鈥 to 鈥渁rt鈥濃 two concepts remained in the final call. One was the Arendtian concept of the importance of building a common world, based on actual experience, and the durability of this world thanks to art and culture. The second was from Flusser, and what I perceived as a warning to 鈥渘ot be deceived鈥 by the technical image. That is, to understand that the images we see in the telematic are not the real world, but only a distorted (or even manipulated) version of the real world. And on top of that, 鈥渨e the people鈥 innately have 鈥渁 desire to be deceived鈥 (it鈥檚 easier than thinking).
And so, in attempting to incorporate these two themes, the show asks artists to reflect on their 鈥渞eal, true and lived experiences鈥, as apart from online mediated experiences, and to attempt a representation of that in their art. The common world that we鈥檒l create is through sharing and discussing of these objects, at the art opening on Zoom鈥 or on the street as these are viewed by groups of people, and online.