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Expectations in Berlin and New York
Celeste invites artists to submit artworks to ‘Expectations’, a challenging curatorial idea presented by the art critic and curator, Manon Slome*, USA. The call for artworks to ‘Expectations’ will be hosted by this online space ‘Exhibitions’ and artworks will be chosen by critics and curators active in Celeste, which include Manon Slome for New York and Vera Baska-Soos for Berlin.
Theme
Artwork presented to 'Expectations' will have to follow the curatorial idea presented by Manon Slome:*
“The origin of a work of art, that is the origin of both the creators and the preservers, which is to say of a people’s historical existence - is art. That is so because art in its essence is an origin, a distinctive way in which truth comes into being, that is, becomes historical,” - Heidegger.
"Art in this sense has been received as an enframing mode of revealing – of an event, a life, a sensation encoded and re-represented from the past into the present. This sense of historicity, that we are witnessing something that happened in the past and that we are viewing now in the form of painting, video, film etc. has been embedded into our consciousness as audience to a work of art.
In contrast to this mode of image – however loosely 'image' is interpreted - being concerned with representation of condensed experience, performance art, interactive digital or computer art for example, creates an image that is simultaneous with its consumption. We experience it in real time as the image is made or performed and as the next action is anticipated.
My proposition would be to develop an exhibition that takes the image as something concerned less with representation in an historical sense than as a tool for setting something into motion - whether it be action, emotion, a state of being or becoming; a sense that the image leads to something beyond the scope of the painting or photograph, that the moment we see in the frame is just the frozen predicament before what will happen next.
Perhaps the title could be - Expectations - fitting perhaps for artists who have entered a juried prize and for an economic and political climate where boundaries of the expected are continually being challenged.
Artists should feel free to experiment with the theme of 'Expectations' looking at the concept in any way they want to interpret it – anticipation, probability, hope, future, yet to be - in any media or selection of media. The whole idea of anticipation is that it is open ended, looking forward instead of to the past. In essence, the curatorial intention is to be liberating."
Who can participate?
Any artist who is a current ‘Prize’ Member can present an artwork in each of the two locations. All artworks will have to investigate to the best of each arists’ ability the chosen curatorial idea, with particular reference to the necessities and tensions of the geographical area in which the exhibition takes place. Each ‘Expectations’ will have a different selection of artworks on exhibition. There will be 10 works selected for Berlin and 10 works selected for New York. Artists invited to exhibit their works will be responsible for all costs related to transport of their works to and from exhibition locations, as well as personal logistics.
How to partipate?
Login, and from your user account in Celeste, click on the box ‘Exhibitions-Expectations’, select the appropriate ‘Berlin’ or ‘New York’ area, then submit by direct upload your artwork and description.
Deadline
Works for both ‘Expectations’ is no later than midnight, 30 July 2010.
Catalogues
Two catalogues will be produced, one for each ‘Expectations’, including critical texts by curators and illustrations of artwork on exhibition.
*Manon Slome (PhD) is an independent curator working in New York City. From 2002 to June 2008 she was the Chief Curator of the Chelsea Art Museum in New York since its inception in 2002. During that time, she has curated and overseen a program of some forty exhibitions, symposia and museum publications as well as monographs and scholarly essays. Ms. Slome became highly involved with the Israeli art scene during her research for the exhibition, Such Stuff as Dreams are Made on”, (2005) and has followed and researched the Israeli scene for the last 3 years. Prior to the CAM, Ms. Slome worked as a curator at the Guggenheim Museum for 7 years and was a holder of a Helena Rubestein curatorial fellowship at the Whitney Independent Study program. Her recent book ‘The Aesthetics of Terror’ was published in 2009.
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