Take Me Back Home
Open invitation in the field of audio / visual creation for the young emerging artists
Atelje 22 is pleased to announce an open invitation for the young people who wish to submit applications for participation in an audiovisual production that will be realized within the project Waiting for the Better Future, co-financed and supported by the Prince Claus Fund.
Exhibition and performance categories: installations, objects, sculptures, experimental architecture, ambient art, models, electronic art, digital and computer art, experimental film, video art, kinetic art, animation, experimental poetry (visual, sound, gestural, object, etc.) interactive, performance, happening, conceptual art, land-art, body art, space interventions, photography, street art, mail art and other art forms.
Project description:
“When you think of a ‘house’, you don't just think of a building, but also of the life context you feel you belong to deeply inside yourself while firmly tied to the various identity questions.”
As already scientifically explored, the design of the space in which we live influences our way of thinking and understanding (an example of Bentham’s Panopticon design). Following the light path of Michael Foucault and Gaston Bachelard, this project seeks to re-examine the relationship between the House and the Body. The house, here representing the topography of our intimacy, that is, a storing place for our memories and a residence place of our spirits and souls (Bachelard - The Poetics of Space) and the Body, representing a small utopian place from which people can speak, dream, imagine, perceive things in their own place and also deny them (Of Other Spaces, lecture 1967, Foucault). The project begins by analyzing the changes of one`s thoughts and behaviors in spaces one gets exposed to. The intention is to encourage participants to question the meaning of the House by returning to themselves through a relationship with the nature, by triggering a series of questions that have, as an aim to, explore the Body as a tool for mapping the world which is surrounding us.
The project`s realization is planned as a series of site specific, interactive installations created in the various cities in Montenegro, with the intention of reviving old, abandoned buildings, dilapidated streets and offering a new way of looking at them. The project envisages organizing round tables and meetings where you can talk to artists, workshops for the audience that will be welcomed to participate and explore new ways of perceiving and experiencing the relationship between the House and the Body.
Who can apply
The invitation to apply is open to all individuals and groups of artists living in Montenegro: visual artists, directors, architects, set designers and playwriters. The application should contain the name and the surname of the artist along with the biography. In addition to the biography, it is necessary to enclose a portfolio, a recording of at least one composition and / or a video project. Young, creative people residing in Montenegro are invited to send us project proposals by 31st January 2021.
Per project`s rules, participation is provided for a maximum of 10 artists. The list of selected artists will be officially published on our website. Members of the international jury who will be in charge of selecting the submitted works will be announced on our website and through social media. Selected artists will be notified by email to confirm their participation.
Participants will be funded the expenses of materials, installations and will also be provided locations and spaces for project realizations.
After the selection, a meeting will be held with the artists in order to define the project. Time planned for the realization of selected works and their final presentation May / July 2021. For all additional questions related to the project and possible suggestions, you can contact us via e-mail: ngo.atelje22@gmail.com.
