Artistic workshop with Wilfredo Prieto

Call for Participants Application deadline: August 20, 2013

The NMAC Foundation, as part of their program to support young emerging artists, organizes an artistic workshop with international artist Wilfredo Prieto. His "incidences from the private to the public and from the public to the private" workshop will be held at the NMAC Foundation from September 20 to 22, 2013. This workshop, organized together with the General Direction of Promotion of Fine Arts of the Ministry of Education, Culture and Sport, is directed to young emerging artists who would like to be engaged in a dialogue about the creative process, inspiration and production. The workshop, free for all participants, will be based on the exchange of ideas with Wilfredo Prieto, while also functioning as a generator of new ones within the context of the NMAC Foundation. The NMAC Foundation was created as a platform of creativity and production for site-specific projects based on the interaction between its social, cultural and territorial context of cross borders between Africa and Europe. Since 2001, NMAC is committed to supporting contemporary artists on site-specific projects promoting international artists on outdoor ambitious productions. Within the collection indoors and outdoors, one can find works by Adel Abdessemed, Marina Abramovic, Maurizio Cattelan, Olafur Eliasson, Sol Lewitt, Pascale Martine Tayou and James Turrell, among others. Wilfredo Prieto's work is known for its conceptual forcefulness and narrative brevity with no superfluous elements. With a refined sense of humour, one can find in his work an insistent reference to artistic practice, semantic games and a poetry that joins persistence and subtlety in a balanced way. Prieto lives and works between La Havana and New York. He studied at the Instituto Superior de Arte (ISA) in La Havana and was a DUPP Gallery (From a Pedagogical Pragmatism) member, a collective of artists ISA. In 2000, he received with DUPP, UNESCO Prize for the Promotion of the Arts at Seventh Havana Biennial, and in 2006 he was awarded with the John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship, New York (2006). He has done artist residencies at Kadist Art Foundation, Paris (2005) and the Residency Program at Le Grand Café in Saint-Nazaire, France (2007).Subscriptions are due on August 20. To be eligible, participants' applications must be submitted by August 20, 2013. Download form: www.fundacionnmac.org and send to reservas@fundacionnmac.org Candidates will be informed of their acceptance via email by September 1st. The program is international and English and Spanish will be used as the working languages. Duration of the Workshops is three full days at the NMAC Foundation. The workshop is free of any charge and lunch will be given to participants for the duration of the program. Accommodation is not provided by the NMAC Foundation. NMAC Foundation N-340 – km, 42,5 Vejer de la Frontera Cadiz, Spain T +34 956455134

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international sculpture competition (Spain)

Call for Applications

The Gabarron Foundation, in collaboration with Fundación Murcia Futuro (FMF), is pleased to announce an international sculpture competition organized by FMF. The Foundation invites all international artists for a chance to exhibit their work and win prizes. All physical proposals should be sent to FMF by 12:00 p.m., EDT, on December 21, 2012. Also, you may fill out the online registration form that you will find below with the rules and information pertaining to this competition.

Visit http://www.gabarron.org/MulaMurcia/News/InternationalSculptureContest/ContestRules/tabid/1149/Default.aspx to learn more and to apply.
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International Experimental Video & Film Festival

Open Call for Submissions

Deadline: September 14, 2012
Send work to:
RMO Calle Cortes 29-31. 6º E
48003 Bilbao (Spain)

BIDEODROMO International Experimental Film and Video Festival is now accepting entries for its festival, to take place in Bilbao and Vitoria-Gasteiz, Basque Country, Spain starting in October 2012.
All kinds of films including documentary, narrative, experimental, animation, video art and other genres are accepted.

Rules and Suggestions:
- Subtitles in spanish, basque or english are welcomed
- You must fill out one application form per film you submit.
- Each film should be on its own, separate DVD.
- We prefer to receive the videos in MOV or AVI
- You can send more than one DVD (and application form) per package.
-We accept no more than 2 works per author

BIDEODROMO is not mainly a competition, but we have a jury that will decide whats the best film screened. The 1st place author will receive 300 € (vat.incl.) and second best will receive 100 € (vat.incl.)

Application must include:
Title
Author
Year of production
Duration
Country
Synopsis (90 words)
Curriculum (90 words)
Web
Contact information
Send a jpg photo of aprox 1 Mb

Send the application form to: mexmfest@yahoo.es (Don't forget to include a copy of the application form with your DVD)

More info: www.bideodromo.com
Source: www.wooloo.org

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CACIS "EL FORN DE LA CALÇ"

WHAT: International Residency at CACIS "El forn de la calç"
WHERE: Catalonia, Spain
DEADLINES: November 30, 2010
WHEN: 2011
WHO: Artists and thinkers worldwide

Cacis “El forn de la calç” in Calders (Catalonia- Spain) open an international call to artists for to stay in their residence and conduct a research project during 2011.

1.CACIS “El forn de la calç” hosts visual arts projects, performing arts, performance, thinking, intervention in the landscape and search for new languages related to sustainability and protecting the natural environment. (Not exclusively artistic)
The residence in CACIS has basic conditions for research and study in nature, for the artist to find the conditions of space, and equipment suitable concentration.
The space is located at 5 km from the village of Calders and 2.5 km of village of Artes. The city of Manresa is about 25 minutes and enjoys privileged views of Montserrat and the Pyrenees.

2. The residences include accommodation of artists (maximum 4) and work space for a minimum of 7 days and a maximum of 90 days.
Do not include the displacement or diets.

3. The Center can help artists to make the necessary contacts with local people and suppliers of materials and services related to their research and enhance liaison with the social environment with the preparation of workshops and seminars related to proposed projects.

4. The artists who wish to pursue this call should emailing the following documents:
+ Contact of project leader
+ Number of participants
+ Timetable for which residence is sought alternative option (if any)
+ Spaces are required (accommodation / work room / outdoors).
+ A letter of intent with an explicit text in which the artist is committed, if elected, to make residence in the requested extension.
+ A description of the project (maximum 3 sheets with a maximum 3-JPG-format photos)
+ A short CV (max. 1 page)

5. Applications for 2011 can be submitted until 30 November 2010.

6. The jury is composed of professionals and the team of the Center.

7. Resolution of the call December 30, 2010.
The result of the call will be communicated by email to stakeholders and made public in CACIS website.

8. The act of participating on the acceptance of these rules.

More infromation:
www.cacis.cat

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