VISUAL ARTS SECTION – SUBMISSION OF WORKS

Utopia – a place which doesn’t exist, an impossible attempt, but also: the ideal happy society, as well as the ideology postulating the creation of such a society. You can submit your works for the visual arts section until the 31st of May. This year’s topic is: „THE PROMISED LAND – A JOURNEY TO THE BOUNDARIES OF UTOPIA.”

The project is addressed to students and graduates of art schools, as well as to young artists working outside the official education system. You can find the festival rules and the application form HERE. When sending your application, please attach a suggestion of the artwork to be presented at the exhibition (a project, a photo, a reproduction). The list of works qualified for the exhibition will be made public on the 30th of June 2015.

Program text:

Travelling to the boundaries of Utopia we leave behind space filled with abandoned signs, symbols, and slogans of ideas both past and persisting. The 20th century and the beginning of the 21st century have shown us, like no other period in history, the inevitable consequences of utopianism such as cultural monism and civilisational totalitarianism. The contemporary boundaries of the term Utopia are becoming increasingly ambiguous, and the cultural homogenisation makes the “promised land” the sphere of a happy consumer, and not the vision of the “engineers of the human soul.”

Thomas Morus, who coined the term “utopia,” connected the vision of a perfect social system with an island, and the project we are describing will also take place on an island. It is open to performance, interventions beyond the gallery space , installations, and objects which function in the city space, as well as to traditional forms: painting, drawing, sculpture, photography. Since the term “social order, utopia” was, and still is, used broadly in propaganda art (in constructivism, as well as in social realism, nationalism, national neoclassicism in architecture, and in pop art), functioning beyond the gallery space as signs, monuments, installations, slogans, advertisements – please do consider such forms of works as well.

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