Monday, March 14, 2011

Student submissions for next Fold


image: Superstudio A Journey from A to B 1969

The Future – Open Call
Submissions are sought from final year and postgraduate art students for the next issue of The Fold; which will explore the theme of ‘The Future’.
Submissions can be visual documentation of artworks, written responses, drawings, photography or digital images. Successful submissions will be included in the next edition of The Fold alongside invited artists work.
The publication will be circulated this autumn as part of an exhibition / event that will take place in Dun Laoghaire.
The Fold is an occasional publication that gathers artists together on the ‘space of the page’ to consider a particular issue of theme.

Some Themes & Ideas
What does it mean to be future orientated, to be a futurist in the 21st century?
The Future has been a subject of both melancholic and optimistic (and even ecstatic) contemplation, inspiration, anxiety and joy for generations of artist’s philosopher’s, writer’s, designers, politicians, activists and visionaries – as well as, of course, the populace at large.
Is the notion of hopeful visions of the future – for a time when the future meant positive possibilities _ just a matter of modernist nostalgia? Or can and should we hope again – even these compromised commoditized times? Many see glimmers of possibility for change amongst the rubble of collapse …
In the current context of environment of global market collapse; government upheaval; international protests The Fold opens its pages to reflections, predictions or fantasies of what the future means to the current generation of art students and artists?

Submission Guidelines:
Submissions should be sent on CD (images should be no smaller than 5-6mb in file size or larger and saved as 300 dpi CMYK files).
Written submissions should be up to 500 words max and saved as Microsoft word files
A hard copy of each entry (egg. thumbnails of images, prints out of text) with captions, artist names and contact details) needs to be included with entry.
Entries should include name email address and telephone number.
Closing date for submissions: Thurs June 30th
Send submissions to: The Fold, C/O VAI 37 North Great Georges Street Dublin 1

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