CALL FOR PROPOSALS - The Resilience Art Exhibition

// CALL FOR PROPOSALS
// The Resilience Art Exhibition
// Deadline for submission of proposals: 2nd November 2007

We invite artists to submit proposals for the Resilience Art Exhibition to be held at a special venue at Stockholm University in April 2008. The
exhibition will take place in connection with the international science and policy conference Resilience, Adaptation and Transformation in Turbulent Times (http://www.resilience2008.org).

The Resilience Art Exhibition is a joint project of the Royal Academy of
Fine Arts, through Mejan Labs in Stockholm and the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences through the Beijer Institute and the Stockholm Resilience Centre, in collaboration with the Resilience Alliance.

Resilience for dealing with change.
Throughout history human society has shaped the dynamics of nature and at the same time been shaped by this dynamics. The scale and speed of human actions have now expanded into globally interconnected societies embedded in planet Earth processes at all levels, reflected in climatic and environmental changes affecting people and regions worldwide. Social
conditions, health, culture, democracy, matters of security, and even
survival are interwoven with ecological systems in a grand panorama of
regional and worldwide dependency. To what extent are human societies
adapting our capacity for learning and foresight to deal with the new global and challenging situation? What is the role of the cultural sphere in this context?

Resilience - the capacity to deal with change and continue to develop - has evolved as a key concept to address such issues. How can we develop capacity to cope with, adapt to and possibly even transform into improved situations in the face of these challenges? Resilience is about dynamic development, how periods of slow and gradual change interplay with periods of rapid and sudden change and how to prepare and respond to such changes. In a resilient society sudden change may lead to new opportunities for development. In a vulnerable society sudden change may be devastating. In what way can the cultural sphere help prepare society to deal with such changes, to revive and regenerate following change and stimulate novelty and innovation for sustainability? We invite artists to interpret resilience, to explore and imagine ways for how to take on this major challenge facing human societies.

Read more about resilience at http://www.stockholmresilience.su.se;
http://www.resilience2008.org and http://www.resalliance.org

The exhibition.
The exhibition will consist of 20-30 works of art, selected by a jury with respected representatives from both the art community and the scientific community. The exhibition will open April 11, 2008, in a venue at Stockholm University in connection with the international Resilience Alliance 2008 conference. The exhibition will be open to the public during April 12 - May 11, 2008.

The process.
The call is open for art productions that refer to the topic of the
exhibition. All submitted works should meet the highest quality production standards, quality of production as well technical competence. Any kind of formats are possible and experiments with format, material and theory as well as a scientific approach are encouraged. We especially encourage proposals for new productions and our intentions are to provide some resources to support the production of the new works selected for the exhibition and to suggest ways to get additional support. The submitted works should be accomplished with an estimate of the production costs.

How to make a submission.
The submissions can be made via e-mail or by post. Do not send in original artworks - the material will not be returned. Do not mail files that are larger than 10 mb. The copies or the documentations of works or proposals for works can include texts (word files or prints on paper), photos (prints or on DVD or CD), videos (on DVD, CD or VHS. The videos can be any kind of AVI -file, but formats that can be played on a normal DVD-player is preferred), sound (on vinyl, CD or mp3-files), different prints (catalogues, books, cards etc.).

Deadline for submission is November 2nd, 2007, and should be send to Mejan Labs, Akademigrand 3, SE- 111 52 Stockholm, Sweden. Mark all submissions “resilience”. Remember to write down your personal data, address, email etc!

Submissions via email can be made to: [email protected]. Subject should be “submission resilience”.

We will confirm all received submissions via email so make sure to enclose you email address!

For additional info http://www.mejanlabs.se/resilience, [email protected]
or tel +46 (0)8 796 60 30.