Join us for a live zoom Q&A Session with EFA Project Space Program Director Dylan Gauthier and Program Manager Judy Giera, and friends.
About this event
Thinking of applying to Project Space's Open Call for Curatorial and Artist Project Proposals? Join us for this casual, hour-long public Q&A session on Zoom. Come with your questions, queries, and quandaries...
Can't make the event? We'll post a recording on our website and Instagram later in the week.
How far can the idiom of the contemporary art exhibition be stretched before it begins to lose its commonly-understood meaning? Where are the bounds of site located that allow us to inscribe what it is to curate, to make shows, to invite a public, to further the work of artists and curators, or to share a work in public?
This open call invites curatorial proposals, publication ideas, artist project proposals, one-off gatherings or series, and other forms that respond to and pose questions about the limits and boundaries of contemporary exhibition-making.
Once the exclusive product of the gallery, museum, project space, kunsthalle, the exhibition has found its way into the world in a surprising number of novel forms. This has taken place both before the pandemic, and accelerated during – as in the shift to outdoor venues out of the necessity to socially distance, or the increase of virtual platforms for NFTs, as crypto-currency backed artworks and other “online only” exhibition spaces found new markets and new audiences. With this changed landscape as the background, we are increasingly interested in rethinking the Project Space form and propose this open call as an opportunity for artists and curators to address this question in public and alongside the organization.
We envision multi-layered, multidisciplinary, multi-generational, multi- or meta-verse formulations on what it means to practice in the alchemical form of exhibition-making today. Art historical and/or future looking and speculative proposals are welcomed. We have moved so far beyond the white box motif, while the form has not been abandoned, it does allow us to think through ways that please other formulations that both are and are not aligned with additional exhibition making practices.
The call for proposals will program Project Space's gallery and website through 2023 and into 2024, and guide the creation of a symposium that draws on Project Space's 15-year history of pushing the boundaries of curatorial practices, blurring the edges between artist project, activism, community building, and this other thing called putting on an art exhibition, and of process-based exhibitions.
A publication featuring essays and responses by past Project Space curators and exhibiting artists will be released alongside the symposium.