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In the framework of its regular activities,
the Soros Center for Contemporary Arts - Skopje, Macedonia (Center) started with the
organization of its regular annual exhibition and for that occasion it announces: Competition FOR THE THIRD ANNUAL EXHIBITION OF THE SOROS CENTER FOR CONTEMPORARY ARTS - SKOPJE, MACEDONIA on the theme: S C A N D A L An invitation to the artists to express their views of the social engagement of the art and artists today through the medium of the billboards and the theme scandal September 15 - October 15, 1997. Curator of the exhibition: Nebojsa Vilic, Ph.D. Aim: The annual exhibition has for an aim to promote the domestic fine-art and artists. It should urge the interest for the themes and mediums which are less explored by the artists or represented by Museums and Galleries. The exhibition has also for an aim to elevate the general level of understanding of contemporary arts with-in the wider public. Theme and medium: - STARTING DETERMINANTS: The project with the theme 'SCANDAL' is determined by the Board of he Center, proposed by the Curator. The motives for this choice are urged by the need the theme and medium to reflect an actual concept, which is also relevant in an international context. The achieving of the conception of this project anticipates new practical and theoretical explorations and will be realized on four levels. The first will be the organizing of an 'exhibition' of five selected projects which will be put on the Bill-boards in Skopje simultaneously on 30 locations. The second level will be the organizing of lectures on the theme Social engagement of the art: manifestos or notes? by foreign and domestic art theorists. The third level is the publishing of translations of texts by foreign critics and art theorists in the special appendix of the magazine The Large Glass. The fourth level anticipates the publishing of a two-volume catalogue: the first should be documentary and will contain the photographic records of the locations where the posters will be placed during one month, noting all of the changes, interventions and reactions; the other will be consisted of text by Macedonian critics and art theorists, as well as aestheticians, philosophers and sociologists which should interpret the manifestations of the 'committed' present in the 'exhibited' projects on the bill-boards, and other occurrences of the same in the wider social ranges, with an aim of gaining a more universal approach to the actual (non)occurring in the art. - TERMINOLOGICAL DETERMINANTS: -Scandal m (a case which gains wide commenting and causes complains, noises, shouting, disorder); scandalizes pf and impf I (causes detest by the breaking of the rules of decency); II (to disgust, to detest, to become disgusted with, to loathe); scandalous adj. person; scandal (Greek. skandalon) to shock, to scandalize, to create forceful complains, anger, to make upset; to scandalize (nlat. scandalisare) make (or: cause, provoke) scandal; scandalous (nlat. Fr. scandaleux) shocking, shameful, disgusting, horrible. - scandal n a disgraceful event or action; talk arising from immoral behaviour; a feeling of moral outrage; the thing or person causing this; disgrase; malicious gossip; scandalize vt to shock the moral feelings of; to defame; scandalmonger n a person who spreads scandal or malicious gossip; scandalous adj causing scandal; shameful; spreading slander. - engagement (Fr. Engagement) obliged, obligation, to pledge, to pawn; entering a service, agreement, hiring, regular duty; mil/ squabble, clash, conflict, battle; engage (fr. Engager) to take an obligation, to take into service, to favor, to hire, to induce, to talk into, to go into something, to engage in something, to release, to entangle in battle; to engage to support something, to pledge for something, to pledge (for someone or something): engaged obligated, who has promised, who is taken into service; mil. engaged in battle. - com-mit vti (com-mit-ting, com-mit-ted) to entrust; to consign (to prison); to do, to perpetrate a crime, etc; to pledge, to involve. - committer n.; 1. To do; perpetrate. 2. To place in trust or custody; entrust; especially, to consign to an institution or prison. 3. To consign to any person, place, or use. 4. To devote; pledge; hence, to involve, compromise, or bind (oneself). 5. To consign for future reference, preservation, or disposal: to commit a speech to memory or to writing; Commit these bones to the earth. 6. To refer, as to a committee for consideration or report: a preliamentary term. [<L committere join, entrust <com- together + mittere send] - com-mit'ta-ble adj. - com-mit-ment n 1. The act or process of entrusting or consigning for safekeeping. 2. An act of engagement or pledging. 3. The act of doing; perpetration. 4. An engagement that restricts freedom; an obligation; an order for imprisonment or confinement in a mental institution (-also com-mit'tal); committed adj dedicated; pledged by a commitment. - CURATORIAL DETERMINANTS: 1. The project 'Scandal' is an invitation to the artists to express their views for the social commitment (through the aspects of the political, ideological, social, ethnical and inter- ethnical, religious) through the medium of the bill-boards and the theme 'scandal'; 2. The project 'Scandal' anticipates an involvement of the phenomena of art of the public (public art) and the opening of the communicative discourse of the artist with the society and vice versa (committed art); 3. The project 'Scandal' is defined as an exploration of the use of the term scandal in its essential and most extreme aspects and manifestations as an object and instrument of the art creation today; 4. The project 'Scandal' has for an aim to explore the possibilities and conditions for the existence or non-existence of the committed art in Macedonia; 5. The project 'Scandal' has for an aim to explore the possibilities and conditions for the existence or non-existence of the public art in Macedonia; 6. The project 'Scandal' has for an aim to determine the character, structure and phenomenology of the 'commitment' of ~ and of the 'public' in the art creation in Macedonia in the second half of the nineties; 7. The project 'Scandal' seeks from the artists to leave their ateliers and to create a dialogue with the society and its phenomena; 8. The project 'Scandal' seeks from the artists a standpoint about every day occurrences in their social surroundings; 9. The project 'Scandal' seeks from the artists to place their art work/project in the direction of expressing a standpoint taking as coordinates primarily the language of fine-arts and procedures for the modeling of the statements; 10. The project 'Scandal', in its finality, posts the question of existence or [total]non-existence of the possibility for the installing of such determinants in the Macedonian recent art production. Regulations: Macedonian artists of all generations (who live and work in the Republic of Macedonia) may compete on even terms for the exhibition. (Students do not have the right to compete.) One artist may apply with several projects. The artists may take into consideration the locations of the Bill-boards and to develop the concept for the exact chosen location; this should be noted in the application. The executing of the projects should contain the elements and acts anticipating in advance the format of a Bill-Board with the dimensions 2,5x3,5m. The projects should be presented in their final appearance in the proportion 1:3,5, i.e. on the format 70 x 100 cm. If it is applied with projects which are prepared on a computer they should be executed in RGB Color mode and delivered on a diskette i.e. CD ROM. The scanning and printing of the projects will be in a resolution 300 x 300, and will be executed on Encad NovaJet Pro 35 inkjet printer in 9 samples (6 samples for the placing, 1 for the author, 1 for the Center and 1 for the Skopje Museum of Contemporary Art). Location and Terms: The exhibition will be placed on 30 bill-boards of the agency Akzent Media around Skopje in the period September 15 - October 15, 1997. Selection of Artists: The Board of the Center is responsible for the choice of the artists fore the Annual Exhibition. The artists should send the project documentation (application, project and textual explanations, specification of the needed materials and equipment as well as a short biography) to the Center by July 15, the latest. After the closing of the competition, the Board will choose five projects for participation at the exhibition. The Board retains the right to invite one or two artists at the exhibition. Jury: The five-member jury, chosen by the Board of the Center, will select the most impressive works of the exhibition and will award up to 3 awards with a total fund of US$ 3,000. Technical Realization: The Budget of the Exhibition does not cover the expenses of the creation or performing of the project, which is in fact an ownership of the artist. The Center as an organizer of the exhibition will hire the materials and the equipment and will secure technical assistance necessary for the realization of the selected projects. Soros Center for Contemporary Arts - Skopje Ruzveltova 34, 91000 Skopje, Macedonia tel./fax: 389 91 36 18 55 e-maill: scca@soros.org.mk or nvilic@soros.org.mk |
