OPEN CALL FOR ARTISTS: Art in Odd Places 2011

Art in Odd Places 2011: RITUAL

OPEN CALL FOR ARTIST SUBMISSIONS

Art in Odd Places (AIOP) invites artists working across disciplines to propose projects for its seventh installment. Taking place from October 1 to 10, 2011, along 14th Street from Avenue C to the Hudson River in New York City, we encourage proposals that explore this location's rich history, configuration, and heterogeneous communities. The theme for the upcoming edition of AiOP is RITUAL including Ceremony, Habituation, Myth, Obsession, Superstition, Liturgy, and it will be informed by propositions on the sacred and profane in everyday actions of people in public space.

In the contemporary moment, the idea of ritual is a highly provocative concept. It is most commonly linked to the set of actions in religious ceremony or cultural celebrations, but the notion is also applicable to the socializing behaviors performed among individuals in the daily engagement with the social environment and civic space. This edition of AiOP seeks proposals that subtly disrupt the procedures of the everyday or emphasize the ritualistic character of small gestures or acts in both religious and secular life, to establish temporary moments of ecstatic contemplation in the public realm.

AiOP 2011: RITUAL offers artists the opportunity to make art outside formal spaces by reconfiguring their artistic practice as public actions or urban interventions without the confinement of a gallery or museum space. AiOP 2011: RITUAL wants to engage passers-by, providing them with a new perspective of an otherwise familiar environment through site-specific installations, social and spatial interventions, video and audio projects, performance, new media, and other inventive practices. In addressing the distinct manifestations of ritual, the festival aims to broaden the public’s outlook on art, city dwelling, and social conventions.

To apply visit artinoddplaces.org (submit proposal) for full guidelines and application forms.

Proposal Deadline: May 8, 2011

AiOP 2011 Guest Curators: Trinidad Fombella, El Museo del Barrio and Kalia Brooks, MoCADA

AiOP Founder and Director: Ed Woodham

AiOP Festival Producer: Lucia Warck Meister

We look forward receiving your applications!

Thank you for all who submitted their proposals!

Art in Odd Place would like to thank everyone who submitted their applications for AiOP 2010: CHANCE. There was a great turnout with over 200 applicants. Our curators Yaelle and Petrushka will be busy within the next week choosing a collection of great works for the festival. Please check our blog regularly for announcements and updates.

What's coming up with the blog?
As we await the list of artists this year, our blog will continue to feature artists from previous years to keep the excitement flowing. Here are the artists to look out for the next entries (in no particular order)

Tattfoo Tan
Todd Ayoung
Sophia Hadjipapa
Laura Nova
Terry S. Hardy
...just to name a few

What's new, however, are entries featuring not only our curators but also our Art In Odd Places Director, Ed Woodham. You can finally put a face to the people making this festival happen.

Most importantly, we will reveal the details for our annual Art in Odd Places benefit happening on the 22nd of June. The theme for this year is "Sideshow". More details for follow.

Isn't this exciting?

As always, you can visit our website for more information. Share to your friends details about the festival and encourage them to follow us online.

OPEN CALL FOR ARTIST SUBMISSIONS Art in Odd Places 2010: CHANCE

Art in Odd Places (AIOP) invites artists working across disciplines to propose projects for the festival's sixth installment (October 1 – 10, 2010). Taking place along 14th Street from Avenue C to the Hudson River in New York City, we encourage proposals that explore this location's rich history, configuration, and heterogeneous communities. The forthcoming edition of AiOP is informed by various interpretations of the term CHANCE, including proposition, luck, randomness, risk, and opportunity. Within this context, artists are given the opportunity to apply their practice to an unconventional structure—playing off the idiosyncrasies inherent to the urban plane.

With emerging formats of communication, our culture has become a fertile ground for broad intersections between individuals, ideas and situations. This has resulted in unpredictable exchanges, relinquishment of control, surprise collaborations, and instances of spatial revelation. AiOP 2010: CHANCE intends to provide passersby with a new perspective of an otherwise familiar environment through site-specific installations, social and spatial interventions, video and audio projects, performance, new media, and other inventive practices. In addressing the distinct manifestations of chance, the festival aims to broaden the public’s outlook on art, city dwelling, and social conventions.

2010 guest curators: Yaelle Amir and Petrushka Bazin.

AiOP Founder and Director: Ed Woodham.

Visit http://www.artinoddplaces.org/ for artist application and guidelines.

Application Deadline: May 14, 2010, midnight

Greetings everyone!


Arts in Odd Places 2010 is in full swing preparing for its festival this October. The theme for this year's festival is:

"CHANCE: Proposition. Luck. Randomness. Risk. Opportunity"

We can't wait to see the submitted artist(s) projects. Please visit our blog for up to date information and artist's profiles.

Here is what's cooking:

a) Announcement of AiOP 2010: CHANCE curators
Currently, Arts in odd places is finalizing the selection of this year's curators. Announcements are coming soon, and we can't wait to introduce them!

b) Call for Artists
- Mark your calendars, everyone!! The call for artist(s)' proposals will post April 1, 2010. Check here for more details.


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What is AiOP?
Arts in a Odd Place (or AiOP) is an annual festival exploring the odd, ordinary and
ingenious in the spectacle of daily life on 14th Street New York City. Visit us often at

http://www.artinoddplaces.org/