The 2nd China Changchun International Ceramics Symposium Call for Ceramics Proposals

by | Apr 28, 2012 | call for entry, emerging artist, job posting, monday morning eye candy, movie day, residency opportunity, show us your influences, technical tuesday

Distinguished Ceramists,
Sincere
greetings from Changchun, the sculpture capital of China﹗
In order to vigorously flourish the world ceramics art
and promote the development of urban ceramics construction, Changchun Municipal
People’s Government has successfully held the 1st Changchun International Ceramics
symposium in 2011, and 12 noted ceramists from 10 countries were accepted and
invited to participate in it and created excellent ceramic works for the city
Changchun, a well-known cultural city in northeast China.
From next late July to mid-August, 2012, Changchun Municipal
People’s Government will hold the 2nd China Changchun International Ceramics
Symposium, with the theme of “Eternal and classic—traveling across history and future”, for further promoting
international cultural exchanges, improving the cultural taste of the city as
well as increasing the city’s international influence and popularity. About 20
ceramists will be accepted to participate in this event.
We sincerely invite you to submit proposals to the 2nd
China Changchun International Ceramics Symposium. We’d like you to:
1. Deliver at
least 3 or more ceramic proposals based on the Symposium’s theme, which are
requested to reflect the theme and the distinctive ethical and regional characteristics
of your country or region. Two of the ceramic proposals should be no less than
80cm (in length) ×80cm(in width) ×80cm (in height)  in order to achieve the exhibition effect of the ceramics
symposium.
2.
Specify the materials’ dimensions and colors of the proposed works. Please
deliver A4 size colored design drafts or photographs of maquettes of your
proposals and their digital files in JPEG, BMP or TIF format. The digital photo
should be no less than 1 megabytes.
3.
Fill in the attached registration form and enclose your passport photo, your recent
daily photo and your resume. The digital photo is no less than 1 megabytes. Your
ceramics portfolio is also appreciated.
4.
Send proposals by express mail or e-mail before May 30th, 2012 to:
The Culture Section
Changchun Municipal
Foreign Affairs Office
No. 2626 Renmin Street, Jilin Province, P. R. China
Postcode: 130041
E-mail: [email protected]
All the proposals will be carefully reviewed by the
Organizing Committee, extensively evaluated by the public and finally appraised
by celebrated masters.
If any of your proposals gets approved by the Organizing
Committee, you will receive an official invitation to Changchun for creating it
on site from late July to the mid-August, 2012. We will provide you with round-trip
economic flight tickets (only from your residential city to Changchun), an
allowance of 8000 yuan (RMB), free accommodation in Changchun, common
processing tools, assistants and interpreters, as well as honor diplomas. Besides,
some seminars on ceramists’ creation concept and some tours around the city
will be arranged. All the completed ceramics works will be permanently owned
and collected by the institution of Changchun Municipal People’s Government.
The organizing committee will provide ceramists with worksite and following equipments
and materials:
A. Three gas shuttle kilns (1m³/ 0.5m³/ 0.15m³), two electrical kilns (0.35m³/ 0.1m³), and one wood-burning kiln.
B. Potter’s wheels, slab roller,
stoving chest, pugmill.
C. Jilin crock clay, Zibo
earthware clay, Zibo porcelain clay.
D. More than thirty types of
slips, twenty types of glaze and ten types of chemical reagent.
The Organizing Committee is responsible for interpretation of the content
above.
We highly appreciate your submitting ceramics
proposals.
Contact
us:
Miss Liu Shuang, Liaison of the 2nd Ceramics Symposium
Changchun Municipal Foreign Affairs Office
Tel: +86-431-88776734   15948333800
E-mail:
[email protected]   [email protected]
The 2nd China Changchun International Ceramics Symposium

Registration
Form

Name
Gender
photo
DOB
Nationality
Mobile
phone
Tel.
Occupation
E-Mail
Website
Detailed mailing
address：
Resume：
Proposal 1  
Title:
Dimensions:                     
Material:                 
Color
Concept:
Proposal 2  
Title:
Dimensions:                     
Material:                 
Color
Concept:
Proposal3  
Title:
Dimensions:                      Material:                 
Color
Concept:

Call for Submissions: Slow Craft 2012 Juried Exhibition

by | Apr 27, 2012 | call for entry, emerging artist, job posting, monday morning eye candy, movie day, residency opportunity, show us your influences, technical tuesday

 

May 3

SLOW CRAFT is the theme of the MCC’s 2012 Juried Exhibition

SLOW CRAFT takes as its starting point the issues emerging from the
broader Slow Movement that developed as a response to our increasingly
fast-paced Western lifestyles and our unsustainable consumer culture. 
Slowness is often associated with craft.  Craft skills take time to
learn; craft processes cannot be rushed.  Many makers today are
developing critical positions in response to our consumer behavior,
questioning modes of production through new processes, looking at issues
of stewardship and sustainability as well as collective making and the
reworking of everyday objects. *
*Quote credits to artist, curator, and academic Helen Carnac, from her project description at http://www.craftspace.co.uk/page.asp?fn=2&id=57&stp=1&grp=3.

SLOW CRAFT will represent approximately 15 craft
artists who reside in Manitoba and whose work pushes the boundaries of
their media and reflects fresh approaches to diverse cultural and
material traditions. Works will be chosen based upon artistic merit
(technical skill, formal effect, and conceptual success), with a
particular interest in pieces that connect to our exhibition’s SLOW
CRAFT theme.  Original works (ie. not derived from a pattern or kit)
rooted in traditional approaches to craft and those that encompass new
technologies, are performative, reflect a d-i-y ethic or challenge
preconceived notions of craft are equally welcome.

Exhibition dates and venues
June 2012, Gallery 1C03, University of Winnipeg
Rural venue TBA

Jurors
Dr. Sandra Alfoldy, curator and professor in Craft History at NSCAD
University.  Alan Lacovestsky, ceramics artist and educator.  Jennifre
Gibson, curator at Gallery 1C03, University of Winnipeg.

Eligible works
Works will be selected based on artistic merit, skill, design,
innovation and relationship to the exhibition’s theme. Original work
(functional, decorative, conceptual) in any craft-based media are
welcome (e.g.ceramic, fibre, metal, paper, recycled material, stone,
glass and wood). In addition, mixed media and interdisciplinary works
that are primarily craft-based in material and/or technique are
welcome.  Eligible works must have ben completed after July 2009 and may
not have been exhibited in previous Manitoba Craft Council exhibitions.
 Three entries per person, maximum.  Entrants must be current Manitoba
Craft Council members.  See www.manitobacraft.ca/join/

Images
The jurors will select work based on digital images with the final
selection subject to viewing actual work.  MCC urges applicants to
consider using a professional photographer to document your work. 
Please submit images by email or on one CD marked with your name.  Use
jpeg files with a resolution of 300 dpi, with images’ size approximately
4 x 6″.   For each work, submit one image with a full view of the work
and one or two detail views.  Please title each image file as follows: 
artist’s last name_title_full/detail (eg. Poirier_Moonscape_detail2) The
maximum number of images allowed is nine (9).  Discs will not be
returned.

Application
Please include the following information along with your images:
– Your name, mailing address, phone number and email address
– Image list including the title, date, media, dimensions and price/value of each work submitted (3 works max.)
– Artist statement (100 words max.) Please include 2-3 sentences about how your work relates to the exhibition’s theme.

All applicants will be notified of initial results by May 15, 2012. 
Final selection will be based on viewing the actual work.   Artist fees
will be paid for works selected for the exhibition.

Applications will be accepted via email at [email protected]. 
Submission deadline of May 3.  Please put “SLOWCRAFT Application-Your
Last Name” in the subject line and attach images.  Applications may be
mailed (in protective mailer) or hand delivered during business hours
(M-F, 9-5) to the Manitoba Craft Council, c/o ACI (Arts & Cultural
Industries Assoc of MB), 501–62 Albert Street, Winnipeg, Manitoba, R3B
1E9.  Please include images on CD.

Questions about the exhibition or MCC membership?
Contact MCC’s Programme Coordinator at 927-2787 or [email protected].

Encaix part two

by | Apr 27, 2012 | Uncategorized


TRÀILER DOCUMENTAL “ENCAIX” 2A PART (english) from Eva Rodriguez and Ignasi Llobet on Vimeo.

This is part two of the trailer of the documentary made ​​by Eva Rodriguez and Ignasi Llobet on a work of art Contemporary artists Jordi Marcet and Rosa Vila-Abadal.

To view the first part please see the previous post here.

“The pieces fit. Tones attract. Not all fit in harmony, some accept the company, others turn away. Place the right piece, but you know that this piece marks the direction of the end . the fragments escape, slip, fall down and many are broken. one by one. one plus one. lace. lace. lace. Feel the pleasure of the fit, agile and fast. a magic moment: everything fits. Everything flows. “
You can see more works of the artists on their web: www.terracroma.net