Monday, June 11, 2012

9th Kaunas Biennial UNITEXT

Deadline: September 15, 2012 (EMAIL)

9th Kaunas Biennial UNITEXT
Kaunas Artists' Support Fund

Kaunas, Lithuania
2013 09 13 – 2013 12 31.



The 9th Kaunas Biennial UNITEXT will create conditions for immediate collisions of an artwork and a spectator, allowing the experience of art as a universal text. Curators of the exhibition together with artists will pursue a concept that is new and unfamiliar in a cultural context and will consolidate it by presenting practical examples. We will go into the question of a unitext, which is the latest link in work -> text -> intertext -> hypertext -> unitext semiotic chain of a philosophic / art criticism / artistic field.

According to the consistency of this chain the UNITEXT exhibition claims a privilege to present novel ideas about the art at the level of structural and notional revelation. The suggestion is to perceive unitext in this chain as a universal artistic language, which unifies different experiences and concepts. The exhibition will provide a unique voice for each artwork instead of handling this task to explanatory texts. We believe artworks themselves are suggestive, influential and complete enough. We invite artists to present works experiences of which are based on a direct confrontation with an object / space / semantic field.

We invite to you present unitexts, which are seen through intuition, materiality, spontaneity, sensuality, feeling, here and now experiences.

More about the notion UNITEXT

TERMS AND CONDITIONS for submission:

Works submitted for selection must be executed during 2010-2012.
It is suggested that a cycle, a group of works or an installation would be introduced.
Project ideas are also acceptable complemented with photos of previously implemented pieces of a similar kind. Photos should represent the materiality, scope and impact of the submitted piece.

Selected artists will be notified via e-mail by October 15th, 2012.

THE INTENDED VENUES: The M. K. Čiurlionis National Museum, M. Žilinskas Art Gallery (Nepriklausomybės a. 12), Kaunas Picture Gallery (K. Donelaičio g. 16) Kaunas / Lithuania. Period: 2013 09 13 – 2013 12 31.


Prospectus, Application and complete submission/exhibition details available on website: www.bienale.lt/English Version

Download Application: www.bienale.lt/2011/?attachment_id=2150


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