INFLIGHT is very pleased to announce an opportunity for Tasmanian artists to be involved in an exhibition planned to tour the West Coast of America, curated by Tia Factor.
Here are some details, please download the application form for further information.
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“Curated by Tia Factor, this exhibition will travel to Portland, Oregon, USA, in January 2010 (as well as a number of other locations on the West Coast, possibly including but not limited to: Oakland, San Francisco, Los Angeles, California; Seattle, Washington; Vancouver, British Columbia, CANADA; Tijuana, Baja, MEXICO).
Artists living and working in Tasmania are invited to submit proposals detailing a conceptually based work that explores, in some capacity, the idea of place.
Tasmania is a location that is mysterious to the majority of North American audiences. The multiple reflections of place that will emerge out of this group show will be informative and diverse, and will extend an invitation to begin a dialogue with a part of the world that has, for the most part, yet to be exposed to the cultural contributions of Tasmania but shares some of the “frontier” mentality of some of the last undefined and pristine natural places in the world.
The notion of place may be dealt with in various ways and from diverse perspectives. However, the exploration of place must be connected to Tasmania in some way. This exhibition is not looking for standard landscape-based works, but landscape will be considered.
This exhibition intends to push our understanding of place, to explore the dialogue between space and place, and to further explore localness in the age of globalization. Examples of projects that may be considered for this exhibit are: marginalized urban or rural locations; the relationship between public and private places, the built and natural environment; environmental policy; flora and fauna; colonial / indigenous history and contemporary local communities.
Work will be accepted in any media but the scale and “travelability” of the work may be a deciding factor in its acceptance. As exhibition spaces are yet to be determined, extremely large works are not guaranteed an appropriate viewing space.”
