[Oberlist] EUROPE# call: Artists’ Books on Tour – Artist Competition and Mobile Museum

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Vienna, Ljubljana, Prague, Austria, Slovenia, Czech Republic

MAK, MGLC and UPM
Artists’ Books on Tour

Artist Competition and Mobile Museum
http://www.abot.mak.at/show_content.php?sid=17

To create more public awareness for the book as an independent genre of
art production, the EU-funded project “Artists’ Books on Tour – Artist
Competition and Mobile Museum” was launched in June 2010 by the MAK –
Austrian Museum of Applied Arts / Contemporary Art (Vienna) in cooperation
with the MGLC – International Centre of Graphic Arts (Ljubljana) and the
UPM – Museum of Decorative Arts (Prague). The core activities of the
project cover:
• the implementation of a competition among European artists
• the evaluation of the results by an international jury awarding the best
submissions
• the presentation of selected works in a “Mobile Museum” touring several
European cities

ARTISTS’ BOOKS

As the term “artist’s book” covers a broad field of artistic production
with fuzzy boundaries, please consider the following text as an
inspiration and/or guideline for your contributions:

Art theory defines artists’ books as a specific art genre comprising
visual artworks that present artistic ideas in book form, relating to the
book’s specific conceptual and physical properties.

Artists’ books are multimedia and transmedia art forms, characterized by
the hybridization of the textual and the visual, reading and viewing,
literary culture and the visual arts. Bringing various disciplines
together, artists’ books create liminal spaces that uncover new relations
between, for instance, the private and the public, the aesthetic and the
political, the gift and the commodity. These spaces are platforms for the
expression of new artistic and aesthetic contents; they function as
communication tools that reveal new aesthetic and cultural paradigms,
processes of political mobilization, and the effects of ideology.

The history of artists’ books, almost two centuries long, is informed by
ongoing research of the medium and its mutations.

The beginnings of the genre can be identified in William Blake’s The
Marriage of Heaven and Hell and Songs of Innocence and of Experience in
which Blake’s approach to text and images differed from that otherwise
used in illustrated books. He created the prototype of what came to be
known as the artist’s book. Numerous artists, above all the avant-gardes
and those inspired by or relating to them, discovered the endless
possibilities in the hybridization of the visual and the written in book
form. Artists’ books became a specific form of expression of artistic
ideas that was different from the illustrated book, the livre d’artiste,
fine press, and book art. Always open to the new, artists’ books are
certainly ready for the new digital age we live in.

New computer and internet technologies pose fresh challenges to the genre
precisely because of their constitutive feature, i.e. the capability of
overcoming the limitations of their own medium. Today, artists’ books face
a vast range of development possibilities that bring new approaches to,
and considerations of, what constitutes bookness in a haptic and cultural
sense as well as within the new field of the digital. THE COMPETITION

In order to bring visibility to contemporary developments in the field of
artists’ books, we offer artists a platform to share their work within a
unique all-European competition among book artists for the first time
ever.

We therefore invite artists to hand in their recent or planned art
projects in the field: submissions will be accepted as completed physical
or digital book objects or in the form of conceptual designs for projected
but yet-unrealized book works.

Outstanding works will be awarded a grant given by an international jury.

TIMELINE

Registration December 1st, 2010 – February 28th, 2011
Submission December 1st, 2010 – May 2nd, 2011 (postmark)
Jury session June 2011
Realization of winning concepts July – September 30th, 2011
ABoT Award Nite in Vienna October 11th, 2011
Touring exhibition October 11th, 2011 – May 31st, 2012
1. Vienna October 11th, 2011 – January 8th, 2012
2. Prague January 16th – March 18th, 2012
3. Ljubljana March 26th – May 31st, 2012

ELIGIBILITY

Artists of any age who live and work in Europe are eligible to enter the
contest. Artist collectives may also apply. Please note that teams have to
name one contact person (in the application form) and will be treated as a
single person in the event of winning a prize (prize money will only be
paid once).

SUBMISSION

Submissions are accepted via postal mail or personal delivery. Please
stick to the following application procedure:

1. Send a short registration e-mail including your name, address, country
and e-mail address to the e-mail address by February 28th, 2011.

2. Fill in the application form online by May 2nd, 2011.

3. Send your submission (including either your original artwork or your
conceptual design plus an additional copy of your application form) by May
2nd, 2011 to the address below or hand it in personally at the MAK staff
entrance (Weiskirchnerstrasse 1, Mon – Sun 8:00 a.m. – 6:00 p.m.).

Contact: Kathrin Pokorny-Nagel, Head of the MAK Library and Works on Paper
Collection

Please use English only in your application form. Enclosed documents such
as CVs, artistic statements or else must be in English as well. The
language, or languages, used in your project are – of course – a matter of
artistic expression and may be freely chosen.

The deadline for submission is May 2nd, 2011. Any items arriving after
this date (postmark) will not be considered by the jury, neither will
incomplete submissions be admitted to the contest.

PRIZES

The jury will select 5 outstanding projects to be awarded a prize money of
€ 2,000 each. In addition, other notable works will receive a recognition
award. In the event of their winning of a prize, artists who have
submitted a conceptual design undertake to carry out their project by
September 30th, 2011, in sufficient time for the scheduled exhibition
opening (October 11th, 2011, see TERMS AND CONDITIONS, point 2.5).
Recognition award winners who have submitted a conceptual design will be
contacted for special arrangements to exhibit their projects.

Furthermore, all prize winners (including recognition award winners) are
invited to participate in the ABoT Award Nite, scheduled for October 11th,
2011 at the MAK Vienna, at the organizers’ expense.

The winning projects as well as works receiving a recognition award will
be exhibited in a “Mobile Museum”, a new touring exhibition format that
will be shown in Vienna, Prague and Ljubljana between October 11th, 2011
and May 31st, 2012.

All winning projects will be featured in a digital online collection as
well as in a printed catalogue, which is planned to be published after the
exhibition.


data limita: 28/02/11

Kontakt:
MAK – Austrian Museum of Applied Arts / Contemporary Art
Artists’ Books on Tour
Stubenring 5
1010 Vienna
Austria
tel: (+43-1) 711 36-0
fax: (+43-1) 713 10 26
abot at mak.at
http://www.mak.at

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