[oberlist] SURVIVAL 11 Art Review competition of artworks has started. Deadline 31.03.2013

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Under the motto 'We're sailing!', the 11th edition of SURVIVAL Art  
Review has begun. We would like to invite artists to send in your  
entries in the competition for artworks. The venue for the exhibition  
of works will be Xawery Dunikowski Boulevard in Wrocław. The  
application form and all the necessary information can be found at www.survival.art.pl 
. You are welcome to participate in the  
competition!                        Please send your entries to survivalwro at gmail.com 
.
The heart of events of SURVIVAL 11 Art Review will be the square by  
the Academy of Fine Arts and the nearby pedestrian walkway, the so- 
called Xawery Dunikowski Boulevard, which, together with Wzgórze  
Polskie and Zatoka Gondoli , constitute a truly picturesque and  
aesthetically-appealing recreation area right in the city centre. The  
exhibition will be more geographically scattered, however. The venue  
for some of the projects will be further away from the centre (e.g.  
the residence near Jaz Opatowicki or the ‘Black Stream’ pond in  
Sępolno) but it will always remain in the immediate proximity of the  
river – in order to provide access to these places by special cruise  
boats on the Oder.

photo by Magdalena Szady
The eleventh edition of SURVIVAL Art Review is dedicated to the  
presence of a river in cityspace. It will provide an opportunity to  
extract and analyse artistically the role and meaning of the Oder in  
the everyday life of the inhabitants of Wrocław, to ponder the human  
need to be close to water and the symbolism we attach to it.
The Oder is the largest river flowing through Wrocław; together with  
numerous branches and navigation canals, it constitutes the main part  
of the Wrocław Water System, which, in turn, belongs to the Trans- 
European Inland                          Waterway network. Due to its  
hydrologic properties, over the centuries Wrocław has come to be known  
as Venice of the North. The river has always influenced urban  
planning, and new bridges are being built to connect remote parts of  
the city.
As a result of tight connection between the venue and the river, the  
eleventh edition of SURVIVAL Art Review will be determined by notions  
associated with water, its symbolism, characteristics, functioning in  
nature and in urban areas. As a simultaneously life-giving and  
destructive force, water may be perceived through these opposing  
aspects of its influence.
The content of the competition part of SURVIVAL 11 Art Review will  
revolve around universal notions concerning water: as a symbol of  
chaos, instability, changeability, as well as transformation, healing,  
spiritual and physical rebirth,                            vitality.  
In the context of Wrocław, it will be particularly important to  
subject the destructive powers of the element to artistic  
interpretation, to investigate natural disasters – floods, which  
largely determine the specificity of water-man-city relations.
The artists and the curators will refer to an array of notions and  
phenomena connected with the variety and multitude of forms water can  
take in urban conditions. Stagnant and flowing water, a mixture of  
water and air, water and land, puddles, ponds, dams, wells, fountains  
– each form of the element offers material and inspiration for  
aesthetic work and interpretation.
The motto of the eleventh edition of SURVIVAL Art Review is ‘We’re  
sailing!’.                          This sentence was uttered by one  
of the characters in Roman Polański’s ‘Knife in the Water’ – a  
young man who, holding on to a spar of a sailing boat, literally  
‘walks’ on water. His enthusiastic exclamation ‘We’re  
sailing!’ was met with the following response by a woman sitting  
comfortably on the deck: ‘Sure, for sailing’s sake’. ‘We’re  
sailing!’ is an expression of affirmation of the world, its  
processual dynamism which lets us believe that ‘everything is  
possible’. Its opposite, the cynical comment ‘Sure, for sailing’s  
sake’, expresses the speaker’s tiredness of life and her conformist  
attitude.
The SURVIVAL Art Review has been held in Wrocław for 11 years, each  
time exploring a new space and a new set of notions connected with it.  
So far, SURVIVAL’s artists have worked at the Central Railway Station  
in Wrocław, in an air-raid shelter, at a city stadium, in a park in  
the city centre and in post-Soviet barracks. Works by both beginning  
and acknowledged Polish contemporary artists have been presented,  
including Dorota Nieznalska, Jerzy Kosałka, Rafał Jakubowicz and  
Stanisław Dróżdż.
We would like to invite you to take part in the competition!  
Applications should be sent to survivalwro at gmail.com by 31 March 2013.
SURVIVAL 11 Art Review / Xawery Dunikowski Boulevard, Wrocław / 21 –  
30 June 2013







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