[oberlist] FOUNDATION Open Call for an exhibition residency

[METASITU]

project by METASITU
commissioned by DAS ESSZIMMER – space for art+ (Bonn, GER)


OPEN CALL: FOUNDATION

FOUNDATION is a proposal for a new community formed by strangers, that will
build its own space and its own bonds. In seven days. Without communicating
with the outside world. Without leaving the gallery.

FOUNDATION invites artists, curators, architects and/or researchers dealing
with urban issues in their practice, to take part. Four participants will
be selected by a jury from the pool of applications.

FOUNDATION will award each selected participant (‘founder’) with a travel
grant to cover their transport costs to DAS ESSZIMMER – space for art+ in
Bonn (GER), provide food for the duration of the event, as well as some
production material, and offer an artist fee to each participant.

FOUNDATION will lead to an exhibition consisting on the material generated
by the ‘founders’ during the week, as well as the video documentation
gathered. The exhibition will open to the public from February 14th - April
14th at DAS ESSZIMMER - space for art+.

APPLY HERE
<https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScuw_J2dA95b4t4vbqsdTfjpDhOFn_cWYcjsRvFmg6nX2OGjA/viewform>

Deadline: 15th December 23:59 CET
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We don’t know our neighbors by name - most of the times, we don’t even know
how they look like. Yet, through social media, we are extremely familiar
with the dietary habits of someone who we have never met, and is oceans
apart from us. They might not even know we exist, but we feel we are part
of their tribe – One of the many tribes we belong to.

Historically, our ‘tribe’ was defined by a specific territory: a landscape
inhabited by people who shared rituals, myths, a language, and a zeitgeist.
As communities expanded, accommodating larger numbers of people, new group
formations appeared; new affiliations; new tribes, and sub-tribes.

Today, as a species, we might be living in denser, and more concentrated
nodes, but human communities, more than ever, are transcending geographies,
and basing affiliation on a series of shared references: creating
connections with fellow humans through what we consume, keeping in touch
with lovers scattered across the globe, or joining the diaspora fan-base
community of an idol. Telecommunication technologies, the development of
transport infrastructure, and global capitalism inform the way we relate to
one another through our consumption: Apple Inc, Veganism, Cross fit, World
of Warcraft, Burning Man, RuPaul’s Drag Race, Universal Church, Fablabs,
Mileage Cards, and Manchester United. New affiliations. New foundations.

Communities of practice, bonds over a shared experience, or solid consumer
identities, that establish sets of values, cultural references, rituals,
and networks for communication; framing our habitus, our everyday, yet
atomized across the world.

These new identitory frameworks are doubtlessly more fluid than previous
models, but also require us to reconsider the notion of citizenship and the
city; of belonging, and the territory.

How do we build community? How can we bond? What are the foundational
elements for affiliation? How do we establish kinship beyond the capitalist
and telecommunication frameworks? How do we erect a built environment that
responds to that?



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