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ANNOUNCEMENT
The Roma Pavilion International Award for Young Curators and Art Critics
Theme: Paradise Lost - The First Roma Pavilion
Organized by:
The Roma Cultural
Participation Project of the Arts and Culture Network Program, Open Society
Institute, Budapest.
The Award:
The Roma Pavilion International Award for Young Curators and
Art Critics will award
a prize of € 1,500 for the best - most thorough, analytical and constructively
critical - review written about Paradise Lost–The First Roma Pavilion by
a young curator and/or art critic of contemporary art. The authors should
consider the wider theoretical context behind the idea of this transnational
representation of a strong cultural identity. What is expected is not only a
review about the Pavilion, but a critical survey on
the connected topics of 'transnational community', 'historical globalized nation',
and the issues around the representation of the minority 'community' and
'plural identity' in the modern nation-state.
The submitted review could be an already published critical essay about the Roma Pavilion or one written specifically for this purpose. Should the prize be won by a group of authors the prize will be divided among them equally.
Eligibility
requirements:
Each candidate may submit
only one essay only for the competition. The call is open to curators of all
nationalities born on or after January 1, 1972 - the age limit is 35 years.
Should the submitted review be the work of more than one author, all the
authors must meet the age requirement. Submissions will be accepted upon the
timely receipt of the application documents. For collective entries each
candidate must complete the application package. Entries must arrive by 12 PM
(noon) on Friday, November 30, 2007 at the following e-mail address: acnp@osi.hu.
The application package should include the following documents:
Should any of these be missing or not meet the specified requirements, the entry will be excluded from the competition.
Language:
Applications and
reviews should be submitted in English. Applicants are encouraged to also
submit the text in the form and in the language it was originally written or
published in, in order for the jury to verify the terms and expressions used by
the author in the original wording.
Participation cost:
Participation is free
of charge.
Evaluation:
The winners will be
selected by a professional Jury of 5 members. The author best author will
be awarded a prize and his/her review will be published on the website of
the Roma Pavilion starting December 15, 2007.
The Jury
The international Jury
is composed of five members. Each jury member will cast one vote in accordance
with the criteria of the Award.
Members of the Jury:
Barnabas
Bencsik
Barnabás
Bencsik, born 1964, curator, lives and works in Budapest. He earned his degree
in literature and history, and later in the history of art from ELTE University,
Budapest. He became involved in the changing period of the Hungarian post-communist
art scene, from 1990 to 1999 he run the Studio Gallery, Budapest the exhibition
venue of the Studio of Young Artists Association. Parallel, he was visual arts
program-coordinator at Soros Center for Contemporary Arts–Budapest
between 1993–1995, when the CEE network of the offices were established,
He worked as curator at the Trafo Gallery, Budapest (1999-2001) and as chief
curator at the Műcsarnok|Kunsthalle, where he contributed to the
realization of the show at the Hungarian Pavilion of the49th Venice Biennale.
In 2001 he was the artistic director of MEO–Contemporary Art Collection,
Budapest, and from 2002 he worked as an independent curator. He initiated and
from 2006 he is the director of the ACAX /Agency for Contemporary Art Exchange
(acax.hu),
which is an office to support and develop various type of cooperation between
the local and the international art scene. He is author of several publication
on contemporary art and art criticism in Hungarian and international magazines,
as well as exhibition catalogues.
Silvina Der-Meguerditchian
Silvina Der-Meguerditchian is the granddaughter of Armenian immigrants to
Argentina and was born in Buenos Aires in 1967. She grew up in Argentina
and since 1988 lives in Berlin. She is visual artists and runs since
2005 a virtual dialogue platform for Armenian contemporary artists. This
platform presents a forum for
frank dialogue on questions relating to identity, the potential for an Armenian
identity beyond defined borders and notions passed on for generations, such as
nationality, tradition and language.
A recurrent theme of her artistic work is the remembrance of the ethnic
dislocation of the Armenian people and the genocide they suffered. Silvina
Der-Meguerditchian ties a net. She connects the disparate, builds bridges
between separate worlds and seeks a dialogue with the unknown. Her main focus
is always on the actual process of joining and dissolving, constructing and
deconstructing identity. Silvina Der-Meguerditchian’s work represents a type of
mnemonics, namely the individual and collective art of commemoration. She is
the curator of "Under Construction" - Talking about identities in the
Armenian Transnation, the first Armenian Diaspora representation at the current
Venice Biennial.
http://www.underconstructionhome.net/underconstr_venice/bienal_intro.html
Annie
Fletcher
Annie
Fletcher is an independent critic and curator who lives and works in Amsterdam.
She is
interested in investigating the potential of curatorial practice (what it means
to show and mediate art) and believes in the potential of dialogues and
knowledge production and examining how any space marked for art (a museum, art
school, a kunsthalle or residency program) sets up such a dynamic. Her current
and recent projects include co-curating with Charles Esche the project
"Be(com)ing Dutch in the Age of Global Democracy" at Van Abbemusuem
(2006-2008), co-curating with Frederique Bergholtz "If I Can't Dance - I
Don't Want To Be Part Of Your Revolution" at various locations from 2005
to 2008 (www.ificantdance,org), “Cork Caucus” with Charles Esche, Tara Byrne
& Sean Kelly (NSF) and Art/Not Art in Cork, Ireland 2005 (www.corkcaucus.org).
Be[com]ing Dutch is a two-year project, developed both inside and outside the
Van Abbemuseum, which consists of debates, reading groups, artists' projects, exhibitions,
residencies, and forms of collective participation and production. Be[com]ing
Dutch asks whether art might offer alternative examples of thinking about how
we might live together today. It seeks to put our ideas of cultural identity
under pressure and examine the processes of inclusion and exclusion in the
world today. Be[com]ing Dutch is developed by Charles Esche and Annie Fletcher
and others in- and outside the Van Abbemuseum. Institutional partnerships: BAK
[Utrecht], New Museum of Contemporary Art [New York], Goldsmiths College
[London], Kosmose [Eindhoven] and Stichting Interart [Arnhem]. The project
Be[com]ing Dutch by the Van Abbemuseum has been awarded the Development Award
for Cultural Diversity 2006 by the Mondriaan Foundation.
Beral
Madra
Beral
Madra, a critic and curator directing BM Contemporary Art Center (since 1984) www.btmadra.com
Coordinated
the 1st (1987) and the 2nd (1989) Istanbul Biennale, curated exhibitions of
Turkish artists at the 43rd, 45th, 49th, 50th and 51st Venice Biennale. Since
1984 she has organized solo and group exhibitions of local and international
artists in her art center and in other official art spaces in Istanbul.
Beral Madra
is representing Istanbul scholarship of Berlin Senate since 1995. She is
founding member and art advisor of Diyarbakır Art Centre (established September
2002 www.diyarbakirsanatmerkezi.org),
founding member and president of AICA, Turkey (established 2003).
Recent
Exhibitions: March 2007 ‘”Neighbours in Dialogue” A group show for the
collection of Ars Aevi Contemporary art Museum, Sarajevo with artists from
South Caucasus, Middle East and the Balkans, Feshane, Istanbul / September
November 2007 “Unfinished” Opening exhibition of BM Suma, the new space of BM
Contemporary Art Center, www.bmsuma07.blogspot.com
Recent
Books: Neighbours in Dialogue Editors: Beral Madra/Ayşe Orhun Gültekin, Norgunk
Publishers, Istanbul, 2005 / Maidan, Eassays on Contemporary Art in South
Caucasus and Middle East, BM Contemporary Art Publications, 2007.
Marina
Grzinic
Marina
Grzinic, philosopher, artist and theoretician. Lives in Ljubljana. Works in
Ljubljana and Vienna. Dr. Marina Grzinic is Professor at the Academy of Fine
Arts in Vienna (Institute of Fine Arts, Post Conceptual Art Practices). Grzinic
is a researcher at the Institute of Philosophy at the ZRC SAZU (Scientific and
Research Center of the Slovenian Academy of Science and Art), Ljubljana,
Slovenia.
She also works as a freelance media theorist, art critic and curator. Marina
Grzinic has been involved with video art since 1982. In collaboration with Aina
Smid they produced numerous videos, a short film and video installations.
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